How can Optimism Fractal formalize its coordination infrastructure to support scaling? This collaborative discussion examines participant agreements, seasonal scheduling, and break durations as the community prepares for its next season growing the Superchain 🌸📜
Date: March 20th, 2025
Table of Contents
- Timestamps
- Episode Summary
- Topics
- Community Shared Resources
- Optimism Discourse
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- Related Posts
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Timestamps
0:00 Welcome to Optimism Town Hall
4:10 Dan shares todays agenda chosen thru Cagendas game, shares OPTOPICS with topic list to vote. Top topics are Optimism fractal agreements and Fractal eco system.
6:30 Eric gives update on life sites which he's a collaborator to transform innovative ideas to solutions, just created non profit called aquilius institute. Bringing this to mind to show how we use. Also starting women's health innovation process.
9:25 Dan thanks Eric and gives quick info on Eric's work.
10:46 Dan shares thoughts on optimism fractal and Optimism town hall for next season. Deciding season schedule and break. Dan shares forum thread, deciding whether 6 month seasons are best or not. Last events of season will be on the 3rd.
15:23 Dan also introduces other topic Optimism fractal agreements. Dan shares project in notion page on agreement which he feels it's time to get in place, explains the agreement and gives reasons why to avoid any legal liability. Dan also shares agreements from previous genesis fractal. Dan would like to make a proposal for this, thinks it in best interest for the community. Hats tree offers an agreement for this as well. Dan comments the infrastructure is here and a signed document if agreement would allow us to grow.
26:23 Tadas comments on meeting participant agreement, thinks Dan should create an agreement as step forward. Later others can create an agreement for developers. Could be introduced in season six and potentially add more in agreements as needed.
28:40 Dan thanks Tadas and compares whether a shorter or longer agreements would be better. From Dans point to consent to video and also that not all attendees are guaranteed funding if and when available. Dan asking if participants think more details need to be added.
32:12 Tadas unsure, how an agreement would protect all. Thinks a modular agreement might be better.
33:38 Group conversation continues on agreement suggestion. Dan screen shares ideas on agreement. Tadas comments on ORDAO liability, agreement could be added for that as wel
39:58 Dan reads out chat, Gudasol thinks agreement good idea. Rosmari thinks more research needed.
41:18 Eric comments with best way to start agreement. What you want agreement to do.
42:00 Dan will follow up with mire clear proposal that he has.
42:44 Dan starts next topic on season structure.
43:30 Eric comments he's a big fan of 90 day cycles, gives every time to get focused.
44:57 Tadas comments that it makes sense to make seasons longer
46:59 group continues discussion on season structure and break time
56:31 Dan shares screen with structure ideas, gives his personal perspective.
59:45 Tadas chimes in with his thoughts on 2 meeting break, from his perspective 2 meeting breaks make sense.
1:02:20 Dan responds to Tadas, happy to help orient time so we can achieve best results,
1:03:20 Jake gives his thoughts as user perspective, it's now a pretty solid formula. Thinks it might be good to allow for breaks to gain more opportunities! Ie Eth Denver. Thinks maybe a poll might help a decision, see what OPF community want to do,
1:06:42 Dan asks Jake if he has a strong perspective on this, Jake responds he doesn't.
1:07:30 Dan thinks maybe a poll might be a good idea to have community input.
Dan starts to wrap up meeting. Thanks all
Go Optimism!
Episode Summary
The 37th episode of Optimism Town Hall centered on critical governance discussions about the future of Optimism Fractal's organizational structure. The community explored three main topics: the implementation of participant agreements, seasonal structure considerations, and break duration planning. Dan introduced the OPTOPICS game to facilitate democratic topic selection, with community members voting on priorities using their Respect tokens. The primary discussion concerned participant agreements for Optimism Fractal. Dan shared plans for implementing a formal agreement that would clarify video consent, protect the community from legal liability, and establish clear expectations around funding distribution. Tadas suggested a modular approach, starting with a simple meeting participation agreement that could gradually expand to include other aspects of the community's operations. The community explored how such agreements could balance legal protection with accessibility, drawing inspiration from previous implementations in the Genesis Fractal. Another significant focus was the seasonal structure of Optimism Fractal events. The community debated whether to maintain six-month seasons (approximately 12 biweekly events) or shift to three-month seasons, as well as whether to take one-event or two-event breaks between seasons. This discussion weighed community momentum against resource allocation, with participants considering how longer breaks might provide more time for development and outreach while potentially disrupting community continuity. The conversation concluded with preliminary support for maintaining six-month seasons with mid-season breaks, potentially implementing a two-event break between seasons to provide more time for developer focus on infrastructure improvements.
Topics
In this event, we discussed the first two topics within the Snapshot topics:
- Optimism Fractal Agreements
- Fractal Ecosystem
Couldn’t make it to the event? We welcome your thoughts in our Discord too! This discussion is about collective planning - we’ll make the decisions as councillors, but are genuinely curious about community perspectives as we evolve these governance systems.
Community Shared Resources
- An agreement draft article with curated information: https://edencreators.com/agreement
Optimism Discourse
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