Week 19
Mon 6th May - Sun 12th May 2024
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Mon 6th May - Sun 12th May 2024
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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:
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] 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
topics covered: AI ethics, Global Ethics Initiative, policies, interviews, consent, events, marketplace, spinoffs, risk management
emotions: Casual, Collaborative
Type of meeting: Weekly
Present: PeterE [facilitator], CallyFromAuron [documenter], 5oundwave5, Clement Umoh, CollyPride, guillermolucero, Duke, Robert Bedoya, CallyFromAuron, WaKa, Billy, Will Tatz, Gorga Siagian, SucrenSpice, PureRelativity(Curtis), Tevo, oep, Slate, lord kizzy
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: 96
Working Docs:
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.
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
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
Type of meeting: Weekly
Present: Felix [facilitator], Felix [documenter], Felix, CallyFromAuron, PeterE, guillermolucero, SucrenSpice
Purpose: Weekly GovWG Meeting
Working Docs:
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
Q2 Budget decision where are we, what next: Core contributors completed first
[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
topics covered: Q2 Budget decision , Core contributor communication , Retrospective planning , Budget change request , Writer's Workgroup, Pol.is, Discord
emotions: positive, Neutral , Confusion
Type of meeting: Weekly
Present: Guillermo [facilitator], Onyeka [documenter], 5oundwave5, Curtis, Rojo, William, WaKa, duke peter, Ubiodee, malik, rebel, Ayodele, Peter, Mikasa, Rob, Vasu, Samson Freeman
Purpose: R&D Updates and Discussions
Working Docs:
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
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
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] 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
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
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
Working Docs:
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
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] 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
Taking a look into new fresh onboarding, Dework PBL Course changes https://youtu.be/WW9YZRhM_no
Suggesting improvements as we go through content
We continue to step through course actions in every bi-weekly meeting for around 30 minutes
[effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup
[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
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.
Continue waiting for Version 2 Updates to try it out for course creation
[effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup
[action] Go through Gamers Guild questions in the next session [status] todo
topics covered: review, forward planning, Andamio updates, Reward automation, Rewards
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:
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"
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”
Reach out to Fetch and Ocean
[effect] affectsOnlyThisWorkgroup
[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
topics covered: ACP, review, platform, Google Classroom, timer, quizzes, Universe, metaverse, Teach with AI , metaverse, Gorga's proposal
emotions: productive, Collaborative, Businesslike., speedy
Type of meeting: Weekly
Present: Clement Umoh [facilitator], cjfrankie [documenter], Clement Umoh, cjfrankie, SucrenSpice, Vanessa, Peter, LadyTempestt, lord kizzy, duke peter, Slate, daniel effiom, Photogee, Olokoji, Billy, Gorga Siagian
Working Docs:
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.
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
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] 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
Some people upload minutes directly to the Summary Tool, so we need to check both when approving minutes of last meeting
Onboarding Journey scripts
Getting Started discord channel
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
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
This Town Hall was mainly a Q&A about the current Deep Funding round 4; followed by a trivia quiz.
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
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
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.
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] 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
topics covered: Triva, Tasks, Quarterly Budget, inclusion, Brand kit, Decentralization
emotions: insightful, short, Collaborative
Type of meeting: Weekly
Present: Zalfred [facilitator], killy [documenter], hogantuso, lord kizzy, Sound Wave, oep, AndrewBen, martinsoki, DS9, Photogee, malik
Purpose: Weekly updates/improvement on engagment
Working Docs:
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
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] 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
topics covered: social media management, new people, Videomaking, Zealy, gamers' guild, vote pool, assignments
emotions: Friendly, Casual, positive, speedy
Agenda What The Ambassador Program Is Strategy Guild, Looking Back At What It Did, And Whether To Revive It Open Session (random Questions) Open Sourcing Our Stuff Session On Q1 Remarks/questions
Miro board:
Other media:
Intro Round 4 Funding Targets And Marketing Proposals Plan To Have Regional Town Halls And Community Website For Coordination New Rfp Process And Limitations For Town Hall Proposals. Building A Community Aligned With Singularity Net's Mission Feedback On Platform Notifications And Improvements Feedback Without Replicating Full Discussion Clarifying Milestones And Funding Usage For Grants. Positive Feedback On Singularity Network Community Introduction To Trivia Segment Setting Up For Trivia Game Night Contest Winners And Future Trivia Plans Trivia Game Night Begins With A Countdown Round Four Funding Amount And Trivia Game Results Discussion On Past Funding Rounds And Current Player Rankings. The New Proposal Submission Portal For Testing Was Launched By Deep Funding. Discussion On Technical Issues During Gameplay Trivia Game Results And Questions Discussed Deep Funding Round Four Key Points Deep Funding Town Hall Q+a Session Highlights