Seasons of Optimism: Part 2 - Continuing Our Discussion

This Week's Topics

Following our successful kickoff last week focusing on ORDAO, we'll continue exploring the many important updates and opportunities identified in our "Seasons of Optimism: Reflection and Renewal" topic proposal. Several topics received significant community interest but weren't covered in our initial discussion.

We'll play OPTOPICS to democratically organize our conversation, using the existing poll from last week that includes various discussion topics from our seasonal reflections. There are still seven substantive topics that garnered notable community interest:

• Optimystics Tools Development
• RetroFunding Round 6 Review
• Recognizing Impact in RetroFunding
• RetroSeason & RetroPitches Review
• Optimism Fractal Respect Game Mission
• Eden Creators Video Mission
• Superchain Growth Trajectory

You can review detailed descriptions and context for each topic in the Seasons of Optimism article.

Optimism Season 7 Announcements

The Optimism Foundation has recently published several articles outlining significant changes for Optimism Season 7, including updates to the Collective Intent and RetroFunding plans for 2025. You can read about these changes in the Guide to Season 7 forum post.

Given the depth of these developments, I'm considering whether to propose this as an additional topic this week or wait until next week—allowing us more time to process these changes alongside our existing topics.

How to Participate

• Vote in the existing weighted poll to help prioritize topics
• Feel free to change your votes or add new topic proposals in the Optimism Town Hall snapshot space
• Join us Thursday at 18:00 UTC (Note: We will meet as scheduled on Thanksgiving)
• Help guide topic transitions during the event by typing "next topic" in chat

As always, we'll discuss topics in order of votes received. Looking forward to continuing these valuable discussions as we work together towards our core intents. All community members welcome to join and share their perspectives!

Key Links

Vote on topics in this poll

Read the article for topic details