Date: August 29th
Location: Lagos
Registered on Luma: 29
Attended: 14 attendees, 8 return attendees
Languages: English
Backgrounds: soft engineers, community builders, and founders
Steward: Purity Ogheneochuko
TOPICS DISCUSSED
A major part of the Circle discussion was sharing personal challenges and identifying people within the community who could provide support, skills, resources, or connections.
Examples of connections made:
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Abdul: Needed a recommendation for a rehabilitation centre. Mohammed offered to assist with finding a suitable recommendation.
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Shazily: Is building Tenovation Connect and was connected with Sam, who has an existing community that could potentially support the project with resources and documentation.
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Andas: Also working on Tenovation and looking for funding opportunities. He is also planning a school outreach, which presents an opportunity to potentially collaborate with the Circle on our community initiatives.
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Grace: Has a volunteer community that connects people with opportunities. We discussed collaborating with the community and potentially providing Logos certificates/recognition to active members who participate meaningfully in Circle activities.
Key Insight:
The Circle is becoming more than a monthly discussion space. Members are beginning to use the community to exchange knowledge, solve problems, make introductions, and connect with opportunities.
Next Steps:
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Follow up with members on the connections made during the Circle.
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Explore collaboration with the volunteer community and Tenovation’s school outreach.
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Document useful resources and connections that can be added to our future community resource bank.
We also continued discussion on the possibility of running a Logos node and the technical requirements involved.
Key Points & Insights:
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The technical team has already conducted test runs of the node.
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The team is currently communicating with someone from the Logos technical team on Discord to better understand the setup and requirements.
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The main blocker at the moment is access to suitable hardware, particularly an older laptop or Raspberry Pi that can be dedicated to running the node.
Next Steps:
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Continue communication with the Logos technical team on Discord.
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Identify and secure suitable hardware.
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Once hardware is available, complete the setup and testing process with support from the technical team.
WINNABLE ISSUES UPDATE
Previous Winnable Issue: ADHD Awareness
Status: Completed / First Winnable Issue
The Lagos Circle successfully completed its first winnable issue through a mini ADHD awareness campaign.
A Circle member volunteered to share their personal experience with ADHD through a video, campaign which was produced and published online. This gave us an opportunity to use storytelling to create awareness, challenge misconceptions, and encourage more open conversations around ADHD.
ADHD Campaign Video: https://youtu.be/-GfA8B8qC4o
This was an important milestone for the Circle because it demonstrated that we can take an issue identified during our meetings and turn it into a practical action with a tangible outcome.
Current Winnable Issue: Knowledge & Resource Bank
Our current winnable issue is to create a knowledge and resource bank that can support:
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University students preparing to graduate or transition into the workforce.
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Young people looking for opportunities, skills, mentorship, and practical resources.
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Early-stage startups and builders looking for funding opportunities.
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Community members looking for relevant tools, grants, programs, communities, and other useful resources.
The resource bank will ideally become a shared and continuously updated collection that members can contribute to and benefit from.
Potential resources include:
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Grants and funding opportunities
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Fellowships and scholarships
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Internship and job opportunities
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Startup resources
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Incubators and accelerators
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Mentorship programs
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Learning materials and courses
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Web3/building resources
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Communities and networking opportunities
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Useful tools and documentation
Planned Follow-up:
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Identify the best format/platform for the resource bank.
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Begin collecting and organizing resources from Circle members.
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Create categories to make the resources easy to navigate.
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Encourage members to contribute opportunities and resources they discover.
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Explore collaboration with existing communities, including Grace’s volunteer community and Andas’ school outreach network.
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Assign Circle members responsibility for maintaining different sections of the resource bank.
What Worked Well
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We successfully completed our first winnable issue, showing that the Circle can turn conversations into real action.
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Allowing members to share personal challenges created opportunities for direct problem-solving and collaboration.
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Members were able to connect with one another based on their skills, networks, and resources.
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The ADHD campaign showed that relatively simple community-led initiatives can create meaningful awareness when members are willing to contribute.
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The discussion around the Logos node helped identify a practical technical pathway as well as the main hardware blocker.
New Ideas / Experiments
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Create a Lagos Circle Resource & Knowledge Bank as our current winnable issue.
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Create a simple member skills/resource directory so Circle members can easily find people who can help with specific problems.
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Collaborate with Grace’s volunteer community and explore Logos recognition/certificates for active contributors.
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Explore collaboration with Andas’ planned school outreach to introduce students to useful opportunities and resources.
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Build a culture where each Circle meeting includes a short “Who needs help?” and “Who can help?” segment.
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Create a small volunteer team around each winnable issue rather than leaving responsibility with one person.
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Continue documenting completed initiatives so future Circles can learn from what worked and replicate successful ideas
Media file link for photo reference: LOGOS CIRCLE LAGOS - Google Drive
