Cool proposal.

I had an idea when we were in Mexico, I don't know if it useful, but seems relevant here.

One of the org patterns that I think works very well in many contexts, is concentric membership circles. Roughly, the concept is:

• The org/network/group is formed with Mollys at the core, and Larrys at the perimeter.
• Any Molly can invite any new Larry: to become a Larry you only need the trust of one Molly.
• To become a Molly, you need the trust of all the other Mollys. (Or a supermajority of Mollys.)
• i.e. it is pretty easy to join and start participating, but you can only get into the core once a lot of people know your work and trust your character.
• Mollys have more rights and responsibilities than Larrys (e.g. backstop governance powers), but mostly they are just there to filter out the population so your group is composed of values-coherent people.
• Graduating from Larryhood to Mollyhood is a nice psychological barrier which combines "my contributions have been acknowledged!" with "I'm responsible for looking after this place now."

So I like the pattern, I've seen it help in many different organising contexts, and I was idly wondering if it could be useful to implement this systematically with something like invite codes.