Catalyst Improvement Task Force Fund 10–7th Meeting

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Agenda and Meeting Minutes

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Task Force Main Portal where you can find

• guidance for participation
• previous meetings and notes
• links to key references like milestones and timelines

• Location: Catalyst United Server Hub Chat
• Discord: joining link (needed for above link to work)
• Date: Nov 15th, 3pm UTC
• Agenda:

1. Getting to know each other 10min

   Simon S

2. Progress Updates and Milestones review 5min

   Simon S

3. Bounty Manager/Reviewer role 10min

   Dan Mercurius

4. How to reach more people? 10min

   Simon S

5. Discussion: problem prioritisation? 25min

   Simon S

6. Item 6 00min

   ???

• Participants:
  • ???
• Contact: JeremyB#9734
• Facilitator: Simon Sallstrom
• Previous meeting minutes: Meeting 6

Getting to know eachother

• A regular meeting introduction to quickly meet new participants and share info about ourselves

Progress Updates and Milestones review

• If you are providing an update, please share a note on it here.
  • update 1
  • update 2

Bounty Manager/Reviewer role

• It has been argued that there’s a need to have a Task Reviewer/Bounty manager.
• This person will, broadly speaking, facilitate the discussion and polling about proposed tasks/bounties and discussions about submitted work.
• What is the purpose and role of the bounty manager?
• Is bounty manager the same as reviewer?

How to reach more people?

• Problem is that we don't reach out to enough people and so don't have enough people engaging here
• Solution ideas
  • Weekly newsletter blurb
  • Hold weekly calls as a Twitter spaces instead of Discord Hub
  • Set up a posting schedule to market these meetings. Reddit, Cardano Forum, Twitter, Project Catalyst main discord?

Discussion: problem prioritisation?

• There's a list of issues that have been created in accordance to the bounty descriptions
• We have limited resources. Which ones do we want to put most effort into?
• How do we go about choosing priority?
  • Quadratic voting: you have budget, allocate across issues?
  • Rank order problems by priority, then use Corda number to determine (most 1st is most important etc)

Item 6

• Please include any notes/links for your presentation

Notes

• It was suggested that we set up a bounty for sharing/maintaining outreach efforts. While twitter spaces and the newsletter updates were discussed here, it was indicated that marketing/sharing deserved its own space, as a separate type of effort.
• Bounty manager role was discussed and a general agreement was reached that it was a valuable role and that it would be ideal to onboard several people to the role in a mentor/mentee fashion. As knowledge of the role and how it facilitates moving tasks effectively from submission, through discussion and approval, to eventual fundable status, and finally to being funded, it is expected that as many members as possible will gain the skills to manage bounties, and will be able to self-select the role in order to help peers in the WG work with bounties.
• Newsletter blurb and infrastructure for submitting it each week were discussed. The new infrastructure is expected to be up for testing out this week.
• Twitter spaces were discussed and it was agreed that it would be a valuable way to engage with other communities. One suggestion was that asking to be hosted by known space operators for "special" meetings, where the agenda was built around issues that needed background or consensus built, could widen the conversation when needed.
• Upon presenting one of the first created bounties for paying people who want to take on a specific problem statement, it was indicated that the example might be far too large to be an effective bounty and that we might start smaller. It was pointed out that the process has room for this consideration, specifically that when the bounty is presented for review, this kind of feedback can be used to revise and resubmit until the task is actionable. The example given here was to add subtasks to this particular bounty to address some of the background issues surfaced by the discussion, but there are many possible alternatives, including just tabling a bounty in the backlog until more clarity around making it feasible is achieved.
• The problem prioritization discussion surfaced a reminder that in order to sucessfully address even the simpler sensed issues, the creation of an effective repo for collecting those issues in a live manner, with incentivization to continue to iterate solutions, even on complex problems, is an underlying piece of infrastructure that we are building out bit by bit as we create these "problem statement bounties".
• At the end of the meeting there were some short notes to possibly approach the PCIP repo as a visual map rather than kanban board or list (to be disccussed further in async channels), as well as a note that indicated the need to get organized around an effort to prepare for the rollout of IOG research on the topic of vPA Improvements (specifically bylaws, formal petitions process and reputation model). Discussion around what such co-creation might look like will continue in async discussion channels.

Meeting Minutes

Recording