Week 32

Mon 5th Aug - Sun 11th Aug 2024

Monday 5th August 2024

AI Ethics WG

Narrative:

We worked through the GitHub project board, starting with "In progress" items, then "To do"

Quick discussion of GitHub management, and how we process Issues where several people are paid different amounts (for now, might need to create separate issue for each person to dovetail with Treasury system)

Some issues remain about payment for the strategy-writing tasks, and how the money should be divided between each group; there have been comments outside of meetings about fairness. This raises wider questions for us as a WG on what is fair re: money and pay, and is part of our governance as a WG. (Examples: what happens if someone cannot do a task for reasons beyond their control, such as illness? What if someone drops out of a task? Or if work is done late? What if there's a team, and one person does more work than the others - and how do we determine what is "more work" - is it about time, capability, or something else?) So we agreed to discuss in general terms in our next meeting.

Quick discussion about reportbacks from WG to GEI meetings: Jenn is happy to just share her written reportback rather than actually talking to it in the GEI meeting.

AGI-24: roles are all assigned, and Vani will share info on meeting links, more exact role descriptions, templates for documentwers, etc in the next few days. There will also be a training session with Esther for interviewers. Thanks to all who signed up.

AI Ethics Conversations - not many people have signed up with an idea yet; and 2 of the suggested ideas are actually being covered at the AGI-24 pre-event instead. So requesting more ideas from members.

Confirmed that the "Creating learning resources" budget line has been pushed to Q4, if at all - and noted that Education Guild is already doing some similar work this quarter; there may be scope for collaboration. Vani asked if WGs who are working on learning resources could add a note to the relevant issue on our board, so when we plan for Q4 we know what's been done and don't tread on toes.

On plans for Q3 interviewing: we discussed wide range of good ideas from members; but we're over budget so members are asked to cut down their totals to a max of $200. Confirmed that we want to interview a range of people, from AI professionals to people with no prior knowledge of AI; and importance of covering a range of demographics. Discussed idea of interviewing teenagers - there are additional ethics issues involved, but it should be possible. Also confirmed that we can do more interviewing in Q4.

Decision Items:

  • Agreed to use part of our next meeting (19th Aug) to discuss principles around money, work and payments

    • [rationale] there have been some disagreements around payments for strategy-writing tasks; it is a subject we need to address and possibly should have addressed earlier

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

  • Issue #26 (Producing learning resources) to be moved to Q4

    • [rationale] Budget-fitting. Also noted that Education WG is creating (video) learning resources on AI Ethics this quarter, so if we do work on this in Q4 we should keep aware of what they have done so we don't overlap.

    • [effect] mayAffectOtherPeople

  • Signups for roles at AGI-24 and the pre-event on 7th August have now closed.

    • [rationale] All the roles are filled

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

  • Costs for the Q3 interviewing "mini-projects" to be capped at $200 each. People who have proposed a set of interviews should edit their budgets to fit

    • [rationale] we are c. $1,000 over budget for the work overall

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

Action Items:

  • [action] Vani and Sucre to check with André on how to manage payment of issues where different people are paid different amounts [assignee] Sucre n Spice, CallyFromAuron [due] 12 August 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] Vani to check with GEI about the issue of interviewing teenagers [assignee] CallyFromAuron [due] 19 August 2024 [status] todo

Keywords/tags:

  • topics covered: Meeting Summaries, Payment Divisions, github board, interviewing, AGI-24, Education material, Budget , Budget fitting, GEI

  • emotions: Friendly, Collaborative, funny, Thoughtful

Strategy Guild

Narrative:

ACTION ITEMS CHECKBOXES FROM THE LAST MEETING - This was led by Ayo, items DONE were closed and others were left OPEN:

  1. Everyone to contribute to the Strategy Guild Working Document [OPEN]

  2. Everyone to contribute to the Possible Survey Questions [DONE]

  3. Core members should indicate interest in facilitating the new sheet in the working doc [OPEN]

  4. Effiom to share previous meeting summaries and this meeting summary [DONE]

  5. YemiSolves to document and share the Workshop Session [DONE]

  6. Onyeka to mentor YemiSolves [DONE]

  7. Adopt last Meeting Notes [DONE]

ONBOARD NEW MEMBERS/CORE MEMBER ROLL CALL - 2 new people (i.e. Yedi and MartinSoki) have indicated an interest in becoming core members of the Strategy Guild since the last meeting; however, they haven’t met the requirements.

Ayo explained how everyone can become a member, and also contribute and be a part of what is happening within the guild.

STRATEGY GUILD CORE TAG (VERIFICATION AND ASSIGNING) - There is a need for verification of those who have met the requirements and are eligible for the Strategy Guild core member tag. Currently, 5 people have met the requirement (i.e. Ayo, Gorga, Effiom, Tuso, and Lord Kizzy). Their other Guild and WG tags need to be verified.

