Welcome!
to the Public Happiness Movement, a community where you can build a kinder, happier world with positive and proactive people like you.
When you’re ready to join in our hopeful shared mission you can create an account by clicking the Sign Up button
If you ever feel a little lost open up the Chat window (speech bubble) and say hi in the
Getting Started thread, where more experienced and members are waiting and happy to help guide you around and get you started.
Basic Navigation
Here are the three main navigation buttons: Local, Global, or Home
If you ever get lost these 3 will get you back to a familiar place
1. Home
Clicking the logo will take you back to the Home page
2. Global
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Clicking this takes you to the Global side of the platform, where people from around the world build projects to benefit society together
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The sidebar Nav you begin will take you to all the things you are working on (after you’ve set your portal). You open this by clicking the three line burger menu in the top left of the screen. Its crazy overloaded right now but don’t worry that’s fixed when you set your portal up.
- At the top of all Categories and Sub-Categories you’ll find all the tools needed to contribute. On mobile some of these options are hidden in drop down menu’s in the same place. Clicking on them to see what tools you can use in each category and sub-category.
3. Local
- Here you can type your location (if your location settings don’t automatically load it), and see a list of public happiness gatherings near you, and members you can invite to create new ones
- If there’s none there yet try zooming out, or be the 1st where you live to post yourself onto the happiness map by clicking the Gather button.
Below we’ll explore each option in more detail.
Global: Building Positive Projects with People Around the World
- Click the Global Tab in the top menu to navigate to the overview for the Global side of our platform, where people from around the world can combine their skills and build projects which empower local people in creating more peace and well-being where they live.
1st Step: Set your Portal
This platform adapts to you and how you want to participate in building a kinder world, but 1st you have to tell it what you want to see.
- click the 3 bar burger menu at the top right of your screen
- Find the ‘set your portal’ option and tell the platform how you’d like to participate by joining teams for you skills and interests that you’d like to contribute to, causes you’d like to work on, and any Groups using our platform which you’d like to join.
(currently all three options go to the same ‘groups page’, an upcoming update will change that).
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Each group you join opens up new Categories and Sub-Categories in the platform to you. Don’t worry too much about your choices, you can return here anytime you like to join/leave groups.
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The Global side of your platform is now setup with projects and teams you can join in with. You can find them all in the sidebar we opened earlier by clicking on the burger menu.
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Click on any category you’re interested in, or click the ‘Latest’ tab to see what’s going on across all of them recently.
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In each category and sub-category check out the links in the banner at the top which will explain how to participate there.
- If you want to join in building look for the ‘Tasks’ tab to find or suggests tasks to advance the mission of that category or team, each category and sub category has an individual mission statement in, which is also in its banner. On mobile the main tools ‘Tasks, Calendar, Latest, etc’ are hidden in a drop down
Picking a Task
The task sections has Kanban cards in a board. These are all tasks which you can tackle.
- You are also welcome to grab any task from the Backlog queue
- Sprint is for the most urgent tasks
- Review is where you move a task to when complete for others in the community to see
- Done is Done
- When grabbing a Task please click ‘Assign’ and assign it to yourself, and move it into the ‘Sprint’ queue. You now have 2 weeks to complete it.
Note: Drag and drop doesn’t work on mobile devices yet so you’ll have to edit the task and change tags manually to change its column. If you don’t have permission to edit just @ tag the tasks author.
Local: Meet Awesome People Near You and take Action for Positive Change to the Streets
If you’d like to use our platform to meet others nearby who want to take positive action to create a kinder and friendlier place to live, click on the ‘Local’ tab at the top of the page.
If your privacy settings don’t allow browser location you’ll need to type your location in, if they do you’ll arrive with the map already zoomed in on where you live.
Here you can:
Post yourself onto the map so others can find you by clicking on the Gather button in the top right
Find local activities on the map. All activities approved by the community have been tested and are backed by the latest scientific research on individual and societal happiness and well-being.
Create Public Happiness Activities and invite others nearby to join by clicking on the Gather button in the top right.
Share photos and stories of Activities you’ve attended. To share photos and videos please copy/paste an external link into the comments window.
Contact others nearby to arrange running a Public Happiness activity together by clicking on their profile and writing them a message, or to invite them to an activity you’ve created
As the platform is pre-launch it’s quite possible that you will be the 1st one in your location. Well-done, you’re 1st! You can take action to fix that by inviting your friends or posting invites in local social media groups.
Above you can see i have opened a post on the map and clicked ‘Stories’.
There are no current comments in this post so if i want to comment and contact the original poster i would click ‘+ New Topic’.
Cryptocurrency
Wonder why the sign up page asked for a ‘wallet address’?
This platform is designed to incentivise positive action on causes and societal issues. After running for 10 years as a volunteer network we realised that the work we were doing was essential to creating healthy, happy societies for everyone to live in.
Today’s economic systems often reward:
- Activities which have very little benefit to society the highest. Like investment bankers and the average CEO.
- Essential workers as little as possible, like teachers and nurses.
- No reward at all for the kind of society benefitting activities we create here.
Much of the work essential to creating healthy and happy societies is left to volunteers and charities, who struggle to find people or beg for donations.
Our token is an effort to rebalance number three, based on the idea that if you are benefitting your society you should be rewarded fairly for it. Here you earn PHM tokens for your actions to benefit society in line with our Mission Statement and Community Values. You’ll get a message each month in your DMS to collect your rewards.
Current Situation
You’ve arrive just in-time for the launch party of our revamped community connection homelessness project, the Brighter Tomorrow Map (BTM) and Community Climate Action (CCA) platforms. Also the launch of our new and improved **Random Acts of Kindness (Meta: this platform) platform. Great timing!
You wouldn’t have been invited at this early point unless you were a fabulous and positive person, so just go ahead being yourself around here and know that you’re growing the buzz and building our communities vibe as you go.
You should also know that this is a decentralized governance community meaning that once you join it, you own it. Every decision is suggested and voted on by the members here, guided by our Community Values statement.
As you get active and grow in rank your votes carry more weight in decision making, top-rank is designed to take anyone who is active around 6 months to reach. We want everyone to be community leaders, but also want leaders to fully understand the community and its goals.
You’ll see the governance really kick into gear when we reach full launch.