GftW Deliverables Status Summary

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Overview

This page displays an ongoing assessment of the status which Grant for the Web project deliverables. Check out the other GftW pages (all listed under the GftW Category)

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Status of Deliverables

1: Completed Deliverables

These deliverables are considered to be complete. Many of the actions around them are still active and ready for further development, refinement and iterations.

2: Ongoing/In Progress Deliverables

Note than some of this are ongoing procedures needed for DisCO's development, regardless of GftW. Their continuation however is predicated on further funding so the team can dedicate themselves to their development and, in certain cases, completion.

  • Development of Self-hosted DisCO Mothership and Guerrilla Media Collective Wikis (ongoing)
  • Structuring of content for DisCO Ball: Knowledge Base (based on Mothership Wiki) (ongoing). Includes:
    • Co-creation of content for DisCO Mothership Wiki (to be repurposed for DisCO Ball: Knowledge Base) (ongoing)
  • Writing new stories and content for DisCO Stories (ongoing). Includes:
    • Curating External articles and Research for inclusion
    • Formatting all new content in Wordpress
    • Advocating and publicizing
  • Videos (ongoing). Includes:
  • Translation and Localization (ongoing). Includes:
    • Spanish translation of Manifesto and Website (pending 5,000€ non-GftW financing)
  • Mutual learning and co-development with DisCO LABS. Ongoing. Includes:
  • DisCO_Glossary#Dating_Phase Dating DisCO LABS:
  • Development and creation of [| DisCO Mothership/NP Governance model] (completion dependent on further funding)
  • Technical specifications for development of Fluid Funding (FLUFUN) protocol. (completion dependent on further funding). See Slide Deck here.
  • Creation of an Ethical Business Plan
  • Development and and customization of workflow tools (ongoing)
  • Documentation and upkeep own knowledge-base/wiki (Ongoing)
  • Storytelling (Ongoing)
  • Participation in developing Intra-DisCO value flows (Ongoing)
  • Events and Outreach (Ongoing)
  • DisCO LAB Development
  • Webinars and AMAs
  • Fundraising for further development (ongoing)

3: Deliverables in Planning, Groundwork and Pre-design Stages

Please note that many of these deliverables were predicated on an open and transparent collaboration with Geeks Without Bounds. Since their abandonment of the project and disenfranchisement and lack of payment towards our tech partners, they have been on hold and are now dependent on GftW Rescope proposal acceptance.

DisCO DECK

  • Configurable modules for value accounting with adjustable ratios and characteristics:
    • Pro-bono love work, market Livelihood work and reproductive care work metrics - with the possibility of varying rates and modes of tokenization *Ongoing Development
    • Conceptualization of further stages (SSB, IPFS and Blockchain)
    • Search for funding for further development


  • DisCO Ball (Semantic MediaWiki):
    • Front end Figma mockups
    • MediaWiki implemetation of designs
    • Semantic Wiki functionality
    • User manual for DisCO FLOOR, BALL and DECK
    • Video Tutorials - with imbedded GIF short demos for software documentation
    • Implement and promote Web Monetization
    • Advocate community care and partnerships
  • DisCO FLOOR (DisCO.coop WordPress 1st Iteration):
    • Visual and UX design for FLOOR Homepage and Subdomian, planning for futre models/blocks
    • Drupal(WP?) implementation of Design
    • Narative and branding
    • Visual mapping of all DisCO resources and subdoimains, incl. infographic
    • Implement and promote WM
    • Search for funding for further development
  • DisCO Blocks (Interactive base DisCO Model):
    • Structure content, incl. Q&A format, prompts, etc.
    • Front end Figma mockups
    • Governance Model v.4
      • Compile LAB Modules
    • Search for funding for further development
  • DisCO Journey (Interactive materials)
    • Structure content
  • DisCO Handbook:
    • Structuring Handbook Materials
    • Compile examples from LABs A/B Handbook vs. Wiki (Must include stories on WM and Interledger)
    • Write content (and draw from DisCO Ball. Include stories on WM and Interledger)
    • Select Art
    • Design and Format (PDF, Epub, Html) Handbook
    • Advocate/publicize
  • DisCO Trilogy:
    • Trilogy Homepage @ DisCO.coop with previews and description of all three papers and links to each paper's homepage
    • Manifesto V.1.2 changes and additional formatting, with menu page in disco.coop with acces to individual chapters
    • Update DisCO.coop Manifesto Landing Page
    • Serialize Elements (Hackernoon)
    • Conceptualize PinkPaper
    • Search for funding for further development
  • Infographics
    • Text/Design/Format What is DisCO?
    • Text/Design/Format DisCO CAT intro
    • Text/Design/Format DisCO ValueFlows
    • Text/Design/Format Web Monetization and Interledger in DisCO
    • Advocate and Publicize
  • DisCO Stories:
    • Conduct original interviews
    • Conceptualize Research section
    • Include stories on WM and Interledger
    • Formatting improvements to Stories landing page and posts
  • Videos:
    • DisCO Deck: Overview and Features
    • DisCO Ball: Overview and Features
  • Configurable modules for value accounting with adjustable rations and characteristics:
    • Include WM Options - Front end interface and UX, and Backend/code
    • Integrations for automated value tracking, depending on a given DisCO's chosen productive work and software tools (Part of NGI Atlantic/DisCO Stack)
    • Time tracking tools - front end interface and UX, and Backend/code
  • Interactive real time visualizations:
    • Value streams according to agreed value rations
    • Drag and drop real time adjustability of agreed ratios to suit personal circumstances and necessitites of members - validated by voting-consent mechanism
    • Real time visualizations of all DisCO-wide and individual value flows.
      • Personalized views of each DisCO member's historical, invested and divested credits
  • Financial tools:
    • Federated network of nodes implementing the ValueFlows vocabulary
    • Access privilege mediated transfer of credits between:
      • Individual DisCO Members
      • Value Streams
      • Separate DisCO nodes
      • Toward configurable calue pools for specific projects
    • Transfer of credits among different DisCOs using
      1. ValueFlows vocabulary through CommonsPub(Bonfire Ecosystem)
      2. Interledger
      3. Web Monetization
  • Deck Content:
    • Documentation for developers, software administrators, and software users.
    • Research report: initial report describing the lessons learned through pilot teams' early experience using our software in the alpha and early beta stages
    • Large-scale community activation
    • DisCO Deck Promo
  • Ongoing Development:
    • SSB and IPFS conceptualizations
    • Blockchain stage
  • Mixed FLOSS/Propietary working Stack:
    • Installation/testing of self-hosted Loomio
    • Conceptualization of further stages
  • DisCO LABS:
    • Dating LABS:
      • Cooperation Jackson
      • Laneras
    • LABS Co-development:
      • Multi-constituent membership layers
      • Value accounting ratios and methods
      • Decision making
      • Customize DisCO CAT
      • Develop repository for commons-creating pro-bono work
  • Research Lines:
    • Distributed Cooperativism in Action
    • Designing whole-community governance
    • Intra-DisCO value flows
    • Feminist Economic theory and practice
    • DisCOin: Cryptocurrencies
    • Commons-public partnerships
  • Events and Outreach:
    • Video/audio documentation of Introductory talks and workshops
    • DisCOThons: structure design, graphics and video/audio documentaiton
    • AMAs - set up Reddit user/sub
    • Video/audio documentation
    • Web Monetization: Campaign for progressive creators to get of patreon and us WM with DisCO Characteristics

