*NOTE: this document is for the planning of all rPGF "Exploration" calls. The **first half** is for the current upcmoning call, all below that is legacy info from previous calls.

**Topic: Exploration into the rPGF Candidates**
**URL**: https://discord.gg/ng3HXFK7
**Upcoming Talk Date: Nov. 21 @1600 UTC**

Conversation Flow:
1. Welcome and Intros [2 min]
2. **Overview** of the Namada rPGF program [2 min]
-- rPGF is a tool
-- inherently rearward looking
-- action over inaction
4. Reminder of the **purpose** of these rPGF Exploration calls [2 min]
--Namada grocery store parable
6. Talk more about about the topic of this call **"doing work in ZK"**
Key Points:
- Namada does more than just add privacy
- what we're doing is shining a light on the people who are advancing the state of crypto.
- not just launching shitcoins
- Who is doing work that will be looked at

7. Start by talking with Matt from Puzzle about his experience.

Threads for Current talk:
--

- Those doing foundational ZK work

**Puzzle** (formerly Nucleo) https://puzzle.online/

built applications such as private multisigs, private-public fundraising tools for the first private DAO, private DeFi, and more.
built infrastructure such as client side proving, state managers, and more. We've even built developer tools and hosted developer cohorts to build on our infrastructure.

**Possible Questions for Matt:**
- What got you into this work (what did you see that seemed important/interesting to do)?
- Why did you rebrand to Puzzle? What's the vibe there?
- How are you leveraging ZK proofs, and what has ZK as a tool enabled you to do?
- What moves the needle for you? What's a win? what are you looking for?
- How have your ideas, theories on what’s important to work on changed since you started ?
- Who are you building for?
- Do you have any advice for communities starting out ( like Namada) and what’s important to focus on in the early days?
- how do you balance functionality (protecting peoples information) and ease of use that actually gets ppl to use stuff?
- in your AE2 talk, you mentioned you think that builders of privacy-tech are in a "bubble" rt now - what did you mean by that?

**OxPARC** - https://0xparc.org/
https://learn.0xparc.org/
https://forum.namada.net/t/0xparc-rpgf-nomination/165
Learning tools & resources targeted at ZK.

Cool:
- good at the onboarding stuff - making explainer videos, talks, articles
- also runs cool stuff like hacker houses, residencies, events
- takes the funding from ETH Foundation, Gitcoin, etc and uses their scope/perspective to fire those funds out into new projects that are on their radar
- Who have they helped - Dark Forest,

**Aleo** - https://twitter.com/AleoHQ
Aleo is a Layer-1 blockchain that's zero-knowledge by design. Join us and build an actually secure internet.

**Circom -** https://github.com/iden3/circom

is a novel domain-specific language for defining arithmetic circuits that can be used to generate zero-knowledge proofs.

Bengt is the nominator for Circom, maybe he can jump on and talk about why it is great.

**nil; foundation** -
https://twitter.com/nil_foundation
nil; is a zkRollup that securely scales Ethereum to 60,000+ TPS through zkSharding

**Anna Rose - ZK Podcast** - the latest zk research & zk applications, meet the experts building the decentralised web, learn about open source software development and cryptography-enabled privacy tech and explore the emerging paradigms in blockchain/crypto.
https://zeroknowledge.fm/

and many, many more)

Future Talks:
--

- Who's Behind privacy tech - the developers and thought leaders who have brought us our biggest privacy wins ( authors of TOR, Peter Snyder of Brave, Ameen Solemani and others)

- Web2 Warriors - the devs and founders who brought us foundational Web2 primitives (Ian Goldberg, TOR contributors, Mark Miller, Jay, groups of authors nominated by Chris Goes)

Question Bank for any discussion:

-- What are the different "types" of nominations that came in?

-- What kind of things does this work make possible?

--How has Namada benefited already from this work and what has it been able to do?

-- What are the rights/values that underly people's right to privacy?

--

Past Talks
--
**Topic: Exploration into the rPGF Candidates**
**URL**:https://discord.com/channels/833618405537218590/1171233395423055936/1171233395423055936
**Date: Nov. 07 @1600 UTC**

Conversation Flow:
1. Welcome and Intros [2 min]
2. Overview of the Namada rPGF program [2 min]
--rPGF is a tool.
-- inherently rearward looking
-- action over inaction
4. Purpose of these rPGF Exploration calls [2 min]
5. Format of rPGF Exploration calls community members might see as fit [5 min]
6. Begin discussing examples of this theme **"Voices and mindshare in Web3"**
--1st Example - type, area, impact, values, how it relates to Namada
--2nd example - repeat, repeat

Threads for privacy promotion talk:
--
Intro Call - 23.11.07
- "Voices and mindshare in Web3"- the speakers and promoters of meaningful Web3 (ZK podcast, Epicenter TV, Michelle Lai, Naomi Brockwell)

[Link to all rPGF nominations](https://forum.namada.net/c/rpgf/5)

-- Examples for this discussion:
Naomi Brockwell - Tech journalism about privacy tips and slips, crypto beginner explainers, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/c/NaomiBrockwellTV

**Michelle Lai** - https://twitter.com/michlai007

Highlight:
- critical member of the original Zcash Open Major Grants committee
- co-organized including the Universal Privacy Alliance summit and the “Privacy Is Normal” 7 mega-session

Questions for Michelle:

-- What made you want to get into this kind of work/effort to begin with?

-- Can you give some examples of what you've seen come out of your work in the Web3 community? PPl sharing stories w/ you, or other events coming out of it, etc

-- Can you highlight anything that you think is important for starting things/getting things going when you are starting with a small community?

**Jason MCGee** - forum & community work that led to the development of the [ZCash Posterity Fund](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/the-zcash-posterity-fund/42703/26)

Highlight:
- I believe this is a great example because it shows how direct participation in "small" community (focums, discord, etc) can lead to big changes in the ecosystem.

**Epicenter TV** - Epicenter is a podcast which takes you to heart of perhaps the most important technological revolution of our time, the rise of decentralized technologies. https://www.youtube.com/@epicenterbtc/about

**Anna Rose - ZK Podcast** - the latest zk research & zk applications, meet the experts building the decentralised web, learn about open source software development and cryptography-enabled privacy tech and explore the emerging paradigms in blockchain/crypto.
https://zeroknowledge.fm/

**Privacy International** https://www.privacyinternational.org/impact

Highlight:
- working with governments, policy makers, legal entities. All the unsexy/less-visible stuff, but what can really move markers.

**dystopiabreaker** [Tweet links](https://twitter.com/search?lang=en&q=privacy%20(from%3Adystopiabreaker)&src=typed_query)

Highlight: Hopefully @gaving will speak here about why he thinks dystopias work is important

**Fight For The Future** -
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop-the-senate-from-sneaking-through-total-surveillance-of-the-crypto-economy/

**Crypto Freedom Lab** -
https://www.cryptofreedomlab.com/