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# Semaphore & zk-groups - Wed 26th October

## Semaphore Agenda & Notes
- (Quick) Update on Internal and External Audits
    - Internal Audit done for v.2.5.0, v.2.6.0 contains the fixes
    - External Audit tentative targeted for Dec (2 candidates)
- Share and discuss possible [Semaphore Roadmap](https://hackmd.io/@yHZa50IsRz6mkHZ4ZafYqg/r1xLQsamj)
    - **Open Topic:** need to refine more Semaphore v4 with Wanseob.
- Discuss Semaphore v2 website.
    - Goals: initially v1 had a lot of scope for the website but had  to narrow scope for an event. Currently talks high level components of Semaphore and links out to documentation. Quick links developers might be interested in.
    - Plans to expand: be more a resource for people to learn how it works but also different usecases, feature different projects using Semaphore and rotate those featured projects. Give ideas how Semaphore could be used. The way Semaphore grants. Similar to Lens protocol.
    - Additional help needed? (documentation & front end)
    - Open question: what is the relationship of Semaphore website with zk-groups? Is there any overlap?
    - **Action item:** have a workshop to disucss Semaphore v2 Website.
        - Important for the website to be neutral. 
        - Open process to allow people to upload their own projects.
    - **Action item:** 1:1 Andy & Rachel to use a planning board. Use Github? Use Figma? Use Notion?
- Defining adoption goals for Semaphore?
- What about the Interep Discord server?

## ZK-Groups Agenda & Notes
- Explanation:
    - Infrastructure or dashboard that allows people to create many types of groups:
    - Permisionless, permissioned
    - On-Chain and Offchain
    - Side project that builds on top of Semaphore.
    - Goal: make easy to use and also create&manage Semaphore groups. 
    - Some interest usecase: create reputation groups with specific "credentials" like Github stars, followers, etc. Current limitation: static groups. With ZK-Groups create dynamic reputation groups.
    - Question: does it make sense to merge this two projects?
- Differences with Interep
    - With Interep you have fixed thresholds.
    - With Zk-groups, admins can decide their own thresholds. Dynamic reputation groups.
    - Value: defining fixed thresholds is really challenging, giving people decide their own tresholds is more valuable.
    - There are technical reasons why this feature couldn´t be added to Interep. zk-groups is a self hosted service.
    - Target User is different:
        - Zk-Groups: devs and/or government. Someone to manage their own anonimity sets by themselves. Infra and targeting 
        - Interep: targeted more to developers and end users.
- Plans for Interep: need to clarify the roadmap with the team to see overlaps and differences.
    - **Action item:** Wanseob will get roadmap of Interep.
    - Make Interep as a service for the community
    - Idea to replace the backend of Interep with ZK-Groups.
- (zk-groups) Next steps?
    - Roadmap & Milestone 1 & 2
    - Omar: think we need an educational website. We already have a client app and dashboard app (targeted at devs). 
    - **Open Topic:** educational website, scope, timelines, etc.
    - **Action item:** Andy will organize zk-group board to show all milestones on the same board.
-  Find the best day/time for a Semaphore/ZK-Groups sync call
    -  Before Devcon we were meeting on Tuesdays with two calls separate calls, back to back. 
    -  2PM UTC
    -  3PM UTC
    -  **Action Item:** Rachel will try to set recurrent meetings on Discord or set a recurrent meeting on Google calendar events.



## Open Topics - To be discussed outside the call
- ? (shall we) Announce the latest audit and version release and audit strategy moving forward.
- Andy - Give visibility of grants proposals to team & personae labs (anonymize if needed)
- Discuss [Semaphore Protocol](https://hackmd.io/D46PdZWETFunLBNe6X-NXA?view) strategy document.