Logos Circle Los Angeles

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Proposing the creation of a Los Angeles Logos Circle, building on the momentum of existing circles in Brno, London, Lisbon, and Zanzalu.

The objective of this circle is to bring together Logos-aligned individuals in the LA area to explore network state concepts, foster Logos community engagement, and identify meaningful, winnable causes that leverage the Logos stack that the group can pursue together, potentially in concert with other Logos circles.

If the initial proposal is approved the location will be booked for the first meeting. Target neighborhoods are West Hollywood, Hollywood, west-side/Santa Monica, in that order.

Meeting Structure & Recurring Elements

Each meeting should follow a consistent format to ensure continuity and engagement:

  • Overview of the Logos core stack
  • Featured speaker and topic presentation
  • Distribution of the Logos Zine
  • Distribution of stickers and goodies
  • Onboarding attendees to the Logos forum and discord
  • Snacks and refreshments

Budget

Budget for each meeting should not exceed $500.

Proposed Meeting Schedule

First Meeting - August 15th (Estimated)

Featured Speaker: chair (op)
Topic: Introduction to Logos
Expected Attendance: ~25 people

Agenda:

  • Present the evolution story from Bitcoin to Ethereum to Status to Logos
  • Introduce the Logos stack and showcase what has already been accomplished with existing Logos tech, and Logos circles
  • Identify and discuss issues important to the group, and causes and initiatives the group can work towards
  • Determine focus areas for future meetings

Key Focus Areas:

Second Meeting - September 15th (Estimated)

Featured Speaker: TBD
Topic: TBD
Expected Attendance: ~25 people

Objectives:

  • Feature speaker presentation and group discussion
  • Narrow down ideas and focus on identifying specific causes and initiatives to pursue, assign roles and responsibilities

Third Meeting - October 15th (Estimated)

Featured Speaker: TBD
Expected Attendance: ~30 people

Building on our previous meetings with continued speaker presentations, and initiative progress reports.

Meeting Promotion

  • Luma page
  • Los angeles based meetup group chats, tg, discord, etc.
  • Support from comms (posts from @Logos_network and @exit_operator accounts on X and Farcaster)
    • Potentially targetted post boosts on X
    • LA area targeted social media posts/campaign
    • Blog post

Potential Special Event: Road to PSF Event

If we generate enough of the correct type of momentum at the first three meetings, I would like to plan a larger community event to be held at a music venue, with The Virgil as the leading candidate location. This event can feature:

  • Musical performances
  • Speaker presentations
  • Community networking

The goal is to secure a significant speaker and energetic performing acts to maximize impact and attendance.

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Happy to hear this will be happening regularly in Motor City. Everything seems very much on point. Just fyi we are prepping some updated guidelines for starting a Circle and leading one with @Bitzu. This will help inform the points on agenda and setting these up. Still coming up with te best way to share it… a wiki would be wonderful but… oh well haha.

As a note we were discussing starting more technical focused Circles, led by technical CCs and I you would be perfect.

The focus would be more on building tools, looking at the underlying technology, speccing ideas out, getting feedback, finding synergies with other protocols and communities… with the same greater goal.

It doesn’t mean the Circle can also have the same en goal - it’s just another starting point, wdyt?

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Fully support this the LA Logos Circle proposal. The city’s mix of builders, artists, and tech-focused communities makes it a strong fit. From past events in LA, I’ve seen how much energy can build when the right conversations happen in the right setting. This feels like a natural next step and a solid anchor point for the first N America circle

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sir LA is the city of angels :angel:

This sounds great, would this be an online based circle?

My objective with the LA circle sessions to have a heavy mix of technical content, presentations, and tooling demos, with enough balance to keep less technically interested members engaged. The technically-focused circle would be a good source for material and collaboration.

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sir LA is the city of angels :angel:

Woops, TIL hehe. Saw a sign when I was there and always thought it was natural because of all the cars lol.

This sounds great, would this be an online based circle?

No, same IRL meetup format, just with a more targeted technical audience + content. So actually close to what you just described. Ideally the less technical members contributes to finding the reasons behind what the technical members are building i.e in Lisbon we found the need for a marketplace, that can be built by the technical members including remotely.

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What I can recommend:
a. Lots of 1:1 invites to your existing network.
b. Promo on personal and entity accounts (Farcaster, X, Telegram, Discord).
c. Promo in existing groups and meetups - I usually just mention I’m organising an event, and ask people to DM if they’re interested in joining. Instead of just sharing the link (which may get you banned).
d. Depending on how many register, Luma may feature it in the LA events page, which is great advertising.
e. Referrals are strong, encourage people to bring a friend.

In terms of Registration, what worked:
a. Have a poll at registration asking how familiar people are with Logos - this helps make an educated guess on the knowledge of Logos among attendees. Also gives you cool post event stats.
b. Luma has a setup where people can drop their ETH and SOL addresses, you can make it non-mandatory.
c. You can limit the registration numbers but add a waitlist option - this helps when you’re estimating costs of the event. Expect around 30-40% show-up rate.

Just some thoughts to share. The format is up to you, if you do have guest speakers, it may be more difficult for the rest of the attendees to engage. The Circles are a way for all attendees to share their story and have an open forum discussion.
However, I’ve done an open forum chat once on a boat with Vinay Gupta & a few others, where we were more opening the dialogue, but the room audience sustained it. It worked out nicely.

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Inaugural LA Meetup Recap:

Location: Arts District Brewing Company, Downtown Los Angeles
Attendees: 25

Venue staff was great, need to enquire about speaking space in the outside tent area for next event.

Many meaningful conversations with attendees about Logos and beyond. Interaction ritual chain (book and zine distribution), gave bitcoin>Logos mini lightning talk many times.

Very few “non-aligned” (free-loading) types.

A dev spun up an nwaku node from scratch from source, they praised the Waku documentation. It was a great live demo for the other devs in attendance.

In particular notable interactions with Human-tech crew and Light, a UCLA masters student.

The Human tech crew is highly aligned and there can be synergy with their group.

Light is eager to contribute, observed Jon’s node process, eager to contribute more and received best next steps.

Discussed identifying specific issues and made a goal to have something specific isolated by end of next meeting.

15 Logos Zines and 5 FTW books distributed.

I am asking those who received a FTW book to read it, leave an anon note in the book, and bring it to the following Meetup event where we can pass it to the next person. A veritable sisterhood of the traveling pants situation.

Next event will either be at the same location, or at a location in Venice, updates to follow early next week.

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