Ayo highlighted that this is meant to be an async process and should be managed by someone. Effiom was nominated to take up this role and he accepted. Other points raised during this discussion:

  • Should there be tags for intending members of the guild who are yet to meet all the requirements to become Core members?

  • Which of the requirements should be relaxed for this category?

STRATEGY GUILD Q3 RESEARCH - The document is closed, no more contributions. The next phase is discussions on the execution.

THE OUTBOUND WGs/Gs WORKSHOP SOLUTION SESSION PHASE ONE - The Workshop documenter will share the notes for this session. See reference to notes below:

  • Strategy Guild Workshop Day Two Solution Framework Session One docx

  • Summary Notes: Strategy Guild Workshop Day Two Solution Framework Session One docx

A.O.B - Ayo expressed gratitude to the participants and provided an overview of the plan for the next sessions

Decision Items:

  • The Strategy Guild Core Membership tag verification and assignment process to be managed by Effiom

    • [rationale] This is an important aspect of the Guild membership process, hence the need to have a verification process for all intending members

    • [opposing] None

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

  • Intending members of the Guild can get another tag, but to be a Core member of Strategy Guild you have to meet all the requirements

    • [rationale] There is a need for tag differentiation because some of the requirements to be a Core member of the Strategy Guild don't solely depend on the intending member, for instance the core contributor requirement.

    • [opposing] None

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

  • The survey question for the Research has been closed; from next section we will start talking about execution

    • [rationale] The document has been open for over a month, and in the last week no contribution was made. Also, there is need to start the research

    • [opposing] None

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

  • The next meeting will be about improvements and execution

    • [rationale] This based on the workshop schedule

    • [opposing] None

    • [effect] mayAffectOtherPeople

  • Participants from other WGs are to join the next sessions

    • [rationale] This was communicated to participants before the start of the workshop

    • [opposing] None

    • [effect] mayAffectOtherPeople

Action Items:

  • [action] Continue contribution to the Guild’s working document [status] todo

  • [action] Core members should indicate interest in facilitating the new sheet in the working doc [status] todo

  • [action] Effiom to verify the 5 people that have already met the requirements for the Core member tag [assignee] Effiom [status] todo

  • [action] YemiSolves to document and share notes of the workshop session [assignee] YemiSolves [status] todo

  • [action] Effiom to draft and make meeting notes available [assignee] Effiom [status] todo

Keywords/tags:

  • topics covered: Guild Membership, Workshop, Ideas and Improvements, ideas, improvements, Core Membership, survey, Research, participation, contribution

  • emotions: Brainstorm, planning, ideating, interesting, Collaborative

LatAm Guild

Agenda item 1 - Agenda Item 1 - WG Operaciones WorkShop Github #1 - [carry over]

Narrative:

Caue led a hands-on workshop designed to help guild members familiarize themselves with GitHub's project management features. Participants worked in real-time, creating issues, describing project management tasks, and populating the @SNET_Latam Operations repositories. The workshop materials focused on the system that will guide LATAM Guild operations moving forward into Q4. Members collaborated on task assignment, issue creation, and optimizing content management for Spanish and Portuguese audiences. Members work on learning how to Create a new To-Do task and assign it to a member. Convert discussion into issues on GitHub, write and comment on issies.

Decision Items:

  • How guilds will operate moving forward. GitHub Workshop for LATAM Guild operations

Action Items:

  • [action] Share information on the upcoming event in the Telegram group [assignee] Guillermo [due] 28 August 2024 [status] done

  • [action] #Revisions on RoadMap Document [assignee] Martin Rivero, Guillermo, Ines, Caue, Andrea Dekovic [due] 25 July 2024 [status] done

  • [action] Recommend joining the Telegram group for continuous updates [assignee] Martin Rivero [due] 24 July 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] Look into live streaming on Instagram and TikTok [assignee] Caue [due] 24 July 2024 [status] done

Agenda item 2 - Communication Strategies - [carry over]

Narrative:

The team finalized their messaging and communication strategies for the upcoming month. They focused on topics such as Metta, OpenCog Hyperon, and Ben Goertzel's book, The Consciousness Explosion. Discussions also covered creating educational materials that promote SingularityNET’s vision.

Decision Items:

  • Education developement

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

Action Items:

  • [action] Create educational materials and blogs [assignee] Ines [due] 7 August 2024 [status] todo

Agenda item 3 - Marketing and Social Media Strategies - [carry over]

Narrative:

The team conducted 10 interviews during the ADN event, engaging participants, speakers, and guests. The focus shifted towards post-production and video editing of the interviews. The idea of creating a data blog to share the ADN videos was proposed, and members discussed how to use project management tools to manage tasks for the R&D Guild and Ambassadors. Post produce #FastTalks videos from ADN interviews.

