Working Groups

For much of its operating life, TEC organized labor through working groups, which were semi-autonomous teams with their own manifestos, agendas, budgets, and rhythms. They defined how stewardship, communications, legal strategy, conflict transformation, community operations, and technical work actually got done. In late 2022 TEC restructured away from this model toward a leaner Coordination Team.

This section indexes the major working groups documented in the source material.

The groups

• Community Stewards / Community Stewards WG — community health, stewardship, and operations; weekly agendas and a manifesto.
• Gravity — TEC’s conflict-transformation and mediation system: a manifesto, training programs (including Graviton training), mediation and observation forms, and an extensive set of call notes. See its dedicated tooling in Code and Technical Artifacts.
• Communications (Comms) / Commons Swarm — outreach, content, and community storytelling; weekly sync notes and recaps.
• Legal — legal strategy and risk; a manifesto, agendas, and a legal audit.
• Transparency — transparency practices and reporting; agendas, an audit, and the “Transparency in DAOs” research.
• Tech Spec — technical specification of the Commons; a manifesto and working specification documents. See Code and Technical Artifacts.
• Hatch Outreach — recruiting and supporting hatchers ahead of launch; a manifesto, agenda notes, and outreach audits.
• Rewards — the contribution-reward system; a manifesto, notes, and reward-board guidelines. See Economics and Token Design.
• WG 0mega (Omega) — a research-oriented working group on computer-aided governance, research methods, ethics, and the TE Consilience initiative. See Research.
• Soft Gov — soft-governance design and parameters.
• Params — parameter design and the Hatch/bonding-curve configuration work.

Lifecycle artifacts

The source material also preserves the retirement documents for several groups (e.g. Communitas, Stewards, Transparency), a checklist for creating new working groups, a standard WG agenda template, and onboarding/offboarding processes, providing useful evidence of how TEC started, ran, and wound down teams.

Individual manifestos, agendas, and notes are being progressively published here in redacted form.