Team Visioning Retreat in Barcelona
We've seen a lot of changes this past year including a relocation of our home office in Barcelona. It's a high priority for teams that work remotely to gather in shared physical space periodically to connect, discuss, and strategize together; meeting up for things like DevCon, while they get us by, do not fully meet the purpose of a team retreat.
So, let's get together!
We can use this thread for any decisions that come up including date, agenda, scholarship funds, fun side adventures etc.
It will be great to also state both personal and collective intentions for coming, surface specific obstacles that may be prohibiting anyone from committing as well as opportunities for engaging peripheral participants more deeply!
Loie
Thu 18 Apr 2019 4:05PM
in response to josh: i've been getting excited about visiting more radical communities in and outside of barcelona. there are a couple different squats and even squat villages within a couple hours of the city and Ome and I were talking about planning a road trip to visit some of them in end of may/early june :) it would be so super fun to tack this onto our group get together as an optional before or after field trip.
Kay Thu 4 Apr 2019 10:29PM
Didn't we want to propose the first week of June?
Dani Fri 19 Apr 2019 10:28PM
Per discussion in the Community Meeting on Thursday 4/18, the proposal has passed to host a Giveth Team Retreat in Barcelona beginning at or around May 27 through roughly June 9th, open to all interested in participating in team oriented activities that build the Future of Giveth together, up to the capacity of our new home office place.
There will be space created in or around this time to address the Commons Stack as a separate but related entity/project of Giveth.
We'll work in advance to plan our time together, draft the outcomes desired, and prepare a rough agenda of topics -- while releasing attachment to that plan knowing that things can change and we'll make those decisions collectively when onsite.
Next steps are to invite facilitators and planner type people to join a Riot room, and distribute a form soliciting input from all, including those not attending and those who are more of the do-er type. :)
Dani Sun 21 Apr 2019 8:51PM
What do you think is important to the Future of Giveth? Whether you can make it or not, your perspective will shape the outcomes of the retreat so please take a few minutes to tell us here: https://forms.gle/UX2ntZSfydpjBUAHA
Josh Fairhead Mon 6 May 2019 6:17PM
I have just booked a flight for Monday 27/05/19 arriving at 17:50. See you guys soon :)
Pol Lanski Tue 7 May 2019 4:31AM
Is there a place where we can all put the dates? I need to narrow down days to tell my boss :P
Josh Fairhead Tue 7 May 2019 12:21PM
We could create a doddle perhaps? (I was under the impression that it was a two week thing, however I'm getting rid of all my stuff to go nomadic.... so I don't really have the boss constraint!.. and will thus select all dates across said potential doddle)
Josh Fairhead Tue 7 May 2019 12:29PM
To @loie "i've been getting excited about visiting more radical communities in and outside of barcelona. there are a couple different squats and even squat villages within a couple hours of the city and Ome and I were talking about planning a road trip to visit some of them in end of may/early june :) it would be so super fun to tack this onto our group get together as an optional before or after field trip"
I'm down with such an idea. I wanna be back in London on the 16th to see King Crimson in the Royal Albert with a friend but otherwise I'm good to stay on/come back for such a cultural excursion. Do you know which squats etc though? Ideally we'd find the good ones that have found working collaborative patterns like the Huertas; the working 10% rather than the unsustainable 90%!
Kay Tue 7 May 2019 12:37PM
I would be so down for this!! If I only had more time!!
Josh Fairhead Tue 7 May 2019 1:42PM
Let's do it then! @loie, I think your idea has legs ;)
Gustavo Segovia Wed 8 May 2019 4:25PM
since it seems you guys are looking for interesting plans arround barcelona before/after the Giveth retreat, let me share this with you in case it fits your interests... https://www.ayaconference.com/
Josh Fairhead Wed 8 May 2019 6:27PM
Ohhh, there's some real team bonding potential in that one! Thank you very much for sharing :)
I'm soooo down for this suggestion, it gets all my token weight :))))
Griff Green Wed 8 May 2019 4:05PM
:-D
Poll Created Wed 8 May 2019 11:52PM
Barcelona Retreat Schedule Closed Sat 11 May 2019 11:01PM
Alright we need enough schedule to do all the things, enough spaciousness to be resilient, and enough advance notice to arrange the logistics.
This proposal is to establish arrivals between 5/29 and 5/31, these days are for the planning and preparation team to activate the space and organize the materials.
It is also to confirm that our retreat will officially start on June 1st, I would love for everyone to be onsite by the 31st, so we can sleep in the same place Friday night, and have breakfast together on Saturday :) (looks like Gustavo might be the one whose arrival on the 1st will get the party started for real).
