BDWG, 10/17/23
BDWG Meeting Agenda
Note: this meeting will be recorded and shared publicly. You are invited to keep your camera off and remain anonymous, but we ask that all attendees provide a brief introduction and interest in joining.
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
Agenda Items
- Introductions (5-10min)
- Welcome and introductions
- Brief overview of the purpose and goals of the Bankless DeSci Working Group (BDWG)
- Goals for this meeting (40-50min)
- Is anyone in objection? Anonymous Feedback Form
- 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)
- 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
- Task board: https://airtable.com/appa4ae2aVZlqBOU9/shrGYJhlSLKReiY2P
- Bankless.Academy: Bharat
- 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
- Multisig (tentative): banklesschick, kryptoshrimp, flowscience, cryptoreumd, mantisclone
- Airtable: Ana, Kryptoshrimp, flowscience
- BDAO weekly CC updates: flowscience
Ratify multi-sig nominations
Set date for Unconference (tentatively Dec 7th, time???)
Finalize topics for breakout rooms & start contacting session facilitators to finalize details (confirm availability, session description, topics, etc)
Finalize budget
c. Set deadlines
Meeting with Didier + Ornella
Need to get Bharat a guest pass in BDAO
Session facilitators: ???
- Remaining Action Items (5-10min)
Shortlist of potential keynote speakers
David Hoffman; Bankless HQ
Paul, Vincent, or Tyler; Molecule
Other influencers & outside perspectives; Investor like Packy McCormick (a16z crypto)
Laurence or Tim; VitaDAO
Vitalik, Juan Benet,
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
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) - Make it fun = Pepe frog in a labcoat with a holiday theme
Create signup form (Ana & Elijah)
Find partners/sponsors for S9 Unconference (everyone)
Get in touch with HQ
Can we get RSA to attend an event other than Permissionless?
Marketing campaign? twitter poll, memes, light & joking heckling
Choose a date for S9 Unconference (likely end of November/first week of December - avoid overlap w/ DevConnect)
- Long term goals
Create a channel on the BDAO discord server
Move this directory to the BDAO main Notion (get support from Ops Guild)
- BanklessDeSci newsletter
Decide on governance of event funds
Nominate BDWG members to be multi-sig signers by 10/9/23
Voting dates: 10/9/23 - 10/16/23
- Can we livestream to twitter from vercel events app? https://help.twitter.com/en/using-x/x-live