- Get prepared for our Closing Day
- Just joining?
- ✍ Think about the theme: Protopia
- 📄 Choose a topic/activity you’re interested in
- ⚒️ Learn the tools and platforms we will use
- 👀 Keep yourself informed
- 🔍 Discover / Meet the group
- 🤝How do we support each other?
- Activities Summary
- 📺 AMA session (20.10)
- 🚀 Opening Day Open Space - Nov 15
- 🌱 Protopian Month (Open Agenda)
- 👏 Closing Day Open Space - Dec 20
- At the opening day (Nov 15)
- 🚀 The Trusted Seed Unconference Opening Day starts at:
- ✨ Bring the energy!
- 🤚 Propose a session!
- 📝 During the breakout rooms dynamic
- 💚 Closing Session
- 💗 About using Praise
- After the Opening Day: Enjoy our Protopian Month!
- 📅 Enjoy an Open Month for having your sessions!
- Closing Day: Opening Year (Dec 20th)
- 🚀 The Trusted Seed Unconference Closing Day starts at:
- 📅 Our Closing Day will be on December 20th!
- What to expect on Closing Day?
- Let’s retrospect!
- Keep learning!
- Sponsors
Get prepared for our Closing Day
Just joining?
✍ Think about the theme: Protopia
In its original, minimalist — and admittedly rather lacking — formulation by Kevin Kelly, Protopia is simply a term that denotes the gradual improvement of society over time, without claiming either perfection or the reaching of a point of stability.
If we cannot allow ourselves to believe in a future paradise that has stabilized around a blissful state of affairs (Utopia), and we find it insufficient to look for those beautiful little exceptions of what life and society can be in certain regards under specific circumstances (Eutopia), perhaps we can more cautiously and realistically allow hope and faith in gradual but over time substantial improvements of society. As mentioned earlier, Kelly views such a capacity to improve as the true opposite of Dystopia.
Some inspiration from Monika Bielskyte about Protopia and its framework:
We consider mere “tolerance” a failure and actively resist the violence of sexism, misogyny, racism, colorism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, ageism, classism, and any other forms of exclusionary categorization and discrimination. Nothing embodies our approach as accurately as words by Alok Vaid-Menon: “Creativity reveals all categories to be artificial and unambitious.”
Our narratives are narratives of communities coming together rather than glorifications of individual “hero journeys” of magical saviors. COMMUNITY is the hero of our futures.
Our futures are embodied and interdependent. We revel in expanded sensory experiences and consciously make vital space for neurodiverse and disability inclusive expressions of intimacy, care, and radical tenderness.
With recognition of destructive feedback loops already in motion, we consider sustainability solutions entirely insufficient and aim for regenerative practices in every aspect of our civilizational construct. We prioritize biological over mechanical technologies as the only truly viable long-term strategy. We grow, not just build.
We appreciate the importance of spiritual practices from the dawn of humanity and their role in human culture-making. We therefore quest for spiritual practices that acknowledge ancestral wisdom, whilst also expanding rather than stifling scientific inquiry.
From the interwoven journeys of our Ancestors to the future living fabrics of our cities, we celebrate the role of creativity beyond the elitism of disciplines previously labeled as “artistic.”
We must depart from colonial/neocolonial individualist cultures of exploitation and greed, and endeavor to nurture cultures of equity, contribution, and planetary mutuality. We envision the values of a material degrowth society.
🤔 Think about the main question
📄 Choose a topic/activity you’re interested in
Are you curious to see what topics and activities have been proposed so far by the participants? Check them out in the list below! At the Opening Session of the Unconference, participants will have an empty agenda - you can add the topic/activity you proposed in the registration form, or plan a different activity that day!
The Glass Bead Game
Future of DAOs
Le Gran Jeu workshop on scenario creation
Complexity, Active Inference + cadCAD (Active Blockference), and Beyond.....
Cultivating Shared Understanding through the Perpetual Beginner's Mindset
Connecting web3 to not so tech savvy parts of the world
How to improve/accelerate/grow current UBI initiatives
Economic system design and modelling
Computational science
Educational fundraising
Token engineering, community building, (if possible) discussing my own project Refaqt
Voting Methods & Decision-Making
How to we apply web3 to climate/disaster resilience?
