Week 9

Mon 24th Feb - Sun 2nd Mar 2025

Thursday 27th February 2025

WG Sync Call

• Type of meeting: Monthly

• Present: PeterE [facilitator], CallyFromAuron [documenter], PeterE, CallyFromAuron, CollyPride, Duke, advanceameyaw, osmium, AshleyDawn, Clement Umoh, Sucre n Spice, kenichi

• Purpose: Monthly call for all Workgroups to discuss Program-wide issues

• Working Docs:

  • “Budget caps for Q2” discussion

  • Ambassador Program End of Year report - draft outline

  • Workgroup syncing call feedback (Responses)

  • #01 _ Agenda Items MCLab _ 250225 (MeTTa Coder Lab program)

  • CONFLICT RESOLUTION FOR SINGULARITY NET AMBASSADORS

Agenda Items:

• Which WGs are represented on the call?

• WG minimum budgets

• Increasingly late meeting start times

• Archives will not be checking meeting summaries in Q2 2025

• What WG Sync calls should be about (results of Googleform)

• Ambassador Program End of Year Report 2024

• WGs that are not taking part?

• MeTTa Coders Lab initiative

Discussion:

1. Workgroups represented on the call: We asked in Chat and found the following groups are present

• Archives

• AI Ethics

• Onboarding

• Translation

• Writers

• Marketing

• R & D

• Moderators

• African Guild

• Governance

• Sandbox/Think Tank

1. WG minimum budgets - How to progress discussion on the idea, proposed in the "budget caps for Q2" discussion doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kVd_4Ih-lSdMoIcmVeOS3_H3aqOdnMmMG6o1WqGTx1w/edit?usp=sharing , that WGs should determine their minimum budgets - it was decided that Governance WG is the best place for this conversation, and that we should not actually discuss it in this meeting.

2. Increasingly late meeting start times: We recognised that it's difficult to fix without putting people off turning up at all. Suggestions included:

• If you're late, your participation will not be counted (but most people would not mind that);

• Start meetings at 5 mins past, regardless of who's present - of course this can't be enforced on WGs, but we could suggest it, and try it out in e.g. Governance, Town Hall, etc.

1. Archives WG will not be checking meeting summaries during Q2 - Meeting summaries are often inaccurate or garbled, and it is a lot of overhead to check and correct them. So for budget reasons and experimental reasons, Archives will stop doing this during Q2, and will simply approve and archive whatever is submitted. They will then test whether the graph RAG process they are developing is able to "fill in the gaps" and derive meaningful and accurate information from summaries in Q2. If yes, it will be helpful to know that our archiving system doesn't require accurate summaries; and if no, we can assess what kinds of errors matter.

2. Googleform responses on what WG Sync calls should cover: see https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DYQb3U4AkXsxtOl7uHONFtfBkavicU1wleJskQKf5Ms/edit?usp=sharing There were 5 responses, all quite different. Key points:

• Some issues with not knowing when the call is (we need to keep publicising it)

• Best uses of time include cross-WG collaborations; feedback, evaluation, and knowledge sharing; top-level planning, and assigning relevant people to go off and discuss issues in more detail; external speakers.

• There was a suggestion of using the call for progress updates, but this was felt to be very similar to the monthly "WG Updates" Town Hall, so perhaps not useful.

• Should NOT be used for: Grievances/conflict resolution (we note that there is a process in place for that, see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1beMEt9XmPvHNaH08Rh5_taTI0QhHcyy15Q6XcXXDWUI/edit?usp=sharing , though it has never been used); Personal ideas; Decisionmaking and detailed planning; Issues that belong in Governance meetings. Note that some people in the meeting disagreed with some of these.

• Future wishes for the calls - several of these have already started to be done; the idea of expert training sessions in the call itself, and followup discussion afterwards, remains to be discussed. We note that a previous Governance session (9th Jan 2025, https://snet-ambassadors.gitbook.io/singularitynet-archive/timeline/2025/january-2025/week-2#governance-workgroup-1) discussed how to encourage attendance from all WGs - there was a suggestion of rewards from Program reserves for WGs that attended all 3 meetings in a Quarter; although we noted that given current token price, this might not be something we still want to do. Nevertheless, we have recorded which WGs were present.

1. End of Year Report 2024 - we agreed a final date of Sunday 9th March to finish the report https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TxKxP9sDNgvKncAqO0F-UhZgoftMdDktaqbt50-h2XM/edit?usp=sharing, and WGs who have not added material will do so by Fri 7th to allow time for a final proofread. We also noticed that several WGs (Education, Gamers, Strategy) have not added material and have not been coming to WG Sync calls - are they feeling excluded or disengaged in any way, or facing barriers? We did not reach conclusions on how or whether to ask them.

2. MeTTa Coder Lab: This is intended as a "low-barrier-to-entry" way for people to learn MeTTa, and was originally a proposal in an RFP funding round, but was unsuccessful - so Guillermo is suggesting it as a cross-WG collaboration - education+ RND + AI SANDBOX +Onboarding plus any others who want to. The proposal and other materials were shared and comments were invited. There will be meetings soon to discuss the collaboration and how to fund it.

Decision Items:

• We will continue to publicise the WG Sync calls, and the agenda, in Discord - maybe a little further in advance than we have been doing.

  • [rationale] Because the survey indicated that some people are not aware when the call is, or what is on the agenda

  • [effect] mayAffectOtherPeople

• RE late start to meetings: we will try starting calls such as Governance WG, Town Hall, etc no later than 5 minutes in, regardless of who is present, rather than waiting; and will publicise that we will be doing this. Then in the next WG Sync we will discuss whether it has helped.

  • [rationale] to see if it helps encourage people to arrive on time

  • [effect] mayAffectOtherPeople

• The question of how to approach WG budget minimums will be taken up in Governance WG

  • [rationale] because this call (WG Sync) doesn't feel like the best place for it due to time constraints

  • [effect] mayAffectOtherPeople

• We agreed we will continue to capture which WGs are represented at the WG Sync Calls, but will decide at the end of the Quarter whether we want to go ahead with rewarding WGs who attend all 3 sessions, as agreed in Open Governance meeting on 9th Jan 2025 https://snet-ambassadors.gitbook.io/singularitynet-archive/timeline/2025/january-2025/week-2#governance-workgroup-1

  • [rationale] Due to low token price

  • [effect] mayAffectOtherPeople

• Ambassador Program End of Year Report 2024 to be finished by end of day, Sunday 9th March. Anything not added by then, will not be used

  • [rationale] Because it is now well into 2025, so we need to finish it off

  • [effect] mayAffectOtherPeople

Action Items:

• [action] All to add comments on the MeTTa Coder Lab program doc #01 _ Agenda Items MCLab _ 250225 [assignee] all [due] 4 March 2025 [status] todo

Keywords/tags:

• topics covered: budget minimums, late start to meetings, Archives WorkGroup, Correcting errors in meeting summaries, Meeting Summaries, WG sync call purpose, conflict resolution, End of Year report, End of Year Report 2024, Participation in governance, participation, disengagement, Strategy Guild, Education Guild, Gamers Guild, MeTTa Coder Lab, cross-WG collaboration

• emotions: quiet, not many speakers, late start, positive, interesting