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vPA Process Working Group Weekly Update
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## Week Ending Nov 18th

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The vPA Process Working Group is a chartered Governing Body of the PA/vPA Side Treasury. The **main purpose** was to **set up** and **maintain** a **bounty** driven **workflow** to organize work **around vPA process improvements**. The initial design can be [found here.](https://hackmd.io/@PA-vPATreasury/SJqcbF0Qj#The-current-Bounty-flow-visualised). Due to the experimental nature there is some flexibility - especially in light of the many urgent issues facing Project Catalyst. You can read the [vPA WG charter](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zYMKkDKdZzRq4kW55ZBYQPOKR0xvngiZvJ6Ge8TaleU/edit#) to get details about the policies. For an overview of the Governance model, check out the **[Governance section](https://hackmd.io/@PA-vPATreasury/SynfeL8Xo/https%3A%2F%2Fhackmd.io%2F%40PA-vPATreasury%2FH1haz8LXs)** of the Treasury docs.
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- As part of the governance model of this side treasury, working groups such as this one elect stewards, or as we call them **["Trustees"](https://hackmd.io/Z_JhA3cDThWX2b1uvrug9g)** to distribute the governance to the participants.
  - The WG has elected a trustee to represent them, and in true Catalyst emergent fashion, who and how they chose was interesting:  4 members will share responsibility in pairwise groups by month.  **[Check the arrangement out here](https://hackmd.io/@PA-vPATreasury/rkgLLECms#Current-Trustees)**. 
  - These trustees will be sharing their discussions as they onboard to the role in [this read-only discord channel](https://discord.com/channels/946921942143885342/980492610147864626), but they can be contacted in any other channel in Discord to widen the conversation.

- A recently surfaced issue was brought up by this Working Group and may require larger community involvement:  the forthcoming rollout of vPA process improvement suggestions from IOG researchers, including reputation models and "vPA bylaws".  For a wide and broad discussion to take place reach out to those around you to connect with others who might also be thinking about the background behind these types of ideas, and keep an eye out for forthcoming efforts to establish some bridges and documentation to  create a robust background to help steward such improvement paths in a healthy, co-productive, way.
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Right now, there is a "[Catalyst Improvements f10 Task Force](https://hackmd.io/@PA-vPATreasury/S1H32eyNs)" convening regularly to make space for surfacing and addressing sensed issues in the PA/vPA ecosystem leading up to the start of Fund 10. This is experimental and broad in scope because we are developing this model, but we are actively addressing:

- Gather feedback and identify priority issues
- Turn feedback and issues into actionable items in a bounty workflow
- Propose changes to Catalyst process based on the identified priority issues

The **[most recent meeting](https://hackmd.io/@PA-vPATreasury/HJlGesdrs)** of the taskforce addressed:
- Discussing and establishing standards for stewarding bounties in dework via a new "Bounty Manager" role.
- Looked at an example of a ["Problem Statement Bounty"](https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-circle-ca-r/veteran-ca-wg?taskId=f08b203b-ee3a-46ac-89ec-049093a2ccda) and discussed how these statements could be large or small, broken into smaller subtasks when too large, and overall used as a valuable step in "repo-ing" sensed issued as problem statements that could accrue input and background as they iterated toward understanding and possible solution statements.
- The meeting also made space to welcome several new participants and get to know eachother.

The work of the Task Force is coordinated using the Catalyst United [discord](https://discord.gg/TyQvFzZkcn) and [Dework](https://app.dework.xyz/catalyst-circle-ca-r/veteran-ca-wg) (currently using the vPA WG space). The next meeting is scheduled [here](https://hackmd.io/@PA-vPATreasury/Sya-vgcHi).

| :zap:        Ready to get involved?! [JOIN THE CATALYST UNITED DISCORD](https://discord.gg/k3BfbJ9m) or [DIVE in to the Task Force DOCS](https://hackmd.io/@PA-vPATreasury/S1H32eyNs) 
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