In Season 4 (April - June 2023), the Community Pod will focus on enabling the success of MetricsDAO by enabling the participation, growth, and success of our community of on-chain data analysts.

This is the result of the Community Pod (fka Community Crew) Season 3 retro and Season 4 planning exercises. On this page you will find the overall guiding goal, the pillars to achieving it, and a notion database to understand and follow specific projects of the community pod.

Please feel free to add comments here (preferable), or share them in the 👐│community-pod channel in MetricsDAO Discord.

Goal

Empower every Metrics Mind who is interested and committed to being a blockchain data analyst to participate, grow, and perform their best. Support the MetricsDAO Circular Economy by translating each analyst’s success into the success of the DAO and the community.

Four Pillars

1. Onboard

Objective: Flawless onboarding. This includes: the experience of someone brand new as they navigate our community, but also someone exploring a new way of being involved (e.g. from learner to analyst, analyst also becoming a reviewer, sometimes a community member becoming a contributor, etc.), and onboarding of new and existing community members to a new product like the Metrics App.

Contributors: Gab_riel, Sunslinger, artghost, mar1na

Priority projects: Discord onboarding flow; overall DAO onboarding resource (a visual map, goto collection of links); Metrics App onboarding (eg tutorials and community call(s)); Documentation improvement ongoing project.

Wishlist projects:

KPIs:

• Is there a new, easy onboarding flow?
• Documentation: Everything in the Documentation for Daaaays thread is published in docs.

2. Share knowledge

Objectives:

• Create Expansion Packs
• For community members with unique expertise, provide opportunities to share their knowledge with the community.
• Provide an opportunity for analysts to give and receive review and feedback.

Contributors: mar1na, rplust, Sandesh, Sunslinger

Priority projects: Informal regular upskilling content (expansion packs to complement formal education). Path for experts to share knowledge. Community review of Good and Stellar submissions to help promising analysts grow. Dashboard Teardown series.

Wishlist projects:

KPIs:

• Define the format of an Expansion Pack and how to measure its impact (and the list of expansion packs).
• Is there a clear and established path for an experienced community member to get involved and give back? A guide for types of community participation MetricsDAO welcomes (take part in courses, host a learning masterclass, form or join a network) is up on documentation + discord. Can be an expansion pack “How and why to be active in a community.”

3. Showcase

Objective: Consistently spotlight top work by community analysts, both as a benefit to the elite analyst (providing them a platform) and to the DAO (showcasing examples of excellent work a service requester would have access to when they become a partner).

Contributors: mrodin, mar1na, …

Priority projects: Dashboard Teardown from the above pillar overlaps with this (some dashboards will be really good). Metrics Minds Weekly blog series.

Wishlist projects: Consistently spotlight top work by networks.

KPIs:

• Blog post series “Metrics Minds Weekly”
• Bonus: possible live content

4. Support

Objective: Answering questions and troubleshooting with community members in Discord. This is the “traditional” community support and moderation offering where community contributors focused in seasons 2-3. Maintain a high standard of community support as our community grows and more analysts use the newly released Metrics App. Out of all pillars this is the only “maintenance” style focus area.

Contributors: Sandesh, Gabriel, mar1na, Sunslinger, …

Priority projects: Maintain a high standard of support that has been the pre-season 4 standard in the MetricsDAO Discord. Everyone who reaches out in Discord receives help/resources/a referral to the appropriate channels and/or team members.

Wishlist projects:

KPIs:

• Survey before and after has been suggested. But also has practical downsides, given that it looks like it’s a DAO-wide survey (serving goals of several pods). Alternative could be a qualitative reflection by pod at end of season: Which types of questions are easy and quick to address? Which are not and how to solve for it?
• Community review success: how to measure? (Marina <> Sandesh <>GJ discuss)
• Sandesh <> Marina <> Gabriel to discuss what measuring these two bullet points looks like, and how to empower Sandesh and Gabriel to execute.

5. Overall Community Pod

In addition to the 4 pillars, Overall Community Pod has overarching goals:

Things that are important to the community pod but do not appear in one of the four pillars include:

• Growing the Discord server size (any specific # past 5,000? what can we do for this in addition to what marketing will do?);
  • Discord size = marketing side (growth, acquisition)
  • Community supports this by cross-discord partnerships, improving the experience of someone who already joined the Discord (via pillar 1 onboarding, pillar 4 support).
• Supporting and enabling direct pods-to-community and pod-to-pod communication (achieve ultimate DAOing in public) - qualitative assessment at the end of S4 retro.

Planning (update in progress May 2, 2023)