Hey all, I want to start a discussion, and hopefully move to a proposal, surrounding the opportunity to record our weekly membership meetings and post them to public media channels like YouTube, Twitter, etc.
There are several advantages we can get from this: Able to reference past conversation, the Weekly Membership Meeting Notes will be more concise and filled with the most relevant information, and we can show the world our workings, conversations, thought processes, and how we operate with eachother, and people who couldn’t attend can catch up at a later time. However there are a few disadvantages that come to mind like: Privacy and "Free Speech".
Reference Past Conversations
Our minds are wonderful, but at the same time they can slip up. We forget something that we or someone else said or we mishear something and are forced to move forward in the conversation. With the recordings, all of those problems are alleviated.
Quality of Weekly Membership Meeting Notes
Without recording, someone needs to actively take notes during the meeting, which causes them to withdraw from the conversation. Alongside this, conversations may move fast or switch topics quickly, which may cause some information to get lost in the ether. With recording, we have the chance to go back and write down every single important piece of information that was said AND the person taking the notes is able to participate in the conversation 100%.
Demonstrate Our Abilities
One of the strong things we have going for us is that we are able to communicate with each other in a respectable and productive manner. It will be a great display to outside members to see how we operate with each other and further add validity to our actions. In this case, we would upload to Youtube and share the youtube url to the discord, twitter, and maintain a page on CharmVerse that documents all of the videos and corresponding meeting notes.
View At a Later Time
Sometimes the baby needs unexpected attention or you have an obligation that you need to take care of or you get stuck in traffic. In cases like this it can be frustrating to miss out on the conversation and even worse never hear any of it.
Privacy & Free Speech
Your discord name and your actual voice will be broadcasted to people outside of the DAO. You are responsible for what you say and face whatever consequences come from it. Anonymity is a strong ethos surrounding the Web3 community and we are directly defacing it. I do personally value the right for anyone to maintain their anonymity if they choose to do so. However, the advantages we get from doing this overpower the negatives, IMO. There could be some solutions like someone going through and altering voices by request of a member or a member can alter their discord name to an arbitrary one. The last thing we want is for members to feel like they are under surveillance and in consequence, they limit their speech and opinions. Surveillance is not the intended goal here. Everyone should be able to speak their mind freely and openly. However, I do think we are a group that have been pretty good at having “well-mannered” mouths. We aren’t doing any shady dealings or bad mouthing other entities. To me, the DAO is about pushing the DAO agenda, uplifting the members surrounding us, and pushing forward our ideas to the outside world and other Web3 entities. There shouldn’t really be any “I shouldn’t say this since it's being on record” situations, IMO. But again, IMO, you should be able to freely express your thoughts and opinions in an uncensored way. So those are two conflicting ideas that I really don’t know a good way forward on.
Costs
There are no upfront costs. My current setup is to use the OBS recording software (free) and that's pretty much it.
Closing Thoughts
Hoping to bring this conversation forward and acknowledge both the Pros and Cons of this initiative. Ultimately, in hopes of bringing this to a proposal on Snapshot.
Thank you.
