Bi-weekly Meta Madness, Open Roles & Quests
So, this little Gnome.. after returning to active Octo’dom has found an absolute TONNE of stuff been happening at MetaGame! 😲🤩 I mean, there is no way I can cover everything here😅, but here is a blast of some of it…. 💣
🤝🏼 Community
The work of InnKeepers 🍻 continues to train new players and support existing ones.
Bagholder McFomo III has taken on facilitating & scribing for Champions Ring and Pronoia has been consistently recording the Community Calls in Notion Recordings of late. These efforts are super useful now with defileZebra taking a break. 🙏🏽
Onboarding processes have had yet another overhaul from the Cohorter with Cahones -🎱 Misanth. 🥳 Overhauled the whole Onboarding/Landing flow for new peeps.. This has involved upgrading the #🚦-signpost channel, adding the #🐙-becoming-curious channel, welcoming messages.. aaand by making new pages in Notion for Welcoming, The Crossroads and for the Engaged Octo Path. 🐙
A new Purge is on the cards for Season 4. Wanna find out if you may well be in line for the chop, to make room for new people? Find out here… ☠
There is now a new Discord Channel 🔥-heat-reports, where the pings from use of the Chocolate Starfish emoji appear. This is for use with live moderation. ⚖
Sooo maaany guests! 🤯
Guests we had on our Commmunity Gatherings in the past few weeks:
Fractal Yoga is now a thing! Tune in to Townhall Saturdays at 7pm UTC to catch ZoeVidaOm and josecabrerav running this. 🤸🏽♂️
🤖 Technology
Dave has been designing a new Landing Page using new copy made by peth. Various iterations of some of the static designs can be seen on this Figma page.
A bunch of builders expressed interest so vid, Udit-takkar, luxumbra or tommymaher15 will be building this out as a static design first with a variety of animations and transitions to be added as users scroll later on. Crisleash the team’s newest designer is pioneering adding contracting capability to user profiles. 🧐
Work on the Dashboard has gone very well this month. Between vid, luxumbra, Udit-takkar and tommymaher15 progress has been speedy. Go and have a look around the dashboard here.
vid and Polimyl have both stepped up a fair bit of late. vid seems to be involved in so much it is hard to summarise, suffice to say vid is on 🔥 right now and is everywhere like some kind of borg/quantum hologram hive! 😂 Some of the stuff Polimyl has been up to is working on deploying a MetaGame Ceramic mainnet node, essential for Ceramic migration. He also created this graph here of Season XP from data at Sourcecred. Udit-takkar has made a dynamic version of this as part of the dashboard now among other features and is tidying up various loose ends.
Alec has been doing reviews and working on PRs. Updates have been made to the latest iteration of XP bot by the team and the old one deprecated, so commands should work well again there now.
dysbulic has continued with pair programming, often with tenfinney. Currently working on timezone issues, reviews for the dashboard and the MetaCall project, with MyMeta Ceramic migration remaining the main part of the focus.
Michiel continues to run Builders Align calls and generally organise and do reviews, on board new builders and a possible PM etc.. Another major focus for Michiel has been on the minting process which he has been leading, assisted by luxumbra.🚀
As MetaOS evolves, Dave has suggested the need for a Global search on Discourse.
To help fight the overall confusion around what needs to get done, peth has merged the 4 separate roadmaps into 1 - MetaOS Full Roadmap - & did a bit of cleaning.
Misanth and penguin managed to finally wrestle the Wick bot into submission. 💪🏽
🍰 Content
Misanth has done an awesome job on Notion of late, having substantially re-mapped the whole structure and done a ton of house keeping. ⚡☄ This has included a new Home Page, updated Portal Room, Raids, Dungeons, Notice Board, Treasury, Playflow Documentation and W.T.F.A.Q sections. 🤯
Well worth a read is Saimano’s piece Super-employed in Web3. Really inspiring to read his story and how much of a spring board MetaGame is for some! 🚀
As Karmaticacid is sometimes very busy elsewhere, other folks ready to be available to write up shownotes for Podcasts then please DM eowulia. Speaking of whom..
eowulia edited and published the most recent ‘Humans of MetaGame’ podcast with Alec. Alec is an accomplished software dev, who lives in Salt Lake City, has been a committed MetaGame dev for over a year. After 11 yrs of pretty dissatisfying freelancing work at various companies doing what often seemed pointless, Alec jumped into MetaGame after hearing peth speak about a Game-B/better society. ⚓ He shares a refreshingly balanced, peaceful and healthily rational viewpoint as he explores his hopes, fears and dreams for the future of DAOspace and Web3. ☯ Listen to this great interview here.
