EF 93: Team Building

How can strategic games bring community ideas together? We play the Direction Question game aimed at aligning Eden Fractal’s objectives and discuss product development and potential revenue models 🎨🔉
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Videos: edenfractal.com/videos
Timestamps
0:00 - Welcome to Eden Fractal’s 93rd event
0:40 Eden Fractal’s progress
5:36 - Dan introduces the new Retro Funding rounds announced by Optimism and Gitcoin for incentivizing impactful work
7:09 - The rules of the new Direction Question game where participants write and answer questions related to Eden Fractal's strategy
7:43- Abraham asks Dan about available open-source software that communities or applications could use to integrate the fractal decision-making model.
8:10 - Dan shares details about the open-source software and repositories available for the fractal decision-making processes built on different tech stacks like the EVM, Antelope Network, and more. He links to the Tools page and mentions tools like Fractalgram, Respect and the upcoming fractal app.
13:13 The group starts with the strategy game using Notion page and participants write and read out loud their questions
16:24-Dan reads out his questions, what is the highest priority for Eden fractal and the timeline of priority, if we create a great strategy. where do you see Eden fractal by end of 2024, what do you think about producing videos and create shows from breakout rooms
16:55 - Eric shares his three questions, what’s Eden Fractal's first product offering, what are our core capabilities and resources they currently have. What can we do with what we have. Products resources and capabilities
17:31- Rosmari shares her three questions, reminder of our mission, what are the decision making processes we have defined so far, what is the next best steps to drive adoption significantly, and views on Eden Fractal's main priority
19:22 Eric starts his answers, what our most important strategy, most important coming up with the product, best steps to drive adoption is customer service, thinks it’s our told set is our product, get feedback.
23:17-Dan starts answering the selected questions, discussing the respect game app as a potential first product offering, the fractal decision-making processes they have defined like the council game, and the open-source starting points available for external developers to get involved.
27:20- Abraham asks Dan if the app that is being created for Optimism Fractal is going to be for Eden Fractal too, Dan responds the design for this app can be used by any community and can be customized
29:04-Rosmari answers questions, first is next best step - to define and sort out our community and be better presented, second-product that we’re offering is our competency and professionalism as a service. Third- the open source tools: thinks we can expand and open access to these tools
32:21 Abraham mentions the highest priority is something to show, end design, visual of use cases. Defining product, creating a minimum viable product (MVP) or concise sample to showcase the fractal decision-making processes, conducting customer surveys to gather feedback, and offering incentives to encourage participation.
36:12- Abraham asks if the fractal app that exists now is sufficient enough to show people the current design process. Dan responds to Abraham that he thinks it sufficient but it depends on the community needs
38:20 - Abraham mentions his experience on making a mock-up app, reiterates his suggestion of creating a concise sample to effectively display it to potential users
40:15 - Eric emphasizes the importance of defining a complete customer experience, gathering questions and feedback through surveys, and determining the right product and overall strategy based on customer input
44:13 - Eric discusses the challenges of adoption, emphasizing the need to understand group dynamics whilst building culture and creating a safe communication environment, reinforce positive feedback, and break up power blocks through random grouping.
45:10- Abraham raises the question of whether the application being developed is intended for profit or focused on disseminating the tools to help organizations
45:28- Group discussion
46:15 - Eric suggests looking at other organizations' revenue models, such as Gitlab's, and considering additional streams like consulting services, educational offerings, and certifications as potential revenue sources
49:00 The group continues their discussion on product strategy, potential monetization models like consulting, certification, and challenges around driving adoption of the fractal decision-making tools and processes.
57:05- Dan shows Gitlab and their package options. Shares funding opportunities available through Optimism's RetroPGF and Gitcoin Grants. Mentions Fractal Joy
1:03:33 - Dan shows Worth of Words game as an example game product that the Respect Game can take inspiration from
1:07:23 - Go Eden Fractal