Here is my final monthly report as a Creatives DAO moderator, and I will also use this space to conclude and give some perspective on my experience in these past months. This month I was working on a collaborative art installation with both Garden Collective DAO and muti DAO at a Portuguese music festival and therefore was less available towards the middle of the month, but I was very happy to see the “new” mods take full control and responsibility of all of the tasks necessary in that time. Happy to say that Creatives DAO is in safe hands with the new team of moderators.
- Attending 2 of the 4 weekly community calls
- Internal team meetings
- Discussion & planning with the “new” moderators on practices going forward, systems to improve.
- Ecosystem call with mintbase to talk about DAOs and Creatives DAO in relation the NEARcon
- General contact with the community via telegram and in DM for certain issues.
- Working on a Creatives DAO collaborative event & meetup for NEARcon (news on this in the next day or two)
Summary
First of all, having a connection with so many different creative minds from many diverse communities has both been hugely challenging and more importantly, a hugely beneficial experience. I appreciate each and every interaction (also looking forward to meeting some of you in real life at NEARcon next week).
As someone who has worked in the “traditional” / non-web3 creative industry for several years now, in many different roles, from event production, venue management, sound technician, musician and artist, I can easily say that my introduction to NEAR was hugely impactful in comparison to any other previous opportunities, funding rounds etc. that I have taken part in outside of web3. I went from entering the space as a designer to create a logo to a place as a moderator for the 70+ DAOs that make up Creatives DAO within the space of less than a year, and every single moment of that has been a learning curve. Being an artist has, and continues to be a very difficult path, financially speaking, and this can be a huge barrier to budding artists to take a risk, and NEAR protocol’s trust in the process and the platform provided by Creatives DAO has allowed for a lot of creativity to flourish, to which I am very grateful for.
As always, nothing is perfect, and there are definitely some things that we as a community of creatives need to improve on!
:: Things to build on ::
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PR/communication: how do we communicate what we do to the outside world? How can we use our huge network to better promote each other’s work and grow in unison?
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Moderation: More moderators to spread out the load and diversify opinion/input. I would say a minimum of 7 would be required to manage the proposals, advise properly and allow time for constructive conversation about the future of the DAO.
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Community building: This comes hand-in-hand with the above point on moderation, but I think a constant special effort to keep clear lines of communication between moderators and the community is essential, as the primary function of the moderators is to be representatives of the council and the community in this DAO structure.
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Astrodao: a better way for DAOs to vote. I believe the DAO of DAOs model we have is quite revolutionary since it’s inception, but like many experiments, it definitely needs some refining. I think the custom function call process to vote has quite a few people in the ecosystem confused as to their voting rights, and I believe that having the option to vote YES or NO with equal ease would do a lot to assist this. As it stands, it’s quite a workload to propose any vote, and therefore only YES votes are proposed, which blurs the intention of the overall DAO structure. I hope that the astrodao devs can work alongside the Creatives DAO to refine this unique structure and build for a better, more decentralised structure that is easier to interact with.
Thank you,
and all the best to the new team of moderators