This proposal is NOT to decide what we're going to do each day. The planning team can work out all the fun details ( with plenty of open space for ... ), and put it forth closer to end of May.
We'll have through the 6th dreaming, eating, playing and scheming together on the future of Giveth, with some love (and strategy) given to the direction for the Giveth DAC, the Circles, the Roles, funding opportunities, contributor engagement, the Unicorn DAC, the Website, DECENTRAL, and some Catalonia connection times as well.
And for the Commons Stack, Association and Token Engineering.. we will get out the house! A weekend at the castle in Cardona is for those who can stay longer and go a little deeper into the future of giving, and into the countryside of Spain from either the 7-9th or 8-10th, depending on pricing and your responses to this proposal.
This will conclude our duly ordained event, at which time any and all are free to return to the Barcelona office for further closing festivities, hacking of the things, sharing publicly, and oversharing privately.
Clarifying questions, overlooked perspectives, and other points of contention encouraged - we can discuss in the Community call on 5/9!
Results
Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
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Agree | 100.0% | 8 | |
Abstain | 0.0% | 0 | ||
Disagree | 0.0% | 0 | ||
Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
Undecided | 0% | 38 |
8 of 46 people have participated (17%)
Dani
Wed 8 May 2019 11:56PM
I can't wait to be there with yall already!
Josh Fairhead
Thu 9 May 2019 11:28AM
All sounds wonderful in my books :)
Loie
Thu 9 May 2019 12:04PM
i doubt this needs to be said for anyone besides griff and i - but keep in mind your available europe time if you are one of those limited by the 90 day visa :) let's plan to make the most of this time - i can't wait!!
Griff Green
Thu 9 May 2019 3:07PM
sounds good... Cardona is on a bit of a hold since common stack is behind schedule and its hard to commit to funding it :-(
Dani Thu 9 May 2019 1:52PM
Here is the Response Spreadsheet, showing individuals available dates, and preferred topics for reference!
Poll Created Thu 20 Jun 2019 4:07PM
Let's adopt a Code of Conduct! Closed Fri 28 Jun 2019 1:02PM
Tension: We had a great 'Ethics of the DApp' session at our Retreat, and agreed that having a Code of Conduct and Community Guidelines in place would be a good thing.
Not only to ensure the safety and respect of our community, yet also for recourse when conflict with our values or violation of the guidelines occurs.
In hosting the RadicalxChange Meetup we received their version of these docs, which are Creative Commons licensed for use.
1.) Code of Conduct was adapted from here:
http://citizencodeofconduct.org
And can be forked on Github! :)
I've attached the RxC version below, along with their Community (Chapter) Guidelines. Should this proposal pass, I'll form a small working team to revise based on the suggestions from our retreat and submit a draft for review and acceptance to be posted publicly.
I'd also recommend that those requesting to join our chats and create a profile on the DApp be asked to agree to these terms once they are adopted.
Proposal: Adapt a Giveth Code of Conduct for participating in our online forums or in person activities, representing Giveth at events and in communications (internal AND external), using the DApp, collaborating with Giveth, and donating to Giveth.
Results
Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
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Agree | 87.5% | 7 | |
Abstain | 0.0% | 0 | ||
Disagree | 12.5% | 1 | ||
Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
Undecided | 0% | 40 |
8 of 48 people have participated (16%)
Dani
Thu 20 Jun 2019 4:57PM
OK.. thanks @krisd for linking to it, I feel silly now to note that this already exists on our wiki and is indeed a fork of exactly the same thing. (note, the attribution is present). So there is that.
to @geleeroyale your point #4 is the one I'd like to focus on, as we do not direct anyone who participates or connects with us to read this or agree to it, which leads to why we don't have those 'graduated sanctions' to enforce.
Marko Prljic
Thu 20 Jun 2019 5:02PM
From the call today I emphasize:
Within the first page or/and on the website we should definitely have the CoC listed in few key points, very clear, direct and 100% aligned with Giveth values and beliefs. Then allow to expand and drill down each section for whoever wants to read more.
Edit:
CoC v1 https://hackmd.io/s/ryQ6LnqI4
ETH Community CoC https://hackmd.io/KAVQHbnRR8SMsY_YIin9qA
ETH Magicians Integrity Ring https://github.com/ethereum-magicians/integrity-ring
Kris is
Fri 21 Jun 2019 2:27PM
Just linking to Kay's answer here - we already have a code of conduct for communities, I don't think we need to spend any time on creating a new one. We just need to write out/summarize what we discussed already, i.e. our codes of conduct for
- Donations to Giveth DAC
- Access to the Giveth DApp
https://github.com/Giveth/Communication/issues/71#issuecomment-503732244
Kay
Sat 22 Jun 2019 1:24PM
Sigh - I don't feel heard at all (actually ignored) and am starting to build up some resistance.
