Week 19

Mon 6th May - Sun 12th May 2024

Tuesday 7th May 2024

AI Ethics WG

  • Type of meeting: Biweekly

  • Present: Esther [facilitator], Esther [documenter], Vanessa, Peter, 5oundwave5, Esther, Duke, LeeLoo, Guillermo

  • Purpose: To form initial conversations about the GEI (Global Ethics Initiative) workgroup, overall purpose, and some initial strategy.

  • Meeting video: [Link](No video)

  • Transcript: [Link](No transcript)

  • Working Docs:

Narrative:

We addressed who will be part of core contributors - Vani said this often happens organically by starting channel and see who turns up. We talked about how the Archives workgroup in Ambassadors has started an AI ethics/strategy policy. This led to a discussion about how the ecosystem could apply ethics and safety. This could take the form of local groups set within a broader, ecosystemwide ethics committee, so that there's coherence but also focused attention within groups, and freedom to do it according to their needs. Some ethics needs will be different.

We talked about how the Global Ethics Initiative fits in the Risk Management Framework. Specifically, gathering information from ecosystem groups, and collating general ethics research and information. It was suggested that setting standards for the Marketplace could ensure that spinoffs apply it (thought that's only effective if they care about getting on the Marketplace). We agreed to set up a common resource spreadsheet to start to gather research information and frameworks.

We discussed how the new LATAM Guild can get involved in the Global Ethics Initiative. They could translate survey into Spanish and distribute. Maybe the Foundation funding can contribute to that. Ambassadors could have a presence at AI for Good and/or AGI and continue the fishbowl interviews (discussed proper ethics and informed consent form, and collecting metadata/contextual data

Action Items:

  • [action] Start Discord channel for coordination [assignee] Peter [status] done

  • [action] Create the Resources/ecosystem ethics/risk evaluation spreadsheet [assignee] Esther, LeeLoo [status] in progress

  • [action] Create consent form [assignee] Esther, Vanessa, LeeLoo [status] in progress

  • [action] Find out feasibility of Ambassadors at the 2 events [assignee] Haley, Esther [status] todo

Keywords/tags:

  • topics covered: AI ethics, Global Ethics Initiative, policies, interviews, consent, events, marketplace, spinoffs, risk management

  • emotions: Casual, Collaborative

Ambassador Town Hall

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.

00:23 Agenda 01:17 What The Ambassador Program Is 03:40 Strategy Guild, Looking Back At What It Did, And Whether To Revive It 05:49 Open Session (random Questions) 08:54 Open Sourcing Our Stuff 36:41 Session On Q1 52:30 Remarks/questions

Town Hall Summary:

Main topics this Town Hall include:

  • the idea of reviving Strategy Guild, the things it did in the past (including testing of decision-making tools), and brief opinions on why it faded. (Note from the meeting Chat - Ways to find out what a group has done in the past are their past budgets; their archived meeting summaries; and their Discord.)

  • In-depth discussion of open source ethos and culture. Open-source is more than just tools and licences; Open-source also is meant to prevent hidden changes or functionality; "open source" doesn't have to mean working for free, getting ripped off, etc; Open-source is a very specific culture, originally - but has it expnded beyond its original limits?; Do we need to pay more attention to open-source approaches in our work?; Archives' work on how to open-source our documents; idea of building our own open-source tooling, and only using 3rd-party tools temporarily; listing the tools we do use (and note this was done in the past - see "Grassroots Ethics of the SNET Ambassador Program", https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DOO2TKNkLBKSFFa5jvgAHm30wjNpRj0uXiVz6YRtI9E/edit?usp=sharing , which is an outline of tools used in the Program and the ethics behind them, created October 2023 by Incubation Guild; and "Ambassador Tools" https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hFAp0dm5Tmoh29EgxC9r5XTey_EWeb9lRdrI0JCpbPk/edit?usp=sharing , a list of tools used and how they are used in the Program.