4: Deliverables postponed for further funding rounds

As above, many of these deliverables have become no viable due to the lack of communication, involvement and support with our prior tech partner, Geeks Without Bounds and the lack of any code for the DisCO DECK.

DisCO STACK

  • Mixed FLOSS/Propietary working Stack (basic tools for collaboration)
    • Mentoring, usage, documentation and mutual learning of the Mixed Stack
      • Time tracking categorization and Get Thing GNOMES development
      • Research/Testing of NextCloud Capacities
    • Trello Testing and alternative design (possibly SpaceTime)
  • Testing NextCloud
  • DisCO Blocks (literature and mockups):
    • Implement mockups in CommunityRule backend
    • Spit out code for Deck and Ball
    • Add content - including documentation on DisCO Ball
    • User testing
    • Implement and promote WM
    • Video Tutorials
    • Advocate, community care and partnerships
  • DisCO Journey (designs, draft texts)
    • Preliminary sketches
    • Clone Commons Transition Primer Theme
  • The DisCO Trilogy:
    • Research/critique of WhitePapers
    • Writing, Format and Design of the DisCO PinkPaper (PDF, Epub, Html, including page in disco.coop with access to individual chapters)
    • Advocate/publicize
  • Infographics:
    • Assess/produce additional infographics for PinkPaper
    • Future Infographics TBD/planned for as needed
  • Videos:
    • DisCO Blocks: Overview and features
    • The 7 DisCO Principles
    • DisCO Governance Explained
  • Translation and Localization:
    • DisCO Manifesto and DisCO.coop website ES translation
    • DisCO Elements
    • DisCO PinkPaper
  • Configurable modules for value accounting with adjustable ratios and characteristics:
    • Metrics programmed through DisCO Blocks
  • Interactive real time visualizations:
    • Economic projections and budgeting tools, including reproductive vs productive work balances and readjustments, as well as optimal invested/divested credit ratios - including WM option visualization for LoveWork
    • Legislation-appropriate tax ratios, regular expenses and individual member expenses (deducted from individual allocations)
    • US: GWOB and EU: DisCO Foundation, GMC
  • Financial tools:
    • Monetary flow between consumers and producer coops as well as between collaborating organizations using a) ValueFlows vocabulary through CommonsPub, b) Interledger, and c) Web Monetization
    • Conversion of credits to designated fiat currencies, with bank transfers to:
      • DisCO members (i.e., monthly payments)
      • Suppliers
      • Organizations
    • Conversion of credits to various cryptocurrencies and individual, permissioned access to wallets
    • Automated invoicing and payment tools, both via bank transfer and/or cryptocurrency wallets
    • Legislation specific (Country/legal structure) community developed plugins, validated by cryptographic notary signature for taxation and State financial reporting
    • All components will allow for granular customization of how many of these processes are:
      1. Automatically executed by the CAT
      2. Automatically displayed by the CAT but only executed via customizable governance-model determined permissions and votes by the members
      3. Individually permissioned
  • Mixed FLOSS/Propietary working Stack:
    • Installation/testing of BBB
    • Research dialogues with Jetpad
    • Bridges between DisCO Stack, Deck and Blocks to:
      • Automatize Value Tracking according to consent-based protocols
      • Assess the health of the collective and its needs for carework, with clear displays of needs, imbalances and red flags