🙃(11/20/2025) Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

Name	Attendance	Role	Voting Seat (Y/N)	Term
Elaine Cardenas	Yes	Chair	Y	April 2026
Terence ‘Tex’ McCutcheon	Yes	Secretary	N	N/A
Christian Taylor	Yes	SME	N	N/A
P. Lucas	Yes	Member	Y	October 2025
Adam Dean	Yes	Member	Y	October 2025
Arnaud Bailly	Yes	Member	Y	April 2026
Georg Link	Yes	Member	Y	April 2026
Jonathan Kelly	Yes	Member	Y	October 2025
Sebastian Pabon	Yes	Member	Y	October 2026
Philip DiSarro	No	Member	Y	April 2026
Bernard Sibanda	Yes	Member	Y	October 2026
Jordan Hill	Yes	Member	Y	October 2026
Reshma Mohan	Yes	Member	Y	October 2026
Udai Solanki	Yes	Member	Y	October 2026
Empty Seat	No	Member	Y	April 2026

Community/Other Attendees

• Andrew Aitken

• Dan Baruka

• Emmanuel Titi

• Marcin Szamotulski

• Uche Obasi

Recording: Open Source Committee (Intersect) - 2025/11/20 - Recording

Transcript: Open Source Committee (Intersect) - 2025/11/20 - Transcript

Chat Transcript: Open Source Committee Meeting – 2025/11/20 – Chat Transcript

Intros

Christian: Head of Open Source Office, Intersect, OS SME Tex: Open Source Program Manager, Intersect Staff, Open Source Committee Secretary Arnaud: OSC Member, CF Bernard: OSC, TSC Intersect, CIP Editors, DripDropz, LLC Elaine: newly elected OSC, Aira corporation CTO Georg: Bitergia Jordan: TBD Reshma: TBD Sebastian: OSC, Gimbalabs, contributor, Andamio co-founder. Philip: TBD Udai: TBD

Agenda 11.20.25

• Meet and Greet/Welcome to New Members

• Thanks to previous Members

• Developer Advocate Update

• Confirm decision to return to ADA Spend

• Marcin - Repo Transfer

• MRP Interviews scheduled

• GitHoney Decision

• Open Forum

Decisions/Actions

Decisions

• The committee unanimously voted to forgo the USDM conversion process for immediate program payments due to administrative delays and proceed with payments in ADA.

• The committee approved that program recipients (e.g., Developer Advocates, Bug Bounty) be given the option to accept the ADA payment immediately or wait to see if a USDM conversion can be facilitated later.

• The committee approved the $22,000 funding for the GitHoney tooling to implement the private disclosure feature for the bug bounty program.

• The committee voted to rewrite the Bug Bounty program budget to factor in the approved tooling costs for GitHoney.

• The committee approved the transfer of ownership of the core repositories (ant-protocols and IOM) from IOG/IOHK to Intersect.

Actions

• Christian or Terence will take over leading the rest of the meeting after Elaine departs.

• Christian will update the necessary forms to reflect a repository transfer process (not Project Incubation) for the IOG/IOHK repositories.

• Terence will take the decision back to the Open Source Office team to rewrite the bug bounty program budget to include the GitHoney tooling costs.

• Jonathan will conduct interviews for the Maintainer Retainer Program (his final act for the committee).

• Terence will ensure the Maintainer Retainer interviews are recorded and placed in a confidential folder in the Drive.

• Terence will update the Gitbook page to properly identify the new committee members.

• Christian will set up one-on-one catch-up meetings with Jordan and Reshma to bring them up to speed.

• Marcin will be provided with the appropriate form to submit the repository transfer request properly.

Topic	Discussion	Notes
Onboarding Deck/Process	Christian asked if a deck was prepared for onboarding. Terence suggested using the existing Gitbook as it would be the most effective resource.	Agreed to use the Gitbook for new member onboarding.
Meeting Agenda	Christian outlined the proposed agenda: Intros/Meet and Greet, ADA Decision, Merchant (GitHoney), and then four, five, six (other topics).	Agenda set: Intros → ADA → GitHoney → Other.
Introductions (Meet & Greet)	Terence kicked off intros, passing to Elaine. Elaine welcomed new members, gave a brief intro, and noted she might have to drop early. Outgoing members (Lucas, Jonathan) offered farewells and insights. New/Re-elected members (Udai, Reshma, Georg) introduced themselves.	New and outgoing members of the OSC and TSC were introduced briefly.
Developer Advocate Update	Uche provided an update, focusing on recent community events: Nairobi success (onboarding developers), a contributor virtual workshop (30+ attendees), and a planned physical event in Nigeria.	Community events are a major focus for the Developer Advocates team.
GitHoney/ADA Decision Timing	Elaine noted she might have to leave earlier than expected and proposed moving to the GitHoney decision first.	Priority changed to address GitHoney/ADA funding issues immediately.
ADA Spend Decision (Forgoing USDM)	Terence explained that administrative delays (lack of signatures due to travel/sickness) prevented the ADA to USDM conversion, risking late payment of active contracts. The Open Source Office (OSO) provisionally agreed to use ADA to pay programs already approved. The committee was asked to formally forgo the USDM conversion for now.	Voted unanimously (8 of 9 members) in favor of paying in ADA immediately to prevent further delays, with the understanding that this might necessitate using ADA for future programs as well.
GitHoney Funding Proposal	Christian presented GitHoney's response regarding the bug bounty program: 1.5 FTEs over two months for building the private disclosure mechanism and platform adaptation. The decision needed was: 1) Does the committee need more information? 2) How to fund the $22,000 cost (half of the total $44k build cost).	Jonathan clarified that the $22k is for building the private disclosure API integration for the bug bounty program.
GitHoney Funding Source	Discussed funding the $22,000 cost. Options included using canceled program funds (Google Summer of Code) or recategorizing it under existing programs like Bug Bounty or Tooling/Sustainability.	Voted unanimously to approve funding for the GitHoney tooling and to rewrite the Bug Bounty program budget to factor in this setup cost.
Repository Transfer (IOG to Intersect)	Marcin requested transferring core dependencies (e.g., IO-HK/ouroboros-network, Cardano-Haskell/cardano-node) from IOG to Intersect due to maintenance issues now that key contributors (Marcin, Duncan) are outside IOG. The proposal was framed as a maintenance transfer, not a full incubation.	Voted in favor of the transfer (Yes/Abstain majority), with Terence asking Marcin to resubmit via the repo transfer form (not project incubation) for proper process.
Outgoing Member Appreciation	Terence thanked outgoing members (Adam, Jonathan, Lucas, others) for their service and welcomed them to return as advisors.	Acknowledgment and thanks given to members whose terms are ending.
Maintainer Retainer Program	Jonathan announced his "final act" will be conducting the first five interviews for the Maintainer Retainer program, which will be recorded and shared with the committee.	Interviews for the Maintainer Retainer Program are underway.
Developer Advocate Follow-up	Jonathan provided an additional note on the Developer Advocate work: a new community hub is being set up in Zambia following a conference speech.	New community hub initiative launched in Zambia.
New Member Onboarding	Terence conducted an informal onboarding session using the Gitbook for new members, covering the Charter, Budget (PDF), Communications (Discord, X, YouTube), and Program information (Paid Open Source Model, Working Groups).	New members encouraged to review the Gitbook and YouTube channel for comprehensive information.
Next Steps	Christian offered one-on-one catch-up calls to new members (Jordan, Reshma) for more detailed context.	Christian will schedule follow-up calls with new members.