Decision Items:

  • ADN event post event zction items

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

Action Items:

  • [action] Work on video editing from ADN [assignee] Guillermo, Andrea Dekovic [due] 8 August 2024 [status] todo

Agenda item 4 - Operations Sub-Group - [carry over]

Narrative:

Follow up on github workshope action item, members discuss briefly about their personal experiences while executing tasks

Decision Items:

  • Github operations folllow up

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

Keywords/tags:

  • topics covered: Meeting Summaries, Onboarding, Budget , Roles, Collaboration, Translation, GitHub, ADN, agi-24

  • emotions: Collaborative, entertaining, challenging, growth, socialmedia

  • other: moving forward

Tuesday 6th August 2024

Ambassador Town Hall

  • Type of meeting: Weekly

  • Present: PeterE [facilitator], CallyFromAuron [documenter], PeterE, CallyFromAuron, guillermolucero, onize, esewilliams, barnabas, CollyPride, Effiom, hogantuso, Iain, Clement Umoh, kateri, aetherblade, Advanceameyaw, lord_kizzy, Zalfred, Eric Davies

  • Purpose: Regular weekly get-together for the Ambassador Program. Discussion of community-wide issues; sharing of updates and info; and in the last meeting of each month, an update from each Workgroup on what they have been doing

  • Town Hall Number: 109

  • Working Docs:

Timestamped video:

The Ambassador Town Hall is a recurring event happening live on the Ambassador Zoom channel https://www.youtube.com/@SNET_Ambassador each Tuesday at 19:00 UTC.

00:00 Intro 00:38 Agenda 01:08 What Is The Ambassador Program? 01:46 Mentions - Wg Sync Call This Thursday; Metta Study Group 03:04 Agi-24 Pre-event Roundtable, 7th August 05:49 Adn24 Recap From Guillermo And Latam Guild 14:43 Archives Wg - Research Into Ai Tooling For Archives And Recordkeeping 26:20 Questions On Archives Wg's Presentation 34:16 Possible Deadlines And Process For Q4 Budget Decision Process

Town Hall Summary:

Mentions this week included:

  • there will be a Workgroup Sync call this Thurs - a new-ish initiative where workgroup and guild leads get together to discuss issues of common concern. The last one was not well-attended, so hoping for fuller representation from WGs this time

  • MetTa study group on Fridays - a new initiative for those who want to learn more about Metta. Also noted today's Technical Tuesday was about how Metta allows scaling for OpenCog Hyperon - see https://www.youtube.com/live/DqadfpXj3rE?si=lnJ6w9jXLaarJZUD

Mention of the AGI-24 pre-event: a roundtable discussion with Ben Goertzel, David Wood, Gabriel Axel Montes, Elizabeth Shaw, Anneloes Smitsman (see https://www.youtube.com/live/CS_M3GQY9Vk?si=ZEbSL0FPhHQc-TRE), followed by breakout rooms led by members of LatAm Guild and AI Ethics WorkGroup, covering topics including anthropomorphisation in AI, Indigenous cultures' approach to AI (see position paper, https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/986506/7/Indigenous_Protocol_and_AI_2020.pdf) and

LatAm Guild gave a heartfelt presentation about their presence at the recent ADN event in Buenos Aires and the importance and value of the LatAm Guild's growth, and Argentina as the centre of an important event - see blog post https://singularitynet-latam.medium.com/presencia-de-la-comunidad-latina-de-singularitynet-en-el-evento-adn-en-buenos-aires-e4bc960bfdfd

Archives WG gave a presentation about the research they have been doing into AI tooling for archives and recordkeeping, including sentiment analysis and whether AI can apply human-generated tags, followed by some inyteresting questions - see slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1flCXW61HRlAxSu45t3dbqLpEHqHRcxn1OIlk376NEX8/edit?usp=sharing

Mention of the initial discussions on the Q4 budgets decisionmaking process, and the start of discussing deadlines and schedule for Q4 budget submission; to be discussed in next Open Governance call this Thursday.

Keywords/tags:

  • topics covered: ADN24, events, Metta, Technical Tuesdays, Workgroup sync call, LatAm, LLMs, Archives WorkGroup, recordkeeping, research, sentiment analysis, tagging, virtual round table, Ben Goetzel, David Wood, Elizabeth Shaw, Anneloes Smitsman, The Gabriel Axel Montes interview episode

  • emotions: in-depth, cordial, interested, emotional, heartfelt, pride

Wednesday 7th August 2024

Research and Development Guild

Agenda Items:

  • Welcoming new members and Introduction

  • Review of last meeting summary Action Items

  • UPDATE STATUS ON DEVELOPMENT TO FILL REPOS!

