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Meeting 2 99df2baf6b7146c8b360d08f9cfeae13

Meeting 2
Attendees: fmurphy, Aaron Williams, Incan denza, Fabs Martins Event time: January 11, 2023 Type: Brainstorm
Facilitator: Paolo
Secretary: Fintan
Agenda:
  1. Review tasks from last week and progress
    1. Fintan: get in touch with contacts
    2. Paolo: get in touch with contacts - contacts recommended having set up in EU to apply for grants. One contact provided Paolo with school contacts (4 school heads)
    3. Fabs: Friends kid wants docs
    4. Aaron and Fintan: set up a couple of DAOs
  1. What evenings can we do going forward? Try Tues 10pm next week
  1. Educating potential partner schools and contacts
    1. What do we want to teach about web3
    2. How do we want to share this info ie.learning library, our own literature, presentations
    3. Dev. standard comms docs
  1. Testing DAO tooling
    1. Aragon app
    2. Summon - Cardano
    3. DAO Haus
  1. Funding and business plan -
To do:
Set up Notion account
  • *********************Discussion:**********************
Paolo: Do we need blockchain to teach to kids
Fabs: Market research - Fabs friend, one of his kids very board at school, lack of challenge in school. Students not able to communicate to teachers their issues with curriculum etc. Asked if he would like to partake as a partner
Fabs: Need to select platform to consider gas fees. FactoryDAO.org - cool tools but not great execution
Fintan: What do we want to teach:
Fabs: Power of being in charge of your own destiny, having a say. Blockchain is trustless, censorship resistant. How to set up your own wallet.
Fabs: Legal age restriction?
Aaron: Concerns about all kids having a wallet, privacy issues?
Fabs: Benefits of having everything on-chain v off-chain. Off-chain will be cheaper and easier to set up (ie. vocdoni or snapshot) and still transparent
Fintan and Paolo: To work on a draft of what we want to teach
Paolo:
Tasks for week ahead:
Paolo and Fin to write up general comms draft of the project, our aims and what to teach potential partners
Fintan: Set up notion page
Aaron and Fintan: Spin up DAO on Summon and DAO Haus
  1. How many students own a web3 wallet
  1. Do you see a benefit in learning about blockchain tech?
  1. Can you think of how you would like to use this tech
Facilitator: Fintan
Secretary: Paolo
DoDAO for curriculum and courses - Shawn intro
Agenda 90mins?:
  1. Intros (10 mins)
  1. Define value proposition - The WHY (30 mins)
    1. Student empowerment
  1. Initial roles and responsibilities (who wants to contribute what) (15 mins)
  1. Set provisional timelines (30 mins) for:
    1. Market research - AB testing - do after POC
    2. Identifying school and student partners for proof of concept
      1. Spin up 1st DAO’s
      2. Initiate 1st proposals and votes
      3. Enact proposals
    3. Prep pitch deck
    4. Full business plan and/or whitepaper
  1. Set regular meeting (5 mins)
Intros:
  1. Fintan: everyone knows him
  1. Aaron: from the Rocky Mountain but he lives in Barcelona. Co-Founder in tech, primarily software. At the moment CTO of a startup in the States.
  1. Fabs: Portuguese born in Brazil, travelled around the world. Specialties: being a teacher and market research. Former global vice president of a business unit.
  1. Paolo: background in education and journalism. At the moment Community Guild in Aragon
  • *******************Defining Value Proposition********************:
  1. Empowering students, giving them a voice and an element of control on what happens in their schools and communities. How: DAO technology, but besides that it’s a black slate.
    1. Q (Fabs): Target: English speaking? Fintan has contact in Ireland, so it can probably start with that
    2. Fabs: in the NED there’s a movement to organize student councils, is there anything similar in Ireland? No. But something similar is going on in Sweden. In Ireland whatever happens is just theory. There’s scope for research.
    3. Aaron: in the US there normally are student councils, whose power is in question. 50%+ of the student body didn’t participate. Maybe there’s a value to participate, propose and voting.
    4. Fabs: there’s a dual approach, applying tech to existing processes or offering processes
    5. Fintan: there’s very pretty low voter turnout. Tyranny of people who have time that take all the decisions
    6. Fabs: in all democratic processes representation is always the issue.
    7. Fintan: there are already programs to introduce DAOs in uni. Maybe we should focus on younger ones, in particular in schools where’s there’s no tradition for this. Opportunity: focus on Irish students in their transition year.
    8. Fabs: be aware of legal compliance. Q: How do we make money? Have you heard of “Internation”? It’s a software for expats, they make money through partnerships. Freemium model.
    9. Aaron: schools where student bodies are distributed in the Alaskian tundra, doing remote learning - this could be a use case, though the size of the market might be small.
