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# Akash Network - Steering Committee - Meeting #22 | ||
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## Agenda | ||
- Community feedback, grievances, and conflicts. | ||
- Updates on project boards and active bounties. | ||
- Marketing and community initiatives, including recent announcements. | ||
- NurIPS event updates and 2025 events proposal. | ||
- Product and engineering updates, including Cosmos SDK 47 migration. | ||
- GitHub discussions and governance proposals. | ||
- Open floor for additional discussions and feedback. | ||
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## Meeting Details | ||
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- Date: Thursday, December 5th, 2024 | ||
- Time: 11:00 AM PT (Pacific Time) | ||
- Recording: Coming Soon | ||
- [Transcript](#transcript) | ||
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## Committee | ||
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- Anil Murty, Overclock Labs | ||
- Artur Troian, Overclock Labs | ||
- Greg Osuri, Overclock Labs | ||
- Scott Caruthers, Overclock Labs | ||
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## Participants | ||
- Tyler Wright | ||
- Adam Wozney | ||
- Amanda Keay | ||
- Anil Murty | ||
- Artur Troian | ||
- Benjamin B | ||
- Cheng Wang | ||
- Cristiano | ||
- Damien Walker | ||
- Denis Lelic | ||
- Dimokus | ||
- Julius Haus | ||
- Maxime Beauchamp | ||
- Robert Del Rey | ||
- Rodri R | ||
- Scott Carruthers | ||
- Scott Hewitson | ||
- SoulBit | ||
- Star Dev | ||
- Ved Mohan | ||
- Vontario Taylor | ||
- Zach Horn | ||
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## Meeting Notes | ||
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### Community Feedback | ||
- Tyler Wright highlighted the importance of addressing community feedback and conflicts transparently through SIGs and GitHub discussions. | ||
- Benjamin B mentioned a marketing and support initiative, encouraging participation in an upcoming SIG discussion for detailed feedback. | ||
- The Akash website has been updated with a dedicated calendar for tracking events and meetings, which will be the primary source of truth for scheduling. | ||
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### Project Boards and Bounties | ||
- Project boards for community, marketing, product, and engineering initiatives were updated and made accessible. | ||
- Community was encouraged to utilize the bounties tab for contributions and track updates on key roadmaps. | ||
- The credit card payment feature on Akash Console was successfully launched, with over 100,000 impressions from marketing efforts. | ||
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### Marketing and Community Initiatives | ||
- Zach Horn shared the success of the credit card payments rollout, which received over 100,000 impressions across channels. | ||
- Akash Chat ("AkashGen") has gained traction with organic adoption. | ||
- NurIPS event updates by Amanda Keay: | ||
- Hosting an AI social space with over 225 registrations. | ||
- A 10x20 booth and speaking engagements highlight Akash's presence. | ||
- High-level AI professionals, researchers, and academics expected to attend. | ||
- Akash Navigators Program announced: | ||
- Focuses on providing technical support to new teams deploying on Akash. | ||
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### Core Engineering Updates | ||
#### **Cosmos SDK 47 Migration** | ||
- Artur Troian reported successful completion of the first phase of testnet migration. | ||
- Phase two will test client APIs for Golang and TypeScript in the coming weeks. | ||
- Improvements in provider stability and quality of life updates, such as switching from Cgroups V2 to V1, are underway. | ||
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#### **Client Engineering and Console 2.0** | ||
- Anil Murty highlighted major updates: | ||
- Credit card payments and free trials are live. | ||
- A new deploy page on Akash Console introduces streamlined workflows for different developer types. | ||
- Upcoming features: | ||
- Auto-top-up worker to prevent deployments from running out of funds. | ||
- Notification system for low escrow balances. | ||
- Beta release of provider console with opportunities for community feedback. | ||
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### Governance Proposals | ||
#### **2025 Events Proposal** | ||
- Zach Horn shared the strategy for reallocating budgets to focus on high-value events, including ETH Denver, Nvidia GTC, Token 2049, and NurIPS. | ||
- Smaller events will maintain a lean presence to reduce travel overhead while maximizing impact. | ||
- Community feedback was invited via GitHub discussions. | ||
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#### **Enhanced User Logging Proposal** | ||
- Identified as an example of a proposal requiring more community feedback before moving forward. | ||
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#### **Zealy Phase 3** | ||
- Weekly calls and discussions continue to shape missions and improve developer engagement. | ||
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### Transparency and Reporting | ||
- Scott Hewitson emphasized the importance of [community pool spend transparency](https://github.com/akash-network/community/tree/main/community-pool-spend-reporting). | ||
- End-of-year reconciliation efforts will ensure proper fund allocation and unused funds returned to the community pool. | ||
- Updates on spending will be published in a community report. | ||
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### Open Floor Discussions | ||
- Benjamin B briefly discussed a marketing and support initiative and invited participation in a SIG Community Call on December 10. | ||
- Robert Del Rey announced that steering committee videos are now being uploaded to Akash’s YouTube channel, providing an additional resource for community engagement. | ||
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## Action Items | ||
- Tyler Wright will ensure updates to SIG and working group calendars are reflected on the Akash website. | ||
- Amanda Keay and Zach Horn will collect community feedback on the 2025 events proposal and finalize plans for NeurIPS. | ||
- Artur Troian will initiate phase two of SDK 47 testing and continue provider stability enhancements. | ||
- Scott Hewitson will publish year-end transparency reports on community funding and reconcile unspent funds. | ||
- Robert Del Rey will continue uploading steering committee videos to YouTube and coordinate future releases. | ||
- Anil Murty will oversee the rollout of auto-topup features and share updates on the provider console beta. | ||
- Benjamin B will prepare for the SIG community discussion on marketing initiatives. | ||
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## Transcript |