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• Agenda Review (2 min)
• Steering Committee Members Review (1 min)
• Minutes Approval (3 min)
• New Member Review (2 min)
• Open Discussion

Attendance

• Judith Fleenor (ToIP - Director of Strategic Engagement)
• John Jordan ()
• Drummond Reed (Evernym/Avast)
• Chris Buchanan (MITRE)
• Bryn Robinson-Morgan (Mastercard)
• Michael Nettles (ETS)Hwajeong Hwang (LG CNS)
• Stephen Chan (Certizen Limited)
• Wenjing Chu (Futurewei Technologies)
• Marie Wallace (IBM)
• Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs)
• Liem Truong (Doshy)
• Chris Ingrao (Lumedic Acquisition Corp)
• Scott Perry (Scott Perry CPA)
• Vlad Zubenko (ETS)
• RJ Reiser (Liquid Avatar)
• Judith Fleenor (ToIP - Director of Strategic Engagement)
• Elisa Trevino (LF)

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Wenjing Chu proposed, how do we organize effectively? We organize in Was where most of the work is done. Steering Committee and Sub-Committee, LF staff and support. We need to be thinking about how do we make sure the WGs are healthy and have the needed resources and aligned with the ToIp objectives and priorities over the longer term? & How do we support tasks that do not neatly fall into a WG? (i.e. GitHub, wiki, event driven asks, graphics, social media, etc). Drummond Reed believes that GHP is dormant at this stage since most of the work has moved over to the CCI and LFPH. He believes that the rest of the WGs are actively engaged and delivering tangible work. Concepts and Terminology could use additional resources, but overall they are healthy and operational in a meaningful way. John Jordan mentioned that Hyperledger has a quarterly reporting template that provides more oversight to the governance committee, but there might be an opportunity to deliver more of this information. He stated, we might consider asking these various WGs to provide an output that is standardized to polish and circulate (i.e. blogs, etc.) potentially a quarterly content to share and promote. He said we could guide them by asking to provide info that aligns with our principles or stack. Marie Wallace inquired how do we engage with these various working group members, what's the path to collect or engage with these various groups. John Jordan mentioned utilizing our social media platforms to gain feedback outside of our immediate community. Steve McCown mentioned that we may need to consider as we look at the community, where are the things that we're building are being adopted and how are they being implemented and adopted? He provided an example of Square publishing a white paper (https://tbdex.io/whitepaper.pdf) debts about exchanging assets in the digital work. It talks about DIDs and trust and reputation and he asked how can we rope this in and use standards that are within our domain; this has a technical stack implementation and a communication implementation too. How can we iterate on the organizations that are already doing this in the marker today. Drummond Reed mentioned Accenture just put out a great paper about “SSI + IAM” that Christine Leong gave a great talk on at the DID Conference Korea 2022 on Monday. https://www.accenture.com/_acnmedia/PDF-173/Accenture-Decentralize-Digital-Identity.pdf

Drummond Reed suggested that we have the groups, once a quarter, the All-Member Meeting devoted to our WGs/TFs could focus on “asks”, i.e., what are the resources/inputs they need that can most help them. We could also turn that into a blog post so the larger public community could see those needs. Bryn Robinson-Morgan suggested that we ensure we have alignment and direction within our WGs. Judith Fleenor agreed that we need to establish this alignment to ensure we're working in a cohesive effort. Marie Wallacewent on to say that we need to better communicate our needs because there are a lot of folks who are passionate and want to contribute, but need to better understand how they can engage. 

Wenjing Chu proposed how do we grow ToIP and mentioned that it is recognized that we need to grow ToIP as an organization to better fulfill our value proposition. It means more specifically to recruit additional organizations who can join as funding members and provide expertise and employees time to work on projects and WGs and significant stakeholders in the market/ecosystem. The Steering Committee should provide some guidance and target to our organizational growth. Judith Fleenor mentioned that she likes the idea of SC members putting together a list of companies that align with our efforts to adopt and further implement the ToIP stack and principles. John Jordan asked if it makes sense for the Steering Committee to identify resource within their respective market space to engage and join our efforts at ToIP. Marie Wallace agrees that we need to be targeted in these efforts, specific identity players and key areas and then key consumers. She went on to state that we need to sell them on ToIP by highlighting the risk of not joining. We need to identify the risk if they don't change to drive engagement and participation. We need to have a strong message and presentation that truly articulates the relevance and value. This messaging needs to be very targeted so that we gain support and messaging that helps tell the story of risk that could be a future obstacle. John Jordan coined the term Ethical Interoperability to illustrate why it's important to join ToIP.  Wenjing Chu asked Judith Fleenor to come up with a list to start our efforts to engage organizations. Who do we want to target and why do we need to target them with tangible information that entices these organizations to join ToIP. Marie Wallace mentioned we should be leveraging the other organizations that might help drive adoptions because their competitors or peers within the industry. Bryn Robinson-Morgan mentioned that we should be reviewing our current membership base that are individuals that we want to drive to the Steering Committee. We need to know who's attending the conferences we're sponsoring to help drive and grow membership. 

ACTIONS:

• Elisa Trevino to create a private slack channel for Steering Committee