Leveraging Web3 to Solve the Meaning Crisis
Turning complex concepts into immersive and gamified experiences
A Right To Share
Community Building
Sustainable funding for Commons focused projects
Connecting the Flotillas. What are the structures we need for our own parallel world?
Charging Fees and still providing a Public Good
Introduce a topic or subject and have everyone talk about it
How to create universal standards across chains to help grow the ecosystem as a whole
Indigenous systems
Onboarding for Humans :)
Education and skills needed to create and grow the commons
In-Structions, Mastermind about community strategy
Getting things done across teams: Coordination & Alignment
Digital Community Coordination. Facilitating collaboration, organisation and communication digitally.
Psychological mental models \ tools
Environmental data <> web3
No-code or low-code development for startups
Conding Burves
Characteristic of current web3 users and the chance of them caring to build a protopian world
Financial Inclusion through UBI
DAO/Governance, DAO financial accounting, contributor/member support
Early context discovery
How do we close the informational gap between funding/educational opportunities and 1B+ people who could benefit from them?
Web3 innovations and the real world
NFTs - just nothing art or collectible
Reading The Network State
Community Health
The importance of communicated ethical open channels, and the risk of stiffling participation through complexity
Distributing leadership capabilities, Regenerating neighborhood
Building online communities and creating social change
Web 3.0
The co-evolution of collective sovereignty and planetary sapience
It would essentially be brainstorms for viable ecovillage value systems.
⚒️ Learn the tools and platforms we will use
Trusted Seed will use Zoom as the video conferencing platform to facilitate the activities for our Opening Day. If you’re not familiar with Zoom, you can always ask for help to our team, we are here to help you! But first check out the system requirements for using it so you can avoid issues at the Open Day.
Miro is an online collaboration whiteboard platform. This tool is intended to be used as a shared sandbox or information gathering for our sessions. If you are not familiar with this tool you can learn here how to get started with Miro.
Check out About Dishing Praise section to understand how to participate!
We’ll have a Trusted Seed Unconference Gather Town!
Gather Town is a virtual space designed to mimic face-to-face interactions during physical events.
What do I need to get started? All you need to join a Space and interact with others is a web browser, mic, and camera!
Note: Gather works best on a desktop using Chrome or Firefox! Gather on Brave has known issues. You may experience instability in calls greater than 30 people. Using Google Chrome or Firefox is suggested for stable Gather experience!
How to access?
To access the Gather Town scape, simply click on the link below and use the code: trustedseedunconference.
1) You'll be asked to introduce the password: trustedseedunconference
2) Give permission for Gather to use your mic and camera in your browser, then select your camera, mic, and speaker input/output.
3) You’re in! Feel free to edit/create a custom character to represent you in Gather.
4) You’re in! Start exploring!
How to interact?
Moving your avatar next to another participant will spawn a chat bubble between the two of you.
Sitting at the tables can grant you access to private group conversation.
Do you want to add a session on our Gather space calendar?
👀 Keep yourself informed
Our main communications platforms are:
Main channel to announce important messages to all participants. Want to join and get access to the Telegram group? Register here.
In this channel we are planning to have:
- 🗣 Open conversations! Jump in and connect with other participants, share knowledge, help each other and grow together.
- ❓ Make a request in relation to the open agenda, share doubts or concerns that may interest others.
- 🙏 Help us organize and distribute all the conversations that are going to emerge after our Opening Day! So that people can join, follow each other and discuss more specifically certain topics. We love the idea of using Discord and its forum features, but we’d like to know what you think! Provide your feedback/ideas around this on our Telegram group.
🔖 Tip: Bookmark these pages in your browser for quick access! 👇
You’ll receive a personal invite directly to your calendar so you can book the time to participate in the Opening Day and receive some reminders about the Unconference to the email you provided when registered the event.
