7th August 2024

The session was run in the related miro board

Participants

Position	POC
Chair	Saman Michael Far
Secretary	Lorenzo Bruno
Voting seat	Romain Pellerin
Voting seat	Mike Ward

Agenda

• Review context

• Agree on the purpose and focus of the committee

• Agree on the committee name

• Agree on meeting cadence

• Confirm roles and responsibilities

• Agree on how to expand the committee

Updates

• The group agreed the correct name for this committee is ‘Product Committee’ because it covers the strategy, vision, and roadmap

• The group agreed for Saman Far to be the Chair (until committee elections), for Lorenzo Bruno to be Secretary, for Romain Pellerin and Mike Ward to be voting members

• The group agreed on an initial definition of scope: Facilitate an open and transparent process with input from the community to create a Cardano vision and related roadmap (looking at Cardano as a product) as well as reporting on roadmap delivery progress: give to community transparency against the roadmap on a high level (to give confidence to the community their input is both accounted and executed on)

• The group agreed on 3 key goals (in order of priority):

  • Next 6 months goals / outcomes, related to core of Cardano (delegate to core infra WG)

  • 2025 Cardano outcomes to achieve + suggested budget

  • 5year vision for Cardano

• The group agreed to expand the initial committee group by:

  • Inviting CPO (or similar) from founding entities and key businesses on Cardano

  • Inviting other experts and SMEs

• The group acknowledged Romain and Mike (representatives from IOG) intent to provide support for the bootstrapping of this committee and then to step down

• The group agreed on a weekly meeting cadence once an initial group is formed

Outcomes & Recommendations

N/A