# High Council – Agenda for Community Call #6
14/06/2023

## Meeting Objectives:
1. Align on Roadmap including timelines & dependencies
2. Arbitrum / Optimism decision today -> proposals to both
3. Progress update from working groups (+ Leads)

## Agenda
To be efficient, we'll timebox each discussion.

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**1. MVP Launch on July 13th / ~5 weeks Remaining**

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**2. Decision on L2**

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**3. Summary of Action Items from Last Call** [20 min]
- **Arbitrum** – Questions for Arbitrum Foundation/Patrick to be put into a doc for async Q&A (Simona)
- **MVP Spec** – MVP spec completed? (Arjun / Alim was to start a doc)
- **Roadmap & Project Management** – workback plan w/timelines, milestones, MVP scope, acceptance criteria (Alim)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G6HgrCXxfgmeG76ZVldlTwtokAjzoz89-msJJrxQZA4/edit?usp=sharing

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**4. Discuss potential changes to Working Groups** [5 min]
- Rollups & Bridges ––> break out into separate WGs
- Rollup WG focused on figuring out the rollup infrastructure and what stack to build on
- Bridges WG focused on everything related to cross-chain communication including cross-chain voting vaults

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# High Council – Agenda for Community Call #5
31/05/2023

## Meeting Objectives:
1. Guage interest re: Arbitrum
2. Status of OP proposal & announcement support
3. MVP spec / cross-chain
4. Progress update from working groups

## Agenda
To be efficient, we'll timebox each discussion.

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**1. Arbitrum / Matt** [10 min]

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**2. Summary of Action Items from Last Call** [15 min]
- **Rollup infra** – send a doc to OP (Ben & Justine) with our technical requirements
- **OP Proposal** – Share current OP proposal with Ben and team for feedback (Simona)
- **Hats Goerli deployment** – Hats team is able to crate a 'hat' for your org if you provide org name and Goerli address so you can try out voting
- **cross-chain infra/Bridges** – (1) take a look at the upgrades being considered for Council in the current and following release, and (2) discuss how to make Gyroscope vaults work in parallel, (3) complete design phase (Arjun)
- **Comms** – async with Justine to gauge interest on officially supporting HC with the announcement (Simona & Charles)

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**3. Working Groups** [15 min]
- Smart contracts
- Rollups & Bridges
- Tooling & Applications
- Gov facilitation & onboarding
- Comms & Media
- Financial

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# High Council – Agenda for Community Call #4
17/05/2023

## Meeting Objectives:
1. Architecture & MVP spec updates (+ OP, cross-chain, Hats)
3. Progress update from working groups

## Agenda
To be efficient, we'll timebox each discussion.

**1. Summary of Action Items from Last Call** [10 min]
- Wrap up MVP spec, diagram, and team requirements so we can get building
- Arjun scheduling a call to discuss which version of Council to move forward with and whether or not to use the Tally contract or not
- Hats to get a testnet running with a voting vault for all HC members to test out
- Charles to provide an update on OP stack and OP proposal process
- Join the Discourse! (everyone)

**2. Hats Protocol update** [10 min]
- tokenized contributor roles and credentials to manage membership, roles, voting, workspace access

**3. OP Stack & Proposal** [10 min]

**4. Working Groups** [15 min]
- Smart contracts
- Rollups & Bridges
- Tooling & Applications
- Gov facilitation & onboarding
- Comms & Media
- Financial

# High Council – Agenda for Community Call #3
03/05/2023

## Meeting Objectives:
1. Architecture & MVP spec updates
2. Quick status update on each working group
3. Agree on tooling / project tracking

## Agenda
To be efficient, we'll timebox each discussion.

**1. Summary of Progress & Action Items** [10 min]
- MVP Spec, collab between Rollup/Bridges and SC working groups
- Action Items:
- Discourse shared with the group (https://highcouncil.discourse.group/)
- MVP spec ready?
- Cross-chain Voting Vaults – architecture options were being discussed; Arjun was going to put together a summary with thoughts from Violet and his own + a follow-up call to discuss
- Knowledge base (Notion) shared with the group? (Alim sharing Tues evening)

**2. Open Questions / MVP Requirements** [15 min]
- L2 rollup selection
- Bridging/messaging update
- Hats Protocol update

**3. Working Groups** [20 min]
- Smart contracts
- Rollups & Bridges
- Tooling & Applications
- Gov facilitation & onboarding
- Comms & Media
- Financial

**4. Next Steps from call** [5 min]

# High Council – Agenda for Community Call #2
12/04/2023

## Meeting Objectives:
1. High level overview of High Council architecture (present diagram) and obtain feedback
2. Status update on each working group

## Agenda
To be efficient, we'll timebox each discussion.

**1. Summary of Progress** [10 min]
- Discord, Twitter, Discourse
- Architecture overview


**2. Open Questions / MVP Requirements** [15 min]
- L2 rollup selection
- Bridging/messaging update
- Bridging Plan (Arjun)
- Smart Contracts (Topics for discussion)
- Multiple versions of core voting contracts on the rollup, deployers can choose which version to opt into
- Core voting contracts should all be compatible with council kit SDK
- Voting vaults should be compatible across all versions of the core voting contracts
- What Voting vaults do we have?
- Cross Chain voting vaults - Connext?

**3. Working Groups** [15 min]
- should the group select leads for each?
- discuss shared knowledge base (i.e., everyone in Notion?) vs. individual working groups pick their own
- members can provide updates on interesting projects forming within each working group

**4. Next Steps from call** [5 min]
1. MVP spec
- OP
- Bridging (zodiac)
- Sequencer setup (initial #?, who should run it, etc)
- Smart contracts
- Multiple core voting contracts (compatible with council kit)
- Voting vaults already in existence list
- Voting vaults needed
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2. Prepare gov proposal for OP
3. Post proposal & announce High Council
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# High Council – Agenda for Community Call #1
05/04/2023

## Meeting Objectives:
- Overview of Rollup Initiative
- Discuss MVP requirements
- Set up Working Groups

## Agenda
To be efficient, we'll timebox each discussion.

**1. Overview of Initiative** [5 min]
- What is High Council
- Why situate governance on a rollup
- Vision statement feedback
- Timelines

**2. Bridging/messaging** [5-10 min]
- Discussion from Bridge teams

**3. Open Questions / MVP Requirements** [20 min]
- Rollup on which L2?
- New DAOs that launch through the rollup could contribute a % of their voting distribution to the top level governance council. What does this look like?
- DAOs that migrate could optionally have a contribution to the top level governance council, what does this look like?
- Do we explore an NFT for core protocol teams (not just the DAOs) to also have a vote?
- Sequencer infra fees
- Bridging/messaging – Connext/ChainSafe
- How does voting work for High Council

**4. Working Groups** [15 min]
- What working groups do we need?
- Bridges, rollup infra, gov facilitation / DAO onboarding, comms, smart contracts, tooling (Council kit, etc) treasury mgmt/econ.
- What's the best way to coordinate working groups, sign-ups, and work – Notion?

**5. Next Steps** [5 min]
- Discord channels for each working group
- Bi-weekly community call on progress
- Create Discord/Twitter Account
- Share announcement of creation
- Open message for contributors