What are our goals? What is Status? Movement behind Status will look different than what has come before- mix of messaging and how we spread the word- will be totally unique based on space and breadth of community; concept of decentralization is lost but centralization is understood more easily
Who would be interesting / valuable to partner with based on programs with previous success at building grassroots movement
how do we ideate?- divide and conquer for regroup later
Goals
Short term focus has been/is on core ETH community but longer term vision needs to be inclusive of broader community outside core ETH who already understand and appreciate the technology and ideology
Inclusive of community for feedback; huge variety in what this means globally; regions all have unique POV on this movement and how relevant values are to each.
we need more context from global community; oppressed, unbanked etc. Key driver of movement outside of ‘first world’ users team can learn from existing mapping (Nabil’s presentation) around human rights issues-
how do we tap into those existing communities? And their learnings / do we need to speak with community members to validate as well?
What is our approach- vision and ideology driven by broader conversation- what is tipping point; how do we prepare for join en mass; also key may be thought leaders in space, journalists, coalition of like-minded projects. Status is not driver as a product- rather values and principles
NEXT STEPS
Outline key questions and take away ‘homework’ / all share out relevant resources and reading recs so we can be more informed for brainstorming next week
The Star Citizen story from the New Power talk is blowing my mind.
Guy pitches nothing more than an idea for a game at SXSW and within a day hits half a million dollars in crowdfunding for this game. Then 3 million. Then they start selling assets for the game that doesn’t yet exist, including insurance for your future star ship. Soon they have 160 million in crowdfunding. People are creating content and sharing all kinds of ideas for the game.
3 years later, game still hasn’t been developed and the money is being spent opaquely. But people aren’t even that mad about it, because they’re paying to participate and “to dream.”
Participation = the economic value
(Something in return + Higher purpose) x Participation = Participation Premium
For Star Citizen, something in return = future digital assets like ships. Higher purpose = group identity of PC gamers feeling “us vs. the world” with PC games having fallen by the wayside. Participation = the multiplier effect.
What’s the application of this formula for Status? One take…
Something in return for our users = a well-integrated secure messenger, crypto wallet and web3 browser
Higher purpose = we’re sovereign digital citizens, not products; everyone deserves equal access to communication, expression and transaction
Obama’s 2004 DNC speech is great example of weaving this type if storytelling to create emotion, connection and ultimately a movement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueMNqdB1QIE
Just as a followup on our last session, one of the things myself, @Graeme and @Shawn have been working on is defining what our entry points look like for newcomers in our different mediums and discovering weaknesses and strengths and how to make them better. This of course will evolve and change over time, but if anyone would like to take the time to review the different touchpoints we have please feel free to take the time at this form to go over the touch points defined.
but great dialogue to kick off
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