  • SHOWCASE FINISHED PROPOSAL

  • NEW OPERATIONS SYSTEM GOING FORWARD

Discussion Points:

  • Review of last meeting summary Action Items: Lordkizzy went through the action items for the previous meeting

  • UPDATE STATUS ON DEVELOPMENT: Advanceameyaw gave the updates on Collaboration Skill Database; they are currently preparing a one-pager document highlighting the scope of the project and they are currently focused on the skills form and database.

  • UPDATE STATUS ON DEVELOPMENT: Rojo gave a presentation of MixPost and reference that the presentation wasn't for the premium version, he also highlighted that he will request a release of funding for the licensing and also the maintenance and hosting.

  • NEW OPERATIONS SYSTEM GOING FORWARD and VOTING PROCESS; Lordkizzy shared the new operations system and we had open discussion on the voting process. Clement suggested that issue of people having more votes representation for larger proposals should be very stated. For example, How are we defining large proposals? Are we defining in terms of deliverables or in terms of funding ask? Secondly we need to be more definitive of the exact percentage we're talking about. Are we demanding for 60% of entire core contributors' votes?

  • Voting pools: we had more discussions on the voting pools, there was a suggestion of having two pools, the Ideation pool and Development pool, also anothere suggestion for a demo pool for now

  • Kenichi spoke on rewarding unfinished projects without deliverables and asked some questions on the Collaboration Skills Database and reference that the guild should be strict while distributing funds without proper documentation and reports

  • Kenichi gave a presentation on the User Flow for Reputation System and Website Integration and lordkizzy gave a suggestion on how the Collaboration Skills Database could be intergrated into the legacy system

Decision Items:

  • We have decided to proceed with the transition from the development of the Social Media Automation tool to an Open source platform called MixPost

    • [rationale] the platform has some advanced features that would take months of development to reach that level

    • [effect] mayAffectOtherPeople

Action Items:

  • [action] Guillermo and Lord kizzy to have a discussion with Rojo and kenichi on similarities between their projects and to see if there is a possibility for collaboration [assignee] Guillermo, lord kizzy [due] 7 August 2024 [status] done

  • [action] Clement to reach out to Duke to create an infographic to project presentation on discord [assignee] Clement Umoh [due] 7 August 2024 [status] done

  • [action] Kenichi to present a graphical presentaion in the next call to share the updates on the Legacy project [assignee] Kenichi [due] 7 August 2024 [status] done

  • [action] Rojo to present an initial report on Social Media Automation [assignee] Rojo [due] 14 August 2024 [status] todo

Keywords/tags:

  • topics covered: Guilds, Tool Development, AI tooling, contributors, Operations, Deliverables, Core team, Presentation, Voting process, pools, MixPost, Social Media Automation, skills database, pools, reputation

  • emotions: Casual, Collaborative, speedy, Welcoming

Knowledge Base Workgroup

Agenda item 1 - Knowledge Base WG Onboarding and Feedback Form - [carry over]

Discussion Points:

  • A new member joined the meeting

  • Used the infographic to onboard new member

  • There was no new feedback to be reviewed

Decision Items:

  • Check feedback form again in next meeting or by next month

    • [rationale] The check should be monthly as the feedback is usually valuable to the WG

    • [opposing] None

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

Action Items:

  • [action] Publicise the feedback form again by sharing it [status] todo

Agenda item 2 - Writers WG Items to be added to Gitbook - [resolved]

Discussion Points:

  • Writers WG Items: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVN-9yivE=/?moveToWidget=3458764574353771652&cot=14

  • 11 writers WG items to be selected for Gitbook

  • What is a valid item for Gitbook?

  • Are meeting notes valid assets to be organised for Gitbook?

Decision Items:

  • Meeting notes are already archived on Archives Gitbook, hence they should not be organised again

    • [rationale] Meetings notes are not valid items to be organised

    • [opposing] None

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

  • 6 Writers' WG items were selected as valid assets for Ambassador Gitbook

    • [rationale] These items were agreed on by WG members

    • [opposing] None

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

  • 4 Writers' WG items were not selected as valid Gitbook assets

    • [rationale] These items were agreed on by WG members

    • [opposing] None

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

Action Items:

  • [action] Move the 6 items to Miro board Kanban to be organised async [status] todo

Agenda item 3 - Reviewing Item - Scribbler Onboarding Form (Google Form) - [resolved]

Discussion Points:

  • Asset link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdiAyiWjXjiUYLd7iGEvaEFqC8KsSVRQR-diZTevVAaoYTZBw/viewform

  • Live review of organised Writers' WG asset

Decision Items:

  • We removed item from 'How do we manage financial resources' under Executive functions

