Update to FWB Mission, Vision, Strategy, and Principles

Proposal Authors: Contributing Team

Abstract

If passed, this proposal will define FWB's vision, mission, core principles, and strategic approaches for the foreseeable future (until another revision is deemed necessary by the community). The aim is to align the DAO around a set of common values and objectives so we can collectively do a better job in allocating resources, setting priorities, holding ourselves accountable, and evolving towards a shared "North Star."

Background

In response to the FWB Leadership Vision & Results proposal that was passed on July 13, 2022, the FWB DAO contributing team has put forth an update to our overarching vision and principles that was first established on January 23, 2022. We have also added additional points of clarity to our core principles and strategies for accomplishing our mission.

The process of authoring these updates to our vision, mission, principles, and strategies involved a community-wide Census that surveyed 454 community members, a contributor retreat, and a series of contributor workshops. Our collective learnings from the last year about FWB and the many roles we play were also taken into consideration.

Additionally, a community discussion about these directional updates took place on September 28th at a DAO-wide Town Hall. Members were invited to review the drafted vision, mission, principles, and strategies, and to weigh in with comments and suggestions over the last 45 days.

Caveats

The proposed vision, mission, principles, and strategic approaches are not meant to be overly prescriptive for our emergent network. Rather, they aim to offer a framework as well as a set of tools that should give contributors and the community a clear sense of direction.

As we evolve, FWB will continue to be a homebase for creatives and builders across disciplines and industries where we can collectively learn, support each other, and form organic friendships. As the technologies and capabilities of web3 advance, we'll continue to use decentralized tools to articulate and enact our community's principles, and to produce meaningful events, collaborations, and connections that align our shared priorities.

Proposed Vision

What is the future world we want to live in? Why does FWB exist?

We believe in the promise of a better internet---one where communities and authentic connections thrive, where creativity is valued, and where the future can be collaboratively built.

Proposed Mission

What do we want to accomplish every day that helps us actualize that vision?

FWB is the social convening point for the individuals, squads, and institutions using decentralized technology to build a better internet. As a community, we aim to push culture forward while elevating and amplifying each other in the process.

Proposed Strategic Approaches

How do we accomplish our mission, and work towards our vision?

The FWB community accomplishes our mission by acting as a new kind of social network---one that values intimacy over scale, governs and sustains itself, and seamlessly blurs the lines between meaningful digital and physical experiences.

We currently use Discord as a 24/7 chat room that functions like a virtual city.

We come together once a year to collaboratively produce an event known as FWB FEST, where our digital city temporarily comes to physical life. We also organize in-person events around the world, hosted by and for our community, that serve as local neighborhoods.

We build and operate our own social software---a set of tools that aligns us and uniquely serves the needs of our community. (e.g. fwb.app, gatekeeper, FairShare)

We produce and publish our own essays, news, and stories to contribute new ideas while amplifying and uplifting one another across this network.

We collectively maintain, evolve, and improve our community through member-driven proposals that spur economic and social activity, and deepen connections.

All of this aims to collectively push this format of what a social network is and can be---one that is operated, governed, and attributed to its "users."

In this regard, FWB can be thought of as a city that does not exist in a singular physical place, but is instead fluid, emergent, and collectively defined by the creativity and interdependence of its people.

Proposed Core Principles

What behaviors or patterns do we as a community embody in order to accomplish our mission and work towards our vision?

Collective Effort

We believe in cooperation and collaboration. FigJam over Notes. It takes a village.

Good Neighbors

We all have a stake in making our shared home great. Be friendly, be inclusive, be a good host, and if you see trash, pick it up.

Culture Over Crypto

We're not a crypto community, we're a community that uses crypto. Let's set a new tone for this new internet.

Open Experimentation

Remix, remodel. Emergence over instructions. The only "right way" to do things is through radical creativity.

Civic Engagement

We have a responsibility to show how decentralized technology can benefit the public, and to use our influence as a force for good.

Give Before You Get

Offer your support without expecting something in return. Credibility is built through authentic, caring connections.

Have Fun

We don't take ourselves too seriously, and we don't have all the answers -- but that's what makes this worth doing.

Reporting

Within 2 weeks of each season ending, team leads will be required to share an update with the community on the status of KPIs. This will begin the season after this proposal has been approved.

Relevant Resources

Additional resources and documentation relevant to the communication and implementation of FWB's Vision, Mission, Strategy, and Principles

• Presentation

• Objectives & Key Results 

• Analogous Reference Points