# 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