BDWG Meeting Agenda

Date: 10/10/23 Time: 10:00am PST (UTC-7) Location: https://meet.google.com/wab-votb-bbd

Attendees: Bharat, Kryptoshrimp, Joel, Yuna, Fine, Flowscience, CryptoNahue

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)

   1. Discuss responses to interest form for Virtual Unconference Q4-2023

      • 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)
          • Grants: BanklessDAO, Ethereum Foundation, MetaPool, Giveth, Gitcoin, etc…
            • Yuna & Sean?

      • [ ] Set date for Unconference

        • [ ] Number of responses for
          • [ ] Preferred Week = ???
          • [ ] Preferred day of the week = ???

      • [ ] Finalize topics for breakout rooms & start contacting session facilitators to finalize details (confirm availability, session description, topics, etc)

   2. 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!!!

   c. Set deadlines

   • Task board: https://airtable.com/appa4ae2aVZlqBOU9/shrGYJhlSLKReiY2P
     • Bankless.Academy: Bharat
       • Meeting with Didier + Ornella
     • 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)

   • [ ] Finalize budget estimates → BDWG Budget/Accounting (comment only)
     • [ ] Deadline == ???
   • [ ] 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
  • [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)
  • [x] 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)
    • Make it fun = Pepe frog in a labcoat with a holiday theme
• Long term goals
  • [x] Create a channel on the BDAO discord server
  • [ ] Move this directory to the BDAO main Notion (get support from Ops Guild)
  • [ ] Founding Proposal for Bankless DeSci Working Group (in progress)
• BanklessDeSci newsletter
• [x] Decide on governance of event funds
  • [x] Nominate BDWG members to be multi-sig signers by 10/9/23
  • [x] 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