⚖️ Choose a legal entity for CohereDAO
⚖️ Research & analyze of legal frameworks for DAOs
⚖️ Define CohereDAO’s purpose
⚓️ Define CohereDAO’s North Star (vision)
⚓️ Create the V1.0 of CohereDAO’s core values & ethics
⚓️ Research - Core values & ethics & design principles from other ReFi & ImpactDAOs, decolonial movements & indigenous communities, spiral dynamics integral & metamodern, taoist, buddhist philosophy, etc.
⚓️ Harvest our findings & identify presuppositions vs. implicit constraints
⚓️ Distill down to key elements that will inform our sensemaking & decision-making processes
🔗 Create the basic membership structure
🔗 Review & complete the Map of Stakeholders
🔗 Place each stakeholder in a dependency/alignment matrix
🔗 Analyze each key stakeholder & identify subgroups if needed
🔗 Review and improve upon tiered system for membership
🔗 Research other ReFi & ImpactDAO’s with tiered system for their membership & various processes to acquire reputation/trust over time
🔗 Harvest our findings & identify which elements to integrate in CohereDAO’s tiered system
🔗 Discuss & define transitional tiered system for proto CohereDAO (see notes)
🏗 Review and improve upon first iteration of CohereDAO’s governance structure
🏗 Research other ReFi & ImpactDAOs’ governance structures
🏗 Harvest our findings & identify which elements to integrate or adapt in CohereDAO’s governance structure
🏗 Identify our most needed, most urgent task-specific bodies, theme-specific bodies & dialogue-based bodies
🏗 Define power distribution, relationship & dependencies between all bodies
🏗 Update CohereDAO’s organizational chart
🏗 Zoom in on each body and define composition, roles & nomination process to leadership roles
🎛 Define CohereDAO’s democratic processes 🎛 Research Teal organizations, Indigenous communities, and ReFi & ImpactDAOs’ sensemaking processes & decision-making processes (see notes)
🎛 Harvest our findings and identify processes that we could integrate in CohereDAO’s various bodies
🎛 Refine proposal categories
🎛 Zoom in on each body and define sensemaking and decision-making processes for proposal categories that apply
🌫 Define CohereDAO’s meta-governance processes
🌫 Research Teal organizations, Indigenous communities, and ReFi & ImpactDAOs’ meta-governance processes
🌫 Harvest our findings and identify processes to integrate for CohereDAO’s meta-governance
🛠 Research Governance protocols, platforms and tools that could support CohereDAO’s governance processes
🛠 Harvest our findings and identify protocols, platforms and tools that we could integrate in CohereDAO
🛠 Identify if CohereDAO will need to create its own tools
🛠 Evaluate CohereDAO’s human & financial resources needs for the development of its infrastructure
🛠 Create a roadmap for the development of CohereDAO’s infrastructure
📑 Write first draft of CohereDAO’s whitepaper
📑 Create visuals & art for CohereDAO’s whitepaper
📑 Call for external contributors to review CohereDAO’s whitepaper
📑 Publish CohereDAO’s final version of the whitepaper
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