13th February 2025

The session was run in the related miro board.

📽️ The meeting recording can be found here.

Participants

Position	POC
Secretary	Lorenzo Bruno
Chair	Samuel Leathers
Vice-chair	Kyle Solomon
Voting seat	Juan Sierra
SME	Alexandre Maaza
SME	Benjamin Hart
SME	James Meidinger
SME	Zachary Soesbee
SME	Fergie Miller

Absentees

Position	POC
Voting seat	Romain Pellerin
Voting seat	Naushad Fouze

Agenda

• Review actions from the previous meeting

• interim seats voting

• 2025 budget

  • Partnerchains tokenomics - extra info

  • any comments / questions on the research budget on Cardano Forum

• 2030 Vision

  • Test form + feedback

  • Test workshop

  • Agree on next steps

Updates

• Samuel Leathers, the chair, proposed a motion to re-assign Romain's Pellerin voting seat due to lack of participation

  • The Voting seats present, Kyle Solomon and Juan Sierra, approved

• The secretary opened the internal election of 3 interim voting seats to cover the role until the April election

  • Candidates could have been:

    1. proposed by voting seats

    2. SMEs who have been actively participating (you can also put yourself forward)

    3. anyone who was voted in the previous election but was not elected can put themselves forward (the next 4 candidates were Mark Byers, Ben Hart, Phil Lewis, Navjit Dhaliwal)

  • Ben Hart, being already part of two committees decided not to be considered as a candidate

  • Alexandre Maaza, Zachary Soesbee, James Meidinger have been proposed as Candidates, and all voting seats approved for them to be interim voting seats

• The committee tested and approved the first version of the survey to collect insights for the long term Cardano Vision

Outcomes & Recommendations

N/A