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As Intersect continues to evolve, October 2024 marked a historic moment with our first-ever full-scale elections for our committees and governing board. This significant milestone, achieved with the active participation of our global community, reflects the spirit of inclusivity and collaboration that underpins our organization.Results emails have been sent to all candidates, and the official announcement has been made on the <a href="https://members.intersectmbo.org/dashboard/voting">member portal</a>. The <a href="https://2024elections.docs.intersectmbo.org/overview/2024-october-election-results">full results</a>, including the votes for each candidate, can be viewed on our knowledge base. There is also a link to the audit results, conducted by <a href="https://dquadrant.com/">DQuadrant</a>. Read on for more details about the election process, the results, and the path forward for Intersect and Cardano’s broader ecosystem.A growing community: broad participation, broader opportunitiesWe are deeply grateful to the 140 candidates who stood in these elections. Putting yourself forward in any democratic process requires courage, and each applicant has shown a strong commitment to contributing to&nbsp; Intersect and the Cardano ecosystem. This election is just the beginning for these individuals, who now form a pool of talent that we will continue to draw from in future projects, working groups, and committees. Thanks again to all candidates who stood in our first committee elections, and we hope to see familiar faces applying with the second round of elections opening in April 2025.Navigating results: a diverse leadership emergesEvery election has surprises, and this one was no different. While many outstanding candidates were elected, some long-standing contributors to the Cardano ecosystem were not. This outcome speaks to the diversity and evolving nature of our community. Democracy can sometimes deliver unexpected results, but it remains a powerful tool for ensuring broad participation and representation.It’s important to emphasize that these results reflect our open and transparent voting process. 7,244 votes were cast by 574 unique voters, representing a 37% participation rate from our members. This election has set a precedent, showing that as our community grows, so does the range of voices shaping its future.Continuing the journey: looking ahead to the next electionWhile the elections have concluded, the work is far from over. We see this election as an endpoint and the start of an ongoing journey. As we look ahead to the next round of elections in April 2025, we will conduct a thorough retrospective on this process, inviting feedback from members to refine our approach and ensure continuous improvement.Moreover, those who were unsuccessful in this election will be invited to contribute to upcoming working groups, special interest committees, and other community-led initiatives. Intersect is an open organization, and your involvement is vital to the continued success of Intersect and Cardano.The results: welcoming our new representativesWe extend our congratulations to all the newly elected members who will take up the 31 available seats across the Board and Committees:Intersect BoardKavinda Kariyapperuma Adam RuschIntersect Steering CommitteeKavinda Kariyapperuma Yuki Oishi Kevin HammondBudget CommitteeMercy Fordwoo Jose Velazquez Kristijan Kowalsky Pepe OteguiCardano Civics CommitteeReshan Fernando Taichi Yokoyama Eystein Magnus Hansen Daniela AlvesMembership and Community CommitteeSanjaya Wanigasekera Matthew Capps Ha Nguyen Akheel Fouze Darlington WlehOpen Source CommitteeAdam Dean Johnny Kelly Sebastian Pabon Pedro LucasProduct CommitteeNaushad Fouze Samuel Leathers Juan Sierra Kyle SolomonTechnical Steering CommitteeAdam Dean Kevin Hammond Markus Gufler Ben Hart Johnny KellyThis election marks a phenomenal achievement made possible by the collective efforts of all applicants, voters, and supporters. Your participation is instrumental in shaping Intersect's future.Next steps: onboarding and preparationFor our successful candidates, Intersect will run general onboarding sessions from October 28 to November 8. These sessions will cover Intersect’s mission and structure and introduce the newly elected members to our committee support team. Each committee will also hold specific onboarding sessions to elect new chairs to facilitate a smooth handover and maintain continuity.Once again, thank you to everyone who participated, and congratulations to our newly elected members. Together, we are building a stronger future for Cardano through Intersect.