    • [rationale] When somebody asks how do you manage Ambassador Program Resources, handing them this form will not do much

    • [opposing] None

    • [effect] mayAffectOtherPeople

  • Item was removed from 'How do we evaluate Ambassador Program' under Evaluation Criteria

    • [rationale] The scribblers onboarding form doesn't show how we evaluate the entire ambassador program

    • [opposing] None

    • [effect] mayAffectOtherPeople

  • We removed item from 'How do we identify issues and challenges' under Identification Process

    • [rationale] This form is only related to one WG not the entire ambassador program

    • [opposing] None

    • [effect] mayAffectOtherPeople

Action Items:

  • [action] Item to be moved here https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVN-9yivE=/?moveToWidget=3458764595177345598&cot=10 [assignee] lord kizzy, Effiom [due] 8 August 2024 [status] done

Agenda item 4 - Workgroup Planning - Next Session - [resolved]

Discussion Points:

  • Next session is on 21.08.24

  • Facilitation and documentation of the next session

Decision Items:

  • Ayo to facilitate next session and Effiom as backup if he is unavailable

    • [rationale] Ayo had indicated interest to facilitate

    • [opposing] None

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

  • Gorga to document next session

    • [rationale] Gorga indicated interest and it was agreed

    • [opposing] None

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

Action Items:

  • [action] Notify both the facilitator and documenter ahead of the next meeting [assignee] Effiom [due] 20 August 2024 [status] todo

Keywords/tags:

  • topics covered: Ambassador GitBook, Miro Board, Onboarding, Feedback Form, feedback, Writers WorkGroup, Items, Facilitation, Documentation

  • emotions: Collaborative, interesting, Deliberative, fun

Education Workgroup

  • Type of meeting: Weekly

  • Present: Slate [facilitator], Slate [documenter], Slate, malik, osmium, esewilliams, kateri, Billy, Clement Umoh, GorgaSeagian, lord kizzy, Photogee, Merryman

  • Purpose: - Updates regarding quiz reviewing by Slate - Budget Update by Slate - Ese and Osmium Presentation on "Ai for Beginners"

In this meeting we discussed:

  • Updates regarding quiz reviewing by Slate

  • Budget update by Slate

  • Ese and Osmium, presentation on "Ai for Beginners"

Discussion Points:

  • Slate started the meeting welcoming everybody

  • Slate discussed the shortcoming from the reviews regarding the quizzes and updated Osmium regarding it

  • An update regarding the leftover budget was given to the group, that only approx $2,100 is left for education guild for this quarter

  • Then the room was given to osmium and Ese to present the Notion page they set up for "Ai for Beginners"

  • There was discussion regarding course structure, teams, and video structure

  • Slate conveyed that the project is proposed to be taken as an ideation in this Quarter, to set up a proper baseline for further proceeding with it .

  • osmium and Ese will make adjustments to the Notion page and present it in the next meeting

  • Slate discussed that only one person is needed for Google Classroom setup.

Decision Items:

  • keep both "centralised Ai" and "decentralised Ai" as part of the course

    • [rationale] most of the group agreed

    • [opposing] Nil

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

  • Distributing the video in sections of 2-5 min

    • [rationale] Suggested by majority of the group

    • [opposing] nil

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

Action Items:

  • [action] Update the Notion page [assignee] esewilliams, osmium [due] 14 August 2024 [status] in progress

  • [action] Assign NuNet quiz to Osmium [assignee] Slate [due] 7 August 2024 [status] done

Keywords/tags:

  • topics covered: Budget , Presentation, Ai for beginners, Rewards, ideation, Nunet, quizzes, Notion, video, centralised AI, decentralised AI, Course structure

  • emotions: productive, Collaborative, businesslike

Thursday 8th August 2024

Onboarding Workgroup

Town Hall Updates:

  1. Update on how the Onboarders team are doing with new members coming along.

  2. The documentation session will take place on 15th August. There will be a recording and slides of this session made available to everyone.

In this meeting we discussed:

  • Minutes from the last meeting

  • Action items from the last meeting

  • Facilitation/Documentation roster

  • TownHall Updates

  • Onboarding Journeys Scripts - no decisions on what to do with them yet as it is budget-dependent

  • SkillShare Matrix

  • Temporarily closing the WG

  • Documentation Session on 15th

  • AOB(Gorga’s Allegations)

Decision Items:

  • We agreed to have the focus group decide what needs to be cut out of our budget before doing more items on our Q3 budget proposal.

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

  • We agreed to have Eric Davies as one more member and then close our WG till next year. So from now till next year we will not give people tags or tasks.

    • [rationale] It will be unfair to leave him hanging till next year if we open up our WG as he is 1 meeting away from being a member

  • We agreed that the Onboarding journey scripts finetuned by Onize and Vani are great and should be used!

