(11/14/2024) Meeting Minutes
Last updated
Last updated
Name
Role
Voting Seat (Y/N)
P. Lucas
Chair
Y
Adam Dean
Vice Chair
Y
Terence ‘Tex’ McCutcheon
Secretary
N
Christian Taylor
Member/Seat
Y
Sandip Pandey
Member/Seat
Y
Diane Mueller DNA
Member/Seat
Y
Jonathan Kelly
Member/Seat
Y
Sebastian Pabon
Member/Seat
Y
Moritz Angermann
Member/Seat
Y
Robin Böning
Member/Seat
Y
Nicolas Henin
Member/Seat
Y
Community/Other Attendees
Alex Seregin
Jingles K
Udai Solanki
Recording:
Christian: Head of Open Source Office, Intersect Staff
Tex: Open Source Program Manager, Intersect Staff, Open Source Committee Secretary
Sandip: Dquadrant
Adam: Adam Dean, LLC, Co-Founder, DripDropz, LLC, CIP Editors, Intersect Maintainer
Diane: Diane Mueller, Director Research and Advisor Services, Bitergia
Lucas: 45B - Cardano Enablement, Onboarding end-users; Supporting cardano Projects;
Sebastian: Gimbalabs contributor, MeshJS contributor, Andamio platform co-founder
Johnny: Non-Custodial Co-Management SysOps Engineer (Tech Janitor) for 3 Mainnet Stake Pools. Cardano Keystone Wallet Ambassador.
Moritz: Platform Engineer, IOE
Nicolas: Technical Architect at IOG (Innovation R&D)
Robin: TBD
Old Business
Finalize Charter Draft
Confirm Meeting Cadence EOY
Budget Questions/Concerns
Budget Approval
Legal Restrictions - Developers
New Business
Begin Tooling Discussion
Contribution Ladder Review
Project Incubation - Acceptance Criteria
AOB - Any Other Business
Decision: Schedule tentative meeting for 12/19 Action: Terence to schedule the Meeting
Decision: Create clear pathways for open-source projects to come under Intersect Action: Consensus agreement to focus on this in 2025
Decision: Prioritize Charter and other Document review. Action: Committee members to devote time asynchronously to review assigned docs.
Discussion Point
Notes
Actions: Responsible / Note
Quorum and Introductions
- Meeting quorum confirmed; Robin noted leaving early.
- Lucas, recently elected as Chair, welcomed participants.
- Attendees reminded to declare affiliations and conflicts of interest.
Review of Previous Minutes
- Previous minutes made available for asynchronous review.
- No immediate concerns raised.
- Terence to upload and circulate minutes for review.
Charter Draft Finalization
- Reviewed sections on responsibilities, voting policy, and inclusion of open source ecosystem maintenance.
- Debate over the phrasing of committee goals vs. values.
- Consensus to focus on promoting openness and composability rather than specific ecosystem tools.
- Committee members to review Charter asynchronously and provide feedback by Dec 12.
Meeting Cadence
- Proposed meeting on Dec 19, 2024, to finalize pending items.
- Agreement to hold Dec 19 meeting unless all business is resolved by Dec 12.
- Schedule Dec 19 meeting as tentative.
- Confirm final decision by Dec 12 meeting.
Budget Review
- Budget concerns focused on public transparency and how the education and outreach bucket would be administered.
- Possibility of budget moving under MCC.
- Terence to confirm details with MCC and share updates with the committee.
- Plan for a public AMA or call to address budget transparency.
Legal Restrictions Update
- Ongoing discussions about compliance with FATF and Wyoming OFAC standards.
- Legal clarity pending further review of the membership agreement.
- Christian to follow up and report updates once consensus is reached.
Contribution Ladder and Acceptance Criteria
- Explainer videos and documents for contribution ladder and project incubation acceptance criteria shared.
- Discussions centered on defining criteria for project maintainers and funding eligibility.
- Members encouraged to review explainer videos and documents.
- Provide comments and feedback asynchronously.
Partner Chains
- Discussed removal of "partner chains" terminology in the Cardano constitution.
- Agreement to emphasize promoting openness and composability over specific references to partner chains.
- Updates shared regarding Midnight’s roadmap toward open source practices.
- Lucas to draft and share revised language for review.
- Monitor Midnight’s open source progress and provide updates.
Tooling Discussion
- Exploration of managing external projects critical to the ecosystem, such as Lucid.
- Consensus to create clear pathways for external projects to transition to community maintainership and align with open source principles.
- Continue tooling discussions in 2024 for defining pathways and support mechanisms.
Future Planning
- Agreed to prioritize finalizing the charter, contribution ladder, and acceptance criteria by end of year.
- Members to allocate time for review and feedback asynchronously over the next three weeks.
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