  • individual comments on Q1 budget

Keywords/tags:

  • topics covered: open source, open source ethos, Quarter 1 2024, recap, Decentralization Blueprint, Supervisory Council, Q2 budget decision process, Q2 budget, Strategy Guild, tools, tool ethics

  • emotions: engaging, participatory, interesting, sense of community

Governance Workgroup

Narrative:

Issues: Budget changement at Writers' WG causes some confusion. We will reach out to the Writers WG to ask for a re-submission and clarity on the current Q2 Budget proposal. We ideally get a updated Writers WG budget submitted by Monday, May 13th

Issues: Not clear how to contact Core Contributors the best, so we set up a new channel ("Decision To Be Made") which will be publicly accessible, but with writing access only for the core contributors. We will announce important topics regarding decisions which need to be made at that channel.

We didnt discuss: Item: Naming Decision

Discussion Points:

  • Q2 Budget decision where are we, what next: Core contributors completed first

Action Items:

  • [action] Plan a consent session May 21st at 14.00 UTC, at the Governance Workgroup session. We will also try to get better in informing the Core Contributors and aim to increase participation. [assignee] all [due] 21 May 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] Define format for a retrospective session on Q2 budget decisionmaking. We will use two parallel processes to gather feedback & insights on the Q2 Budget. First, we organise a Zoom session, supporting with a Miro board. Make the round and ask core contributors about: What worked well, didnt worked well & suggestions for improvements. We plan to host the retrospective session on June 11th at 14.00 UTC at the Governance WG. [assignee] all [due] 11 June 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] In addition we will use a pol.is to gather async & anonymous feedback. Note* We will have to enable some capacity to make sure to analyse and archive the outcomes from the retrospective... Coordinate closely with Archives WG* [assignee] all [due] 14 May 2024 [status] todo

Keywords/tags:

  • topics covered: Q2 Budget decision , Core contributor communication , Retrospective planning , Budget change request , Writer's Workgroup, Pol.is, Discord

  • emotions: positive, Neutral , Confusion

Wednesday 8th May 2024

Research and Development Guild

Agenda Items:

  • Welcoming New Members and Introduction

  • Review of last meeting summary Action Items

  • Final Q1 Report: Deliverables Status update.

  • Discussion of items: Community Concerns

  • Onboarding of new members

Discussion Points:

  • Discussions on R&D Guild Budget and Duke's proposal ( Research on Inclusivity for Individuals with Disabilities in SingularityNET Ecosystem.): this wont be included in our Q2 budget, due to an increase in proposals from workgroups and intergration of new workgroups

  • Discussions on Concerns in our Q2 budget. majority of the members, found the first concern "There is huge concern between Q1 proposal and Quarterly results match. Thousands of dollars were allocated to development, but not a single repo is shared nor seems to be developed. All we get is a Proposal for Q2. I trust the members to be more transparent with deliverables in Q2 or I might become a blocker" as invalid since the guild decides on how to give out deliverables to the community.

  • Discussions on Concerns in our Q2 budget. majority of the members, "My only concern is that as the projects and initiatives increase in this Guild we have not properly addressed the Operations increase that is impacted by that. As the iniatives grow there are more and more operations and internal processes that are not accurately captured by the budget." : we have agreed to improve our workflow in terms of Operations.

  • Discussions on Decision making tool and processes

  • Discussions on R&D workshops

Decision Items:

  • We decided to adopt and implement a Biweekly report on progress and also conduct Bi-weekly workshop

    • [rationale] Majority of members felt this was important for the Guild in terms of operations

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

Action Items:

