Gatherer's Guild Proposal draft

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Hey folks, I created this proposal draft and I would like some feedback on its different aspects.

I don’t have a budget section yet as I would like to add some more collaborators and get feedback before finalizing it. I would plan to compensate myself with Cabin and maybe some eth upon completion of some of the proposed goals, as an incentive.

Summary

This proposal re-establishes a Gatherer’s Guild within Cabin. It is focused on two key deliverables: facilitating regular online community engagement and curating an information treasury / “A Pattern Language for Gatherings” - inspired by Christopher Alexander’s seminal work on architectural patterns, but applied to community design.

We will re-establish Gatherer’s guild by personally reaching out to Cabin members who have disengaged from the DAO. Then Gatherers will create digital connection points as a community of practice. Along the way we will curate high-quality information about the most effective ways to Gather.

This lays the foundation for the revival of engagement and a truly decentralized culture of belonging.

By empowering community members to step up into a community of practice around gathering, we can:

  • Strengthen the Cabin brand through organic, community-led growth
  • Create more opportunities for connection, belonging, and engagement.
  • Return to Cabin’s original, compelling Lore base.

Goals

1. Gather the Gatherers

  • Reach out to prominent members of the DAO who have stopped engaging.
  • Recruit past Build Week and Cabin Week participants.
  • Emphasize the compelling parts of Cabin’s culture.
  • Create specific requests tailored to each person’s strengths.

Success metrics:

  • At least 50 contacts

2. Create digital connection points with a facilitation community of practice.

  • gatherer’s guild participants take turns facilitating a weekly call in their own style.
  • Get access to a private chat or forum for sharing about growth edges, getting support, celebrating one another.
  • beta-test an apprenticeship program
  • Create a centralized list of Gatherers’ non-cabin centric events, online and IRL, to promote in the Cabin newsletter and on the app.

Success Metrics:

  • Bi-weekly community calls are occurring by the end of February
  • Core group of 5-8 active Gatherers
  • A few apprenticeship relationships are established

3. The Information Treasury

  • Create a playbook for successful gatherings, with templates for different types of events derived from successful patterns.
  • Establish pattern documentation tools and norms
  • Templates for scheduling, budgeting, and programming
  • Eventually, token-gate information for members of the guild

Success Metrics

  • Documentation of 20+ distinct gathering patterns in first quarter
  • Creation of 5 reusable event templates
  • Establishment of clear pattern documentation format
  • Active contribution from 25% of guild members

4. Technical integrations

From its inception as a DAO, Cabin has been a part of a movement towards blockchain innovation of systems of value. We need to return to testing out cutting-edge technology for doing so, starting with our obvious allies Coordinape and Hats. In this first quarter we will explore integrating Hats trees and Coordinape GIVE into the Cabin app, with the goal of creating community-based compensation models, reputation systems, and community treasuries.

  • Explore Hats Protocol for role-based permissions and recognition
  • Consider Coordinape for peer-to-peer value attribution
  • Focus on lightweight implementation after community engagement is established
  • create options for microtransactions in the Cabin app (stripe integration?) that can flow value to Cabin DAO and to individual creators.

Success metrics

  • Successful test implementation of Hat and/or Coordinape
  • One microtransaction option integrated in app
  • Revenue flow established to both DAO and creators

5. Spin Threads of Lore

Cabin’s unique emphasis on lore-building has been lost in the sauce. The revival of guilds should come along with revived Hatting ceremonies, ideally involving the guild heads who have already been Hatted. We can make a spectacle of this which creates fun and engaging content .

  • Document the evolution of Gatherer’s guild with video clips
  • create content re-weaving Cabin’s story

Success Metrics:

  • Minimum of 5 high-quality gathering documentation pieces
  • 1000+ views per piece
  • Positive engagement metrics on social platforms
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Love this and would love to see it incubated in the Ideation Pod if you want to (pending the Pod’s approval, of course).

There are so many interesting ideas and directions here, my eyes started wandering a bit. Would it be possible to create a sort of a roadmap for what you’d like to focus on in the first month, what’s next, and so on (I saw already about the first quarter)?

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Looks good. Anything that will build community again.