vkalghatgi / tpm

Technical Project Management: Meeting notes and agenda items

Core Devs Meetings

Purpose

The core devs meeting is a technical meeting intended to bring together various Filecoin teams who play major roles in determining the direction of the protocol. Filecoin implementation and research teams provide updates to their projects, discuss the implementation of various FIPs to improve the protocol, and support each other as we build a decentralized, efficient, and robust foundation for humanity’s information.

Previous Meetings

№	Date	Agenda	Notes	Recording
1	Friday, September 11, 2020	agenda	notes	recording
2	Friday, September 25, 2020	agenda	notes	recording
3	Thursday, October 8, 2020	agenda	notes	recording
4	Thursday, October 22, 2020	agenda	notes	recording
5	Thursday, November 5, 2020	agenda	notes	recording
6	Thursday, November 19, 2020	agenda	notes	recording
7	Thursday, December 3, 2020	agenda	notes	recording
8	Thursday, December 17, 2020	agenda	notes	recording
9	Thursday, January 14, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
10	Thursday, January 28, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
11	Thursday, February 11, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
12	Thursday, February 25, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
13	Thursday, March 11, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
14	Thursday, March 25, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
15	Thursday, April 8, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
16	Thursday, April 22, 2021	agenda	TODO	TODO
17	Thursday, May 6, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
18	Thursday, May 20, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
19	Thursday, June 3, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
20	Thursday, June 17, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
21	Thursday, July 1, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
22	Thursday, July 15, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
23	Thursday, July 29, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
24	Thursday, August 12, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
25	Thursday, August 26, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
26	Thursday, September 9, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
27	Thursday, September 23, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
28	Thursday, October 7, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
29	Thursday, October 21, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
30	Thursday, November 4, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
31	Thursday, November 18, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
32	Thursday, December 2, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
33	Thursday, December 16, 2021	agenda	notes	recording
34	Thursday, January 13, 2022	agenda	notes	recording
35	Thursday, January 27, 2022	agenda	notes	recording
36	Thursday, February 10, 2022	agenda	notes	recording
37	Thursday, February 24, 2022	agenda	notes	recording
38	Thursday, March 10, 2022	agenda	notes	meeting 1 & meeting 2
39	Thursday, March 24, 2022	agenda	notes	meeting 1 & meeting 2 (N/A)
40	Thursday, April 7, 2022	agenda	notes	meeting 1 & meeting 2
41	Thursday, April 21, 2022	agenda	notes	meeting 1 & meeting 2
42	Thursday, May 5, 2022	agenda	notes	meeting 1 & meeting 2 (N/A)
43	Thursday, May 29, 2022	agenda	notes	meeting 1 & meeting 2
44	Thursday, June 2, 2022	agenda	notes	meeting 1 & meeting 2
45	Thursday, June 16, 2022	agenda	notes	meeting 1 & meeting 2
46	Thursday, June 30, 2022	agenda	notes	meeting 1 & meeting 2
47	Thursday, July 14, 2022	agenda	notes	meeting 1 & meeting 2 (N/A)
48	Thursday, August 4, 2022	agenda	notes	meeting
49	Thursday, September 1, 2022	agenda	notes	meeting
50	Thursday, October 6, 2022	[agenda]	[notes]	[meeting]

Who Can Attend

Low-level protocol developers, implementation developers, and core Filecoin researchers are invited to attend the meetings. Generally every Filecoin implementation is represented, along with key members of research/scaling teams. Sometimes, a non-core developer with particular expertise on a topic is invited on to discuss a specific agenda item. If you feel you would contribute to the meetings by your attendance please reach out to [email protected].

Meeting Scheduling

Historically, Core Devs meetings have happened biweekly on Thursdays at 16:00 UTC.

However, as the Filecoin ecosystem continues to grow, this single meeting time has proven challenging for network contributors in certain Asian/Oceanic timezones. Beginning March 22, with Core Devs #38, the meeting will move to two biweekly meetings, both held on Thursday. The first will be at 16:00 UTC, and the second at 00:00 UTC the following day.

Core Devs are welcome to attend one or both of these meetings, with updates prepared in advance and shared across all teams. Guest presenters are asked to attend both meetings, if possible.

Agenda Items

Agendas are posted to https://github.com/filecoin-project/tpm/issues. Anyone is welcome to add an item to the agenda as long as it follows these guidelines:

• The topic is technical in nature.
• The topic involves the Filecoin protocol at a low-level (vs higher level FRCs).
• The topic should not be philosophical. The core developer meetings are not meant to decide philosophical contentious issues that should be decided by the community. There are exceptions to this, but generally these topics distract from more productive technical discussion.

Who Manages the Meetings

As of August 2021, @kaitlin-beegle facilitates meetings, handles recordings, and publishes notes from the meetings. The meetings are independent of any organization. However, the Filecoin Foundation pays for the videoconference software used in the meetings.

See the IPFS Host a Call instructions for guides on how to configure livestreaming.