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Celebrating the completion of Intersect’s first-ever full-scale elections

We are thrilled to announce the launch of a groundbreaking tool for the Cardano community: <a href="https://gov.tools/">Cardano GovTool</a>, which is now live on the Cardano mainnet. This core governance tool is a significant step in advancing Cardano's decentralized governance structure, designed to align with the governance framework laid out in <a href="https://cips.cardano.org/cip/CIP-1694">CIP-1694</a>.<h3 style="margin-left:auto;">What Is the Cardano GovTool?</h3>The Cardano GovTool is a community-driven platform designed to streamline and enhance the governance process within the Cardano ecosystem. It enables ada holders to participate in key governance actions, from delegating their voting power to proposing and voting on governance actions. This tool is central to the ongoing decentralization of Cardano, putting the governance process firmly in the hands of the community.<h3 style="margin-left:auto;">What Can You Do with Cardano GovTool?</h3>GovTool provides an accessible interface that empowers ada holders to shape Cardano's future. Specifically, it allows you to:<ul><li>Find and delegate voting power to DReps: delegated Representatives (DReps) play a crucial role in governance, and the GovTool makes it easy to discover and delegate your voting power to them.</li><li>Register as a DRep: if you want to take a more active role in Cardano's governance, you can register to become a DRep and represent the community's interests.</li><li>Propose and submit governance actions: you can propose initiatives and changes that community members can review and vote on.</li><li>Vote on governance actions: like all ada holders, you can represent yourself and vote on governance actions or allow DReps to vote on your behalf, ensuring your voice is heard in decision-making.</li></ul><h3 style="margin-left:auto;">Important Note: Bootstrapping Phase</h3>During the initial bootstrapping phase, the Cardano GovTool supports only the submission and voting on info-type governance actions. These actions serve as information-sharing mechanisms to test the system and establish a foundation for more complex governance actions in the future.<h3 style="margin-left:auto;">Who's Behind Cardano GovTool?</h3>The Cardano GovTool is an open-source project. Four main contributors collaborated to develop and maintain GovTool: <a href="https://byron.network/">Byron Network</a>, <a href="https://dquadrant.com/">DQuadrant</a>, <a href="https://bloxico.com/">Bloxico</a>, and <a href="https://we-deliver.io/">WeDeliver</a>. These maintainers ensure the tool's ongoing functionality and welcome open-source contributions from the wider Cardano community. This collaborative approach highlights Cardano's decentralized ethos, where anyone can contribute to the growth and development of the ecosystem.<h3 style="margin-left:auto;">A Landmark Moment for Cardano Governance</h3>This release marks a monumental achievement for the Cardano ecosystem. Governance has now been officially handed over to the ada holders, who can now steer the future of Cardano through direct participation. Intersect, the organization facilitating this release, is proud to have guided the development of the GovTool, supporting the community in taking full ownership of governance.<h3 style="margin-left:auto;">Simple and Accessible Interface</h3>One of the main goals of the Cardano GovTool is to make governance accessible to all. With a user-friendly interface, it is easier than ever for ada holders to engage with governance, regardless of their technical expertise. The interface simplifies the process, making it intuitive to find DReps, submit governance actions, and vote, ensuring that everyone can participate in shaping the future of Cardano.<h3 style="margin-left:auto;">By the numbers</h3>In the first 96 hours that Cardano GovTool was live, the Cardano network saw:<ul><li>Unique delegators increased by 1,586 (1860 -&gt; 3446)</li><li>Total number of vote delegations increased by 1,765 (1993 -&gt;3758)</li><li>Total DRep votes increased by 49 (9 -&gt; 55)</li><li>Total number of DRep registrations increased by 115&nbsp; (244 -&gt; 359)</li></ul><h3 style="margin-left:auto;">Ready to Get Involved?</h3>To learn more about how you can start using GovTool, explore the <a href="https://docs.gov.tools/">GovTool documentation</a>. Here, you'll find everything from step-by-step guides to detailed explanations of its features.Additionally, check out the list of <a href="https://docs.gov.tools/using-govtool/compatible-wallets">compatible wallets</a> and stay informed about any <a href="https://docs.gov.tools/about/known-issues">known issues</a> that may arise during the bootstrapping phase.The future of Cardano is in your hands. <a href="https://members.intersectmbo.org/registration">Get involved</a> and help shape the next chapter of Cardano's evolution.

