# (04/16/2026) Meeting Minutes ## Attendees: | Name | Attendance | Role | Voting Seat (Y/N) | Term | | ------------------------ | ---------- | ---------- | ----------------- | ------------ | | Georg Link | Yes | Chair | Y | April 2026 | | Udai Solanki | No | Vice Chair | Y | October 2026 | | Terence β€˜Tex’ McCutcheon | Yes | Secretary | N | N/A | | Bernard Sibanda | No | Member | Y | October 2026 | | Jordan Hill | Yes | Member | Y | October 2026 | | Sebastian Pabon | Yes | Member | Y | October 2026 | | Reshma Mohan | Yes | Member | Y | October 2026 | | Empty Seat | No | Member | Y | April 2026 | | Empty Seat | No | Member | Y | April 2026 | | Empty Seat | No | Member | Y | April 2026 | | Empty Seat | No | Member | Y | April 2026 | Community/Other Attendees * Benjamin Hart * Dan Baruka * Emmanuel Titi * Harun Mwangi * Luke Mahoney * Newman Lanier **Recording:** [Open Source Committee (Intersect) - 2026/04/16 - Recording](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D2WE_thSeSZ-MK28ou49Wh1UEFYVxD7V/view?usp=sharing) **Transcript:** [Open Source Committee (Intersect) - 2026/04/16 - Transcript](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ErovfT0WCRlWm0j0ZLBkLQT4aXUMt84WmHYD7UuQzoU/edit?usp=sharing) **Chat Transcript:** [Open Source Committee Meeting – 2024/11/07 – Chat Transcript](https://drive.google.com/file/d/14XbqdwZiamjGby2w4dNZTr4FzzqMXnz-/view?usp=sharing) ## Intros **Tex:** Open Source Program Manager, Intersect Staff, Open Source Committee Secretary\ **Bernard:** TBD\ **Georg:** Bitergia\ **Jordan:** TBD\ **Reshma:** TBD\ **Sebastian:** OSC, Gimbalabs, contributor, Andamio co-founder.\ **Udai:** TBD ## Agenda 4.16.26 * Developer Advocate Check-In * MLabs - Tooling Projects * Confirmation of 2026 Budget * MRP Task Expectations * MRP Interview Calendar? * Accelerator/PSS Metadata ## Decisions/Actions **Decisions** * **Voting Method:** The committee decided to conduct formal voting on the MLabs tooling projects via Discord polls rather than during the meeting due to a lack of quorum. * **Poll Structure:** Polls will run for seven days with a simple "Yes/No" format (no "Abstain" option). * **Budget Framework:** The overall framework and funding amounts for the new budget proposal were finalized, leaving only minor polishing. * **Maintainer Reporting:** Agreed on a middle-ground reporting approach where maintainers provide a markdown-based report of tasks, supplemented by automated dashboard data to reduce overhead. **Actions** * **MLabs (Benjamin/Luke):** Draft a detailed document outlining requested funding amounts and milestones for the maintenance of their tools using the standard Intersect template. * **Terence:** Update the original tooling applications with the new information provided by MLabs and link them for committee review in Discord. * **Terence:** Post five separate polls on Discord for the committee to vote on the MLabs projects (CTL, Covenant, YTXP Lib, TX Village, and Lambda Buffers). * **Committee Members:** Review the Q1 Benefit Report and Q1 Progress Report to provide approval for milestone payments. * **Committee Members:** Provide "time blocks" for upcoming maintainer interviews over the next six weeks. * **Georg & Terence:** Perform a final review and "touch-up" of the budget proposal over the weekend for submission early next week. * **Sebastian:** Review the maintainer task file (CSV/Template) to ensure compatibility with the back-end system for loading tasks. | Topic | Discussion | Notes | | --------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Call to Order & Quorum | Georg opened the meeting. Quorum was not met; therefore, no formal votes could be resolved during the call. | Meeting to be recorded for absent members; ClickUp used for the agenda. | | Developer Advocate Update | Emmanuel discussed the start of Q2 plans, focusing on "post-build" insights for community members. | Focus is on helping builders move from product completion to target audience communication. | | MLabs Tooling: CTL & Plutonomicon | Luke and Benjamin presented Cardano Transaction Lib (CTL) as a highly open-source tool with significant external adoption (Indigo, Liqwid). | Seeking funding to introduce JavaScript bindings to move away from the PureScript limitation. | | Funding & Maintainership | Georg questioned the open-source practices of MLabs. Benjamin and Luke noted that while MLabs are main maintainers, they seek broader engagement. | The committee is looking for healthy "README" and "CONTRIBUTING" files and active issue trackers. | | Tooling Maintenance Roadmap | Terence asked for a roadmap aligned with hard forks and upgrades. Benjamin confirmed the focus is on bug fixes and compatibility. | MLabs tasked to draft specific funding amounts and milestones using the standard Intersect template. | | Covenant Project | Benjamin described Covenant as "LLVM for Plutus," acting as a compilation middleware for language developers (e.g., used by Konma). | Highlighted organic adoption by external companies as evidence of tool utility. | | YTXP Lib & TX Village | Benjamin explained YTXP Lib for upgradeable smart contracts and TX Village as a Rust pipeline for simplified transaction building. | Georg noted these have less visible external engagement compared to CTL. | | Lambda Buffers | A tool for type sharing across Haskell, Rust, and JavaScript using a protocol buffer-style binary format. | Developed via Catalyst; intended to improve dev-experience across multi-language stacks. | | Budget Proposal | Georg and Terence discussed the new budget for tooling sustainability, developer advocates, and metrics. | Final review/touch-ups due over the weekend; submission expected early next week. | | Maintainer Retainer Program | Terence presented a draft template for maintainer tasks to ensure accountability and active engagement. | Georg suggested aligning language across months (e.g., month 2 vs. month 5) to ensure consistent triage expectations. | | Program Deadlines | Terence noted a \~60-day window (ending approx. June 20-24) to onboard maintainers under the current fee structure. | Maintainers must have signed contracts by the late June cutoff. | | Reporting & Dashboards | Discussion on using a data dashboard to track response times, reducing the manual reporting burden on maintainers. | Goal is to grade maintainers on explicit reporting while verifying via automated metrics where possible. | | Quarterly Benefit Reports | Terence presented the Q1 Benefit Report and Q1 Progress Report for committee review. | Milestone-dependent reports required to release funds for travel and developer advocate payments. | | Discord Voting | Terence announced that five separate polls (one per tool) will be posted on Discord for formal committee voting. | Polls will run for 7 days with "Yes/No" options; no "Abstain" option included per agreement. | --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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