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Thoughts on an�RChain Special Meeting

by dckc, in progress Apr-May 2019

https://github.com/rchain-community/sm19a

♫Welcome to the RChain Special Meeting♫

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Records: Video, Text

Note Zoom recording in progress

Ask the chair (Dan) if you want the recording paused to speak off the record briefly

Norm: public video recording

On DivvyDAO: BYOID, RChain, DigLife Youtube channel
Thanks to our host, Jim Whitescarver (jimscarver)

Goal: near-real-time text notes

Scribe volunteers?
Shared notes

Polls for

Session notes shared doc

https://github.com/rchain-community/sm19a

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Proposed: to thank Barry, Mark, and Kevin

“Upon submission of a petition signed by 10% of the membership to call a special meeting with one or more specific matters for a member vote, the RChain Board will schedule a special meeting of the membership at a commercially reasonable future date.”�-- Bylaws section 3 Annual and Special Meetings

Whereas Barry Cynamon, Mark Pui, and Kevin Goldstein served with distinction on the RChain Cooperative board, let us thank them for their service.

https://github.com/rchain-community/sm19a

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Timeline / Schedule

Tue, Apr 23: Barry’s resignation�Wed, Apr 24: Mark’s resignation
Fri, Apr 26: sm19a proposal in #governance at 23:52 UTC

Mandate: 100+ votes >= 10% of membership
Rough plan: 2-3 x 90min webinar sessions�separated by a few days for “hallway discussion”

Sat, Apr 27: ~20 join office hours (video recording, rough transcript)

Membership:�951 ID-Verified at last count�per Ian Bloom Apr 24 in #governance

https://github.com/rchain-community/sm19a

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Timeline / Schedule

Fri, Apr 26: sm19a proposal in #governance at 23:52 UTC

Idea: 2-3 x 90min webinar sessions�separated by a few days for “hallway discussion”

Sat, Apr 27: ~20 join office hours: video recording
Wed, May 1: Member meeting 10am PST (before 11am debrief)
Thu, May 2: Governance meeting

Sat, May 4: Office hours 9am Kansas City time
May 11 <- you are here

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Timeline / Schedule

Fri, Apr 26: sm19a proposal in #governance at 23:52 UTC

Idea: 2-3 x 90min webinar sessions�separated by a few days for “hallway discussion”

Sat, Apr 27: ~20 join office hours: video recording
Sat, May 4: sm19a session 1 9am Kansas City time
Tue, May 7: Board meeting
Sat, May 11: sm19a session 2 <- you are here
Tue, May 14: LGM confirmed for 3:30 PST

Note doodle poll for time slots from May 4 - 15

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Goals and Items of Business

It’s not clear that we can make any binding decisions in this meeting process, given constraints in the Bylaws

For example, under Board Nominations; Election: “Candidates interested in being nominated for election must submit their Director Qualification Statement Form to the RChain Cooperative at nom-cmte@gov.rchain.coop sixty (60) days in advance of a meeting of the members.”

I aim to facilitate a discussion where people are heard.
Clear proposals with backing from dozens of members (including offers to participate) should be enough to start useful things moving.

Example: input to the board on new board members

https://github.com/rchain-community/sm19a

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Chair/MC: Dan Connolly

Decades of collaboration experience at W3C �Running effective meetings:

Ensure participants are heard
Make good use of time
Ensure good records with clear follow-up

RChain community participant since Nov 2017

Capability Security, Correct-by-construction: Spring 2018 Dev conference presentation

Occasional rchain/rchain core commits: rholang code, scala code, .proto docs
RChain-API JavaScript API

dreaming big at the RChain Governance Forum (blog item 2018-02-21)
Saturday office Hours

Open to many outcomes

Chair’s role is not to champion any one position

Disclosure: contract/SOW: RChain Smart Contract and Software Development

Jan 2019, continued from Apr 2018

https://github.com/rchain-community/sm19a

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Goals and Items of Business

It’s not clear that we can make any binding decisions in this meeting process, given constraints in the Bylaws

For example, under Board Nominations; Election: “Candidates interested in being nominated for election must submit their Director Qualification Statement Form to the RChain Cooperative at nom-cmte@gov.rchain.coop sixty (60) days in advance of a meeting of the members.”

I aim to facilitate a discussion where people are heard.
Clear proposals with backing from dozens of members (including offers to participate) should be enough to start useful things moving.

Watch the notes:

If the scribe got it, we heard you already. No need to repeat yourself.
If the scribe didn’t get it, many meeting participants probably didn’t either.

Are you talking too fast?
Are you rambling?

Session notes shared doc

https://github.com/rchain-community/sm19a

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Goals and Items of Business

It’s not clear that we can make any binding decisions in this meeting process, given constraints in the Bylaws

For example, under Board Nominations; Election: “Candidates interested in being nominated for election must submit their Director Qualification Statement Form to the RChain Cooperative at nom-cmte@gov.rchain.coop sixty (60) days in advance of a meeting of the members.”

I aim to facilitate a discussion where people hear each other.
Clear proposals with backing from dozens of members (including offers to participate) should be enough to start useful things moving.

♫ RChain blues♫

Coop refinement
Non-coop
fizzle

#members: I agree in general and appreciate your time. Unfortunately my biggest concern now is that based on past actions outside of the member's control (in the short to medium term at least) it became near impossible to responsibly put one's reputation on the line for this project. That said just as maybe just maybe the project was growing past those previous actions, more ridiculousness follows and it puts at least me back at square one in terms of putting my reputation on the line for it. That is the most annoying part of this entire project thus far for someone that believes in the project and the space as a whole.

https://github.com/rchain-community/sm19a

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Goals and Items of Business

It’s not clear that we can make any binding decisions in this meeting process, given constraints in the Bylaws

For example, under Board Nominations; Election: “Candidates interested in being nominated for election must submit their Director Qualification Statement Form to the RChain Cooperative at nom-cmte@gov.rchain.coop sixty (60) days in advance of a meeting of the members.”

I aim to facilitate a discussion where people are heard.
Clear proposals with backing from dozens of members (including offers to participate) should be enough to start useful things moving.