Revival of ergo forum

Am a contributor to one of the Regional guilds of NEAR-PROTOCOL.
What they did was simple yet effective.
They gave an open hand to contributors to form teams. This teams represented either Regions, states or projects.

This team will first introduce themselves and tje community will ask questions on the gov forum.

Second the team writes a proposal containing a roadmap for the month which will include activities for marketing, community building, education and other activities and right a feasible budget for it. The marketing dao or community dao council members scrutinise the proposal and can eith approve or reject the proposal.

Same thing with celo, Harmony one, AURORA etc. This as made sure Regions grow at their own pace

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I could be wrong but the difference I see is funding for community building and marketing. For example from what you’ve mentioned:

the team writes a proposal containing a roadmap for the month which will include activities for marketing, community building, education and other activities and right a feasible budget for it.

Hypothetically if a team got rejected, why not still act out their roadmap, whats stopping them.

Right now for Ergo its all people who market and even develop on their own will.

There is the Sigmanauts program: The Sigmanauts Program | Ergo Platform which can maybe provide structure. But see here for example: Reddit - Dive into anything or even the ergo raffle. It’s mostly just crowd funding and grassroot efforts.

I can see though, as we continue to build and grow (paideia, ergoteams), marketing/community dao’s forming and that can provide the more structure as you have mentioned.

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do you think the NEAR-PROTOCOL method could be feasible currently within the Ergo ecosystem?

Gone through, this seems to be an old method yet, growth is still at this level, just my say.

The whole idea of a governance forum is to coordinate things and make things transparent.

I still feel marketing should be community specific more than drawing traction via social media which can be manipulated.

NEAR has showed that a well regulated activities can promote growth.

In relation to roadmap, many were rejected because of either unrealistic roadmap or extravagant budget. So it is the duty of council members to weight task and make sure the regional team as both the manpower and financial resources to exercute

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Yep, if the community is ready to cooperate and people are intentional about growth

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Here are the projects building that could help structurally for community/marketing daos: Paideia | DAO Toolkit (going to include the video which seems demonstrates the project much like what you may be talking about with a governance forum: Paideia #2 | A closer look at the DAO management panel on Paideia - YouTube) & Self-maintained open-source development.

I do believe many of the sigmanuts are ready to and able to cooperate but probably are not aware of the NEAR style regulated activities such like I wasn’t.

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This is awesome, similar to astro dao on the NEAR ECOSYSTEM.

To just highlight some points

  1. Decision of approval or rejection were made open on the forum not cast as a vote on the dao because everyone wanted 100% transparency
  2. The marketing dao and all other major dao were sponsored directly from the NEAR FOUNDATION
  3. To stress on the point of decentralization, council members were in odd numbers not even numbers with half of this council members from the core team the other half were from the general community. Over time it was under the community control.
  4. As time goes on the marketing/community dao became more specialise to include creative dao, marketing dao, ecosystem dao, grants dao, onboarding dao etc.
  5. Over time Regional guild/team adopted the dao system to improve their functional
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In relation to this we can experiment some functions from this communities to be a fully functional independent either community or product focused teams

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Hey, this sounds similar to the Sigmanauts programme mentioned above and what we have planned. Currently building up this structure. You can participate in community discussions around marketing on the community-based marketing telegram or the #marketing channel on Discord. (Messages are bridged between so either is fine)

We have several thriving regional communities which have their own space on ergonaut.space where they link resources, translations, and links to their chats. People can claim bounties for translations, but this is mostly self-organising at the moment. (Sigmanaut programme will build this up).

ERG already has a massive focus on decentralisation, with the foundation and most of the core team being composed of community members; but the Sigmanauts programme aims to shift the power to the community completely in a robust (repeatable) structure.

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Since this program is still in the infancy stage, lets bring it onto the forum, lets make this forum active and work in synergies. I went through the space link provided, nothing much to write about.

For example, my region isnt represented, neither does anyone in my environs know about ergo.

This is to say the current approach isnt really working out. From my research about ergo it started around the time projects like NEAR, BSC etc were trying to develop their ecosystem.

This is a gov forum, let all activities be available here, lets know howfar marketing, community growth and development as gone.

Lets see successful regional communities, why they succeeded and why some didn’t and lets know where things are lacking.

One of the strong point of ecosystems people are building on and community participation is that everyone is busy and opened, everyone reads how things are done and try applying tactics provided by successful communities

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I went through the space link provided, nothing much to write about. For example, my region isnt represented, neither does anyone in my environs know about ergo.

It sounds like you have a lot to write about then? :slight_smile: What region and I can enable it?

This is to say the current approach isnt really working out. From my research about ergo it started around the time projects like NEAR, BSC etc were trying to develop their ecosystem.

NEAR/BSC are not really comparable projects, they have huge backing and a different set of aims and needs. Ergo had a fair start and is building a whole platform from the grassroots, not just an ETH fork.

I’ve been trying to get access to this forum to tidy it up and move stuff over - but the community marketing chats are already open and public if you’re keen.

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I have alot because i have been in the community for long and been observing things, when i saw the gov forum i was happy to say, as i saw its inactivity here, i decided to take such actions.:grinning:

Thanks am opened

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Ah I see, I didn’t recognise your name from that chats.

The NEAR Form looks good; thanks for sharing. It uses the same platform but this forum is more general. Maybe deploying a new forum might be tidier.

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Exactly
I always tell projects generally, make the environment favourable to growth. That is what NEAR and Celo is doing.

Just a remodeling of the forum that it will be easy to navigate

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The Near forum does indeed look very well organized . Great share

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So if possible let get things rolling and use the already existing projects and usecase on ergo to make productivity better

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As you can see you guys have to change this interface

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The AFRICA REGION ISNT STILL ENABLED and i want to know is there particular Guildance you guys have for regional growth, Because i have series of activities i occasionally do to grow a community

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Sigmanauts are active here on the forum, on Twitter, Reddit, etc. But the program itself, isn’t suited for another platform ATM. We have Discord and t.me. (bridged), and the program itself isn’t really designed to be public.

One perk of the program is access to a few restricted channels- one of those being the Sigmanaut group where we: promote ongoing efforts, chat, propose and vote on applicants and program structure.

Please consider applying for the introductory role - SigCAN (Sigmanaut Candidate) - if you are:

  • helping Ergo grow in any measurable way
  • will vote/ interact with Sigmanaut group
  • agree to hold yourself to high standards when representing program/ Ergo

The Registration Form for anyone interested. :slightly_smiling_face:

NOTE: The Sigmanaut Program is in its infancy, ATM one end-goal is to form a Sigmanaut DAO for program governance. Also, you don’t have to be artistic or creative to be a Sigmanaut & the Program is nowhere near a full-time commitment.

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I have applied no reply, but seriously i need ergo in AFRICA

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