Riding the Celo Bus Together - An Urgent Invitation to Safe Dialogue and Real Repair

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Celo-Bus Station: :oncoming_bus: Session #1 (Open Community Call)

6pm -8pm EAT (Kenya) This Thursday the 11th December.
That should be 7am-9am PST (California)

Format:** Public session; no recordings and no bots allowed

Why we’re meeting
To hold a calm, caring space to air concerns, share context, and agree on next steps that keep Celo healthy and mission-aligned.

Who’s holding space
Grassroots Economics Foundation will host a first, gentle community dialogue session focused on:

  • Cultivating a container for shared understanding
  • Making tensions visible
  • Humanizing one another
  • Setting the path for healing and governance repair

This first meeting is a container for listening, naming what is alive, and identifying common ground.

This creates a structured process from hearing → understanding → repair → co-creation.

We aim toward:

  1. Deeper conflict exploration

  2. Governance repair & accountability pathways

  3. Visioning & consensus-building

Who from Grassroots Economics will be there and how they are involved in Celo:

  • Aude Peronne - Ecosystem and Community Lead

  • Mohammed Sohail - Tokenomics & Validators

  • Will Ruddick - Founding Intentions

  • Njambi Njoroge - Field Operations

We also welcome anyone who can serve in a caring role with Celo’s best interest at heart.
Eg. Andrej Berlin - please email info@grassecon.org to help co-facilitate.

Ground rules (please read)

  • No recording. No bots. Be present.

  • Facts over labels; right of reply will be honored.

  • Do no harm: protect ongoing work while discussing hard issues.

  • Grassroots Economics will keep private notes and will only post publicly issues and action items that support the Celo Community after the session.

Tentative flow (120 minutes)

  1. Cultivating a container for shared understanding: Welcome & norms (10m)

  2. Making tensions visible:

    1. Lightning context from speakers (20m)

    2. Community inputs & right-of-reply (40m)

  3. Humanizing one another: Focus topics (conflicts of interest, funding/audits, decentralization & validator roles, unmet commitments) (40m)

  4. Setting the path for healing and governance repair: Next steps: owners, timelines, and how we’ll report back (10m)

**
Share sensitive issues ahead of time**
If you want something handled carefully, email info@grassecon.org with “Celo-Bus Station Confidential” in the subject. Emails will be treated as confidential. We will not publish them; we’ll make space to surface themes during the call.

RSVP / Help

  • React on this post (not to flood the forum) - so we can size the room.

Let’s show what it looks like to fix things together - steadily, respectfully, and in service of Celo’s mission. :oncoming_bus:

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