🔍 Discover / Meet the group
Interested on know how to get in contact/touch with other participants? Fill up the participant’s directory and connect with others during the event!
🤝How do we support each other?
- Connections
- Feedback
- Empathy
- Brainstorming
- Intelligence
- Covering back
Activities Summary
📺 AMA session (20.10)
In this AMA session, we talked about how we can learn and work together toward a shared vision through an Unconference format.
🚀 Opening Day Open Space - Nov 15
(5 hours)
GMT-4 (EST): 7-12 GMT+2 (CET): 14-19 GMT+8 (Manila): 20-1
🌱 Protopian Month (Open Agenda)
Time and space for any topics or continuous activities with a shared calendar and weekly sync-ups
👏 Closing Day Open Space - Dec 20
(5 hours)
GMT-4 (EST): 8-13 / GMT+2 (CET): 14-19/ GMT+8 (Manila): 21-2
At the opening day (Nov 15)
🚀 The Trusted Seed Unconference Opening Day starts at:
GMT-4 (NY): 7-12
GMT+2 (Berlin): 14-19
GMT+8 (Manila): 20-1
✨ Bring the energy!
During Trusted Seed Unconferences you’ll take control. You can get to propose, and run sessions yourself enabling peer-to-peer learning, collaboration and diverse session types and topics.
- Go with the flow – This event is intended to help you find the time and space to talk with and learn from each other. So, anyone can introduce a discussion topic for a session and everyone is expected to engage, participate and contribute! If you are a bit shy about public speaking, offer to take notes or help keep time, find another creative way to add something to the group’s experience.
- Follow your passion – Go to the sessions that interest you.
- Take responsibility for your own learning – If there are topics you are really interested in that don’t appear on the agenda at first, you need to put them on there.
- There is no right way to do a session – but it’s nice to promote healthy discussions try doing it by asking open questions!
- You don't need to do preparation in order to host a session – but it helps!
- Beat the nerves! – A good approach can be to take a friend or tell us you are new and would like some help to get settled in.
- Whoever comes is the right people.
- Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
- Whenever it starts is the right time.
- When it is over, it is over.
- Law of 2 feet. If a session isn't right for you or if you find yourself somewhere that you’re not comfortable or productive, you can move somewhere else!
Trusted Seed will use Zoom as the video conferencing platform to facilitate the activities for our Opening Day. If you’re not familiar with Zoom, you can always ask for help to our team, we are here to help you! But first check out the system requirements for using it.
Miro is an online collaboration whiteboard platform. This tool is intended to be used as a shared sandbox or information gathering for our sessions. If you are not familiar with this tool you can learn here how to get started with Miro.
🤚 Propose a session!
On the day of the event, the following first steps will be necessary to get ready: 1) accessing the Miro board and 2) joining the video conference Zoom meeting with the link shared via email to participants.
Once the Trusted Seed team started to provide some guidance and intro words to the event you’ll have the opportunity to scroll and zoom around to see our agenda. You’ll notice that will be empty - just a template of a bunch of sticky notes with Title or Question and Your Name that you can place in the Room/Session you choose for hosting your activity and direct access to a Google Doc for taking notes. Example:
During this process two things will be consider: Passion and responsibility
♥ Passion: Do you have a question? Do you have a topic to share? Do you want to participate in a different way?
🏳 Responsibility
During this process, we’ll probably discuss some agreements like:
- How many sessions we’ll run
- The length of each session
- Length of breaks between sessions if any
- Recording all sessions or just some of them
Trusted Seed will propose some timing around this but at the end, you’ll have the right to modify it and propose a different schedule always respecting the total start and end time of the activity.
On our Miro board there will be a space for note-taking per session/room each of them will have direct access to a Google Doc and all these documents will be linked to a Google Sheets that will act as a “Table of Content” to collect all Google Docs and where you’ll have the opportunity to access freely to all the documentation. Plus, you’ll have access to the main Folder in case you need to add extra information (images, PDFs, videos, etc).
