Koimmunity Cove Call - June 13

​KOI Pond is an initiative that unites the complementary expertise of BlockScience—a complex systems engineering, research and development, and analytics firm with a history of architecting information infrastructures—and Metagov’s range of self-governance research and experiments developed in its laboratory for digital governance.

The partnership of these two organizations will facilitate experimental research into the self-governance of Knowledge Organization Infrastructures by online communities in support Metagov's mission of “cultivat[ing] tools, practices, and communities that enable self-governance in the digital age.”

Read more about KOI Pond on our website.

Now that Metagov’s KOI is nearly ready for user testing, we welcome the broader community to play a more active role in the project. We invite the community to attend our Koimmunity Cove Calls, a bi-weekly KOI community call where we will discuss and steer the KOI Pond project. 

​The inaugural Koimmunity Cove Call is scheduled for June 13, 2024 8-9pm UTC. This hour-long session will include an introductory overview of the proposed research experiments and current project documentation, a brief demonstration of its capabilities, a discussion of short-term goals and future aspirations, and a Q&A session. During this session, Meatgovernors can also sign up to receive updates on future contribution opportunities. The call will be recorded for those who are unable to attend.

​Subsequent Koimmunity Cove Calls will be 30 minutes in duration every second and fourth Thursday of the month at 8:30-9pm UTC (unless stated otherwise). One of the early objectives of these sessions will be to establish community practices that encourage active involvement from the broader Metagov community. Activities may involve tasks such as prompting our KOI in #koi-tank, responding to polls about which data to have observed next, or participatory workshops to evaluate the quality of Metagov’s KOI. These practices are intended to be light touch actions to build practices around KOI, while enhancing collaboration and communication between system engineers, research directors, project contributors, and the broader community. 

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