July 17, 2025
Attendees:
Name
Attendance
Role
Phil Lewis
Yes
ISC Member
Thiago Nunes
Yes
Interim ISC Member
Pedro Lucas
No
OSC Chair, Representing two Enterprise Members
Nicholas Cerny
Yes
Civics Committee Chair
Vaibhav S
Yes
GMC Member
Naushad Fouze
No
Product Committee
Jose Iadicicco
Yes
Community Member
Maureen Wepngong
No
DRep
Terence McCutcheon
Yes
Intersect
Tevo Saks
No
Community Member
Lorenzo Bruno
Yes
Head of Product Curation at Intersect
Recording: Intersect Governance WG Weekly - 2025/07/17 15:58 CEST - Recording
Transcript: Intersect Governance WG Weekly - 2025/07/17 15:58 CEST - Transcript
Agenda 17.07.2025
Update from next week
Decision-Making Process Workflow
Board Election applicant qualification
Decisions/Actions
Discussion Point
Notes
Actions: Responsible / Note
Dismissal Policy Update
A dismissal policy was presented to and approved by the Intersect Steering Committee (ISC) on Monday. It is now posted on the committee's page and will be incorporated into future application slides to inform applicants. It will be directly managed with committee secretaries, with potential pending removals by early September.
A representative is implementing the policy with committee secretaries and chairs. The policy is accessible on the committee's page and will be integrated into future application materials.
Decision-Making Process Workflow
The working group reviewed a high-level Miro board mapping the decision-making flow within Intersect (from member/working group to committee, Board, and community). The aim is to standardize and document this process to ensure clarity for all participants and potentially simplify current complexities. Suggestions were made to map processes using BPMN (Business Process Model Notation) for clearer tracking and potentially automate parts of the workflow.
Simo (Lead) and Lorenzo will collaborate to create a BPMN version of the decision-making process for review and refinement by the working group. This will be an agenda item for next week's call.
Applicant Qualification Recommendations Update
The working group's initial suggestions for applicant qualifications (e.g., understanding the Cardano community, the Board, Intersect) were well-received by the Board with minor refinements. They were also presented to the ISC for feedback.
Lorenzo will continue to refine these recommendations, aiming to finalize them by the end of the month for Board approval. The Board's feedback on these recommendations is pending and will be incorporated.
Candidate Endorsements
The idea of requiring candidate endorsements from Intersect members (potentially 10) was heavily discussed as a prerequisite or an optional, weighted factor. There was debate on whether such a requirement would be too burdensome or give unfair advantage to well-known individuals.
The concept of candidate endorsements (whether mandatory pre-application or optional at application/voting stage) will be further discussed in a follow-up meeting, potentially as a test case for this year's election if feasible within development timelines.
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