What's up: Season3 Open 😱😱😱
Open Office Week & moar 🙃
On Monday, we closed the old & opened a new season 😱
Phase I: Season3 - Summer 2021
Looking back, its clear that MetaFest was another tipping point for MetaGame.
We put it together in something like 2.5 weeks; an insanely short period of time for an event of that magnitude. Of course a bunch of things went wrong & we were often amazed its even working at all - but it was a great success overall.
Other than bringing a huge inflow of new people, it brought existing people together. Working side by side through FUD, stressing but still joking; people who were visitors at MetaGame suddenly became great friends.
It tied us together & built up momentum. After that, we just focused on the next thing, then the next and then the next; slowly plugging away at making MetaGame work.
Things happened
We went from meeting 3 times per week to more like 3 per day - discounting all the random times people just hang in the voice channels. Not that the number of meetings is a great measure of success, but it is a pretty good indicator that the engagement is high & that things are happening.
We mainly focused on improving the onboarding system, workflows & accountability.
We revamped all of the onboarding docs & paths, made a huge upgrade to the channel structure & pinned info, added lots of quests for people of any (or no) skills whatsoever & put together a cohort onboarding system.
We appointed leaders to all internal guild, helped them establish their syncing schedule & workflow then revamped the leadership accountability/reporting system.
The main chunk of work we’ve done was in terms of organizational setting, workflows, processes & onboarding but of course we have been doing other things as well.
We organized a bunch more meetups & workshops, onboarded a bunch more players & patrons, released a bunch more podcast episodes, wrote a bunch more playbooks, made a bunch more memes, created a bunch more designs, closed a bunch more issues, submitted a bunch more pull requests & published a bunch more newsletter that go into more detail on all of this: S2W1, S2W2, S2W3, S2W4, S2W5, S2W6, S2W7 & S2W8 🙃
But…
There’s no denying that recent market activity (all of our paychecks slashing in half) coupled with the hiccups in the minting process (or lack of a proper thereof) put a bit of a dampener on the whole situation.
The price is kind of depressing & we all need a little pick-me-up.
To that end, I just bought 420 Seeds 😇
If you’re new to crypto, here’s the thing:
Nobody knows whether we’re about to enter a 3 year bear market or surge back up within 3 months & make a new high.
And you know what we do in bear markets?
We keep on building.
In fact, bear markets are the best time to create value. No distractions & no fomo. Best of all, its easiest to see who is here for the money & who is here for the future.
Then again, the numbas might as well go straight back up 🤷♂️
So what?
I think MetaGame will prosper either way:
3 month bear: we keep on building, price of Seeds picks back up as we go on to raise easy money at the top of the bull run.
3 year bear: we keep on building, price of Seeds stays depressing but we stop checking it. We go on to raise less but enough money.
I think now more than ever, its obvious that the crypto space needs a proper onboarding machine unless we want newcomers to keep on falling for crap.
It’s in all of our best interests that the newcomers come here, learn about why we are here & become productive members of a decentralized society rather than buy Doge.
So what’s with all the urgency?
I started MetaGame when barely anyone was launching DAOs & nobody was comparing crypto to a giant MMO-RPG.
Everyone is doing both of these now & we’re losing our first-mover advantage 😬
We were the first to start building a gamified decentralized society for DAOs,
Let’s fucking make it count!
How
We don’t really need much more before we can go on this shilling & fundraising campaign, but we do need at least a few more things…
We’ll be discussing these things on Tuesday at the Content & Shilling Strategy and the Technical Roadmapping meetings 🙃
🤗 Open Office Week
As you might have noticed, we haven’t prepared any conference or hackathon for this season - so we’re doing an open office week 🤷♂️
This means that all (ok, not all) of our weekly calls will be available to public & we’re adding a few new ones.
Let’s show the world what working in a DAO looks like
Let’s also onboard a bunch more players & patrons while we’re at it 🙃
Starting this Sunday at 4:20 UTC!
Its going to be a pretty interesting week, here’s the current schedule:
🤔 Highly Demanded Roles
🛠️ Builder
We got a bunch of new builders but the list of issues is long 🙃. No fancy Solidity developers, we only need some good old web2 developers. Those of ReactJS, TypeScript kind & those familiar with Hasura & Graph.
Check the role description here, get going on the builders path here or ask about it in the #builders-guild.
🤑 Patron
Patrons are the players that are contributing to MetaGame by buying & planting Seeds. You can read more about how it works here.
Looking to join MetaGame? Now is a good time! Already a player, looking to avoid the purge? Get going!
🕵️♂️ Headhunter
Headhunter is a player who knows a lot of people or where to find them. His role is to get the other roles filled. Currently, the highest priority for headhunters are the builders, though finding more innkeepers & patrons definitely won’t hurt 😇
We got a headhunters raid going on, so becoming a headhunter won’t require much thinking or expertise - everyone is welcome!