Announcing the release of Cardano GovTool

Intersect Development Update #26 - August 9th

<h2 style="margin-left:0px;">Update on Cardano’s governance rollout</h2>Earlier this week, we published a key terms and milestones overview - highlighting the governance features coming to Cardano and how on-chain decision-making will be rolled out throughout 2024. Some key takeaways include defining the difference between the “interim period” and “technical bootstrapping phase” and when the community will begin drafting the final constitution.<a href="https://www.intersectmbo.org/news/cardanos-governance-key-terms-and-milestones">Read more</a><hr><h2 style="margin-left:0px;">Core Cardano and its open-source strategy</h2>The Open Source Program Office, steered by Intersect’s Open Source Committee (OSC), has been maturing processes and enhancing stability to effectively steward &amp; maintain over 35 repositories (and growing) under Intersect - including Cardano’s core codebase. The OSC was the first committee established at Intersect and is currently chaired by Tweag, with DQuadrant, IOG, and Adam Dean, among others contributing as sitting members. Earlier this year, the OSC agreed on a strategy to advance Cardano’s open-source project into the future. The documentation is rich and worth a deeper dive for all those interested.<a href="https://intersect.gitbook.io/open-source-committee/open-source-strategy">Read more</a><hr><h2 style="margin-left:0px;">Community Funding</h2>Funding opportunities at Intersect continue to evolve, with new opportunities emerging. While some have focussed on specific tooling, others have centered on improving awareness and accessibility to Cardano’s upcoming governance features. Before we update the current projects, you can learn more and view all our funding opportunities on our <a href="https://intersect.gitbook.io/intersect-community-grants">knowledge base.</a>&nbsp;<ul><li>With the Open grant category, we are excited to mention that the community evaluator working group has reached a consensus regarding the results of this award. The results have been shared with the Membership &amp; Community Committee (MCC) for ratification. We are currently seeking clarification from applicants before sharing the results publicly. We look forward to sharing the latest successful applicants soon.</li><li>The <a href="https://docs.intersectmbo.org/intersect-community-grants/closed-grants/inclusion-and-accessibility-phase-1">Inclusion &amp; Accessibility category (phase 1)</a> has kicked off the evaluation with a new round of community evaluators who have kindly stepped forward to support evaluating this category. As a reminder, we are looking to award four grants for the following subcategories: Intersect Town Halls / After Town Halls / Twitter Space / Open Space.</li></ul>&nbsp;The evaluation will take approximately two weeks to complete and will follow with ratification from the MCC with expected results on Friday, 17th May.Phase 2 of this category will be out soon. It will focus on translating governance tools into multiple languages, for example: GovTool, Constitution Committee Portal, and the Constitution.<hr><h2 style="margin-left:0px;">DRep Pioneer Programme</h2>We have an exciting update on candidate selection for the DRep Pioneer program. As you know, we have been hard at work processing the applications, which has taken some time. We received a fantastic response from over 80 applicants, and after careful consideration, we can now reveal that 14 applicants have been selected to join the program. We’ll announce more soon, so watch out for an update in the coming weeks. Of course, we want to encourage as many people as possible to become DReps; this is the entire program's purpose. For those who were not selected, we want to enable them to continue to educate the community on the importance and value of DReps to governance on Cardano. Additionally, we will invite them to participate in the training sessions created by the DRep Pioneers as priority participants in the very first cohort. Exciting times are ahead, and we’re encouraged by the interest in this program and what that means for the strength DReps will have when representing ada holders in the future.<hr><h2 style="margin-left:0px;">Cardano Continuity Q1 Update</h2>You can now read more about the work being completed by continuity partners in Q1. Tweag, Galois, WellTyped, IOG, VacLabs, and BryonNetwork all delivered against the continuity-defined scope, and continue to contribute throughout 2024.Behind the scenes, the technical operations &amp; delivery assurance teams have been working hard to help us meet the continuity delivery targets. As part of their commitment to transparency, the team has published a retrospective on Q1, including updates to internal processes and changes for Q2 2024. We will bring this retrospective report to you each quarter, reaffirming our commitment to transparency and trust, peeling back the curtain and outlining some of the functional team's incredible work 'behind the scenes.'Read more on what work was <a href="https://docs.intersectmbo.org/cardano/cardano-continuity/delivery-assurance-completed-milestone-report-q1-2024">delivered in Q1</a>, and dive deeper into internal processes and the retrospective <a href="https://docs.intersectmbo.org/cardano/cardano-continuity/delivery-assurance-retrospective-q1-2024">here</a>.<hr><h2 style="margin-left:0px;">Governance tooling</h2>In the past week, the Intersect product team has made the Govtool repository public and the GitHub project public, where everyone can actively track development progress, some <a href="https://github.com/orgs/IntersectMBO/projects/30/views/13">feedback collected</a>, and the starting point of the <a href="https://github.com/orgs/IntersectMBO/projects/30/views/14">open backlog</a>. This active community involvement is a testament to our shared commitment to the success of the DRep Pioneer Program.After the latest SanchoNet node update, SanchoNet Govtool, together with the supported wallets, has been updated, and it’s now back online for everyone to test <a href="http://sanchogov.tools/">Sanchogov.tools</a><a href="https://sanchogov.tools/">.