Protein

Authors: Andrea, Roisin, Deniz

This proposal aims to ratify Protein Community’s focus and budget allocation for Season 5, from January to April 2023, setting the wheels in motion for the next phase of Protein Community as a collaborative knowledge network.

This proposal is the product of many community conversations throughout Season 4 reflecting on the value of Protein Community as a standalone initiative as well as our position within the larger Protein ecosystem.

Season 5 Focus: Defining a Collaborative Report Framework

In Season 5, we will focus the community around the creation of an insight report, made in collaboration with Protein Agency. As these reports are normally created in-house by the Agency team, this is a first for Protein and a chance to trial an experimental new way of working and collaborating.

With this new direction comes a new definition of who we are:

Protein Community is a tokenized community of future-focused, culture-makers seeking to define new ways to come together to create a collaborative knowledge network.

Season 5 Approach: A Shared Goal

We want our projects to be impactful and generate meaningful results. We want to create a platform that offers a rewarding experience for the members of the community and, at the same time, generates value for the wider ecosystem. In order to achieve this, we aim to create opportunities to begin building a collective body of work that can generate value for our community.

To reach this, we propose:

• A seasonal input (a theme) that will influence all of Protein Community’s initiatives for that season.
• A seasonal output (a collective report) that is co-created by our community members and ecosystem.

Voted in by our community in Season 4, the theme of the report will centre around “Community” — a Dirty Word that has been co-opted and overused to the point where some believe it has lost true meaning.

Season 5 Approach: Collaborative Creation, Research in the Open

Our aim is to further decentralise the curation and production of our content and events to the community by creating opportunities to respond to briefs and pitch ideas. We will also challenge our existing methodologies to surface ideas and hone new forms of reporting and expression with all research conducted “in the open” via our existing mediums:

• Protein Feed for daily discoveries and desk research
• Protein Supplement for surfacing the most relevant topics
• Stories of Growth podcast for expert interviews
• Protein Forums for panel discussions and roundtables
• Protein Socials for panels, quantitative polls and qualitative feedback
• Members Workshops (online or IRL at Protein Studios) for deeper analysis and collective creation
• Protein Discord for coordination, updates, and vibes ✨

Season 5: How We Work

All members will have a chance to contribute to the report by:

1 - Applying for bounties set by the Editorial team 2 - Pitching ideas to the Editorial team 3 - Participating in one of the Chapters

Emergent Report Creation

We believe that cultural insights and behaviours can be better captured, decoded, and narrated by a distributed network of contributors.

This process is an experiment, something that we invite you all to be part of, ensuring that we will do our best to facilitate the conditions to:

• Generate new forms of creation and coordination
• Facilitate the forging of new relationships among our members
• Provide the room and the conditions for unexpected ideas to emerge
• Redistribute part of the value generated by this initiative among its contributors and part of it to our treasury ensuring that this type of projects can make us sustainable over time

Seasonal Budget

The report will be assigned 100.000 $PRTN that will be distributed among the report contributors according to their contribution

Proposal details

Voting starts on the 6th of January and closes on the 10th To pass, this proposal must be approved by 50% of the voting Members