1 - RadicalXchange CoC is nice but not 100% aligned with our values (personal opinion)
2 - The CoC is geared towards physical events whereas ours is tailored for open source dev communities
3 - The CoC adds nothing new to what we have now, but actually is a bit more vague. Reading both it seems that it was forked from the same as ours (without attribution)
4 - We should spend the time on t.o.s
Loie
Tue 25 Jun 2019 4:21AM
i'd like to be a part of this working team! - edit - ok, interesting now reading others' comments... i do understand if people want to block this based off of prioritization reasons and maybe seeing it as a construction zone that we don't have resources for right now... but i am very confused about the other oppositional points brought up! kay, i'm looking forward to hearing your elaboration here ~ sounds like we will have a juicy community meeting this week.
Kay
Tue 25 Jun 2019 9:17AM
Sigh - I don't feel heard at all (actually ignored) and am starting to build up some resistance.
1 - RadicalXchange CoC is nice but not 100% aligned with our values (personal opinion)
2 - The CoC is geared towards physical events whereas ours is tailored for open source dev communities
3 - The CoC adds nothing new to what we have now, but actually is a bit more vague. Reading both it seems that it was forked from the same as ours (without attribution)
4 - We should spend the time on t.o.s
Griff Green
Wed 26 Jun 2019 9:17PM
Love it. I hope we include the work that has been done already on this here: https://wiki.giveth.io/governance/codeofconduct/
Andre
Thu 27 Jun 2019 7:22PM
Such a rich conversation at the giveth retreat i think is a pretty good subject, i will agree on this proposal because getting funds and distributing money around entities would help if people know in what terms those funds are distributed and under what terms
Dani Sat 22 Jun 2019 3:51PM
!!! I edited my response above based on Kay/Kris' responses. Interesting that nobody on the Community Call was able to reference that we have this CoC on the Wiki.
Let's talk about it again at next weeks call, with more participation, and focus on Awareness of our CoC, Agreement/Acceptance as Terms of Service, and Sanction policy/procedures as they extend to the community beyond 'project maintainers' named in the Enforcement section.
This stuck out for me to follow up on because of several sessions at the Retreat, beside the Ethics panel, including 'Is the Giveth DAC a Commons?' presentation AND the 'What are we NOT doing well' circle.
Kay Tue 25 Jun 2019 9:16AM
I should elaborate that I blocked this only for a part of the supplied documents - i.e. I strongly oppose using yet another template and waste time and resources on marginal differences. The block was also used to create further engagement so as to make visible that we have a similar CoC already and also to clear up why a loomio had been made after I put the same info in github discussion already.
@danibelle Attribution is present, sorry overlooked it. It is normal that community meeting deals with less than full info, it shows how important it is to do this kind of thing in asynchronous form as it invites a larger circle for critique.
Because I succeeded to make the existing document visible, I will change my position in order to support the rest of the proposal
I will likely not be present at community meeting, but Loomio is the binding part anyway. However I will gladly be part of the task force to create the additional documents.
Edit: I wish we were more granular with proposals and would not make superproposals that actually propose many things at once that are connected to different opinionated sources.
Dani Tue 2 Jul 2019 1:57PM
Outcome from our Community Meeting on June 27th it was determined that this proposal is very premature and broad, it did not pass. There are 3 distinct items that are needed which may each require a separate proposal, preceded by working groups to draft the following items:
1.) An onboarding process for Giveth community members, that includes review and acceptance of the Code of Conduct
2.) Terms of Service for users of the DApp
3.) Graduated sanctions for noncompliance / violations
Because I tend to view things from a meta-perspective, I see these as interconnected aspects of a unified agreement field that guides work on, within, and beside the Giveth Community which is built around the Dapp at it's core. These agreements encompass the ethics and principles that establish what is 'Blockchain for Good' .. and what is not. They create a structured space that helps individuals make decisions on how we work in our roles to build the tools that will be used by ourselves and others - and how anyone coming into this space is given access to the tools, or may have that access limited or even revoked.
Loie, Kay and Gus have raised a hand to join a working group (or task force ;) ) to put these documents and their supporting processes into a coherent draft format to be presented for review, submission and future adoption. Timeline to be established by this group!
Kay Thu 4 Jul 2019 11:38AM
I created an epic issue for this in gov-lab:
https://github.com/Giveth/gov-lab/issues/22
(@gustavosegovia please send me your handle so I can add you to the Giveth GitHub team)
Gustavo Segovia Thu 4 Jul 2019 12:51PM
it's sepu85 :)
Don Adams · Thu 4 Apr 2019 6:49PM
I would love to hang out with you guys in Spain! I've got the time but not the scratch, so there's that...