BDWG Meeting Agenda

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Date: 10/17/23 Time: 10:00am PST (UTC-7) Location: to join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/edc-bnqt-kju Otherwise, to join by phone, dial +1 208-717-2922 and enter this PIN: 592 091 936# To view more phone numbers, click this link: https://tel.meet/edc-bnqt-kju?hs=5

Attendees: Elijah, Bharat, Ilk, Victor

Previous Meeting: BDWG, 10/10/23

Agenda Items

1. Introductions (5-10min)

   • Welcome and introductions
   • Brief overview of the purpose and goals of the Bankless DeSci Working Group (BDWG)

2. Goals for this meeting (40-50min)

   • [x] Ratify multi-sig nominations
     • Is anyone in objection? Anonymous Feedback Form
   • [x] Set date for Unconference (tentatively Dec 7th, time???)
     • Discuss responses to interest form for Virtual Unconference Q4-2023
       • Preferred Week = ???
       • Preferred day of the week = ???
       • Total so far = 42
         • “Speakers” = 28
         • Mods = 8
         • Attendee = 23
         • Tentative sponsors 🙂
           • Verbal confirmation: VitaDAO, TalentDAO
           • Pitched/to pitch: Proximity Labs, Near MarketingDAO
             • ResearchHub (Jeff Khoury)
   • [ ] Finalize topics for breakout rooms & start contacting session facilitators to finalize details (confirm availability, session description, topics, etc)
   • [ ] Finalize budget
     • Eventbrite registration (free)
     • Add donation option? Giveth?
     • Contributor remuneration?
       • Can we turn gov tokens into gov tokens & pay people in USDC? Let’s do dataFi!!!
     • Grant Opportunities
       • In progress
         • Elijah, BanklessDAO
         • Yuna, Ethereum Foundation
       • Future
         • MetaPool, Giveth, Gitcoin, etc…
         • Giveth, Ilk
   • Dev updates
     • Backend setup in progress for self-hosted events website

   c. Set deadlines

   • Task board: https://airtable.com/appa4ae2aVZlqBOU9/shrGYJhlSLKReiY2P
     • Bankless.Academy: Bharat
       • [ ] Meeting with Didier + Ornella
       • [ ] Need to get Bharat a guest pass in BDAO
       • Bharat shared rough outline during meeting
     • Twitter: Kryptoshrimp
       • LinkedIn: Yuna
       • Newsletter: TBD
     • Dev: CryptoNahue
       • Deploy self-hosted virtual conference app to banklessdesci.org
     • Ops: Fine
       • Migrate Notion content to BDAO
       • Bitwarden
     • Sponsors: flowscience, Kryptoshrimp
     • Grants: Yuna & Sean
     • [ ] Session facilitators: ???
     • Multisig (tentative): banklesschick, kryptoshrimp, flowscience, cryptoreumd, mantisclone
     • Airtable: Ana, Kryptoshrimp, flowscience
     • BDAO weekly CC updates: flowscience

3. Remaining Action Items (5-10min)

   • [ ] Shortlist of potential keynote speakers
     • [ ] Vitalik, Juan Benet,
     • [x] David Hoffman; Bankless HQ
     • [ ] Other influencers & outside perspectives; Investor like Packy McCormick (a16z crypto)
     • [ ] Paul, Vincent, or Tyler; Molecule
     • [ ] Laurence or Tim; VitaDAO
     • [ ] Niklas; LabDAO

Open Discussion Items

Action items from previous meeting BDWG, 9/19/23

• Bankless Academy “DeSci 101” lesson
  • [ ] Write outline (Elijah & Bharat)
  • [ ] Figure out design requirements & budget needs
  • [x] Meeting with Ornella to talk Bankless Academy on 10/9/23
  • [ ] Meeting with Didier + Ornella to onboard us to the process of creating lessons
• “BanklessDeSci S9 Unconference” → BanklessDeSci Unconference (S9)
• Long term goals
• BanklessDeSci newsletter
• [x] Decide on governance of event funds