Brunch N’ Hack Debrief
Another successful Brunch N’ Hack is in the books, roughly 20 people gathered into 3 groups and a few ‘pollinators’ 🐝 We expanded on our planned Transcript DAO, Real Estate DAO, and Apres DAO discussion, and also explored a Tech Alley DAO or Brunch N’ Hack DAO. Everyone presented and we were able to record the Apres DAO presentation, thank you!
All the DAO talk got us organizers, Josh Leavitt and Nate Jones, thinking: Could we use a DAO to more effectively run our tech events?
If you’ve ever organized tech events you’re probably familiar with finding a venue, money via sponsorships or tickets or donations or memberships or whatever works, finding speakers or presenters, managing the tech, and marketing everything. This model has its limitations, in part because it’s often a labor of love for the organizers, and so we started wondering if DAOs could offer a better way 🤔
Organizing Distributed people who want agency to act Autonomously means we have to be clear in what people do, what they produce, how others can use it, and how the overall organization benefits from the collective activity. We organize for our own reasons, but more generally we’re all interested in building IRL networks where we can learn and express ourselves. What does this look like in practice, and how might that change with a DAO? 🕸️🌐
We know we want to get local businesses involved, like the 1864 Tavern, where people know they can enjoy deeper conversations that usually arise from passionate topics. We know we want people to be able to easily find each other, whether hiring or casual discussion over lunch. People want confidence to operate how they want and within reasonable boundaries set by the venue. People need to know that when they’re contacted through this DAO it’s because they’re valued. People want to help make introductions and help expand conversations. People want to listen and be knowledgeable. People want to do more together than they can on their own, they want to be a part of something unique.
DAOs are often talked about in abstract utopian ways. If you’re building a DAO, you have these assets to work with: Fungible Tokens, Non-Fungible Tokens, Non-Transferrable Non-Fungible Tokens, infrastructure tools like voting and governance protocols, state incorporation options that recognize DAOs, and of course smart contracts that can do about whatever you imagine with these assets.
Who knows how all this will come together, the emergent behavior may have to be experienced for ourselves. We know we want to recognize people and activities we value, and so we’ll likely be giving POAPs to start with at our next Brunch N’ Hack. Stay Tuned 📻🎙️📡