  • [action] Guillermo to have a call with Ubio on providing assistance to the multilingual project by conecting them with Celestes team. Audio to text AI DF awarded Project [assignee] Guilermo [due] 8 May 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] Ubio, WaKa, Rojo to add their contributions to the R&D _ Q1 Proposal Report _ Template. [assignee] Ubiodee, WaKa, Rojo [due] 8 May 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] Kenichi to share his evaluation doc for the Writer's WG with the R&D Guild [assignee] Kenichi [due] 8 May 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] Kenichi to create a basic explanatory document on his initiatives for the ambassador program website and present it in the next meeting [assignee] Kenichi [due] 8 May 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] 5oundwave5 & William to create a doc on how they could contribute to the Guild, and share it in next meeting [assignee] 5oundwave5, William [due] 15 May 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] The Guild should give back our responses on the concerns on our Q2 budget. [assignee] Guild members [due] 8 May 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] Kizzy, Duke & Ubiodee to attend the next treasury meeting to have discussions on Duke's proposal [assignee] lord kizzy, Duke, Ubiodee [status] todo

Keywords/tags:

  • topics covered: Guilds , Budget , Tool Development, Proposal, AI tooling, API, deliverables, Meeting Summaries, Budget Request, Q2 budget, Social media Dashboard, social media, meeting summary tool, agenda creation, Decision Making Process, GitHub, Workshop

  • emotions: Collaborative, productive, Thoughtful , speedy , Welcoming

Dework PBL

  • Type of meeting: Biweekly

  • Present: Tevo [facilitator], Tevo [documenter], Tevo, André, Gorga Siagian, 5oundwave5, malik, Effiom

  • Purpose: This Workgroup focuses on creating educational project-based learning material for Dework on the Andamio platform in collaboration with Gimbalabs and Governance Guild

  • Miro board: Link

  • Other media: Link

  • Working Docs:

Agenda item 1 - Reward Automation related to Dework PBL - [carry over]

Discussion Points:

  • How should participation be rewarded in the Dework PBL WG meeting?

  • How are Dework PBL Participants currently getting funded?

  • Should there be offboarding, and what does that look like?

  • Participation vs Contribution

Decision Items:

  • We don't take control of the off-boarding process. Instead, we will try to find a reward weight for each participant based on their contributions done before.

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

Action Items:

  • [action] Create a visualization of different potential categories of contributions and participations we have accumulated so far. [status] todo

  • [action] Define the algorithm and parameters for rewarding participation in future sessions [status] todo

Agenda item 2 - Course Website - [carry over]

Discussion Points:

  • Taking a look into new fresh onboarding, Dework PBL Course changes https://youtu.be/WW9YZRhM_no

  • Suggesting improvements as we go through content

Decision Items:

  • We continue to step through course actions in every bi-weekly meeting for around 30 minutes

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

Action Items:

  • [action] Update permissions lesson with a guide on how to invite people to Dework Space to manage tasks [status] todo

  • [action] Update Module 201.1 check subheadings [status] todo

  • [action] Update Module 201.1 to include a Link to the Playground Overview Page. [status] todo

  • [action] Check if some features are missing in the mobile Dework version compared to the Desktop version [status] todo

Agenda item 3 - Review and planning next steps - [carry over]

Discussion Points:

  • What have we achieved so far at a high level?

  • What other PBL and Amabssador related things do we want to work on?

  • What things are left to do according to the proposal?

  • We did Point Allocation Voting on ideated results to give us group sentiment on the next steps.

Decision Items:

  • Continue waiting for Version 2 Updates to try it out for course creation

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

Action Items:

  • [action] Go through Gamers Guild questions in the next session [status] todo

Keywords/tags:

  • topics covered: review, forward planning, Andamio updates, Reward automation, Rewards

Education Workgroup

  • Type of meeting: Weekly

  • Present: Slate [facilitator], Slate [documenter], Slate, Clement Umoh, osmium, duke peter, WaKa, GorgaSeagian, Kenichi, Photogee, SoundWaves, esewilliams, DS9

  • Purpose: Review Team Updates, Osmium Metaverse Build for Education, Gorga’s proposal for education and onboarding, Google Classroom update, Waka's "Teach with AI and About AI"

  • Working Docs:

In this meeting we discussed:

  • Review Team updates

  • Osmium Metaverse Build for Education,

  • Gorga’s proposal for education and onboarding

  • Google Classroom update,

  • Waka’s proposal, "Teach with AI and About AI"

