MetaNews #14 - November 2023
MetaNews #14 - November 2023
Community calls recap, UX Squad builder updates, MetaAlliance updates, links, more!
Because it’s December and I wanted to be the first newsletter-writing person to do the Happy Holidays thing, I thought I’d ask the computer to help by generating an image of me with a Santa hat on, toasting your health by raising a Mega-Venté pumpkin-spiced syrup-drizzled cream-topped choco-vanilla Cold-Brew Frappé-Latté-Chino Coffee Drink™.
But the resulting image was terrifying, and now I’m trying to forget it ever happened.
So, straight into the newsletter!
No! Not straight into the newsletter!
I have a DAOcember promo to include first!
MetaFest wasn’t enough … peth just had to go and do DAOcember - two weeks of talks, panels, demos, workshops & more for anyone who wants to know all about DAOs … on now! (December 1-15)
Get all the info at 👉👉👉https://www.daocember.space/ 👈👈👈
Wait, WTF is MetaGame?
👀 First time reader? Check out the video intro to MetaGame for a quick catch up 👀
All right all right, now the newsletter 😎
⛓ Chainlog
🤝🏽 Community
We said the community calls were coming back in November! Here’s what went down:
Yineisy Mota & Max Semenchuk from Trusted Seed gave us the lowdown on their Regen Alliances unconference and their Regen Score project
Gustavo of ReligioDAO & Ron of SpiritDAO came in to talk about the frameworks of meaning and values used by their communities
Stephen Reid came to demo us the Dandelion - a platform for organizing & ticketing co-created events
Albert of ValleyDAO explained how they’re democratising the governance of synthetic biology technologies
Magenta from Bloom Network dropped in to everyone an update on Bloom Network’s continued development & community
Joshua gave an intro to The Meta-Crisis and what it means
plus more!
November’s community calls and guests were booked, organised, hosted, promoted in various measures by peth, joseacabrerav, vanessagil, amongst others. Props!
Also in November …
peth redesigned the community call template and did alllll the preps for DAOcember
joseacabrerav hosted Bard’s Night and helped with part of the DAOcember preps
📱 Technology
The UX Squad continued to refine the MetaGame website.
Some highlights:
Improvements to the Guild onboarding flow, with a sign up form that’s easier to use and collects more useful data (thanks to peth, dysbulic, luxumbra, Sero, nitegeist, Dave, Alec)
Finishing off the calendar widget in the dashboard (🤝 dysbulic, luxumbra)
New look for the landing page (words by peth, design by Dave, 💻by nitegeist, ✔ by Sero)
Most of these updates are currently pre-release - you’ll see them soon on the website!
As well as that …
dysbulic went on another bug-fixing quest, slogging through GraphQL generator quirks, esoteric GitHub actions and secrets, hydration errors, yarn versions, and .env vars
peth rewrote the onboarding game and redesigned the website background
HHH finished off the Upgrading Quests Part 2 issue, with a review from Alec
Polimyl worked on multisig-related tasks, including finding a replacement for the polygon safe bridge
Sero, dysbulic, and Alec worked on an issue loading DAO memberships into the Player cards and list
…
Past 2 months of updates were merged to main after 24h debugging by Sero
🍰 Content
We recorded a new podcast episode that featured Trent Vane Epps—peth did the interview, and eowulia is set to publish it on Youtube, with show notes and a Twitter promo video
eowulia prepped and published two of the community calls, including the Bloom Network call recorded by dysbulic
peth wrote the DAOcember post, and it’s DAOcember right now, until December 15—read all about it
🌱 Growth
peth secured the bag, getting us a Gitcoin grant 👜
vanessagil promoted all the MetaGame content on Twitter and in our announcements channels
Finally, big congratulations to Sero & METADREAMER on their v2 releases! 👶🍼
13th Seasoning 🎉
Another season is nearing its end - we’ll be doing the seasoning on December 22nd.
This time with a bit different format & live testing of 6 months of updates!
⚔️ MetaAlliance
Get details on how to apply for a 6K grant from RnDAO and Thank ARB’s ArbitrumDAO Co.Lab
Giveth posted helpful info for nonprofit and social impact projects looking to get funded
Get an intro to Ceramic and ComposeDB in their refreshed FAQ
Opolis did a Twitter Space with MetaIntro on the topic of employment in web3
Bloom Network’s Magenta went on the Rehash podcast to discuss Local Bloom impact projects
More Giveth crew happenings: Griff presented at notDEVCON, Lauren Luz presented at How to DAO Istanbul, and 40+ Giveth Galaxy contributors gathered to hack in Istanbul at Devconnect, coming away with prizes
dOrg’s Pol Lanski was at Devconnect Istanbul
Token Engineering Academy introduced cadCAD GPT, an open-source LLM framework that supports token system simulations
Help Mochi train AI Kyrie Irving?
DAOhaus did a documentation update: check the overview, see the brand new guides for users and developers
dOrg Hot Seat Podcast: Juliette and AragonOSx
🔭 Meta™
“And in the sequel, six months later, he builds Microsoft God in Box, we are all enslaved by robots, the nonprofit board is like “we told you so,” and the godlike AI is like “ahahaha you fools, you trusted in the formalities of corporate governance, I outwitted you easily!” Matt Levine on OpenAI
Week in Ethereum News: November 4; November 11; November 18; November 25
Week in DAOs: November 2; November 16; November 30
Week in Web3: November 3; November 10; November 17; November 24
Week in Collapse: November 5; November 12; November 19; November 26
“Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial was focused on securing a fraud conviction, not untangling the knot of curious threads that, if pulled, could unravel dozens of different fraud-sweaters.” Molly White on the FTX trial
CZ steps down, pleads guilty to money laundering violations
“AI is going to completely change how you use computers.” Bill Gates on AI Agents
“What types of platforms uniquely leverage the power of being onchain?”—The Future of Social is Onchain
The Psychology of Human Misjudgment—”I sought good judgment mostly by collecting instances of bad judgment, then pondering ways to avoid such outcomes” (Warning: long)
Ecofrontiers: Unlocking the Potential of Web3 for Natural Capital Production
🎅
HHH