Town hall meeting or general public call

[whoabuddy]

Per Phillip's recommendation on call 17 #61, we should add in a general public-facing call and invite a larger audience outside of the working group.

It could include a briefing of what's been done, some pointers to get people involved, and help advertise/market the resources the group has developed.

Open Questions:

• how often should we do this? once/month? once/quarter?
• should this replace one of the weekly calls when we do it?
• how can we tie this into a bigger marketing plan? (i.e. generate a blog post after)

[joberding]

Great idea! 1 x per quarter sounds about right - my 0.2 cents

[blocks8]

Quarterly sounds good to me too. Blockstack PBC usually does quarterly town hall, we can try to make it staggered a bit from theirs.

• should this replace one of the weekly calls when we do it? ==> That sounds reasonable. I think we should keep with recording it as well._
• how can we tie this into a bigger marketing plan? (i.e. generate a blog post after) ==> Agree, recording, blog post, and add to the newsletter (setup but first version not sent yet).

[HaroldDavis3]

Yes, this all sounds good! An open call could be marketed via newsletter mentioned etc. Granted they're all open, this would be different format.

[whoabuddy]

From #99:

• From @ryanarndtcm, Discord Hangout or Crowdcast?
• From @joberding, link to a speaker, maybe related to Fireside chat series #38?
• From @jennymith and @joberding, needs a good strategic plan, maybe related to Governance working group roadmap #56?

[whoabuddy]

In #118 it was discussed that this may fit better into the main Stacks Ecosystem / Town Hall calls with a representative from the group. Definitely still open to feedback.

@paradigma-cl Phillip made the point that as the community takes over, it will be our responsibility to decide how we want to share this information with the general public.

[ryanarndtcm]

This could be brought in to the Stacks Ecosystem Calls at 10EST for the mid-month calls. If the governance committee wanted to give an update on the work going on, the next call would be on the Thursday the 21st of January. Thoughts?

[joberding]

@HaroldDavis3 @jennymith suggested Dr. Ron Eglash as a speaker at our most recent governance group mtg on Jan 21, 2021. Harold is working with Dr. Eglash on his TRW project. More info: https://csdt.org/

[whoabuddy]

We are starting by using the general Stacks townhalls as a place to represent governance, and can revisit this as a separate issue if needed.