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  • Project updates

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The call takes place over Zoom here https://zoom.us/j/244779296 (this is the meeting invite that worked as of 2/13/2020 https://zoom.us/j/244779296)

Reminder to the host: we plan to record this call.

Date

 4PM UTC, 9AM PDT, 10AM MDT, 12AM EDT

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Working Group Reports and Release Plans

Not official Sovrin communication - not private; however, they are drafts, they are not final. Discussion of options - Please get involved

Six major workstreams for transition. 

Ongoing servers with pipelines. People who help stewards run their nodes. Funding to continue those resources - cost base reduced dramatically. Previous $6-8k to functioning and no rent. 

Continuous integration pipelines turn off. PR slowed from 5 to 10 hours. 

Debt - employee travel

Looking for funding for 3 months. Then, the next 3 months. Six-month plan - fully transitioned foundation with a sustainable business model.

Focus on Sovrin 2.0. Future - over the immediate crisis. 

Business/Economic Model and Governance - ongoing models - three proposals.

Framework in NoN model - 3-6 month timeline. 

Lynn monitoring the network and ensuring stability. Lynn & Mike volunteer.

The governance framework needs to be developed under NoN.


Work that was done by paid staff will be picked up by the groups on the right. 

ie Steward Qualification Committee will need to vett Steward Approvals

Linux Foundation role



Governance at every layer of the stack

Options - conversation and consideration. Not final

Networks can have different governance rules. 

Different legal entities, etc.


Long term obligations - token (ie), going forward from an ecosystem perspective. 

Debt with legal, etc. 

Question - token, no token? 

Use case for a token - value transfer in conjunction with information exchange. A lot of use cases need - a key component to the ecosystem as a whole. Need better business models to motivate to share data - hard to sustain users at the wallet level. With obligations (previous work) important to untangle liabilities while preserving the benefits of the use case. A major goal of the workstream is how to fulfill and meet legal and advisory work on value transfer without incurring additional liabilities. Details to work out, a lot of thinking going in this group. Darrell and Phil considering this and longterm funding plan. Want to open token - challenge is to do so without outside funding. 


Work-in-Progress - Welcome all contributors, ideas, options. 

Sovrin Steward Council? Probably on hold - charter created - the ideas was to ensure strong community interaction - independent of the current governance bodies.

Pushing forward launching the steward council would help tremendously with network/node monitoring, support and bug fixing. If the group can marshal the volunteers I don’t think there is any reason to wait, it just needs to be added as board resolutions to the trustee meeting agenda (they are meeting more often now — every other week — to help with the transition.)

Charter may be under evaluation - or coincide with general interruptions - may be on hold.


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