Discussion Points:

  • Slate started the meeting welcoming everybody

  • Then he highlighted the agenda for today’s meeting

  • Osmium shared his metaverse experience build on Universe for educational purposes

  • Everybody really liked the useful tool

  • Slate provided updates from vanessa’s side regarding quizzes update and guided everyone for the required adjustments

  • Then Gorga presented his proposal for collaboration

  • Slate guided that the proposal would be best fitting the writer’s workgroup as they can help in getting out quality articles

  • Then Slate gave a update regarding Google Classroom, that the quiz timer can be implemented and will be most probably completed by next week

  • Slate than gave the floor to Waka so that he can give a overview of the his proposal regarding “Teach with AI and About AI”

Decision Items:

  • Reach out to Fetch and Ocean

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

Action Items:

  • [action] Slate to add timer to quizzes [assignee] Slate [due] 15 May 2024 [status] done

  • [action] Reach out to Fetch and Ocean [assignee] WaKa [due] 15 May 2024 [status] done

  • [action] Ese to give visual presentation of Microsoft Teams [assignee] esewilliams [due] 15 May 2024 [status] done

Keywords/tags:

  • topics covered: ACP, review, platform, Google Classroom, timer, quizzes, Universe, metaverse, Teach with AI , metaverse, Gorga's proposal

  • emotions: productive, Collaborative, Businesslike., speedy

Thursday 9th May 2024

Onboarding Workgroup

Town Hall Updates:

Hogan Tuso will give the Onboarding WG update on Tues 28th May, Clement Umoh to mentor him.

Suggested topics include:

  • share link to survey on onboarding sessions, and mention it closes on 31st May

  • Thank all who attended Treasury session (18th April) AND share a link to the YouTube video.

  • Recap of Onboarding session on 16th May - mention the Discord walkthrough and share a link to the recording.

In this meeting we discussed:

  • Minutes of the last meeting

  • Action Items from the last meeting

  • Updating the Getting-Started Discord channel

  • Onboarding Sessions survey

  • The Facilitators' Collective training course https://thefacilitatorscollective.wordpress.com/project-type/facilitation-course/

  • Gamers' Guild's Roblox game of the Ambassador Program - a presentation of how they have representaed Onboarding WG

Decision Items:

  • We agreed on last week's minutes

    • [rationale] We noted that the documenter (Olokoji) had uploaded minutes directly in the Meeting Summary tool, but some of the group were looking for a doc. Need to check for both when approving minutes!

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

  • We agreed ladyTempestt's survey about onboarding sessions is good and ready to go out. We'll share it at the onboarding session on 16th May, and afterwards in Discord

    • [rationale] because we want to capture answers both from those who attend on 16th and those who don't

    • [effect] mayAffectOtherPeople

  • We agreed that everyone should add their skills to the Skills Audit doc before the next meeting

    • [rationale] To capture what skills people have, and what they want to learn - to identify any training or peer-support/mentoring needs, and any skills gaps

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

  • We noted that the Facilitators' Collective (a Cardano Project Catalyst project) has a self-paced online training course for facilitators, and a Discord server at https://discord.gg/un4R6YBZR6 , which might be useful for people here

    • [rationale] People often make their first steps in facilitation via this WG, so a learning resource might help

    • [effect] mayAffectOtherPeople

  • We agreed that Clement will be the backup person to deliver our Town Hall update this month if HoganTuso is unavailable

    • [rationale] Clement (who is mentoring Tuso on this) hasn't been able to get in touch with Tuso, so we're not sure if he's still available to do it.

