Protocol Amendment - Rebrand the Greenpill Hub into the Regen Coordination Forum

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Using the Greenpill Improvement Proposal Template

Abstract

This proposal seeks to rebrand and repurpose this existing Greenpill Discourse Hub into a Regen Coordination Forum/Hub. The redesigned forum will provide a structured digital space with organizational layers, enabling each partner org to have dedicated internal discussion areas alongside shared town square spaces for cross-community collaboration and announcements. This transformation presents a timely opportunity to deepen Regen Coordination efforts while maximizing the utility of an existing platform.

Key Terms

  • Discourse - An open-source discussion platform used to host forums with structured topic categorization, tagging, and long-form threaded conversations.
  • Regen Coordination – A collaborative ecosystem of public goods communities from ReFi DAO, Greenpill Network, other Regen Coordination partner networks and organizations, aiming to coordinate and advance the regen movement.
  • Karma GAP – A milestone-tracking and impact accounting platform widely used within the grants ecosystem.

Motivation

Repurposing the discourse to serve the broader Regen Coordination community provides a solution that increases relevance, improves communication infrastructure, and reinforces cross-organizational synergy. With Karma GAP fulfilling the impact accounting function, the forum can become the go-to space for strategic dialogue and knowledge advancement.

  • Reduces platform redundancy by integrating multiple regen orgs under one shared forum.
  • Provides superior structure for long-form conversations compared to Telegram and Discord.
  • Offers each org its own customizable discussion layer, with a unified tag system and shared cross-pollination zones.
  • Becomes a central repository for retrospectives (e.g., GG23) and Regen Coordination-wide updates.
  • Facilitates the collaborative development of ReFi/regen/onchain toolkits and playbooks by collaboratively aggregating shared knowledge.

Rationale

This GIP supports Greenpill’s core values of open collaboration, decentralized knowledge sharing, and regenerative action. Fostering a collective digital commons for more effective and transparent communication aligns deeply with the ethos of Regen Coordination. It promotes thoughtful discussions, helps strengthens documentation, and creates greater opportunities for coordination, complementing the more fluid nature of Telegram and Discord chats.

Specifications

The new Regen Coordination Forum will:

  • Be rebranded visually and organizationally (name, domain, header, categories).
  • Implement structured layers with tags and folders for each participating organization.
  • Shared zones for cross-community collaboration, retrospectives, announcements, and toolkit-building.

Steps to Implement

  1. Consensus Finalization - Confirm support from Greenpill Stewards and the broader community, initiate discussions with Regen Coordination partners, and complete a Regen Coordination Council review to finalize the new forum structure.

  2. Technical Adjustments - Verify the implications of a domain change and preservation of forum history, rebrand visual assets, and plan the transition to self-hosting.

  3. Structure Setup - Set up internal areas for each participating organization, shared spaces for announcements and retrospectives, and establish clear tagging and categories to ensure consistency and discoverability.

  4. Access and Moderation - Assign additional moderators across organizations, define roles and permissions, and create onboarding guides to maintain effective governance and ease of participation.

  5. Communication - Publish an introduction to the new Regen Coordination Forum, share details across all social channels and participating organizations, and launch the forum with the GG23 retrospective as the kickoff collaboration piece.

Timeline

From now through early May 2025 we will continue to confirm community approval, discuss and implement a new structure, and kick things off with the GG23 retro announcement. Will assess forum usage and adapt based on community feedback later in 2025.

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Thanks Matt, excited for this. Lets go! :seedling:

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Although I agree that we should reduce the platform redundance, i have some concerns:

Is there any gap between greenpill network with local chapters?

E.g. we have multiple communication channels, tg, dc, charmverse, warpcast, cg, newsletters, etc.

And we have hub, pod, guild, different tg subgroup.

When active members keeps regular updated, i still have some sorts of tired.

A stable and systematic communication way can support different chapters growing and well communicate with each others.

In one way, there is good to have a very big hub in regen.

In another way, when chapters jump into this big place, their focus to greenpill might be even less.

Some chapters might just aware or get used about greenpill hub. They might no have enough time to use the platform and we are already discussing on rebranding the hub.

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The gap between Chapters/Guilds and the broader Network is slowly narrowing especially now that all Stewards are invited to the weekly Network call. And the newish Steward telegram chat is substantially more successful than the chat we had on Discord. Those two things plus the task board is the official answer to the quote below in my opinion.

A stable and systematic communication way can support different chapters growing and well communicate with each others.

We have also discussed picking one weekly community call a month and declaring that the one worth attending if people have limited bandwidth + Also setting up a call at a different time to accommodate other time zones. Do think we need to better establish and document what the requirements are for Steward involvement with the broader network though and tie it to funding incentives.

Feels like the Network telegram has become the main general chat and the discord is more for specialized chats, the Pods (Click “Browse Channels” at the top of the Discord and make sure you can see them), and the news feed which automatically posts published announcements in other Discord channels (Any recommendations for other Discords announcements to add?). Guilds and Pods are their own opt-in entities. Charmverse is largely a static page to help onboard and direct people. The Chapter pages don’t require updates, you just need the important links in there to refer potential Chapter members to the right place(s). Farcaster, Twitter, Paragraph for the newsletter are just different avenues of disseminating information. Nobody is actually required to do anything there and any important stuff needs to be shared across all the Socials including Telegram and Discord. We can potentially automate part of this with IFTT, which @afo-wefa started experimenting with.

I think for most members it ultimately hinges on revamping the onboarding flow and updating greenpill.network. Because you’re right it is a lot and it is confusing for everybody. But I don’t think rebranding the hub will exacerbate that.

Some chapters might just aware or get used about greenpill hub. They might no have enough time to use the platform and we are already discussing on rebranding the hub.

The hub is mostly for proposals at this point because the main usage previously was impact accounting. If an important thread is posted in the hub it will be shared across the socials so people really don’t need to dedicate any real bandwidth to monitoring the hub. If it becomes a more active and useful resource after we invite other Regen Coordination communities, then great. But rebranding it won’t really impact the functionality from Greenpill’s perspective. Greater cross-Network collaboration will only strengthen Greenpill, and if it does flow energy in other directions that’s also fine imo.

Do you have any ideas for simplifying the landscape of tools/resources, Network structure and communication? Anybody interested in digging into all this and improving our documentation?

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