    10. Fabs: Q? Do we envision the business to be a for profit or a non profit?
    11. Fintan: Do we want it to be a pure DAO? With/without legal wrapper? Association + DAO?
    12. Fabs: suggest considering the non profit: easier interaction with schools + possibility of getting grants for corporations (like Google e.g.)
    13. Other sources of revenues: allowing parents to participate/control how funds are managed by schools.
    14. What are we providing:
      1. Education
      2. Template for DAOs
      3. Platform
      4. Extra fund stream: DATA (specially if we are giving part of the money back to schools to fund their projects)
      5. Possible certification program (on web3, blockchain, governance)
      6. Rating system: students rate schools.
Roles and responsibilities:
  1. Aaron: everything product, tech stack, demo proof of concept, everything that comes to technology, including a dev recruiting a team.
  1. Paolo: education, relations with schools, giving presentations
  1. Fabs: no idea, you’re welcome to use me, research, market analysis.
  1. Fintan: general ops, getting legal advice
Tokenomics:
Soul bound NFT for students. Erc20 governance / pegged token to distribute rewards for schools. Graduate company: they create a school network to maintain people in touch, could be another stream of funds.
  1. Aaron: non profit + sister for profit company. E.g.: wordpress.org & wordpress.com.
  1. Q: Should we be a DAO? Is that a way to organise efficiently? Premature question. Maybe we don’t need an organizational structure to create an MVP. Maybe register as a non profit in Europe to access EU funds.
  1. TO DO: do a trial with different tools
  1. What does an MVP look like:
    1. Four schools creating a student generated proposal, voted on and enacted (temporary DAO)
  1. Path to get to schools: Irish friends of Fintan, European School (set up by the EU for employees) - they act as a micro-organization; Paolo’s school contact
  1. What we want to achieve in the POC: proving to people that this crazy technology could have a role in their wellbeing. Identify students, parents, teachers and principal. Have a DAO spun up, proposal voted and enacted.
To do list:
  1. Contact as many schools as we can and find two/three that agree to run an experiment.
  1. Define a target: tech classes, transition year (…). Create a baseline performance to measure against. IT Club. (could be a signaling vote).
  1. Market Research
Task:
  1. Fintan: get in touch with contacts
  1. Paolo: get in touch with contacts
  1. Aaron and Fintan: set up a couple of DAOs
Ivan: Sell story to school as important as to students, given school will be the one potentially giving away power.
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Meeting 2 99df2baf6b7146c8b360d08f9cfeae13

Meeting 2 99df2baf6b7146c8b360d08f9cfeae13

Meeting 2
Attendees: fmurphy, Aaron Williams, Incan denza, Fabs Martins Event time: January 11, 2023 Type: Brainstorm
Facilitator: Paolo
Secretary: Fintan
Agenda:
  1. Review tasks from last week and progress
    1. Fintan: get in touch with contacts
    2. Paolo: get in touch with contacts - contacts recommended having set up in EU to apply for grants. One contact provided Paolo with school contacts (4 school heads)
    3. Fabs: Friends kid wants docs
    4. Aaron and Fintan: set up a couple of DAOs
  1. What evenings can we do going forward? Try Tues 10pm next week
  1. Educating potential partner schools and contacts
    1. What do we want to teach about web3
    2. How do we want to share this info ie.learning library, our own literature, presentations
    3. Dev. standard comms docs
  1. Testing DAO tooling
    1. Aragon app
    2. Summon - Cardano
    3. DAO Haus
  1. Funding and business plan -
To do:
Set up Notion account
  • *********************Discussion:**********************
Paolo: Do we need blockchain to teach to kids
Fabs: Market research - Fabs friend, one of his kids very board at school, lack of challenge in school. Students not able to communicate to teachers their issues with curriculum etc. Asked if he would like to partake as a partner
Fabs: Need to select platform to consider gas fees. FactoryDAO.org - cool tools but not great execution
Fintan: What do we want to teach:
Fabs: Power of being in charge of your own destiny, having a say. Blockchain is trustless, censorship resistant. How to set up your own wallet.
Fabs: Legal age restriction?
Aaron: Concerns about all kids having a wallet, privacy issues?