Also, recently published by eowulia is an older interview by chair (and Bacon) from back after MCON with super accomplished coder extraordinaire Dekan Brown. Find the Interview with Dekan Brown here. 👀
Finally a bunch of older podcasts were also uploaded to the growing collection on MetaMedia YouTube.
Recognizing the shift of focus to interviewing DAOists & the overall growing importance of DAOs being not wholly fit to MetaView, peth & eowulia have undertook launching a new podcast series - Coordination Frontier 👀. Two awesome podcast episodes coming up.
biuxmaster has been focused on a mix of podcast banners, MetaManifesto banner for Twitter and working on MetaGame101 intro animation. Also, reviewing and altering T-shirt designs. 🎨👑
tenfinney has stepped up to lead the Playbooks raid. Working with an awesome Gallery workflow in Notion, made by Misanth, the Playbooks raid is now more visual, trackable, potentially collaborative and more XP generating! Get in touch with tenfinney or Gnomeski (me) to be involved. Pronoia has completed 4 Playbooks to proof reading stage, tenfinney has like 8 or so going also! lol We can definitely use tons more though… 👈🏽
Got anything you want to teach others in the DAO space? Why not write a Playbook & earn some Seeds doing so? 🤷♂️
A current mission health enthusiast writers can jump on is to construct The House of WellBeing. Currently being worked on by MetaLibrarian Pvblick Vniversal Friend and durgudas here on Notion.
📈Growth
So Anna Kaic continues the relentless shilling. 📢 Is on it with being up to date on all events as well as making moar banners.. 🚦
HBesso is on fire as Headhunting Champion and has brought in some potential project managers and builders. He has been in touch with people from all over the DAOsphere, been interviewing, made a whole HeadHunting work flow including a type form, plus a strategy, pitch deck, and CRM space in Notion. Very professional and focused. 🏹 To join discussions around this raid, go to Headhunting Strategy on Discourse.
peth has been a busy bunny again on many levels. Organising speakers, evolving the pitch deck, updating the Gitcoin page, holding Roadmap Keeping sessions, doing podcast interviews.
The last mint looked like an example of the greatness of MetaGame in action to me. I mean, the much discussed, voted upon and then executed Polygon pool is created. > Then, while distributions are being assessed and fed back on, a vote is put up.. > to mint on Mainnet or the new Polygon multi-sig? > Vote comes back a clear majority for Polygon and then it is almost immediately, smoothly executed.. 🎯 Makes me proud to be part of such an awesome DAO! 🥰💪🏽 So while the move to V2 on Polygon is Bullish news for Seed longer term, short term ‘number go down’.. 😥 This is expected and natural while the pool migrates and of course the recent crypto movement is showing up here too. 😅
The Great Migration Party happened on December the 5th….$107,000 of liquidity was withdrawn and migrated for $450 in gas! That was a very efficient group effort for sure, that was led by luxumbra. 😇
The minting documentation is being upgraded. Now with Michiel as Mint Lead and luxumbra as deputy (as well as being an added signer on Polygon) and due to the shift to Polygon streamlining things, mints should be coming in regular on the 21st of every month. 🤑🎺
To find out what are The Most Needed Roles at the moment, maybe go to the Discourse discussion. 🎯
❓ Quests & Roles 🎩
Much to be done & only 3 weeks left in Season 4 😱
To add to the importance, we're about to kick off the fundraise & we shouldn't embarrass ourselves in front of the lurking new patrons by fumbling over the roadmap. It looks like its going to be a success, but let's make damn sure that it is.
