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# 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

![](https://i.imgur.com/hOS7XQc.png)


**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 
4. 


# 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
