Scribings from A General Forum on Ethereum Localism

2024

2023

Get outside and discover something wonderful everyday.
Benna, Treyon Life Community Farm

When you do work as good as, or better than, someone else for free, you make yourself priceless.
Atlas

What we don’t have, we share. When we share, we win.
Mauriano’s communist anarchist grandmother, Jaja

What are the decentralized protocols for animating a city?
Exeunt

Basic needs procurement
Josh

Don’t sell your voting power.
Scott

Regenerative economic systems design

If you want to build legitimacy, help people get more of the things they need.
Scott

What are you designing for?
Debra, Althea

Relationships are between people.
Sov

Exit to Commons

Cosmolocal Global Family
Tony Lai

How will we live together?
Tony

Ministry for the Future
Tony reference this book

There are no isolated variables.
Tony

What does it mean to flow and be part of the process?
Tony

unlearning to learn
Tony

Exclosure
Tony

Stay with the Trouble by Donna Haraway
Tony

hearing stories in our soul
Tony

Manager.gitcoin.co

narrative agnostic - cool we can be together
Guilio

unfolding legibility to the things around me
Tony

Stuarding commoning
Tony

Training AI language models to communicate between oncologist
Zargham and Case are doing this!

Potentiating Action - like the threat of striking
Tony

Omniharmonic.eth Mirror blog

Civics: devotion to showing up and caring for our fellow human beings; mutual care
Ben, Open Civics

Own the data and design it yourself to get the results you’re looking for.
Emaline, Neighborhoods

We’re all responsible for the planet we call home.
Ben

Civis is stewardship and care for each other
Ben

Reboot civilization
Ben

3 pillars of civic innovation: resilience, vitality and choice
Ben

Wellbeing economy framework - I am well because you are well
Ben

Decentralized Civics #DeCiv
Ben

How do we create a viable civilization?
Ben

IP pool

Citizen Assembly - how to educate?

Opencivics.co

What are your values for Ethereum Localism?
Howard

How might currency design enable greater producer participation in local-regional food systems?
Howard

4 quadrants of currency design: Abundant/Scarce; Nonrivalrous/Rivalrous
Howard

Regenerative financial systems go beyond carbon schemes.
Felix

CoFi - collaborative finance

Rai can be forked for communities and designed with meaningful parameters
Ven

How do we make these work at community scale?
Jeff

Reputation is contextual.
Felix

What are we really trying to do? We’re trying to help each other survive.
Jill, Neighborhoods

This isn’t a technology problem; it’s a social problem.
Scott

Zooming in and zooming out - awareness practices of what we notice
Tony

becoming aware of how I’m in relationships with other people
Jill

Tell me what is on your heart.
Anna, ReFi DAO

I felt so held and so loved.
Anna

If you can create a system for the most vulnerable in your community, then it works for everyone.
Doug King

Consent is the framework for these systems to work.
Doug

Anticipatory Design Science
Ben, referencing Bucky Fuller

Co-becoming
Suzanna

Full emotional stack
Suzanna

Learned reputational system
Doug

Strong sense of community via shared experiences
Sasquatch

People going to places and projects and information sharing to support that

Governance:
Policies - action
Politics - negotiations
Policy - parlement etc

Constitutions are amendable but hardest to change

stay together and ask what our common denominators are
Brittany Love

Who’s who in the zoo, and what do they do?
Brittany

evolve to a testing grounds for the commons
Felix

Can we recognize the relative now-ness of us?
Justin

Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard

*The Upward Spiral

more about discovery than progress
Jeff

Myceliocracy
Jeff

Redefine wealth from hoarding to pass-through.
Jeff

What’s Osmotic Governance?

#mycopunk
Light dark plurality
Social roots beta

Mycopunks.gitbook.io

Mutualistic market makers of mycelium - mutual reciprocity
Jeff

Resource.finance and Mirror
Sayer Tindall, Resource Fi
Stable Credit Protocol

Zero is the Future of Money by Brett Scott

Game Changers - game about collaborative economy

Craigslist is my ideal internet.
Emaline

Crypto commons and crypto libertarians are both over it with extraction
Felix

Right to exit ←—> entanglement

Use value (concrete goods and services) —- abstract values

Is capitalism, without formal discrimination, still capitalism?
Felix

Money for the Commons
Money is not neutral
Store of value ←—> medium of exchange
Mulit currency with different needs
Basket of assets backed currencies
Emaline

Contextualized money
Felix

Build structures of federated scaling - how to scale the commons - because it needs context
Felix

Commons Stack

Nested governance

Federation can happen with individuals spanning multiple communities
Ambassadorship model to share resources
Emaline

Mutula stake holding
Commons Hub experimenting with economic space agency
Felix

A lot of the hard work is around boundaries, so don't fuse systems.
Emaline and Felix

Habits and addictions become brain calcification
Jeff, about Raid Guild mushroom

Liquidity layer
Trust layer

The cult of positivity is gonna kill us all.
Alex

Mechanisms of feedback OS
Alex

Conduct committee - how to air grievances?

Permissions and responsibilities

Jurno DAO - regenerate local newspapers
Keith

How do you address something that’s leaderless?
Exeunt

Boundary - must have a healthy boundary but also permeable
Christina

Barning man

Funding is separate from operations, and then there's community
Scott

A classroom as a core organizing unit
Scott

Civic innovation and co-discovery

fewer trust, fewer funds, more funds out now
Macks

James writes the weird stuff and Josh connects everybody.
Anselm

party protocol
Justin

reindigenezation
re - indeigenous - ezation
Ben

Select a repo