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

Action Items:

  • [action] Gorga is to reach out to CJ Frankie to fix a date to sort out his allegations against the WG. [assignee] Gorga Siagian [due] 5 September 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] Sucre to edit the Onboarding WG facilitation/documentation roster to reflect our current plan. [assignee] Sucre n Spice [due] 5 September 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] CJ Frankie will give Onboarding WG town hall updates on the 27th of August. [assignee] Cjfrankie [due] 27 August 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] Gorga will mentor CJ Frankie in giving TH updates for the month of August. [assignee] Gorga Siagian [due] 27 August 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] CJ Frankie to create an infographic on the 15th August documentation session and publicize it on SNET Discord before Tuesday or Wednesday next week. [assignee] Cjfrankie [due] 13 August 2024 [status] done

  • [action] Lord Kizzy to reach out to Timmy and find out if he's interested in being mentored as a documenter by shadowing Lord Kizzy at our next meeting on the 5th of September. [assignee] lord kizzy [due] 5 September 2024 [status] todo

Learning Points:

  • What should we do next year with new members who have been attending our meetings this year without the tags since the WG is currently closed?

Keywords/tags:

  • topics covered: TH Update , Budget, Session, Onboarding Journey Scripts, Workgroup closure, allegation, Town Hall updates, infographic, budget cuts

  • emotions: Collaborative, tense, argumentative, funny

WG Sync Call

  • Type of meeting: Monthly

  • Present: PeterE [facilitator], lord kizzy [documenter], CallyFromAuron, Slate, Andre, Sucre n Spice, malik, kateri, Onize, LadyTempestt, Gorga Siagian, Nebula, Photogee, Ayo, Yemi Solves, guillermolucero, MartinSoki, Clement Umoh

  • Purpose: Use of reserves to cover budget deficiencies

  • Working Docs:

Agenda Items:

  • Facilitation and Documentation of WG Syncing call

  • Budget Deficiencies due to devaluation of AGIX

  • Facilitating and documenting next 3 Town Halls after the 13th of August

Discussion:

-Facilitation and Documentation of WG Syncing call: Peter suggested a rotation model for facilitation and documentation. He asked members if they were interested in facilitating this call; Onize offered to facilitate the next one, but nobody present felt ready to do this one, so Peter continued facilitating it.

-Budget deficiencies due to devaluation of AGIX: Slate highlighted that the budget-fitting cuts (24.8%) and the recent token price devaluation sums up to almost a 50% cut to workgroups' original Q3 budgets, which is not feasible for workgroups to operate. There was a suggestion for some workgroups to shift to bi-weekly sessions rather than weekly, but some members felt that the allocation for meeting facilitation and documentation is a small portion of their budget allocation and reducing meeting sessions doesn’t make significant changes. Peter indicated that there is provision for up to 10% to cover token price depreciation; but for anything more than that, while there is a program-wide reserve obtained from leftover budgets from workgroups, in the current system there is no sustainable way of maintaining the reserves if we are taking from it. Lordkizzy highlighted that workgroups' Quarterly report on deliverables will be hugely affected by the budget deficiencies, as they will be unlikely to be able to deliver all that they planned to do. Vanessa suggested that for Q4, WGs may need to decide whether to prioritise keeping the WG running, or doing project-based work (and that decision will vary from WG to WG). She also suggested WGs could each select 1 item that they really want to do but can no longer afford, and ask for it to be funded from reserves.

-Facilitating and documenting next 3 Town Halls after the 13th: Peter indicated that he won’t be available for the 3 Town Halls (20th, 27th, 3rd of next month). 3 members volunteered (Onize, Guillermo,, Clement). Peter highlighted that he would create a full open process by posting it on the Ambassadors General Discord channel for everyone to volunteer and then we will decide from there.

Decision Items:

  • We decided that Lordkizzy would document the session and Onize will facilitate the next session.

    • [rationale] Peter facilitated this call since there wasn't anyone interest in doing so

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

Action Items:

  • [action] Onize to facilitate the next WG Syncing Call on 9th September. [assignee] Onize [due] 5 September 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] All WGs/Guilds to try to prioritize activities and make cuts within their budget. [assignee] All WGs/Guilds [due] 5 September 2024 [status] todo

To carry over for next meeting:

  • Budget Deficiencies: Due to Devaluation of AGIX

Keywords/tags:

  • topics covered: Budget deficiencies, Budget cuts, Facilitation, Documentation, Town Hall session

  • emotions: Well-attended, Casual, Organised, insightful

LatAm Guild

Agenda item 1 - Agenda Item 1 - Multichain Governance and AI in Web3 - [carry over]

Narrative:

Rous introduced the idea of creating a podcast series in Spanish and Portuguese, focusing on Space-AI governance, multichain governance, and public goods. The proposal included live streaming the series to increase reach and engagement with the audience, while considering workshops, hackathons, or events for further community involvement. Thiago discussed the collaboration potential with platforms like Polygon, Solana, and BrazilianCare. There was also emphasis on how MetaPool can contribute through Near Foundation's governance structure. The team explored using Near Foundation's resources to support SingularityNET’s involvement in Near governance, particularly in Brazil.