🖋️ Writer
With the Writers Guild under construction, there is a demand coming for writers. There will be help needed in anything from Playbooks & Great Houses, to the Newsletter, The Lore & the Shillers Guild. Interested in writing for or about MetaGame? Report in the #writers-guild
📣 Shiller
Likewise, shillers guild is only about to get going. The next few months will still mostly be focused on building, but the Shillers Guild will slowly start ramping up its membership & efforts to prepare for Summoning The Great Flood.
😶 Necromancers
With Season2 coming to an end & a bunch of inactive players holding us back from recruiting new players - Necromancers are getting ready for another purge.
To carry out their player revivals, patron conversions & executions as fast as possible, they are looking for more players to join them in cleansing MetaGame.
Sought roles:
There are bounties on their heads.
If you are one of them, contact me at petheth
If you know any of them, proceed with bringing them to our discord & reporting to receive your reward.
MetaGame Meta 👀
Shillers Guild aligns for the second time, this time with Shillers Guild responsibilities fleshed out in more detail. For the time being, they will be splitting into two sessions; one about the overall Content & Shilling Strategy led by FearlessThompson & the other one about Shilling In The Now & status reports led by Bagholder. Tl;dr, they will be shilling out all the existing MetaGame content in the form of twitter threads, as well as tweeting non-shilling stuff & coming up with an overal content & shilling strat.
With Misanth & FearlessThompson filling out the Engaged Octos Noticeboard, the Better Onboarding officially comes to a wrap & the call slot is passed on to Tommy for the Innkeepers Align weekly meets. The only thing left for the Better Onboarding is the Metarrhizal & internal guild videos, which are left on Fearless’s hands - looking for more people handy with video editing.
Writers Guild champion Gnomeski gets set back by real life, but other writers report more work on Playbooks complete, along with Bagholder finishing his reflection on MetaGame & Seed minting experience, peth drafts the Champion Responsibilities doc; Penguin finishing his draft for the House of DeFiance & Metaverde working on the House of dApps. Chair experiments in making a video playbook.
Headhunters Guild hits a pot of gold at the Hack Money hackathon; Kyle extracts a list of all the hackers, their projects, skills & contact info then proceeds with putting together a list of actionables & developing situation reports as well as an external code of conduct. Newly joined headhunters get their hands on it & start processing it.
Onboarders champion Misanth, other than helping with the Better Onboarding raid, holds another onboarding session & starts coordinating with Headhunters on filtering the Engaged Octos into Players or back into Curious Octos.
In the Designers Guild, Dave continues refining & collaborating with Luxumbra on building the new block function into MyMeta. Also starts high-level planning and surveying people for the Playbooks interface design, starts skecking & scoping the Role Selection & gets the mobile version of the MetaMenu closer to finish. After a round of feedback & improvements, Trolleo submits the final version of icons.
Bacon the fresh champion joins us for his first Champions Ring. The newly minted Knowledge Worker tells us he’s been talking to mprime about the nature of his new role & what to do with it. Also starts coordinating with Misanth on sending more people to post in the #🧠-brain-exchange, encourages Musashi to write a playbook on DeFi and run a session on different strategies. Gonna spend more time thinking about organizational knowledge & facilitating knowledge exchange.
Another Humans of MetaGame episode airs on MetaRadio thanks to eowulia, karmaticacid & peth; this time with Luxumbra The Swiss Knife. Next AutonomousB in production & the next MetaView getting recorded tonight - got this shit all lined up!
Reporting for XP Fairies, Penguin lets us know that consensus was reached, vote was passed, merkle root was updated & Seeds were sent out. You can claim them here in case you still haven’t.
Onwards! 🐙
Today:
Onwards, we got an Open Office Week!
Starting this Sunday at 4:20 UTC
Other than the usual, we got more live hacking sessions & intro to 3D.
We also got:
Content & Shilling Strategy @ 8am PST / 11am EST / 5pm CET / 8:30pm IST
Technical Roadmapping @ 11am PST / 2pm EST / 8pm CET / 11:30pm IST
…happening on Tuesday 👆
Maybe go upvote us at Zerion?
Then,
Continuing as usual:
Mondays:
Champions Ring - the 14 raid leads stand-up meet
Headhunters Align @ 10am PST / 1pm EST / 7pm CET / 10:30pm IST
Tuesdays:
Designers Align @ 10am PST / 1pm EST / 7pm CET / 10:30pm IST
Shillers Align @ TBA
Writers Align @ 1pm PST / 4pm EST / 10pm CET / 1:30am IST
Wednesdays:
Builders Align @ 7am PST / 10am EST / 4pm CET / 7:30pm IST
Better Onboarding @ 8am PST / 11am EST / 5pm CET / 8:30pm IST
Mid-week Storming, Feedback, AMA - open office, coworking
Thursday:
Playbooks Workshop @ 9am PST / noon EST / 4pm UTC / 6pm CET / 9:30pm IST
Fridays:
Onboarding @ 8:15am PST / 11:15am EST / 5:15pm CET / 8:45pm IST
Community Gathering @ 9am PST / noon EST / 4pm UTC / 6pm CET / 9:30pm IST