During our Opening Day, you’ll be free to use this space for taking notes and all participants in the session are encouraged to help with it or someone can offer on doing it, so others can have the opportunity to read about the discussion that took place. Once finished the sessions, all these documents will become a public archive of our event with the resume, key ideas or blog post (any format allowed!) as a result of your meaningful conversations so others may have the opportunity to learn through the resulting file.
TIP: During the session don't try to write everything down otherwise you will be too busy focusing on the notes and not listening to the conversations.
📝 During the breakout rooms dynamic
Take into consideration that there’ll be breaking rooms or separate sessions from the main event in the same link, so you’ll have the opportunity to openly join to the session you’re interested the most and so you can interact with other participants and ask questions. Note: Participants not joined with the desktop or mobile app (version 5.3.0 or higher) will not be able to self-select a breakout room. The host will need to facilitate moving these participants manually.
- The host will need to invite you to join the breakout room.
- Click Join.
- If you choose Later, you can join by clicking Breakout Rooms in your meeting controls.
- Click Join Breakout Room. You will have access to full controls similar to the meeting.
When you enter the access the Zoom Meeting, you will enter the lobby room. Here you will find a complete overview of the agenda (the same available on the Miro board) on the shared screen and you can follow what is currently happening and what’s to come, this will allow you join the room you like the most. Plus, you can always ask on the chat and our Gardeners (Trusted Seed team) will guide you!
We’ll propose having breaks during our Opening Day. It’s important to always take care of yourself so try stepping away from the computer, getting a snack, refreshing your beverage. Consider stepping outside and getting some fresh air. You might even return to the lobby and socialize with others.
If you have any problem at any time during the dynamic you can come back to the lobby room or reach out Trusted Seed team (Max Semenchuck, Mafer Cordovas, Yineisy or Ivy). We’re here to help!
Also, in order to keep safety and anonymity you can always go directly to our chat in the bottom right corner of any page on this Wiki to report any kind of incidents, our lines of communication are open for you. Don’t hesitate to communicate your concerns with us!
In case you haven’t reviewed it yet we are using Gather as an optional channel to interact with other participants during our Trusted Seed Unconference and you’ll have the opportunity not only to interact with each other but also hosting sessions will be possible until the scheduling activity during the event on Gather! You'll be able to share your screen and use a whiteboard during your hosted session too.
Feel free to ask for assistance by reaching out to Yineisy Mota (Yineisy Mota#1449) for adding events and sessions inside the Gather calendar during the Opening Day or the Open Month!
💚 Closing Session
Join us to wrap up the day. The Closing Session is our open space to:
💭 Reflect on our time together
💬 Plan future actions
🗒 Take feedback notes
💗 Dishing Praise
💚 Say thanks and goodbye
💗 About using Praise
At Trusted Seed we practice the culture of giving and gratitude via the reward system: Praise. As participants during the Trusted Seed Unconference, we recognize the full range of value you’ll be creating, from minor to major in order to co-create a Protopian world with us and in sharing knowledge with the rest of the participants.
We’d like to invite you to be part of this culture! So here are the what, how and why about dishing Praise:
Praise is an open-source system developed by Commons Stack and it runs in its server which is the same server Trusted Seed uses to interact with its community. It encourages communities to cultivate a culture of giving and gratitude by recognizing and rewarding contributions. As an open source product, Praise can be deployed by any community that wishes to use it. See more information about Praise here.
To recognize a contribution during our session, you’ll need to interact with the praise bot. It’s only available in Commons Stack Discord Server, so that means you must join first. After joining our server you’ll need to activate your account to be able to dish praise and receive $TRUST!
Simply type and send the command /activate in any channel and you will be prompted to link your ETH address and access your Praise dashboard.
After that, you can type the command /praise in any channel to start dishing praise to other participants.
All praise received is quantified and is assigned a numerical value to that praise data. When all praise data for a period has been quantified, token allocations are made to those who have received Praise. In the Trusted Seed community $TRUST tokens are allocated to members. In short: active Trusted Seed members can increase their $TRUST by getting and dishing “Praise”.
For more information about your TRUST score, you may reach out to our Trusted Seed Gardeners mafer_cordovas#1034 and Yineisy Mota#1449 on Discord.