Decision Items:

  • Multichain Governance and AI in Web3

Action Items:

  • [action] Start preparing documentation for the X Spaces [assignee] Ines, Guillermo [due] 14 August 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] Contact ParaBuilders Brazil for collaboration [assignee] Thiago, ines ganina [due] 14 August 2024 [status] todo

Agenda item 2 - Communication Strategies - [carry over]

Narrative:

Marketing and Partnerships. Thiago highlighted marketing opportunities, suggesting that SingularityNET could benefit from MetaPool’s presence in Near's governance structure and that MetaPool could assist in growing SingularityNET’s footprint in Brazil. The conversation focused on leveraging partnerships to extend the reach of SingularityNET into Brazil's Web3 ecosystem. Additionally, the idea of a MetaPool Ambassador Program to support the expansion of SingularityNET in the Latin American region was introduced.

Decision Items:

  • Analyze opportunity to make alliances with MetaPool to create a SingularityNET LATAM DAO

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

Agenda item 3 - Marketing and Social Media Strategies - [carry over]

Narrative:

The team conducted 10 interviews during the ADN event, engaging participants, speakers, and guests. The focus shifted towards post-production and video editing of the interviews. The idea of creating a data blog to share the ADN videos was proposed, and members discussed how to use project management tools to manage tasks for the R&D Guild and Ambassadors. Post produce #FastTalks videos from ADN interviews.

Decision Items:

  • ADN event post event zction items

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

Action Items:

  • [action] Work on video editing from ADN [assignee] Guillermo, Andrea Dekovic [due] 8 August 2024 [status] done

Agenda item 4 - Operations Sub-Group - [carry over]

Narrative:

Create Dework taks and issues for budget disbursement by the end of month. Track task and deliverables from guild members. Complete operational framework on guild Drive for transparent tracking of tasks and results.

Decision Items:

  • Track task and deliverables from guild members

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

Action Items:

  • [action] Final revisions on system for tracking task and deliverables from guild members [assignee] Guillermo [due] 18 September 2024 [status] todo

Keywords/tags:

  • topics covered: Roles, Collaboration, Translation, GitHub, ADN, agi-24, Tasks, deliverables, treasury guild operations, transparency

  • emotions: Collaborative, entertaining, challenging, creative, efficient, operations

  • other:

Friday 9th August 2024

Video Workgroup

Discussion Points:

  • Updates on task management: Malik indicated that one new member joined the Video WG (Subzero), and made the initial draft for the Quality Control Blueprint.

  • Updates from Social Media Management: Tuso highlighted that he was able to ensure that the townhall videos were posted earlier and he uploaded a clip and a long video within the week

  • Updates from Lordkizzy: Lordkizzy and slate gave updates from the WG Sync call and Governance call, and pleaded for more participation in these essential calls

  • Social Media Automation: Rojo gave a presentation on mixpost and explained its features to the group

  • Quality control process: Lordkizzy presented the Blueprint for Quality Control, and threw some questions to the group.

Decision Items:

  • We decided that subzero would be a member of the video WG since the video was approved by the majority

    • [rationale] The video had a majority vote in favour of acceptance into the video WG, but a few mistakes were highlighted

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

  • We decided that we weren't going with anonymity for the review team

    • [rationale] We peferred to go with a more transparent approach

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

Action Items:

  • [action] Workgroup members to ideate on possible human animation platforms [assignee] All Members [due] 9 August 2024 [status] in progress

  • [action] Task management was assigned to Malik for the month of August. [assignee] malik [due] 16 August 2024 [status] in progress

  • [action] Social media management was assigned to Tuso for the month of August. [assignee] hogantuso [due] 16 August 2024 [status] in progress

  • [action] Weekly Facilitation was assigned to Zalfred for the month of August. [assignee] Zalfred [due] 16 August 2024 [status] in progress

  • [action] Documentation was assigned to Lordkizzy for the month of August. [assignee] lord kizzy [due] 16 August 2024 [status] in progress

  • [action] Town Hall Summary edit was assigned to Andrew Ben for the month of August. [assignee] AndrewBen [due] 16 August 2024 [status] in progress

  • [action] The Town Hall edit was assigned to Killy for the month of August. [assignee] killy [due] 16 August 2024 [status] in progress

