Calling For Rain

These Seeds ain't gonna water themselves...

Disillusioned by the 2017 bubble & projects raising millions on whitepapers only to squander them away or get torn apart by them, I wanted to do things differently.

• Firstly, I wanted to build a real community before money comes into play; bring together the missionaries, not mercenaries 🙃

• Secondly, I wanted to build a product & a track record of doing shit before asking for money to do shit 🤷‍♂️

Well, the time has come! The community is here & so is a bunch of things we did.
Our labor has produced Seeds & now its time to water them 🙏

For the recent subscribers who haven’t dug in yet, here’s a:

MetaGame tl;dr

At MetaGame, we believe things like Ethereum & DAOs are some of the basic infrastructure pieces for socioeconomic systems of the future.

We are bringing together people, knowledge, tools, building blocks & DAOs aligned on the idea of building a new kind of society.

You can think of it as a real life MMO-RPG with the goal of finding the most optimal ways to play life on a collective as well as personal level.

🌄 Our goals, in short:

• Make it as easy as possible for people to get involved in the DAO space

• Put all the pieces together into a coherent coordination-enabling UI

• Enjoy a great model of what societies based on crypto could look like 🙃

As an experiment in bootstrapping a DAO, we’ve been doing this for over 2 years now with a grand total of $15k raised in funding 👀

🤨 Things we did:

✅ Organized a shitton of events including a conference, a hackathon & a festival

✅ Published a lot of educational content & podcast episodes

✅ Pioneered a DAO bootstrapping/accounting/payroll system

✅ Built our first product & the minimum viable platform

✅ Fostered an awesome community & a small network of projects

✅ Helped a bunch of people level up & break into the DAO ecosystem

🤔 Why want money nao?

If we’ve done all of that without any funding, why do we need it?

Well, we don’t need it - we want it 🙃
Right now, pretty much everyone considers MetaGame as a hobby.

We want:

• the ability to guarantee paychecks to

• enable existing contributors to jump in full-time,

• hook in a bunch of new contributors

• & ship this thing faster!

✋ Waitwut

You: You want me to buy Seeds at the potential precipice of a bear winter?
Me: More so than buying Seeds, its about committing to water them!
You:

For the uninitiated, Seeds are only created through non-monetary contributions.

Given that, MetaGame can’t sell you any Seeds - only players can, and they do so on a monthly basis. Here’s how it works (in the Seed phase):

👉 All about Seeds 👈

🌱 Seed Fund DAO

Funds are safu

How that will work:

1. Everyone interested will pledge to the Seed Fund DAO

2. We will be making monthly proposals with progress reports

3. Take funds & put them inside the pool

4. Distribute the pool token back to the patrons

Thus, patrons will remain in full custody of their funds & able to ragequit if they aren’t happy with our progress.

As we progress into the next phase & Seeds turn into Trees, there will be other income streams to water them & the patrons who supported early will get more Trees. How much more? Why not come negotiate? 🙃

👁️ MetaGame for Patrons

Not sure? Want to learn more? Why not watch this 5min pitch 🤷‍♂️

🙃 So, got some water?

If seeing the above made you want to pitch in a bucket or two for the Seeds of MetaGame to grow, proceed through here 👈

⛓ Chainlog

🤝🏽 Community

• MetaFest MetaFest MetaFest

  • tommy has been working on guest speakers, calls, and bridgebuilding

  • UniPuff has been scouting and making guest lists

  • With support from Misanth and tenfinney

• peth trials new Holacracy methods on Champions Ring meetings

• UniPuff prepares to step up as Writer’s Guild Champion

• Misanth does 2 more onboarding calls

• New Achievement raid champion, luxumbra, does the first Achievements call

• Web Three Prophet teases mysterious MetaGame swag in sticker form

• Firat Story advances to the Bronze Fam!

📱 Technology

Questing System Questing System Questing System

• The Questing System has been a focus in the weeks since the last update:

  • A kickoff event was hosted by vid & the flow outlined

  • Large amounts of closed pull requests, issues, and other magic were created by vid, dysbulic, and Dave

• Dave starts working on a living design system for the Builder’s Guild

• Beti & b0gie continued working on 3D stuff for the new landing page

• tommymaher continued building the new landing page

• tommy organised a workshop for making changes to the Wiki through github

🍰 Content

• Humans of MetaGame podcast #6: Misanth The Onboarding Wizard
  Edited and published by eowulia with notes by Rose

• Frontiers of Coordination #3: Capture Resistant Organizations with Spencer Graham of DAOhaus
  Edited and published by eowulia with notes by Rose

• tenfinney

  • Created an Intro to Playbooks video with assistance from UniPuff

  • Updated the Playbooks Gallery.

  

• The ‘MetaGame Bident’, by Bacon – read about it on the forums

• peth writes about MetaGame’s Focus Synthesis

• HHH jumps in & writes his first issue of the newsletter

• biux creates partnership banners, open role templates and enhanced illustrations for the pitch deck
  

  

🌱 Growth

• Anna signs up to rep MetaGame with a workshop at DAOist Mexico, coordinated with Rev on Atlantis World and Witnet shilling, set up a community call between MetaGame and Atlantis World, and defined a shilling strategy for Medium articles.

• CrisLeash gets involved with Bridgebuilding Guild after an intro by tommy

• peth needs your eth

  • Onboards YapDAO to MetaAlliance with a presentation and secured their donation to a non-crypto cause via Giveth

  • Finishes a new version of the MetaGame for Patrons pitchdeck

  • Goes to work on rainmaking, getting the pitchdeck on the screens of existing and prospective patrons & starting the fundraising group chat

• Web Three Prophet recruits several much-needed designers

⚔️ MetaAlliance

• MetaAlliance welcomes YapDAO

• peth makes the MetaAlliance follow list

• Giveth looking for a Project Manager & a Product Manager

• SourceCred Weekly Newsletter February 7th

• DAOhaus completes integration of Ceramic’s self-id

• Giveth Round 4 is live

• Griff Green goes on The Defiant to talk Public Goods, Charity, and Crypto

• Check out MetaFactory’s fashion+technology plans for 2022

• TokenEngineering launches a Token Engineering Fundamentals course

  • Running an Introduction to Token Engineering Session on Feb 16th & final presentations of DAO Rewards Systems Research on Feb 24

• The Commons Stack Commons Simulator Game is live

• MetaFactory is the official Merch Store for ETHDenver

🎩 Open Roles 🎩

The above made you want to jump in & do shit? 🙃

Here are some of the open roles 👇

🐙 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 😇

• 🌉 Bridgebuilder - To help with weaving DAO networks & making interDAO collabs happen more often. Ask about it in the #bridgebuilders-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.

• 🤑 Rainmakers Guild Deputy - Rainmakers are about saving Seeds from the collapse & helping MetaGamers build through the Winter Season as well as the upcoming many & towards sustainability. Join peth in securing MetaGame’s future & secure yourself a spot in MetaGame’s history.

• 🙌 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

• 🧚 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.

• 🤖 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

• 🔥 MyMeta Steward - Someone to help manage the product so builders can focus on building - read the full post here

✊ Onwards!

Finally, props to Gnomeski for all the previous hard work on the newsletter.

Coming up:

• Quests Align - becomes a recurring thing

• Next Friday - Droppr & Mattereum

All other calls as per usual schedule 🙃

Much love,
HHH & peth ❤️