Addressing Purpose/Mission/Vision & Strategy

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This project is the ticket to addressing the purpose/mission/vision and short-term or mid-term strategy at SCRF. Consistently, it has become an issue that the mission of SCRF is unclear. Rather than the fact that SCRF does not have this determined, it simply has not been properly documented or aligned by the team (in some time). This project suggests a facilitated session (multiple sessions) with a professional facilitator to help SCRF align and clarify these things. This is vital to move forward with a strategic community design, and I believe we can not move forward without it.

Prior work has been done in this vain. See these documents for reference: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_dW0bGpLZLJGqp9VpYndKEVLwh6Z9VEBTbydvKW1QCg/edit#slide=id.p

Proposal Steps:

• [x] Present to team a proposal on MVS
• [x] Deliberate with team on steps forward
• [x] Review the proposal with the team for a final time
• [x] Identify Vendors
• [ ] Create budget
• [ ] Make vendor selection
• [ ] Engage in workshops led by vendor
• [ ] Begin Strategic Community Design

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Strategic community design & mission/vision/strategy work ongoing. This is what I will close out my time with SCRF with.

See attached for the presentation deck. Please use it as a reference for the future. Luman is a firm specializing in this kind of work. I received support in framing this problem and solution from them.

SCRF Community Onboarding .pdf

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@eleventh19 has been working with Converge Network as another vendor for this proposal

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For reference, the book, Impact Networks, which became a team read, sets the stage for this work and is a good reference for the team about why this is important for the future success of SCRF.

SCRF has been hosting sessions to review the book.

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This project concerns the entire core team. Tagging here for awareness: @eleventh19 @zubepaul @marvino3 @ghettodev @twan-dev

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Meeting 8/12/2022 with @eleventh19 Context on SCRF:

• Summer 2020: SCRF was created from a partnership between Rich and Sergey (Chainlink). They saw a problem in an industry where academics aren't focused on the real problems/cutting-edge problems.
• So, what if there is this incentivized forum to start moderated, a long-term discussion where people can discover this information? And the forum is joint facilitation between the world of theory and the world of applied. What should we be aware of when we build? What should we be aware of when we research?
• January 2021: Forum went live. Rich had built a team of core people.
• 4-5 Months Later: Large turnover of the core team. Unclear how to bring industry and academia together. Who do we focus on first? Think about attracting academics first from a multi-modal social approach.
• July 2021: Brought on Ops Lead and more Project Managers. By end of the Summer had a new core team across all other verticles. Still need a head of Outreach today.
• Started running experiments about why people couldn't be retained. Experiencing high-turnover.
• Discovery engages on Mission/Vision again. Conducted user interviews internally.
• Realized people were taking advantage of the billing system. Not getting quality of output or enthusiasm, and possible fraud. Created a research summary grant from this.
• 2022 Reflective: year marked by many changes and large-scale events. Presentation at EthDenver Feb 2022. "Pushing people towards a cliff". We had great traction but needed to take care of house.
• SCRF.io redesign started.
• SCRF considers metrics & goals

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@eleventh19 ready to consider Vendors and hear pitches. No more than 4 to 6 weeks ready to run these sessions with core ops and select other folks. Considering:

• Luman, Tirza
• Converge Network
• Other folks from Eugene network in Pittsburg