Dear Fellow DAOists!
We hope you haven’t missed DAOcember & have been enjoying it as much as we have.
This year’s DAOcember has officially wrapped up - but there’s much to do!
We’re on to producing the Ultimate DAO Playbook 2024 & launching the DAOcember DAO. Join the movement by minting the NFT & becoming a member of DAOcember!
This post goes through:
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WTF is DAOcember, for the uninitiated
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Our objectives & stats so far
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The DAOcember DAO, The DAO Playbook & DAO Master AI
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Our plead for your support
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Valid reasons you should support 🙃
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The Ask & conclusion
So, let’s go! 👇
About DAOcember
DAOcember is a virtual schelling point for the people who think DAOs are the future of coordination. This year, it brought together 69 DAO veterans representing 80+ orgs from across the ecosystem, with the goal of educating & helping the new generation of DAOists avoid the pitfalls.
Event Details
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What: 2 weeks of talks, panels, demos & workshops - all about DAOs
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Who: Newcomers, DAO summoners, DAO operators & DAO veterans
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When: December 1st - 15th
Objectives
Our main goal is to aggregate DAO knowledge & help the new generations of DAOists.It splits into:
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✅ Aggregate: Bring the biggest DAO brains together
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✅ Reiterate: Discuss the past, present challenges & future of effective DAOing
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✅ Onboard: Help newcomers understand DAOs & DAOing
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✅ Accelerate: Help new DAOs get off the ground
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🔳 Produce: A course fully covering the journey of creating & nurturing DAOs
Stats so far
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Telegram group & twitter following organically from 0 to 300+ in 2 weeks
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69 DAO veterans from across the DAO space
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80+ DAOs & related organizations represented
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100+ DAO summoners & operators signed up
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Opening day attended by 400+ people
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25 hours of great content captured
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20+ DAO-building topics covered
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$1400 raised from the community
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300+h invested in production
What’s next?
Taking all of that content & turning it into the course + feeding it to DAO Master AI.
The ultimate goal is to professionally produce a full video course & run cohorts, then iterate with more veterans & live sessions; but let’s take it one step at a time!
Our goal for the next 2 months is to transform all of the recorded content into a full DAO course, based on which we’ll run the first cohort of DAOs.
All goes as well as so far, there will be more proposals to take it to the next level, produce video content etc.
We also plan on continuing DAOcember every year, making it a more decentralized schelling point with even more DAO veterans & DAOs being represented, then again using the newly gained wisdoms to reiterate on playbooks etc. etc. etc.
Long term, we see DAOcember as a virtual equivalent of all of us landing in a major city for a week of events - except accessible to anyone & with an explicit goal of passing on wisdom from the veterans & the trenches, to the next generation of builders.
Besides, as an event for digitally native organizations meant to empower anyone, doesn’t it make most sense that it’s a virtual event? 🙃
But don’t worry! We also see a future of people organizing local meetups & digi-physical hackathons around DAOcember! 👀
Our wish
Alright, back to the present reality! 😅
We only need about $10k to cover the cost of organizing DAOcember AND write The Ultimate DAO Playbook 2024.
We already produced a load of value for the ecosystem & some of the DAOs involved.
Judging by the feedback so far, the event has been a great success for very cheap. Trailer video alone has been seen by almost 20k people - pretty much the whole DAO ecosystem - and 400+ people attended the opening session.
Now:
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If everyone who benefitted from DAOcember pitches in, we could pro reach $10k.
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If everyone who will benefit from the playbooks pitches in, we’ll definitely make it!
Why Support?
The past 2 weeks have shown there’s appetite for building DAOs that actually work & growing the DAO ecosystem - or at least stopping DAOs from failing unnecessarily.
DAOcember is a platform for transferring knowledge from DAO veterans to DAO beginners, and collaboratively creating playbooks for the next generation of DAOists.
General reasons for supporting:
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You believe DAOs are the future of coordination
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You want us to feel appreciated for organizing it
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You want us to produce DAO playbooks
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You want DAOs to succeed
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You like public goods
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You want a nice NFT & a hypercert
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You want a share in the DAOcember DAO
Individual Patronage
Mint an NFT or a few!
Guild Sponsorship
In terms of numbers, sponsoring DAOcember is like sponsoring a small to medium sized conference or hackathon, except for a fraction of the price.
Unlike most events, DAOcember will have an extra tangible impact on the ecosystem through the production of playbooks - which will create additional value for sponsors through ongoing attention & utilisation of the DAO course.
Sponsorship tiers:
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Bronze: $500
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Silver: $1000
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Gold: $2000
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Diamond: Custom amount over 2000$
Perks of Sponsoring:
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The DAOcember website & DAO
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"The Ultimate DAO Playbook" landing page
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All the courses produced
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The DAOcember twitter account
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MetaGame's newsletter (12k subscribers)
All of this content is also being amplified by the DAOcember community, 69 veterans, their associated organizations, their newsletters & twitters etc. - will be seen by all of the DAO space.
As you might notice, there are no separate perks for different tiers. You are expected to pick a tier commensurate with the stage of your DAO &/or the state of your treasury.
If you cannot afford any of these packages, DAOcember is also open to accepting contributions in kind - meaning you can contribute equivalents of this value in labor.
How?
Contact us, then send $ to the DAOcember DAO 0x09d7eb3f2361485dc6da72551f92e6a394bc70e9
Then what?
In the coming week or two, we’ll be minting Hypercerts & airdropping them to the buyers of NFTs, as well as directly using the NFTs minted as voting shares in the DAOcember DAO.
If you’re sponsoring a project, you’ll get your NFTs separately.
Funding Distribution
Funding distribution will depend on the DAOcember DAO & the proposals it ends up supporting, but my rough estimate is:
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~40%: Compensating those who dedicated significant effort to organizing DAOcember.
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~60%: Production of a comprehensive DAO course, benefiting the entire DAO community.
Fund allocation will likely happen through a combination of direct proposals & Coordinape circles.
Conclusion
Thank you for your time & consideration, let's make DAOcember a milestone in the evolution of DAOs!
If you have any questions or need further information, feel free to reach out.
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