Send out a personal email to all ticket holders to please remind them to vote, only focused on the dreams platform

Yes! There is an audience list on mailchimp containing all KB'19 ticket holders, let's send them an email showing stats and maybe some cool dreams that need funding.

EDIT: we could also increase the token value and thus set an incentive to spend tokens, as they're worth more and tell people about it :moneybag:

about 80% of our community is not engaging with the artists & dreams, which is a loss to both participation in terms of helping realize projects + a loss in terms of excitement about Kiez Burn.

this is the first time we're using this system and the majority of the community might not realize it's awesomeness. but they will see/experience it's outcome at the burn and be more inclined to use it next year.

extend voting deadline to the 5th of May

I fear that we might be putting off Dreamers who need to know ASAP if they have the funds to realize their dream. if we do this, we should min-fund dreams which are at >X% and congratulate their creators :medal:

5 more days won't break the bank, won't it? And dreamers that are close to their minimum, already know they are getting close...

agree with extend deadline and tell people, that they have to vote (they might not know, nor that there is a deadline!)

Yes, communication was a little weak on this point, only the recent newsletter was really helpful on these.

It would be awesome if the remaining unapproved dreams got processed before the deadline extension (which would also be awesome) :)

At this point someone/anyone have to get creative. I would suggest make a dream "house of fur and meat" and send an email to every ticket holder asking to use their tokens otherwise the tokens will be evenly distributed financing project like "house of fur and meat". Make the dream fun and scary enough it will be a good hookup, unfortunately 0 time in the coming weeks.

Concerning the distribution algorithm, i wrote a post already on Saskia's thread about tokens. An iterative fair algorithm is the choice here, not some random x% financing scheme.

You are right in pointing out that the distribution algorithm for the non-distributed votes is important and will be the next step. But I would suggest to still focus first on getting the amount of attributed votes up as much as possible.

Just some input: I for example was holding on to my tokens, because a lot of the dreams I favored couldn't be voted for. Saying "granting disabled". And also more dreams have been popping up day by day so I wanted to save my tokens until ALL the dreams are there and able to vote for. Basically creating equal opportunities for all the dreamers

Hoarder.

I don#t know who decided to extend the Dream Application deadline, but I think that's where the real mistake was. Instead of having 1 week for dream guides to assign themselves and catch up with the radical burocracy of the situation, now it's just a continuing mess of latecomers with half-packed dreams.
On another point, as of the 15th April, NOT ALL DREAMS HAD THE POSSIBILITY FOR MINIMUM FUNDING (the total tokens required for minimum funding of all projects exceeded the Dreams Budget). WE DO NOT NEED ANY MORE DREAMS, and each one added, simply adds complexity to the volunteers trying to support them, on many levels.

My proposal. Close Dream applications immediately. We're already passed the originally agreed deadline (15th April) and do no need any more. Keep the extension for voting until the 5th May, which gives Dream guides the time they need to catch up with all the currenty dreams, and incentivizes voters to now vote. Otherwise everyone is going to hold onto their tokens until the end (a.k.a too late to do anything with them)..

Sounds reasonable. I would suggest next time dream application deadline = start of ticket sales!

@waldo - I knew there was a reason why I made the facebook post and why I had 15th as the deadline for dreams applications in my books! I knew it wasn't coming from nowhere. @alexxx - did we talk about the deadline for dream application being the 15th at the leads meeting in moabit 2/3 weeks ago?
I was wondering where I got this information from.

Ok, so way forward would be:

1. Close application for new dreams. Approve all existing asap
2. Fund the mandatory dreams with the minimum amount of the production budget tokens
3. Extend token voting deadline until 5.5. & send out email to all participants to remind them to now spend their tokens.
4. After the deadline distribute all tokens left over into all dreams.

Tokens for dreams that do not reach minimum shall be redistributed?

I would not close the application for new dreams, since we communicated end of the month, I feel that needs to be it...It is basically impossible to justify to someone who wants to submit a dream that we closed it, altough before it was communicated differently.

In addition, some dreams still are missing info to be eligible for voting... so I would not grant all dreams a pass on this.