</a>The moment SanchoNet was back online we saw people testing, here are the latest stats: In other exciting news, the <a href="https://byron.network/">ByronNetwork</a> team has completed developing five the new features and improvements coming to <a href="http://sanchogov.tools/">Sanchogov.tools</a>:&nbsp;<ul><li>New DRep registration, which provides a structured and guided process to register as a DRep and add extra context in the form of metadata</li><li>DRep Directory, which will allow everyone to easily find registered DReps, check their details submitted on-chain as metadata, and delegate to them</li><li>Direct Voter, which allows everyone to register to be able to vote with their voting power directly</li><li>Governance Action Submission provides a simple process for submitting Governance Actions on-chain, starting from info and treasury actions.</li><li>New vote context, which gives DReps a simple way to add context to their vote when submitting it on-chain</li></ul>&nbsp;<img class="image_resized" style="width:720px;" src="https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4D12AQFPKn9HrTJECA/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0/1714145905066?e=1719446400&amp;v=beta&amp;t=omin03qgOkqD7G-Gbr62q1Bltgnz6u9hyUt-S4c-VyQ" alt="" loading="lazy"><img class="image_resized" style="width:720px;" src="https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4D12AQGrj_HXvvbmrw/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232/0/1714145902475?e=1719446400&amp;v=beta&amp;t=hoUOqRwpcQfHIl3JC4DGfPvf6c7xgNJA8xgHOHHKx_A" alt="" loading="lazy">These are now being tested before being soon available on <a href="http://sanchogov.tools/">Sanchogov.tools</a>. The community can keep track of new features in the latest <a href="https://docs.sanchogov.tools/about/sanchonet-govtool-feature-roadmap">roadmap section</a> on <a href="http://docs.sanchogov.tools/">docs.sanchogov.tools</a>.<hr><h2 style="margin-left:0px;">Cardano Buidler Fest #1</h2>This week our open-source program office, technical and community reps were in Toulouse for&nbsp; Buidl 2024 - a two-day developer-focused event organized by Arnaud Bailley of IOG and Matthias Benkort of the Cardano Foundation. Capping off an incredible two days, the excitement and demand for dev-centric events testify to the global impact of Cardano and the dev community. It was a fantastic opportunity to connect with over 100 Cardano developers, long-term builders, and beyond. Recapping at the end of day two, it was apparent demand was high to follow up with Buidl 2. We’ll be polling members to see if this is something Intersect should support! PRAGMA announced At the start of Buidl, after two intense days of knowledge sharing, problem-solving, and ideation, <a href="https://pragma.builders/">PRAGMA</a>, a new open-source association, was announced! On day two, the five founding members hosted a whiteboarding session to explore their ideas and plans for 2025. PRAGMA will initially host two projects; the well-loved <a href="https://aiken-lang.org/">Aiken</a> and Amaru - a rust node client for Cardano. Later in 2025, we can expect more projects to be welcomed and membership expanded. Through its members, Intersect plays a leading role in orchestrating and enhancing Cardano’s core open-source technology, including funding opportunities, and driving the rollout of Cardano’s on- and off-chain governance.In the era of Voltaire, a healthy Cardano has resilience and scalability through distributed open development and decentralized governance. With on-chain decision-making coming later this year, the emergence of hyper-focussed associations like PRAGMA is critical to fostering global &amp; open collaboration and, ultimately, ecosystem growth.<hr><h2 style="margin-left:0px;">Essential Cardano360</h2>Catch up with our update in April’s Essential Cardano360! In this episode, we have updates from Gemma Dakin, our head of community Grants, and our committees and working groups, including Intersect members: Kevin Hammond - Technical Services Committee Chair, Adam Rusch - Ecosystem Process Design Working Group Lead, Christian Taylor - Head of the open source program office, and Mark Byers - Members and Community Committee. We’d like to thank everyone who recorded the sessions; your insights are highly valued and appreciated.You can view our Essential Cardano 360 feature <a href="https://youtu.be/Rk92hRNDVs8?t=117">here</a><hr><h2 style="margin-left:0px;">This week's reminders</h2>In this week's reminders section, we’d like to highlight:&nbsp;<ul><li>Applications for the Community Engagement Manager role have now closed. Thanks to all those who applied, and we’ll be in contact with all applicants soon.</li><li>Our <a href="https://docs.intersectmbo.org/intersect-overview/intersect-committees/intersect-working-groups">knowledge base</a> continues to expand. Here, we publish updates and progress as fast as we can.</li></ul>&nbsp;<hr><img src="https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4D12AQFERN9pGFOccA/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232/0/1714145901244?e=1719446400&amp;v=beta&amp;t=6CFXHsRxze2Zyb_FvsHvY54NzGhEzl-BwpAGbbIilUI" alt="" loading="lazy">Well, that’s it for this week's update. Thanks for reading!And finally, we’re interested in hearing more from you about subjects important to you, such as Cardano’s governance. If you have any questions, ideas, or suggestions, please get in touch via email, <a href="https://twitter.com/IntersectMBO">X</a>, or <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/intersectmbo/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_search_srp_all%3BL%2BUpawyyQ6eAmMJWN2VZlw%3D%3D">LinkedIn</a>.

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