EF 147: Building the Autumn Hearth

Explore how Eden Fractal’s third Respect Game of Season 13 gathers around the roots of a new nonprofit foundation! The episode covers founding plans taking shape for a foundation to support the fractal ecosystem, early research into fundraising and donor outreach, and tools that turn community knowledge into new websites and audio chapters. It also covers a vision for hybrid fractals that blend online participation with in-person voting, reconnecting with longtime builders from the wider fractal ecosystem, conversations about fractal funding and promotion, and capturing community transcripts to give AI agents richer context 🌄 Highlights of community contributions: Rosmari researches nonprofit incorporation, donor outreach, and fundraising, prepares to join the foundation’s board, reviews and comments on founding documents, improves how blog and meeting content is indexed, and promotes events and publishes videos with AI-assisted titles, descriptions, and timestamps. Zaal hosts an in-person event that plants the seeds of a hybrid fractal with location-based voting, keeps the weekly ZAO Fractal gatherings growing, turns his GitHub profile into a living portfolio, and connects with a longtime fractal builder developing decentralized forums. Dan tends the foundation vision by drafting founding documents, a records hub, and a first business plan, researches and draft docs about nonprofit’s incorporation, builds an audio chapters hub, researches turning Notion content into new websites with Cloudflare hosting, and shares a draft proposal on Eden Fractal’s vision and infrastructure. Tadas offers valuable thoughts and feedback that help shape the nonprofit. Plus, the community gathers around electing Dan as delegate and works to post this season’s harvest onchain using the ORDAO software. Website: https://edenfractal.com Videos: https://edenfractal.com/videos Telegram: https://t.me/edenfractal Events & RSVP: https://lu.ma/edenfractal Timestamps 0:00 Dan welcomes everyone to Eden Fractal’s Respect Game 147, following a long and exciting Town Hall discussion about Eden Fractal’s vision 1:05 Dan shares Eden Fractal’s vision and mission to guide the contributions shared in the Respect Game 2:03 Dan checks whether anyone has a hard stop and the group agrees to keep presentations short 3:23 Rosmari shares contributions including researching nonprofit incorporation, donor outreach, and fundraising, preparing to join the foundation board, reviewing bylaws and articles of incorporation, meeting with Tadas and Dan, improving the indexing of blog and meeting content, promoting the event, and editing and publishing videos with AI-generated timestamps 6:42 Zaal shares contributions including hosting an in-person event, envisioning a hybrid fractal where votes are cast in person, running weekly ZAO Fractals and Tuesday fractals, turning his GitHub profile into a portfolio, connecting with Rodrigo about decentralized forums, and exploring fractal funding and promotion 10:59 Zaal suggests a shared action items document and capturing Eden Fractal video transcripts and Telegram chat history to give AI agents more context 12:10 Dan invites Zaal to meet with him and Rosmari to review a drafted agenda and set a more consistent meeting schedule 16:15 Dan recalls Rodrigo from Genesis Fractal and Eden on EOS meetings and his work co-founding EOS Detroit 16:46 Dan shares contributions including starting a nonprofit foundation with Rosmari and Tadas, drafting bylaws, articles of incorporation, resolutions, and a records hub, building an audio chapters hub, coordinating with a fiscal sponsor, drafting a business plan, researching ways to turn Notion content into websites and Cloudflare hosting, sharing a draft proposal on Eden Fractal’s vision, organizing a Notion project for multiple weekly meetings, and making an ORDAO proposal for delegate elections 23:25 Dan invites the group to reach consensus on who contributed the most to Eden Fractal’s vision and mission 24:25 Dan announces consensus on Rosmari at Level 6 with two out of three votes 24:56 Dan announces consensus on Zaal at Level 5 25:05 Dan and Rosmari hold the delegate election for Council 147, and the group reaches consensus on Dan as delegate 26:09 Dan suggests adding Tadas at Level 3 for his valuable thoughts and feedback on the nonprofit 26:48 Level 6 - Rosmari, Level 5 - Zaal, Level 4 - Dan, Level 3 - Tadas 27:03 Dan explains he will add Tadas’s account and share the final ORDAO proposal in the Telegram group for voting 28:27 Dan thanks everyone and announces the next Eden Fractal event on October 22nd at 14 UTC 29:21 Dan invites Rosmari to lead the countdown to 'Go Eden Fractal'