Project Description:
Gravity DAO is where individuals and communities go to find support and guidance to build trust, better communication, resolve conflicts, and improve the well-being of the whole and its members.
Here is our “X” account
Public Repository:
In our Dework Board you can find all the coordination of our DAO, where we reward core roles, organize our work, and distribute bounties to our contributors.
Budget Breakdown
Our organization has a monthly operational budget of 8.000 USD, which sustains the creation of free quality transdisciplinary content on social sciences, facilitation of continued education, development of standards, and pioneering solutions to contribute to solving common problems in online communities.
Thanks to the quality of our content and the success of our services, we have been a sustainable project for over 4 years now. We have trained and provided education in many communities, with great results in the creation of a strong relational fabric in those groups.
Milestone 1:
We are looking for 3 ETH to support the development of our upcoming online course on leadership.
- Expected Outcome:
We noticed that there is a huge need for training in Web3-focused leadership. Technological leaders need to be integral to steward innovation, and being the primary modeler of educational change. Leadership is needed to create trust, transform conflict, grow from the energy inside motion, balance polarities, and evolve from dialogue.
Funding Requested: 3 ETH
Plans should you fall below, reach or exceed funding goals:
If we fall short of our expected threshold, we will continue working towards launching this course with our present treasury. If we exceed the funding goals, we will be able to grow our team to be more effective in ops and content creation. We aspire to launch a third course at the end 2025, completing our initial human development education path in Web3.
From Octant, we are looking for support for our sustained operations, believing that the work we are doing for the public good is highly valuable for the web3 space.
Graphic by Durgadas.
Impact Measurement and Reporting
We give input to communities and individuals by facilitating educational activities and practices. The output of our efforts is traduced in antifragile systems that evolve by overcoming obstacles. This ultimately contributes to the capacity to coordinate nonviolently as humans and solve shared worldwide challenges.
Short-term Outcomes (0-3 months):
In the following three months, we aspire to share our new branding and narrative, which includes leadership as the third principle that connects conflict management and trust creation.
We are also looking forward to attending DEVCON VII in Thailand, where our team will meet for the first time IRL after working together for years. During our presence in Devcon, we plan to announce our leadership training, which should be finished by the end of 2024 and launched with a first live cohort in Q1 of 2025.
- [Describe the immediate results expected from the project, such as the completion of specific milestones or deliverables.]
Develop free content on trust creation, conflict management, and leadership, while facilitating continued education for our network of partner communities, and structuring our second online course.
Mid-term Outcomes (3-6+ months):
After launching our course on leadership, Gravity DAO would be at 2/3 of our goal of developing our integral education path for human development in web3. After the first live cohort of this new training, we will promote the content and continued education, before starting the curation phase of our third training, planned for the end of 2025.
Long-term Impact (5+ years):
- We wish to set standards for human development in web3 to promote a sustainable culture of nonviolence and healthy coordination.
Outcomes Measurement:
- We plan to have at least 50 participants in our Leadership training, with at least 10 new certified leaders that attend 77% of the sessions. We measure participation with NTFs, and we’ll be hosting the course in our page Online Courses - Gravity DAO
Interim Reporting
Regular Updates:
- Since we are a small team focused on creating content, sometimes it is hard to present monthly updates in our public profiles and accountability mechanisms. That is we propose to give updates quarterly, seeming a good cadence for us to have time to advance and show real progress.
Milestone Verification:
- We haven’t created a profile in https://gap.karmahq.xyz/ because we just found out of this tool recently. Once we have created this profile, I will be happy to add it to this thread. This will be done after posting since we are close to the Epoch 5 application deadline.
Sustainability Plan
Our online content is free, but we offer live continued education and consultancy, from where we get strategic partnerships and collaborate with many organizations. One of the communities we are happily collaborating with is Optimism, which has been very giving by retroactively recognizing the impact we are creating for the public good.
Case Studies and Testimonials
Gathering Feedback:
- We plan to record our live sessions and share spaces for recorded testimonials, surveys, and feedback loops to identify opportunities for improvement.
Showcasing Success:
- Besides the launch and polish of the leadership training, we will continue to offer our continued education through social media, blog posts, participation in conferences, academic research, and collaboration with multiple communities.
Advancing Values of Freedom and Privacy
We defend privacy as the information we have about conflicting issues remains secure within our own database. Contact - Gravity DAO We care for the trust that is deposited on us by the parties that request our services, and uphold the values of safety, compassion, inclusion and self determination.
Gravity DAO does not generate plutocracy or centralization of power, as we act only as facilitators, and our actions are not meant to accumulate power or influence on the outcomes of the cases we participate in.
Supporting Decentralization
Yes. Our conflict management cycle for DAOs promotes decentralization, as we don’t get involved in the outcomes of the disputes, and we can mediate cases, but we prefer to facilitate support with education and training for the application of our processes, allowing conflict management to be done and accessed by any active member inside the community. We don’t solve disputes in a centralized way and we encourage solutions to emerge from the parties involved. We are also contributing to many web3 projects, supporting the cross-pollination of experiences and knowledge with DAO2DAO, and healthy standards.
Team Information
** Juan Carlos Bell: Political Scientist, Mg.sc in Alternative Dispute Resolution. Before contributing to Web3 I worked at universities, facilitating coordination of academic programs. I was a Community Steward of the Token Engineering Commons when started incubating Gravity DAO. I also support on the Ethereum Colombia Community.
** Bianca: Psychologist, a researcher for Universidade da Brasilia, and Manager of coordination in Gravity DAO. Intrinsic interest in Mental health and ecosystem feedback loops
** Nikola: Development consultant. Expert in sales and Negotiation. Mediator and Community Lead in Giveth.
** Durgadas: Yogi, Polymath. Narrative and Platform Manager. Content creator, Technical maintenant and sysadmin.
** Angie: Communications and social media manager, expert in marketing and community building.
Social Proof
We have been working with multiple communities in the past years. Our project has been endorsed by recognized experts from the Token Engineering field, and we also have completed previous milestones successfully, as detailed in the Optimism Github repository for foundation requests for proposals (RFPs) in season 4 Foundation Mission Request: Code of Conduct Enforcement Solution · Issue #2 · ethereum-optimism/ecosystem-contributions · GitHub
In @Juankbell POAP collection you can see 6 cohorts of our past trainings POAP - Bookmarks for your life
Transparency
We see ETH as a valuable asset over time. That is why if we get this funding from Octant, we might want to hold it, prioritizing using other tokens in our portfolio first to cover our operational costs.
Other funding
- We have gotten 145.000 USD to fund our DAO since 2021.
Described like this:
Token Engineering Commons: 75.000 USD
Aragon: 10.000 USD
Giveth: 5.000 USD
Gitcoin: 5.000 USD
Optimism: 10.000 USD + 40.000 OP
Thanks for opening the space to participate in this Octant Epoch 5 
I hope you like what we are doing and find our mission worth of funding.