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

  • We agreed that the context-setting document for the naming decision is still open for comments and input from WG members

    • [rationale] We don't yet know when the naming decision will be made, but it will be before the end of Q2 - so it's best to get the info/context-setting doc ready as soon as we can

    • [effect] mayAffectOtherPeople

  • Slate and the gamers' Guild presented how Onboarding WG looks in the Roblox game of the Ambassador program, and we agreed it's great

    • [effect] mayAffectOtherPeople

  • We agreed to carry over discussion of the Getting Started channel to next meeting, and for all interested members to add comments to the Getting Starred doc wirth anythings that needs to be updated

    • [effect] mayAffectOtherPeople

Action Items:

  • [action] Lord Kizzy, Duke, Cj frankie, Vani, SucrenSpice, Lady Tempestt to continue work on scripts for onboarding journeys [assignee] duke peter, lord kizzy, cjfrankie , LadyTempestt, Vanessa, SucrenSpice [due] 23 May 2024 [status] in progress

  • [action] Clement will be facilitating the next meeting to cover for Vani (note this is 23rd May, because 16th is the onboarding session), Gorga to document [assignee] Clement Umoh, Gorga Siagian [due] 23 May 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] Infographic for May 16th Onboarding Session [assignee] Cjfrankie [due] 9 May 2024 [status] done

  • [action] Sucre to reach out to Educational Guild about Gorga's proposal [assignee] SucrenSpice [due] 9 May 2024 [status] done

  • [action] Vani to add the meeting notes from the 25th April and the 2nd May to the summary tool [assignee] Vanessa [due] 23 May 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] Lady Tempestt to chase Mikasa to publicize the forthcoming onboarding session on X [Twitter] [assignee] LadyTempestt [due] 14 May 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] Lordkizzy to ask Tevo to add the context-setting docs to the knowledge base. [assignee] lord kizzy [due] 23 May 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] Clement Umoh to contact Tuso about delivering the next Town Hall update scheduled for 28th of May, 2024. [assignee] Clement Umoh [due] 23 May 2024 [status] todo

Learning Points:

  • Some people upload minutes directly to the Summary Tool, so we need to check both when approving minutes of last meeting

To carry over for next meeting:

  • Onboarding Journey scripts

  • Getting Started discord channel

Keywords/tags:

  • topics covered: context-setting docs, renaming Ambassadors, survey , Onboarding sessions, Documentation, Meeting Summaries, Roblox, Gamers Guild, Town Hall update, Knowledge base, Twitter/X, publicity, Facilitation, facilitators collective, learning resources

  • emotions: informative, interesting

Deep Funding Town Hall

  • Type of meeting: Weekly

  • Present: jay05|judithW [facilitator], CallyFromAuron [documenter], jay05|judithW, Jan Horlings, Juan Pablo Barea, S. B. van Houten, 5oundwave5, Ayo, Clement Umoh, Robert Bedoya, XyrisKenn, Udai Solanki, Billy, Sucre n Spice, MayorDefi, Ubiodee, Daniel, Kings Ghedosa, PureRelativity(Curtis), Digital Ark's Fathom Notetaker, Musonda Bemba, Omni Ark

  • Purpose: DeepFunding Town Hall is a (usually) fortnightly meeting (although for a short period, it has been weekly) led by the SingularityNET Ambassador community, where we share updates, presentations & conversations about topics that relate to Deep Funding and SingularityNET.

  • Town Hall Number: 33

Timestamped video:

00:03 Intro 03:05 Round 4 Funding Targets And Marketing Proposals 08:14 Plan To Have Regional Town Halls And Community Website For Coordination 10:50 New Rfp Process And Limitations For Town Hall Proposals. 16:24 Building A Community Aligned With Singularity Net's Mission 18:47 Feedback On Platform Notifications And Improvements 23:08 Feedback Without Replicating Full Discussion 25:39 Clarifying Milestones And Funding Usage For Grants. 30:13 Positive Feedback On Singularity Network Community 32:27 Introduction To Trivia Segment 36:59 Setting Up For Trivia Game Night 39:15 Contest Winners And Future Trivia Plans 44:21 Trivia Game Night Begins With A Countdown 47:13 Round Four Funding Amount And Trivia Game Results 52:42 Discussion On Past Funding Rounds And Current Player Rankings. 55:21 The New Proposal Submission Portal For Testing Was Launched By Deep Funding. 1:00:47 Discussion On Technical Issues During Gameplay 1:02:56 Trivia Game Results And Questions Discussed 1:08:19 Deep Funding Round Four Key Points 1:11:09 Deep Funding Town Hall Q+a Session Highlights

Town Hall Summary:

This Town Hall was mainly a Q&A about the current Deep Funding round 4; followed by a trivia quiz.