  • [action] Lordkizzy and Malik to draft out the Quality control blueprint and present it the workgroup [assignee] lord kizzy, Malik. [due] 9 August 2024 [status] in progress

Keywords/tags:

  • topics covered: Weekly updates, Budget Reduction, Budget fitting, Zealy Updates, Rewards, Video production, Task Assignment, Contigency, Vacation, Quality Control, Tasks format

  • emotions: Casual, productive, Organised, Thoughtful , warm, new ideas, lengthy, decisive, Friendly

Writers Workgroup

  • Type of meeting: Weekly

  • Present: Cjfrankie [facilitator], Gorga Siagian, CallyFromAuron [documenter], Kenichi, Mikasa, cjfrankie, LadyTempestt, devon, Gorga Siagian, Advanceameyaw, Merryman, Eveline Trinite, Nengi, Inésgav, WaKa, Emmanuel Isaac, Eric Davies, Nebula1224

  • Purpose: Weekly meeting of the writers workgroup

  • Working Docs:

Narrative:

Agenda items:

  1. Updates on ongoing projects

  2. WWG Test results

  3. Zealy board

  4. Q3 Report and Q4 Budget

  5. Governance Call

  6. Points system

  7. Updates on ongoing projects: Slate has replied to Kenichi's message and said he will complete his work regarding the “Harnessing AI & Blockchain" AMA.

  8. WWG test results Kenichi said that there are four tests that have been reviewed. He also noticed that a new test had been submitted and asked other Scribes to review it. Kenichi recommends that the three participants who have taken the test should retake it. He will send this information to the reviewers (scribes) so they can contact the participants.

  9. Zealy board Kenichi added video workgroup quests to the Zealy board, and discussed the backlog of older quests.

Kenichi has created a channel for Zealy reviewers and the channel is up and running

Several assignments are awaiting review from Devon, who responded that he will review them today. Apart from that, Kenichi explained that now Zealy tasks carry out this process on a weekly basis, meaning that every weekend there are new tasks that will be done or released for review. Devon will send more quests on the Zealy board today.

Regarding the old quest backlog, Kenichi let some tasks from the previous sprint remain intending to maintain a balance between old participants and new. The main goal is to engage newcomers, so he wants to ensure that frequent participants don't always have an edge over new participants.

  1. Q3 Report and Q4 Budget On the Q3 report: Kenichi reported that there are now more than 220 Medium subscribers; the aim is more than 300 before the end of the quarter. If we achieve this target, it will exceed WWG members' own expectations for this quarter. WWG members have two months left to reach that goal. Kenichi admitted that content publication was a little slow, which is understandable because WWG's budget was only approved at the end of July. However, it is currently trying to catch up, and in August, there will be a lot of content published. Regarding Twitter/X followers, Kenichi reports that the SNET Ambassador Twitter has more than 1,200 followers, and continues to grow. On onboarding, WWG has successfully onboarded two new writers and plans to add several more before the end of the quarter. Kenichi also mentioned that the group needs to discuss whether to open the onboarding process for the fourth quarter (Q4) or not.

  2. Governance calls Attendance at Governance calls, and the importance of representation in Town Halls, were emphasized, alongside updates on the Cogito collaboration project.

  3. Points system We agreed to do a delegation process, where scribblers will signpost other scribblers to attend the point system distribution calls with Kenichi and a scribe, to get a glimpse of how the rewards are distributed every month.

Decision Items:

  • Following old Zealy tasks backlog, Kenichi let some tasks from the previous sprint remain

    • [rationale] To maintain a balance between old participants and new.

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

  • On the points system, we agreed to do a delegation process where scribblers will signpost other scribblers to attend the point system distribution calls with Kenichi and a scribe

    • [rationale] So they can get a glimpse of how the rewards are distributed every month.

Action Items:

  • [action] Slate to complete his work on the “Harnessing AI & Blockchain" AMA. [assignee] Slate [due] 16 August 2024 [status] in progress

  • [action] Kenichi to provide updates on publications and metrics for Q3 report and prepare initial Q3 report document for comments by next Friday. [assignee] Kenichi [due] 16 August 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] Kenichi to conduct final review of the fourth test submission [assignee] Kenichi [due] 16 August 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] Kenichi to start an initial document on how to split workgroup reporting tasks [assignee] Kenichi [due] 16 August 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] CJFrankie to reach out to Sandra for Cogito project updates. [assignee] Cjfrankie [due] 16 August 2024 [status] todo

Keywords/tags:

  • topics covered: Zealy, Points system, Task updates , Onboarding, WWG Test, Twitter, sprinters, Governance, Q3 Updates, tools, Townhall, Cogito, medium, Q3 2024 report, Q4 2024 budget

  • emotions: Collaborative, informative, insightful, forward-thinking

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