Stacks Decision Making Testing

[HaroldDavis3]

Action Item

December Updates

• GovLab Residency Close
• 'Journeys' revival by next qtr
• Cohort 1 wrap up
• Changing shape of #didathing channel
• Latest consensus round & representatives briefing in gov call*
• Newest Consensus Walkthrough
  
• Newest 'Journeys' Diagram
  Not an advoxDAO member yet? Just hit the 🔍 in #✨｜add-roles to join us!

November Updates

• 2.1 upgrade voting has started!
• advoӾDAO 2.1 Retrospective dialogues and action items for CABs
• Latest consensus flow & representatives

October Updates

• You can now join us here advoxgov page to participate in advoxGOV processes.
• Current proposals are simple channel name changes and formal consensus of our 6 reps.
• Upcoming Proposals: SIPs 2.1 upgrade dialogue
• New Standard of Procedure JPEG for clarity of our process.

September Updates

• New advoxgov page for advoxgov navigation
• We now have all six Clan Reps Selected, this important before next gov tooling engagement.
• Upcoming issues: Reps & SIPs
• New SoP to match our gov tooling reorg, with Active-issues starting again over the coming weeks

August Updates

• New website for advoxgov navigation
• We've started to onboard more clan members!
• Our first SoP issue was put through our consensus flow resulting in important design changes.
• AdvoxDAO channel reorg for clan dialogues.
• Advox Active Issue channel scale down with reorg, just one active issue post across 6 clans now.
• Upcoming issues: SIPs & Reps

July Updates

Here are recent efforts of HeroGamer & Advocates at outward facing content for community grants (Journeys), the decision making & tooling therein: One pager & Diagram of Flow

We also have a growing list of important issues for continued use of our clan based consensus flow.

• Oral CoC Protocols Proposal
• Journeys Proposal
• Conflict Resolution Proposal

June Updates: Journeys Technical Spec

Here folks can find the latest updates to our technical spec for community grant decision making. Here is the beautiful Clarity contract work from Hozz to support the design described.

We are also focused on some outward facing language & diagrams that can support paths to community grant support here.

May 12, 2022 Update
We have started to incorporate testing for integration of the Turtle, Wolf and Bear clan design 🙌🏾
https://mica-cross-98f.notion.site/Clan-Design-Tooling-7eae25cd9dfd415eba96233f583ff3f7

April 14, 2022 Updates

Big Gov Lab News!

AdvoxDAO Soon to implement MicroDAOs
As we roll out our first uses of our consensus flow tooling for decision making, Hozz has also been heads down the last couple weeks on the temporarily named 'Distacular bot' enabling on-chain transactions right inside discord for AdvoxDAO users. Short readable and open source Clarity contracts enabling users to send stx to on another with their .btc names. Also users can create on-chain funding proposals, create microDAOs, execute funding on DAOs etc. We are super excited for implementing this tooling in combination with our bottom up quorum tooling already in use. We believe this can give us a unique approach to Advox task creation but also our first steps at supporting accessibility to the Ambassadors & Stacks Grants programs!

Advox Buddy System
Any new server can be overwhelming, it is nice to meet brilliant folks in the Stacks ecosystem to walk us through the exciting things happening. HeroGamer of Advox recognized there is a lot to share and we can design for this warm feeling of getting comfortable in the server by meeting someone new to show newcomers around AdvoxDAO events, working groups, tooling etc. This can not be overstated as a critical point of engendering culture for long term resilience & sustainability. We can't express the gratitude for HeroGamer's passionate leadership in this effort. We already have a team formed akin to our welcoming team, ensuring folks coming in have a full welcoming.
Come join us! Never been by the Advocates DAO? You can 🏁│start-here

March Update

Governance Tooling News!

We have big news in the way of Stacks Advocates governance! While we spent the last weeks of February onboarding folks into our system design and temporary governance structures with group and 1-on-1 calls. Hozz ensured the tooling needed was being completed for testing and integration into the main Stacks discord. The end result is an amazing alignment of pace and an exciting start to our consensus flows using Metagov’s Policykit. Hozz managed to build PK interactions right into the discord for users, with the post author’s thread updates being uploaded to PK seamlessly. PK can already interact with the NEAR chain, which has exciting implications for bringing our formal docs on the Stacks chain with pointers to most of our off chain gov processes in discord.

