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What SoFA members are involved in DAOs (as consultants or members)?
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I am actively involved in a DAO-style organization and have contact with a couple others. Very interested in how distributed ledgers can help automate policy decisiones made by sociocratic circles and help raise funds from the wider community. 
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Just bumping this up - any other people involved in DAOs?
I have been involved in a few as a contributor 
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Which ones @unai.gaztelu ?
Just curious. And what did you do there?
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POPcorn I contributed to the DAO organization WG, where we used Coordinape to track and reward each other
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Panvala I was overseeing the activities fund = grants for events. + I just suggested it as an income option for SoFA
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I love WC liberating Structures DAO, which is in the making.
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Sensorica, which does not call itself a DAO, but an Open Value Network (OVN) and uses this very interesting Network Resource Planning, where you can e.g. see all my contributions
I hold tokens of some others, which is sometimes understood as being a “member”.
Some that I find interesting are: Token Engineering Commons, Gitcoin or Giveth (which afaik runs sociocratically).
@TedRau what is the current “relationship” of SoFA with the DAO/crypto world? Any work being done in that area? What is your interest on it? Just watched this 
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I’ve talked with a number of people. There were talks at our conference.
But there’s no institutional connection. Might be fun to have a sector circle eventually.
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