Keywords/tags:

  • topics covered: regional expansion, regional town halls, community website, deep funding website, Marketing, marketing proposals, targets, RFP, alignment, singularitynet mission, Deepfunding proposal platform, proposal platform, milestones, community, game, trivia

  • emotions: informative, good humoured, self-congratulatory, fun, interesting, surprising

Friday 10th May 2024

Writers Workgroup

  • Type of meeting: Weekly

  • Present: Kenichi [facilitator], LadyTempestt [documenter], Kenichi, Cjfrankie, Mikasa, LadyTempestt, Kareem, devon, Nebula1224, 5oundwave5, rob b, Photogee

  • Purpose: Highlight on the new Zealy sprint, and first-come, first-to-get policy on dework

Narrative:

Kenichi asked about updates on different tasks Scribes/Scribblers are on. Kenichi appreciated the Scribes for their assistance in getting Zealy tasks ready as it is good to go now. Kenichi placed emphasis on a “first-come, first-to-get” policy on Dework tasks for WG members. LadyTempestt and 5Soundwave5 brought up the issue of Trivia to make it more inclusive of everyone in the SNET Ecosystem. Kenichi also talked about creating polls on what trivia questions should be on; he's going to try to make that happen. Kareem gave brief updates on the brand kits for the Ambassador program. LadyTempestt suggested that everyone in WG gets involved in drafting quarterly budgets. Kenichi agreed to this and said we would start going through it together from next quarter.

Decision Items:

  • From next quarter, everyone in WG will be involved in drafting quarterly budgets

    • [rationale] for fairness and decentralization

    • [effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup

  • Friday Trivia quiz should have polls on what trivia questions should be on

    • [rationale] To make it more inclusive of everyone in the SNET Ecosystem.

    • [effect] mayAffectOtherPeople

Action Items:

  • [action] CJFrankie is to write monthly updates in April for the SingularityNET Ambassador program and submit them by next week [assignee] Cjfrankie [status] todo

  • [action] Kenichi to go through LadyTempestt’s current task after the meeting. [assignee] Kenichi [status] todo

Keywords/tags:

  • topics covered: Triva, Tasks, Quarterly Budget, inclusion, Brand kit, Decentralization

  • emotions: insightful, short, Collaborative

Video Workgroup

Discussion Points:

  • More updates on the Zealy tasks

  • We discussed on more engagement for our socials

  • Lord kizzy, as the task manager, provided weekly task updates.

  • Discussion on updates of the proposal sheet

  • There was a discussion on creating a video workgroup Zealy sprint

  • There was more discussion on tournament for the Gamers Guild

Decision Items:

  • We decided to have to keep the Zealy program

    • [rationale] It would be unwise to have two zealy sprints from the Ambassador program

    • [effect] mayAffectOtherPeople

  • zalfred as facilitator is to contact slate on the idea that DS9 gave during the meeting

Action Items:

  • [action] Task Management/ tag the task payment either it is a monthly or weekly payment [assignee] lord kizzy [due] 24 May 2024 [status] in progress

  • [action] facilitator to give monthly updates [assignee] Zalfred [due] 24 May 2024 [status] todo

  • [action] Facilitator to create a vote pool for quarterly or monthly assignment [assignee] Zalfred [due] 24 May 2024 [status] done

  • [action] social manager, task manager and town hall editor to reach out to peter to get admin access to the zealy sprint [assignee] Slate, lord kizzy, malik [due] 10 June 2024 [status] todo

Keywords/tags:

  • topics covered: social media management, new people, Videomaking, Zealy, gamers' guild, vote pool, assignments

  • emotions: Friendly, Casual, positive, speedy

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