…also, The Purge is near…
Without further ado! 👇👇👇
❓ Quests ❓
You've been meaning to get active but it was hard to figure out what exactly one is to do? Here are the most impactful quests you can take to become a full Player, remain a Player in the upcoming Purge or just climb the Season 4 leaderboard & continue towards becoming one of The 300 of MetaGame 👀
🐙 Easy
🤝 Bring in a new player to fill any of the below open roles
🧠 Suggest a workshop on anything that could be useful to a DAO or newcoming as well as advanced DAO contributors
🤗 Suggest a social event a-la Sunday Funday, a games night, book club or whatever that might be fun in
📕 Get someone to write a Playbook or submit an existing one adapted from their article, a twitter thread or whatever
🐙🐙 Medium
🖋️ Write a Playbook on anything useful for people joining the space
🧠 Host a workshop on anything that could be useful to a DAO or newcoming as well as advanced DAO contributors
🤗 Host a social event a-la Sunday Funday, a games night, book club or whatever that might be fun
💪 Help onboard an aligned guild based on this criteria
💰 Get someone to buy Seeds & become a patron
🖇️ Get these quests on Wayfarer or somewhere else outside MetaGame
🐙🐙🐙 Hard
🛠️ Implement "new block" or one of the other high priority quests (🚨)
🤑 Get someone to join the upcoming fundraise with at least $20k
You know how it goes, just proceed with completion of any of these quests & report in 😇-did-a-thing once you do.
Any questions or problems?
Ask in the corresponding guild or raid channels or 🤷-quest-ask
Don’t have access? Ask in ⁉-ask-anything
🎩 Open Roles 🎩
So you're not just about avoiding The Purge, getting the Season 4 Achievement NFT & making a quick buck? You're serious about being one of The 300 of MetaGame? Well grab one of these hats & see how they fit you, why don't ya? 🙃
🐙 Normal Roles
Normal roles are entry level roles that anyone can take on without committing too much time or taking on too much responsibility.
🛠️ Builder - An evergreen role, always looking for more TypeScript & other kinds of builders. Know someone? Bring them? Its you but you got frustrated with stale PRs & bad PMing - give us another chance 😇
🤗 Innkeeper - Another always-in-demand role, but this one requiring less specialized skills. Interested? Go down to the 🤗-innkeepers-guild
📣 Shiller - Promote MetaGame & the upcoming fundraise in any adjacent DAO or crypto community
💩 Shitposter - Come up with funny tweets & memes to post on twitter, drop in 🐤-tweet-arena
🧠 Educator - Come up with useful knowledge & tips we should be posting from MetaGame’s twitter account, drop in 🐤-tweet-arena
🐙🐙 Deputy roles
Deputy roles are more important, thus come with some responsibility & commitment. You will be working with Champions.
🗣️ Shillers Guild Deputy - Help with anything related to the promotion of MetaGame. Team up with Anna & ask her what she needs help with or come up with your own ways of promoting then explain it in 🥠-shillers-guild
🤗 Innkeeper Deputy - Help Tommy run the Innkeepers Guild & do anything revolving around making players happy.
🌉 Bridgebuilders Guild - Bridgebuilders are about making connections between MetaFam & other guilds, both "MetaGame guilds" & those that haven't been onboarded yet. Its perfect for those that are active in multiple DAOs or know many DAOs & want to bring them closer together.
🙌 Meetup Master Deputy - To help Tommy with organizing community events with the focus on workshops - facilitating knowledge exchange by scheduling workshops based on 🧠-brain-exchange
🎨 Artists Guild - We're trying to make MetaGame into "an intersection of technology, philosophy & art". Well, we need more art! There is no lack of art that needs to be made, just ask about it in 🎨-artists-guild
👘 MetaMerch - This art should also get on all sorts of "wearables" & other physical items. Could be a shirt, could be a portable eco-friendly ashtray.
🧚 XP Fairies - This one's for those who get frustrated with the injustices in the XP system. Sourcecred is great but its not a panacea & there are problems that can be fixed, things that can get balanced! Ask 🤗-innkeepers-guild & help.
🐙🐙🐙 Champion roles
Champion roles are of highest importance and highest commitment & responsibility roles. There are requirements that need to be taken seriously.
❓ Re:Quests Champion - All about making sure that quests are written up as they arise, well explained & distributed. They scrape Notion & work closely with other champions to know what their needs are
✔️ AchievMinter - Keeps track of 🔮-guild-n-raid-reports, 😇-did-a-thing & 🙌-give-thanks, collaborates with 🧚-xp-fairies-guild to make sure people who do great things are rewarded with achievement NFTs
🤖 Bot Army - Bot army champion does what bot army champions do - work on bots. The needs for bots are many & varied, there is much to do
Onwards! 🐙
With Season 4 close & Season 5 so close, there might not be another newsletter to tell you about it. Maybe keep an eye out on discord or add this thing to you calendar to stay in the loop on the agenda 🙃
😱 Winter Season Opening on 21st 👀
All other meetings continuing as per usual schedule!
How can I help?!
Looking for the easiest possible way to help MetaGame? Donate to the grant 🤷♂️