Working group call #15

[whoabuddy]

Meeting Details

• Date/Time: Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 1400 UTC
  • 7am PT/10am ET/2pm UTC/4pm CEST/10pm CST
  • Time Zone Conversion
• Location: Link will be posted in #governance working group channel on Discord shortly before the call.
• Recording: https://youtu.be/5dISVmdBe3g
• Moderator: Jason Schrader (@whoabuddy)

Proposed Agenda

Weekly Updates

What happened over the past week? Standup!

• What is everyone working on right now?
• Any blockers?
• What will happen over the next week?

Stacks Foundation update

• Call for Board Nominations : https://forum.blockstack.org/t/call-for-stacks-foundation-board-nominations/10853/3
• Next steps for Board Nominations (discuss in github, forum, discord?)

Action Items

Record official action items #36

• Action item about action items!
• Referenced in call Working group call #13 #41 and inspired new call template
• Would like to include assignment in some fashion

Catching the calls references back up

• Highlight resource to group: https://github.com/stacksgov/resources/tree/master/calls
• Recording and notes for call 12 Recording and notes for call 12 #53
• Recording and notes for call 13 Notes for Call 13 #47
• Recording and notes for call 14 Notes for Call 14 #55

Community survey (#1)

• Survey Closed (Close survey to new responses #49)
• Sharing/archiving results
• Updated report?
• Reaching out to respondents

Governance landing page (#45)

Blog post (https://github.com/stacksgov/pm/projects/2)

• Could address answers to List of questions about the Foundation from call 3 #11
• Progress on Decide on first 2–3 topics of the blog series #43
• Review draft of blog 1 Review draft of blog #1 #52

SIPs process proposal (proposals#1)

Add engineering calls to governance resources #51

Open Discussion

• @HaroldDavis3's one pager for FabAcademy meeting (Two Row Wampum and FabAcademy Info #54)
• Community research observer (Establish community observer role for Blockstack PBC research calls #17)
• Code of Conduct (proposals#11)
• Languages and Translation (Languages and Translations #32)
• Shared Resources (Shared Stacksgov and Stacks Resources #33)
• Founding Document Review (proposals#9)

[blockstackers]

For open discussion: @HaroldDavis3's one pager for FabAcademy meeting (#54)

[whoabuddy]

Trying out some basic notes here this week:

• Brittany: Foundation nominations increased (+6 to 9 total), next step is how to collaborate, will be shared on the forum, using GitHub to formalize afterward. The minimum number for the board are 3, the bylaws are what enact those existing board members, not set in stone yet and need to be accepted by the board, number we will add to the board is open ended, recommendation of no more than 9. Fewer than 6 would leave opportunity down the road.
• Brittany: no minimum number of nominations and timeline (goal) for board meeting is early Q3 (July), could be later. Term length is a big question and looking for community input. Also formalizing the community board seat.
• Lane: the power of defaults. How can we better express that things are open and permissionless by default?
• Phillip: the survey was advertised recently but already closed, should we create a new, shorter version so we can capture people who are interested now?
• Milan: incentives are important, do not rely on just enthusiasm to complete tasks like the survey, will provide additional information in related issues
• Brittany: engineering calls are open for other engineers to input, but it is in early stages, and will be a part of the SIP processes. This call is to provide the transparency as we move forward.
• Harold: very high-level overview of FabAcademy documentation and items, please read the shared doc and help us review how we can apply these ideas within our own ecosystem, will contribute more comments here on GitHub
• Phillip: founding document review and code of conduct should move up to action items, based on values and principles, default to open and permissionless as Lane mentioned earlier.

Admittedly, I was a little caught up in the call so this list is in no way exhaustive or a full representation / summary of the meeting. More detailed notes will be available after the recording goes live, and as always, feel free to comment and contribute wherever you feel called!

[whoabuddy]

Closing in favor of #58