20th February 2025

The session was run in the related miro board.

📽️ The meeting recording can be found here.

Participants

Position	POC
Secretary	Lorenzo Bruno
Chair	Samuel Leathers
Vice-chair	Kyle Solomon
Voting seat	Juan Sierra
Voting seat	Alexandre Maaza
Voting seats	Zachary Soesbee
Voting seat	James Meidinger
Voting seat	Naushad Fouze
SME	Fergie Miller

Absentees

N/A

Agenda

• Review actions from the previous meeting

  • update on budget socialization process

  • approve change to budget for vision creation

  • approve name change inside academic research to foundational research and foundational innovation

• 2030 vision process

• Topic: Strengthening Contributor Retention & Security in Cardano - from Juan Sierra (presentation)

Updates

• The voting seats approved to reduce the vision creation sub-bucket from $200k to $75k, allocating $50k towards retroactive reimbursement of anyone that wants to run an in-person local workshop (if the budget gets approved) and $25k to support the overall facilitation of the process, including committee members supporting local dedicated workshops. This is also to have a stronger focus on in-person workshops to collect regional insights, both about broader Cardano evolution depending on the regional perspective and about regional use cases and opportunities for Cardano.

• The voting seats approve changing the names of the Academic research sub-bucket categories from 'Academic research' and 'Academic innovation' to 'Foundational research' and 'Foundational innovation', to reduce name duplication.

Outcomes & Recommendations

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