After the Opening Day: Enjoy our Protopian Month!
📅 Enjoy an Open Month for having your sessions!
During our Protopian Month, there will be an open agenda of self-led experience where you can decide the platform to carry out your event/activity. The best part? You don’t need to wait until starting our open month to submit a topic/activity! For doing it, please consider the following tips:
Optional:
Others:
Optional channels that can offer the above:
- Google Meet: is free for everyone but there are limitations. Free users are limited to 1 hour and 100 meeting participants. Only Google Workspace administrators (only Premium accounts) can record meetings.
- Commons Stack Discord Server: is free for everyone that joins the server. No limitations of time. In case of requiring to record a session you can use alternative tools like OBS. Not a Discord expert? Check out this comprehensive beginner's guide to Discord.
If you are a session host:
- Do not take it personally if no-one attends your session.
- Don’t assume people know more or less than you.
- As the person who proposed the session, share some more context at the start to get the discussion going.
- It’s best that each session topic has an angle – one that encourages debate and discussion. Make this clear and also share some tips on running a session prior to the event.
- You don’t have to use all the time in the session. If you reach a conclusion in 20 minutes, great! People can then have a break or join another session if possible.
- Don’t feel you have to prepare but do try and have some idea what you’d like to get out of it.
- Ask for help if you need to.
If you’re attending a session:
- Go with the flow – these events are to try and help you share and learn from others.
- Go to the sessions that interest you – if it’s not working, say so or try another session.
- Help the host – take notes, make sure that everyone has a chance to speak or take the time session.
Please, contact our Gardeners (Yineisy, Mafer, Ivy or Max) with the details of your session/activity:
- Title/topic or question
- Resume about what it could be about
- Zoom link (in case of selecting this tool)
- Optional: your social Twitter handle.
So they can help you to add and promote your session in our calendar and also on our Twitter channel.
Closing Day: Opening Year (Dec 20th)
🚀 The Trusted Seed Unconference Closing Day starts at:
GMT-4 (EST): 8-13
GMT+2 (CET/EU): 14-19
GMT+8 (Manila): 21-2
📅 Our Closing Day will be on December 20th!
Our Unconference is coming to an end and we’d like to offer you a meaningful and remarkable closing! We hope you have gained valuable insights and connections during our Protopian Month.
It’s time to ponder on our main question, bring more answers - or questions - and take what you’ve learned and apply it in the real world.
What to expect on Closing Day?
The Closing Day will take place on December 20th as a series of self-led sessions that will run for 5 hours on Zoom. Like on our Opening Day, together with other DAO stewards, you will co-create the agenda with a specific focus on answering the main Unconference question:
We’ll keep using this Miro board in creating the agenda during the Closing Day 👇
What’s an actionable framework?
An “actionable framework” is a set of plans and tools that help to achieve a desired change or transformation. It provides a structure or guide for building something new and useful. Being so, how could we proactively prototype hopeful futures?
Let’s retrospect!
This will be our time to look inward and turn outward. What part of the Unconference has made an impact or stuck with you? Share your observations and insights on our Closing Day.
Join our Praise party!
We’re wrapping up the Unconference by recognizing and celebrating all of the contributions to our Protopian Month.
At Trusted Seed, we practice the culture of giving and gratitude through the reward and reputation system Praise. We recognize the full range of value you have created in building Protopian futures. Here’s a quick guide on how to:
- Activate your Praise account in Commons Stack Discord server (by typing the command /activate)
- Write a good praise, and
- Dish praise to all participants (by typing the command /praise in any channel of the server)
We encourage you to prepare your praise list and have it ready before the Closing Day! Need help with people’s Discord handles? Our Gardeners are just a DM away!
Keep learning!
The learning process doesn’t end here. In the coming weeks, we will share more tips, discoveries and insights on how to use what we’ve learned at the Unconference to build Protopian futures.
Sponsors
The Trusted Seed Unconference is sponsored by:
Interested in becoming our sponsor? We definitely need more! Check out our 💝 Sponsorship Proposal.