• As a user I should be able to start an issue by posting in #active-issues
• As a user I should be able to see a help text telling me what the process is gonna be like
• As a user I should be able to discuss and make edits to the original issue that being the message
• As a user I should be able to see the last revision of the issue in the #formal-proposals channel after the period of discussion expires
• As a user I should be able to dissent to the formal proposal during the voting period
• As a user I should be able to know who dissented on a resolution
• As a non contributor I should be able to dissent even tho my vote does not count
• As a user I should be able to join the governance process of a specific issue by reacting with 👀
• As a user I should be able to see if the proposal has passed or failed

Governance Begins

After Using February to bring most of our most active advocates up to speed on our system design and governance steps forward. March saw the first use of our new tooling to polish the tooling itself, come together on important treasury decisions, Advox move from SourceCred to CredEquate algorithm decisions etc. Here’s an example of possible flows with use of three tiered clan design and our new tooling for bottom up quorums and consensus!

Also notice the unique mechanism for ensuring the voices of Women are not drowned out in the long term complex dynamics of Advox. Also the streamlining of bottom up voices in decision making processes, avoiding gridlock via prelims. Prelims are where most of the consensus happens, with reports between Female & Male clan representative through out the month until coming together in formalizing the positions already established in the prelims. Deliberation also happens in formal decision making meetings when needed but should usually merely be a formalization process.

Advox Invisible Exchanges:

Our twist on the attendance certification NFT model. Since we’d like to distinguish our on/off chain processes from other DAOs by highlighting the innovation boosting role autonomy & unalienated value circulation plays in our commons based system design. We have renamed our working group to speak to the exciting broader implications of this part of our system design — tracking the complex morphology of what are usually invisible exchanges. We aim to implement a new use case for nontransferable NFTs, tracking morphology of Advox values exchanges over time. Members can opt-in naming to felt autonomy in Advox decision making, structure building, resource access. Or even tangible unalienated values circulation — values of labor, expression or ecological rights etc. that are not extracted from where generators of said value work and live.

Advox Sense-making

We have weekly dialogues about ongoing Advox participation, improving commons distributions across the ecosystem, and to better develop our collective understanding of Turtle Wolf & Bear design. See our Advox 📝meeting-notes channel for recordings!
New Advox issue templates & labels in our Advox Github for nice accessibility & organization

Stacks Ambassador Connections

The new tooling above is also being modified for application to our Advox spin on task creation model we are calling AdvoxJourneys. This an exciting chance to plug and play our PolicyKit tooling into Stacks grants for robust support in grant accessibility, community help w/grant creation. We have begun dialogue with the emerging Stacks Ambassador program to ensure important bridgework with Gov lab R+D in community empowerment. Preservation of core community values & voice in new grants program; Advox paths for gathering community support and bringing models of web3 system design to the exciting Ambassador program knowledge base coming soon to Stacks grants.

Proactive Membership Wins

We now have many proactive AdvoxDAO members like sleepi, werner, @herogamer @Algorithm and more. Many leading and promoting Advox events, connecting Advox to the broader ecosystem etc! We can’t express the gratitude for the passion these folks bring every week.
Come join us! Never been by the Advocates DAO? You can 🏁│start-here

February Update:

Stacks Advocates will be brought into temporary explicit structures for bottom up organization: https://www.notion.so/Mandatory-Community-Calls-1-on-1-Interviews-System-Design-Onboarding-88d6663030a544b5b794f8df57e4f362

Also @whoabuddy here is a preview of coming changes to our use of Sourcecred, wanted to touch on this a lil today before running out of time: sourcecred/sourcecred#3232

January Update:

Those interested can follow the progress on this doc in which we are building out a technical spec that will make our current implementation of decision making tools more robust than our initial testing.

October Update:

See how we are thinking about bottom up structures for intrinsic motivation incentive structures!
https://forum.stacks.org/t/intrinsic-commons/12493

August 19th Update

https://forum.stacks.org/t/advocates-update/12284

Deeper Updates:
https://forum.stacks.org/t/the-physics-of-social-consensus/12202
https://forum.stacks.org/t/commons-peace-freedom/12237

July 23 Update

Join our Advocates server if interested in current governance progress before moving our Metagov & Policykit system to the main server soon! Many updates inside! https://discord.gg/6zAqpWKc

Interim Governance Model Proposal

• https://discord.com/channels/792908935774076938/838921642838196256/868225028905386014

@joberding Feel free to work some outreach magic here too 💯 Ty kindly for your words of excitement & authenticity for this effort! Lets do it :)

June 5 Update: Stacks Advocates Program Testing - Discourse post!

### May 27 Update: Here & here you can find our latest work!

Biggest thanks to @hozzjss for pushing through Sourcecred, Metagov & Policykit research with us, his hard dev work is ensuring the research is not in vain :) This has very exciting potential for our bottom up decision making efforts! Please join us as we begin the first steps of policy writing for bottom up decision making design n engineering :)

We are to meet with @joberding tomorrow to discuss best ways of testing these tools, her CoC work being a great start :)

..Older Updates below

Those interested in ongoing decision making mechanism research & testing-- Let's start working together on testing here.

