(2/9/24) Meeting Minutes
Sept 2, 2024
Attendees:
- Reza Baram 
- Trym Bruset 
- Santiago Carmuega 
- Eystein Magnus Hansen 
- Benjamin Hart 
- Hwang Huongket 
- Alex Karpov 
- Stefano Leone 
- Fergie Miller 
- Ricky Rand 
- Duncan Soutar 
- Marcin Szamotulski 
- Giorgio Zinetti 
Agenda
Introduction & Quorum
Quorum achieved
Approve the Agenda
Agenda approved
Minutes, Online Votes, & Publishing Updates
Minutes approved
Review 90-day milestone plan - Leonard
Milestones reviewed
Announcement: AMA on special interest groups - Hwang
- Core Infrastructure Working Group organizing an AMA on Special Interest Groups 
- Four SIGs created: Interoperability, Stakeholder Operators, DeFi DApps, and Scalability 
- AMA scheduled for Wednesday to answer questions about joining and purpose of SIGs 
- Sam Leathers and Ben Hart to attend as key speaker 
Communication barriers - Eyestein
- Eystein presented ideas to improve SIG communication 
- Suggestions include grouping technical and non-technical SIGs 
- Recommendations for asynchronous communication: Discord forums, structured threads 
- Proposed creating scheduled talks, rewarding attendance, and GitHub integration 
- Plan to work on proposal for next week or following week 
- Eystein to continue work on proposal for lowering communication barriers in SIGs for next week's meeting 
Quorum Floor - Ben
Motion to set minimum quorum at three members; on top of existing quorum criteria based on participant attendance for past 3 CIR-WG workshops.
- Motion carried after vote 
Proposed Item Review - Duncan
Mithril Protocol Presentation
- Reza presented on Mithril protocol's current state and future work 
- Mithril is a stake-based multi-signature scheme for certified snapshots and proofs 
- Protocol functionality is good, but lacks in decentralization and sustainability 
- Work needed: decentralization changes, incentive model, and using Cardano network layer 
- Discussion on integration with Cardano node and potential applications 
- Marcin explained proposal for separate process using Cardano network stack 
- Team size for Mithril agreed on five developer-years as estimated effort 
- Mithril work item accepted as triaged 
- Reza and Marcin to follow up and discuss the split between Mithril and network team responsibilities 
Committee Elections Update - Hwang
- Committee elections coming up next week 
- 50% of seats up for community elections in October 
- Volunteers requested for seats in upcoming elections 
- Hwang to share list of volunteers with Karen 
New Business
- Duncan Soutar provides update on IOR research proposal for next week’s review. 
- Discussion to be confirmed over whether research will go through CIR-WG. 
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