Fabs: Benefits of having everything on-chain v off-chain. Off-chain will be cheaper and easier to set up (ie. vocdoni or snapshot) and still transparent
Fintan and Paolo: To work on a draft of what we want to teach
Paolo:
Tasks for week ahead:
Paolo and Fin to write up general comms draft of the project, our aims and what to teach potential partners
Fintan: Set up notion page
Aaron and Fintan: Spin up DAO on Summon and DAO Haus
  1. How many students own a web3 wallet
  1. Do you see a benefit in learning about blockchain tech?
  1. Can you think of how you would like to use this tech
Facilitator: Fintan
Secretary: Paolo
DoDAO for curriculum and courses - Shawn intro
Agenda 90mins?:
  1. Intros (10 mins)
  1. Define value proposition - The WHY (30 mins)
    1. Student empowerment
  1. Initial roles and responsibilities (who wants to contribute what) (15 mins)
  1. Set provisional timelines (30 mins) for:
    1. Market research - AB testing - do after POC
    2. Identifying school and student partners for proof of concept
      1. Spin up 1st DAO’s
      2. Initiate 1st proposals and votes
      3. Enact proposals
    3. Prep pitch deck
    4. Full business plan and/or whitepaper
  1. Set regular meeting (5 mins)
Intros:
  1. Fintan: everyone knows him
  1. Aaron: from the Rocky Mountain but he lives in Barcelona. Co-Founder in tech, primarily software. At the moment CTO of a startup in the States.
  1. Fabs: Portuguese born in Brazil, travelled around the world. Specialties: being a teacher and market research. Former global vice president of a business unit.
  1. Paolo: background in education and journalism. At the moment Community Guild in Aragon
  • *******************Defining Value Proposition********************:
  1. Empowering students, giving them a voice and an element of control on what happens in their schools and communities. How: DAO technology, but besides that it’s a black slate.
    1. Q (Fabs): Target: English speaking? Fintan has contact in Ireland, so it can probably start with that
    2. Fabs: in the NED there’s a movement to organize student councils, is there anything similar in Ireland? No. But something similar is going on in Sweden. In Ireland whatever happens is just theory. There’s scope for research.
    3. Aaron: in the US there normally are student councils, whose power is in question. 50%+ of the student body didn’t participate. Maybe there’s a value to participate, propose and voting.
    4. Fabs: there’s a dual approach, applying tech to existing processes or offering processes
    5. Fintan: there’s very pretty low voter turnout. Tyranny of people who have time that take all the decisions
    6. Fabs: in all democratic processes representation is always the issue.
    7. Fintan: there are already programs to introduce DAOs in uni. Maybe we should focus on younger ones, in particular in schools where’s there’s no tradition for this. Opportunity: focus on Irish students in their transition year.
    8. Fabs: be aware of legal compliance. Q: How do we make money? Have you heard of “Internation”? It’s a software for expats, they make money through partnerships. Freemium model.
    9. Aaron: schools where student bodies are distributed in the Alaskian tundra, doing remote learning - this could be a use case, though the size of the market might be small.
    10. Fabs: Q? Do we envision the business to be a for profit or a non profit?
    11. Fintan: Do we want it to be a pure DAO? With/without legal wrapper? Association + DAO?
    12. Fabs: suggest considering the non profit: easier interaction with schools + possibility of getting grants for corporations (like Google e.g.)
    13. Other sources of revenues: allowing parents to participate/control how funds are managed by schools.
    14. What are we providing:
      1. Education
      2. Template for DAOs
      3. Platform
      4. Extra fund stream: DATA (specially if we are giving part of the money back to schools to fund their projects)
      5. Possible certification program (on web3, blockchain, governance)
      6. Rating system: students rate schools.
Roles and responsibilities:
  1. Aaron: everything product, tech stack, demo proof of concept, everything that comes to technology, including a dev recruiting a team.
  1. Paolo: education, relations with schools, giving presentations
  1. Fabs: no idea, you’re welcome to use me, research, market analysis.
  1. Fintan: general ops, getting legal advice
Tokenomics:
Soul bound NFT for students. Erc20 governance / pegged token to distribute rewards for schools. Graduate company: they create a school network to maintain people in touch, could be another stream of funds.
  1. Aaron: non profit + sister for profit company. E.g.: wordpress.org & wordpress.com.
  1. Q: Should we be a DAO? Is that a way to organise efficiently? Premature question. Maybe we don’t need an organizational structure to create an MVP. Maybe register as a non profit in Europe to access EU funds.
  1. TO DO: do a trial with different tools
  1. What does an MVP look like:
    1. Four schools creating a student generated proposal, voted on and enacted (temporary DAO)
  1. Path to get to schools: Irish friends of Fintan, European School (set up by the EU for employees) - they act as a micro-organization; Paolo’s school contact
  1. What we want to achieve in the POC: proving to people that this crazy technology could have a role in their wellbeing. Identify students, parents, teachers and principal. Have a DAO spun up, proposal voted and enacted.
To do list:
  1. Contact as many schools as we can and find two/three that agree to run an experiment.
  1. Define a target: tech classes, transition year (…). Create a baseline performance to measure against. IT Club. (could be a signaling vote).
  1. Market Research
Task:
  1. Fintan: get in touch with contacts
  1. Paolo: get in touch with contacts
  1. Aaron and Fintan: set up a couple of DAOs
Ivan: Sell story to school as important as to students, given school will be the one potentially giving away power.