For those concerned with Stacks community governance & decision making going forward, this is a fully open opportunity to have your voice heard in what goes into the design & engineering of our Stacks ecosystem's decision processes. Help us ensure this is a bottom up effort!

April 15 Update:
https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Metagov-SourceCred-PolicyKit-h9x7UB9ZJosCPm58aCBSH

March 18 Update:

Please Join prototyping efforts in Harvard & Oxford’s research project Slack: Metagov

Miriam’s work is growing fast as she has now started cross platform policy documentation & code, please see the prototyping channel in Metagov slack to contribute if interested in helping us get to testing out her latest work for community decision making :)

Also feel free to join this meeting. 12pm PST upcoming Friday for further discussion on how this prototyping fits into bottom up community governance.

Also very grateful for direct access to this historical indigenous guidance.This may prove very useful for ensuring we can scale bottom up organization, while also avoiding conventional pitfalls of doing so, with design approaches that are authentically orthogonal to familiar structures, political ideologies etc.

Miriam & Ricky’s beautiful documentation of what’s happening locally for us 🙂

• Great new docs for policykit if anyone is interested in local tinkering
  https://policykit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Feb 12 week:

• Reached dev milestone 4 (“I can run a policy in PolicyKit that uses Loomio to make a decision. The voting process is implemented in a Metagov plugin.“). Pull request in PolicyKit: Expose metagov client for governance processes and resource retrieval policykit/policykit#285
• Changed the way “governance process” plugins are defined to make it less error-prone and clearer for the plugin developer. Example Loomio plugin: https://github.com/metagov/metagov-prototype/blob/master/metagov/metagov/plugins/loomio/models.py

Feb 22 week:

• Connect to Ricky’s Discourse integrator when completed, to support full end-to-end sourcecred use case (milestone 2)
• Document metagov API, service setup and deployment, & ‘how to write a plugin’
• Figure out how error handling should work in PolicyKit for external governance-processes.
• Make a second governance-process interface (milestone 3)
• If time: next pass at listener/actor plugin interface (for Open Collective maybe?)

End of Feb

• **Metagov prototype documentation for development and deployment https://github.com/metagov/metagov-prototype/tree/master/metagov (cc Harold Thomas Davis III , let me know if you set it up! its still not stable & will be going through many changes in the next few weeks)
• PolicyKit pull requests waiting on review: https://github.com/amyxzhang/policykit/pulls
• Change the way governance process results are surfaced in PolicyKit, so that the policy author can decide what to do if errors occurred (see PR description Expose metagov client for governance processes and resource retrieval policykit/policykit#285)
• Used new Discourse integrator from Ricky to connect PolicyKit to Metagov Discourse integrator, and execute a policy that fetches SC cred value by Discourse username (use case 1, milestone 2)
• Started second governance-process interface for discourse polls (milestone 3). Need to add a custom webhook for poll closed to finish it. This is what Discourse polls look like: https://discourse.metagov.org/t/should-this-thing-happen/44

Only thing we’re doing different from Miriam locally is focusing on discord integration for now, instead of discourse (bc stacks auth is broken). Friedgers OI chat let’s us get Stacks auth & storage, then we can puppet data here for SC data.

PK as a driver lets us play with loomio in discourse integration but also do some interesting things with tracking cred flow in specific discord or gh posts. Interesting for topic specific bottom up quorums, where PK acts like a driver, checking if cred flows in right places from particular user to make decision on specific a matter.

Community can use reactions to voice what topics they believe are needed for review before decision making actions. Pk can also give us date time triggers etc.

Feb 18 Update

Welcome all, Below are some steps to us started on our bottom up decision making strategies :slight_smile:

Learn

Step 1 - Learn about Sourcecred
If not familiar with SC, read up here:
https://sourcecred.io/docs/
Until comfortable with concept of Cred Flow.

Step 2 - Sign in to OI Chat
You should be able to find our room: https://matrix.to/#/!NiUAnZYhsbzDnAduvV:openintents.modular.im?via=openintents.modular.im&via=t2bot.io

Step 3 - Learn about Metagov & Policykit
Learn about Metagov prototype here:
https://archive.org/details/metagov-govbase
https://discourse.metagov.org/invites/dd7b89a3a7e1594ac52fc898cfe75579
Learn how policykit works here:
https://policykit.org/
Templates for PolicyKit here: https://communityrule.info/

Step 4 - Miriam Ashton’s work
Learn how Policykit can act as “driver” for SC plugins. Even trigger Loomio in discourse plugin!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QDq89dogQb-K2jdDV5QL4Lqi8yehE3aiXzwVG8D24rY/edit?pli=1#heading=h.g6cwe9ukdv5q
Metagov Slack
https://join.slack.com/t/metagov/shared_invite/zt-luk0qlcz-HcZ06ACqIZ3xiJ~3AtqxHg