30th Oct 24

Oct 30, 2024 | Technical Steering Committee

Attendees: Christian Taylor Duncan Soutar Duncan Coutts Hwang Hongket, Ben Hart, Adam Dean, Johnny Kelly, Neil Davies, Kevin Hammond

1. New Member Onboarding:

   • New TSC members Ben, Johnny, and Marcus confirmed receiving onboarding invites. Duncan will coordinate a special TSC introduction to cover terms of reference, roles, and key goals. Members will provide availability for Monday and Tuesday.

   • Separate sessions on budget and process are planned to bring new members up to speed on the financial planning underway.

2. Peras Contract Status and Review:

   • The Peros project Statement of Work (SOW) needs finalization. Ricky confirmed he will provide Duncan with the SOW draft and updates for further review, ensuring it’s issued from Intersect.

   • A back-to-back contract between Intersect and IOG is required to formalize funding, pending Lawrence’s input. A redacted contract will be provided to new TSC members due to lack of NDA obligations.

1. Budget - DRep & Community Sharing

   1. Joint sessions with Product Committee to be established presenting aligned goals sessions in mid november with DReps to explain process, overall numbers and overview of potential projects

   2. Decision: TSC to present a straw man of proposed 2025 roadmap for DRep review and feedback

   3. Decision: Project champions to create a 3 minute elevator pitch video to introduce and explain their proposal

1. Review proposed project template slide - for approval - Hwang

   1. [Action: Hwang] To update proposal template based on feedback given in session & ensure project champions complete their respective templates

   2. Does TSC think any additions or changes need to be made to template

1. DRep Feedback Questionnaire

   1. [Action: All TSC members]: To review list of proposed questions for DReps

   2. Purpose: To enable the TSC to quantify feedback from DReps and make amendments as necessary. Qualitative mainly but also quantitative feedback?

   3. Initial proposed question lists:

      1. Overall level of spend

         1. Priorities of goals

         2. Feedback on projects

         3. Level of uncommitted roadmap capacity

         4. How much contingency

Key: Enable TSC to have level of delegated authority on Core Development Programme for 2025

1. New TSC chair

   1. TSC chair to be elected next meeting on 5th November via private ballot

   2. [Action: All TSC members]: Any TSC members wishing to put themselves forward for a chair position should email Duncan in coming week

1. Scope of Roadmap Projects

   1. [Action: All TSC members] Review current proposed roadmap items and raise in slack any that they believe are out of scope of core development and therefore out of scope of TSC roadmap discussions

1. Any other Business

   1. [Action:Duncan] Add new TSC members to slack channel