(03/20/2025) Meeting Minutes
Attendees:
Name
Attendance
Role
Voting Seat (Y/N)
P. Lucas
Yes
Chair
Y
Adam Dean
Yes
Vice Chair
Y
Terence ‘Tex’ McCutcheon
Yes
Secretary
N
Christian Taylor
Yes
Member/Seat
N
Sandip Pandey
Yes
Member/Seat
Y
Georg Link
Yes
Member/Seat
Y
Jonathan Kelly
Yes
Member/Seat
Y
Sebastian Pabon
Yes
Member/Seat
Y
Moritz Angermann
No
Member/Seat
Y
Robin Böning
No
Member/Seat
Y
Nicolas Henin
No
Member/Seat
Y
Community/Other Attendees
Abhik Nag
Alex Seregin
Elaine Cardenas
Jordan Hill
Kristijan Kowalsky
Intros
Christian: Head of Open Source Office, Intersect Staff
Tex: Open Source Program Manager, Intersect Staff, Open Source Committee Secretary
Sandip: Dquadrant
Adam: Adam Dean, LLC, Co-Founder, DripDropz, LLC, CIP Editors, Intersect Maintainer
Georg: Bitergia
Lucas: 45B - Cardano Enablement, Onboarding end-users; Supporting cardano Projects;
Sebastian: Gimbalabs contributor, MeshJS contributor, Andamio platform co-founder
Johnny: Non-Custodial Co-Management SysOps Engineer (Tech Janitor) for 3 Mainnet Stake Pools. Cardano Keystone Wallet Ambassador.
Moritz: Head of Platform Engineering, IOE
Nicolas: Technical Architect at IOG (Innovation R&D)
Robin: Cardano Cube, LACE stake pool
Agenda 03.20.25
Old Business
Developer Advocate Check-in
Project Incubation Reviews
Accelerator Proposal: Recommendation/Approval
New Business
Committee member engagement in OSC WG’s
Developer Advocate Program updates
AOB
Decisions/Actions
Approval of the Accelerator Proposal: The committee voted to approve the accelerator proposal put forward by Kristijan Kowalsky.
Project Incubation Process: There was a decision to refine the project incubation process, including the criteria for accepting projects. Specifically, the responses to project applications should have the options of "accept recommendation", "review revise and resubmit" or "reject".
Direction on Budget Proposals: The committee agreed to move forward with submitting their budget proposal under the new guidelines, with the inclusion of a "delegation of authority" request to the DREPs.
Topic
Discussion
Action Items
Welcome and Introductions
Terence McCutcheon, Pedro Lucas, Georg Link, and others greeted each other.
N/A
Agenda and Quorum
Pedro Lucas reviewed the agenda; Terence McCutcheon noted the initial lack of quorum.
N/A
Developer Advocates Check-in
Alex Seregin provided an update on the developer survey, including feedback and planned analysis. Terence McCutcheon discussed the upcoming release of the analysis and the OSO office hours highlighting the developer advocates.
Alex Seregin to present survey results at the next meeting. Terence McCutcheon to release the analysis on Wednesday next week.
Project Incubation Review
Discussion on the project incubation program, including rationale and acceptance criteria. Sandip Pandey and Georg Link suggested revisions to the rationale. Adam Dean and Christian Taylor discussed the goals and processes of the program.
Sandip Pandey to merge remarks and provide final text. Christian Taylor to review and refine entry criteria for projects. Georg Link to formalize the responses as accept, revise and resubmit, or reject.
Budget Pivot
Discussion on the budget changes and the need for delegated authority from DREPs. Christian Taylor shared a draft proposal document. Kristijan Kowalsky discussed the issue of stipends for committee members.
Christian Taylor to share the draft proposal document after legal review. Intersect to submit a proposal for their funding, including member incentives.
Accelerator Proposal
Kristijan Kowalsky discussed the accelerator proposal and interest from Antler VC. Adam Dean expressed opposition to giving more funds to Project Catalyst. The committee voted to approve the accelerator proposal.
N/A
Commercialization Working Group
Invitation for OSC members to attend the commercialization working group meeting.
OSC members to attend the commercialization working group meeting.
Dev Advocate Document
Terence McCutcheon shared a document for asynchronous input from the committee.
All members to provide input on the Dev Advocate document.
Intersect Elections
Pedro Lucas encouraged members to participate in the upcoming elections and discussed the importance of member voting.
Members to consider running for seats and actively participate in voting.
Elaine Cardenas Introduction
Elaine Cardenas introduced herself and her work with IDA and Hydra.
N/A
Hydra Networking
Discussion on networking between Hydra contributors, including Adam Dean and Elaine Cardenas.
N/A
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