Hello everyone,
We at the DFINITY Foundation have been working to provide greater visibility into our roadmap and more opportunities for the community to provide feedback on DFINITY’s contributions to the Internet Computer through forum threads, AMAs, community conversations, and 1:1 working sessions with developer teams. The next evolution of this work and something we have been very excited to get off the ground for some time now is the idea of technical working groups. Over the past few weeks, we have been discussing potential structures and topics for these groups both internally and with several members of the community. We would like to share the proposed path forward here.
Some guidelines on how we are thinking about these working groups:
- The goal of these working groups is to define shared objectives and priorities between the Foundation and the IC community. Each working group will identify initiatives that translate into a shared roadmap, where the Foundation can actively collaborate with community members on shared roadmap items.
- Working groups should focus on frameworks, standards, infrastructure, and public goods and not the commercial interests of anyone dapp, platform, or specific vertical (as many of the proposed technical topics cut across many verticals).
- Each working group will have a DFINITY lead, a community lead, and a coordinator.
- Forum threads will be created for each working group, similar to how DFINITY’s roadmap items are discussed today.
- Meetings will be hosted on Zoom, and all meeting notes will be made publicly available afterward in the respective forum threads.
- Proposed cadence will be monthly.
- Coordinating across all time zones will be tricky, so we will try out the below proposed time slots for now and adjust as needed.
Find public calendar for these and all future meetings here
List of topics:
[Update July 2023]
Topic: BTC on ICP
Lead: @bob11
Coordinator: @domwoe
Cadence: Monthly on the first Thursday of every month at 3 pm UTC
First meeting: August 3rd, 2023
Discord: BTC on ICP
Forum: Technical Working Group: BTC on ICP
Meeting Notes: Google Docs
[Update July 2023]
Topic: Naming System
DFINITY lead: @Kepler
Coordinator: @domwoe
Cadence: Monthly on the last Thursday of every month at 10 am CET
First meeting: July 27th, 2023
Discord: Discord
Forum: Technical Working Group: Naming System
Topic: ICRC Catch-all (pending issues and sorting)
DFINITY lead: @benji
Coordinator: TBD
Forum: post
Cadence: Bi-weekly Wednesdays at 6 pm CEST (GMT+2)
First meeting: May 23rd, 2023
Topic: Identity & Auth
DFINITY lead: @frederikrothenberger
Coordinator: @marydwyer
Link to Forum: Technical Working Group: Identity & Authentication
Cadence: Monthly on the first Tuesday of every month at 5 pm CET
First meeting: April 5, 2022, at 5:00 pm CET
Topic: Developer Tooling
DFINITY lead: @dfx-json
Coordinator: @domwoe
Discord: Developer Tooling
Forum: Main Thread with updates
Cadence: Monthly on the first Thursday of every month at 7 pm CET
First meeting: April 7, 2022, at 7:00 pm CET
Topic: Ledger & Tokenization
DFINITY lead: @dieter.sommer
Coordinator: @benji
Discord: Ledger & Tokenization Channel
Forum: Main thread with updates
GitHub: GitHub - dfinity/ICRC-1: A fungible token standard developed by the Ledger & Tokenization working group for the IC.
Slides and Recordings: Link to Google Drive
Cadence: Bi-weekly on Tuesday at 6:00 PM CET
First meeting: April 12, 2022, at 5:00 pm CET
[Update Mar 2023]
Topic: NFT (subgroup of Ledger & Tokenization)
DFINITY lead: @benji
Coordinator: @dieter.sommer
Main thread: forum
Github: ICRC-7
Cadence: Bi-weekly on 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 17:00 CET
First meeting: Tue 29nd Nov 2022
[Update July 2022 ]
Topic: Scalability & Performance
DFINITY lead: @abk
Coordinator: @domwoe
Discord: Scalability
Forum: Main thread with updates
Cadence: Monthly on the third Thursday of every month at 5:30 pm CET
First meeting: July 21, 2022, at 5:30pm CET
[Update September 2022]
Topic: Governance
Leadership: @bjoernek, @brutoshi , @lastmjs
Coordinator: @emmaperetti
Link to Forum: Technical Working Group: Governance
Discord: Governance
First meeting: September 29
Github Repo
[Update November 2022]
Topic: Education
Leadership: @Seb
Coordinator: @cryptoschindler
Discord: Education
First meeting: November 17
[Update March 2023]
Topic: Blockchain Integrations
DFINITY lead: @Dieter Sommer
Coordinator: @Dieter Sommer
Discord: Ethereum integration (we currently remain on the Ethereum channel)
First meeting: March 22, 2023 on Zoom
[Update June 2023]
Topic: Motoko
DFINITY lead: @dfx-json
Coordinator: @icme
Forum post
Meeting cadence: 2nd Thursday of each month, 8am US Pacific.
Find public calendar for these and all future meetings here