# Layering up

# Moved to https://hackmd.io/utbIXe3mTCShXaiu0wbTHQ

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# WIP Wednesday (aiming for 30+ people weekly, in 2 weeks)
WIP Wednesday, followed by forum threads for any async help we might connect

*Inviting: current fellows (high agency)*

Success measure: % of returning participants

First phase: 10-15 people balanced on gender, techiness and depth of skill
Getting there through individual catching up and calibrating. Inviting people directly to serve the calibrated needs of individual fellows

### Level Up Threshold - definition of done, when we start the next layer
Second phase: 30+ people, one room per skill (code, writing, edu, etc.), running well and 50% are "regulars"

Getting there through broader invites of people who'd benefit from the existing crowd we bootstrapped in phase 1

### Learning goals

**Relationships**
- ~ do they reach out to others to help them?
- ~ what questions are they asking, are they authentically exploring them in paper parties, research clinics, WIP wednesdays
- \# of contacts with other fellows (so, who attended what?)

**Will the unconfs work?**
- \# Attendance rate
- \# % of participants achieving learning goals

**Will fellows from across blocks participate?**
- \# Attendance rate from fellows

**Will Guild Leaders shift to new roles?**
- \# Attendance rate from guild leaders

# Intention + Clinic + Forum + Paper Party (+15-20 / week, 3 weeks)

Intention Circles, Research Clinics leading to forum posts and Paper Parties

*Inviting: current fellows (initiating agency & high agency)

### Level Up Threshold
- participation rate
- % who've hosted paper parties/juntos
- new adventures?

### Learning goals
**Will people engage on the forum?**
- \# Active fellows / week
- \# % of participants on forum / week
- \# difference between active forum and active slack users

**Will Clinics work?**
- ~ learning path created? what is the quality?

**Will Guild Leaders shift to new roles?**
- \# Guild Leaders signing up (esp early signups and ideas they want to build)
- \# Guild Leaders participating with their own question
- \# Guild Leaders running unconf sessions
- \# Invite acceptance rate
- ~ asking them about their current goals and how their contributions to kernel fit in

**Will Matrix work?**
- \# sign up rate
- \# join rate
- \# week-on-week active users
- \# week-on-week active users in #mempool rooms

# Application system (+30 applicants / week, 2 weeks then +100 applications / week + 1-2 pipeline partners / week , 3 weeks)

Applications run through #defense going into responsive weekly Learn Track juntos. (within Paper Party)

*Inviting: new applicants and current fellows*

### Level Up Threshold
- 50 endorsing fellows have invited 50 new fellows to Kernel

### Learning goals

**Diversity filter**
- \# of highly participating mempoolers & their demographics
- \# of non-participating mempoolers & their demographics
- ~ Steward outreach to non-participating mempoolers to attempt to troubleshoot & guide

**Will the Learn Track get enough engagement in the Mempool?**
- ~ Observing how random applicants affect junto calls - will they feel empty or crowded? will people ask questions and make space for others?
- ~ noting which junto sessions had disruptive behaviours
- ~ asking fellows for feedback on new joiners
- \# of fellows attending learn track / week
- \# fellows returning to juntos (vs dropping out)
- \# joiners asking questions to stewards

**Will Buddying Up work?**
- \# of invitations

# Welcome Squad (50-60)
Once ~50 new fellows have been invited, run a welcome squad and/or welcome channel

### Level Up Threshold
- \# people getting oriented

### Learning goals
- ~ are fellows hugging people like Africa Burn?
- \# of people following up with others afterwards
- \# of people reading other fellows' bios
- \# of invitees attending

Questions:
- Is it a channel, not an event? A place you go when you are invited into the fellows track, where someone will welcome you into Kernel.

# KB8 Announcement (🚀 public announcements)

# Fellows Track
Firesides, A-Teams, Vibe hour, Auntying/Big Book etc start

### Level Up Threshold
### Learning goals

# Big Huggy (150-200 fellows)
- "The community centering around the new fellows"
- "The family reunion around the birth"

### Level Up Threshold
### Learning goals
Organise a big huggy (curated by stewards, seeded from Kernel News)

# Hackathon (~50 / month)
Run a small, casual hackathon with some guild leaders (more in-line with the monthly idea in the program)

### Level Up Threshold
### Learning goals

**Will the hackathon work?**
- \# team formations
- ~ catching up with fellows to see if anything interesting happened during Learn Track for them