week-5.md

description	26th January 2026 to 1st February 2026

Week 5

Thursday 29th January 2026

Governance Workgroup

• Type of meeting: Weekly

• Present: Tevo [facilitator], CallyFromAuron [documenter], Tevo, Maxmilez, CallyFromAuron, PeterE, Ayomi Shuga, guillermolucero, Alfred Itodele, Jeffrey Ndarake, esewilliams

• Purpose: regular weekly Open Gov session

• Media link: Link

• Working Docs:

  • Rolling agenda
  • GovWG governance workgroup facilitation and documentation rota
  • Ambassador Program restructure: collated responses
  • How would YOU restructure the Ambasador Program?
  • Miro for this session

Narrative:

Community engagement with the restructure process

• Why are people not taking part in these sessions...?
• people are not always following what’s being discussed - lots of ideas have been raised and it's hard to catch up

The ideas for restructuring in the discussion docs

• Some have said we should be working more project-based, others said restructure/consolidate WGs.
• Are these different approaches to the same problem?
• Consolidating WGs might not be the issue - we could spend (waste?) a lot of time on it without really improving anything

Axes on which to compare some of the stickies

• Quality control vs mentorship vs capability?
• Quality control vs focus on decentralised governance?
• Cost - something being cheap doesn’t necessarily make it a priority, and being expensive doesn’t mesan we shouldn’t do it

What do we mean by some of these? Quality control - maybe not resolvable via templating

Who are we, who do we want to be?

• Some have suggested we should focus on tech stack - this would mean positioning ourselves as “the builders”. Is hat what we want?
• Do we know how people see us? We’re seem as the ones who know about decentralised governance
• Do we want to focus on creating content? Is that not the thing that we’re least good at?
• Ambassadors as the place for wonky experiments :-)

Discussion Points:

• Onboarding issues in GovWG itself
• We prioritised ideas for the Program restructure:
• What has been suggested by several people?
• Where does it seem we agree?
• What are the similarities and differences?
• What's emerging as most important ideas?
• Comparing different priorities
• How are we seen, who do we want to be, what do we want to prioritise?

Decision Items:

• We will move next week's planned session on Theory of Change, and instead have further discussion on how to prioritise he ideas that have been shared on restructuring.
  • [rationale] because this discussion doesn' feel finished
  • [effect] mayAffectOtherPeople

Keywords/tags:

• topics covered: Ambassador Program restructure, Community Engagement, consolidate workgroups, project based work, quality control, content creation, decentralised governance, Experimentation
• emotions: not many people spoke, frustrating, no conclusions yet, no decisions