But I will make a quick proposal out of your points, I like them a lot!

the timeline was really tightly packed... @waldo i think even for experienced hippies to get their head around this. extending feels necessary even though i agree with @alexxx in general....

Hey @alina, thanks for voting. Regarding your points:
- the workshop booklet: this is not what this proposal is about. I can see your point, but during budget discussions, the 650€ support was allotted and earmarked for this. Would rather not re-open that discussion within the scope of this vote & topic. We could consider pushing that topic (the booklet) completely to dreams, but it has some interesting advantages, like a map, being able to communicate the 10 principles to everyone again,... You can engage with this topic here: https://talk.kiezburn.org/d/KXAF4EGh/kicking-off-events-workshops-open-role-looking-for-a-realizer
- We do not fund toilets through the dreams platform. Only additons to those toilets (urinals & deco)

I hope that addresses your concerns?

Hey lovelies, moony here.
I'm part of the core orga group of the Austrian Schloss Schönburn, and we used the dreams platform in the last 2 years, running into exactly the same problems as you guys do at the moment.

Hippies not spending their votes is the harsh reality. I don't have exact numbers in my head, but if you get up to ~38% of hearts spent then you're already a winner.
In the likely case that you're not spending all your dream budget to dreams with above minimum funding at the end of the deadline, I'm offering to share our "upscaling algorithm" (have to check back with the rest of core orga but I'm pretty sure they're fine with this) to more or less justly re distribute the lost hearts.

You're doing a great job!
We'll never reach all lazy participants.
BTW, this year we have decided to use the dreams voting just for ranking the dreams and then distribute funds fairly with our own judgement.

Very interesting. It strikingly resembles reports about experiences with establishing the "Räterepublik" in Bavaria of the 1920s and the "Soviet" system in early communist Russia: More democracy offered than citizens were actually ready to deliver- same here at Kiezburn :-)
The "solution" to "lazy democratic representatives" was inventing a function to delegate representation to people who would be more active. For KB this would imply that tokens can be "given" to someone else who is more eager to spend them.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_council if you are interested in the historic reference.

Any algorithm suggestions are very welcome, thanks so much @moony1 :)

agreed with @stefanapel - as much as I would love it to be untrue, the reason Dreams work at Borderland is that the Scandi burner community is much more engaged and used to the radical democracy than ours. This might have been too much too soon with too little communication/gentle indoctrination on what this is all about..... That said, @waldo I really appreciate you are pushing this radical democracy agenda. It will just take a few more years/rounds to start working as it should.

You could also ask yourself what comes first: the tools or the culture? Borderland had in it's second dreams year 46% participation on the dreams platform (so last year) and was extremely happy with that -
https://talk.theborderland.se/d/2UvtMkJy/state-of-g?fbclid=IwAR3fr6UO2H1U_RlnODW7dtzeIvaRlX_SFMMXvHDDAfVNOCuMV_Nn9kyKazM

I am personally already very happy with the amount of interactions and dreams. The bigger struggle I see is the other side: we decentralized because there was too much weight on a few people pulling things (we did not do it because we simply liked decentralization more). Some of those issues got addressed, but still much remains to be improved.

Lazy ticket owners should not bother to come, we need a good Soviet style purge :)

yes @waldo - seen the Borderland thread thank you! so i guess we are not doing too badly with 18% participation huh - given it's the first year.......;) and yes, understand re: weight of duty. good to know where it's coming from. thank you for the hard work <3

Hei @alina - Here you can find the discussion regarding prefunding of certain structures. It was happening three months ago after the first open meetings - maybe that is interesting for you?

Thanks @saskia31 but I am not sure that conversation explains the decisions made. In any case I do not want to oppose the process. I know it's hard and I know it needs to keep moving. I just wish that the decisions on what "necessary dreams" get funded was also submitted to voting - as the infra projects themselves are (because they are Dreams). I still want eco-pissoirs over beautiful but moopy and expensive program. But I'm going to make myself a cup of camomile tea and keep quiet :p

Hey @waldo - I just wanted to confirm that the outcome of the vote is that we wait to close Dreams voting until 5 May? We keep Dreams submissions closed at 30 April. Correct?