Infrastructure Working Group

The purpose of this working group is to support the Infrastructure Committee.

Goals & Directives

Improving the performance, availability, and reliability of the NEAR ecosystem infrastructure by;

Facilitating and coordinating all meetings, announcements, communications, tasking, projects, and initiatives regarding the Infrastructure Committee.
Overseeing of all project and initiative statuses including regular reporting of accomplishments and budget expenditures. Reporting statuses on the appropriate Github repo discussion forums.
Managing the ecosystem-wide escalation of outages, incident management, and post-mortems including mitigations and the completion of those mitigations.

Conducting weekly Working Group meetings with projects and partners to coordinate projects, decisions, and tasking.
Conducting bi-monthly committee meetings to facilitate strategy discussions, oversight, and current status.
Tallying votes and coordinating the distribution of funds.
Managing a Github Project with linked repo that tracks Working Group projects, decisions, and tasks including a projected Roadmap for public consumption.
Managing and facilitating a discussion forum on the Working Group Github repo for community input, questions, answers, announcements, and meeting notes.
Managing a process for the Funding and Proposal request process coordinating funding status to the committee and the community.
Managing and facilitating a discussion forum on the Funding and Proposal repo for the debate and discussion of RFPs and proposals.
Inviting appropriate project and partner team members to appropriate meetings to help with managing projects and tasking.
Helping review and refine proposals for clarity, conformity, and thoroughness towards gathering good information so the voting Members can make conscientious decisions.
Gathering project status and budget expenditure reports for reporting on the Working Group Github discussion forums.

Project Oversight - Konrad Merino, Head of Blockchain Success, NEAR Foundation
Product Manager - Gautham Ravi, Sr. Product Manager, Pagoda
Project Manager - Trentin C Bergeron, Sr. Technical Program Manager, Pagoda
Technical BD - Vikas Pandey, Success & Partner Engineering, NEAR Foundation
Technical Advisor - Robert Tsia, SRE Manager, Pagoda
Technical Advisor - Ernesto Cejas Padilla, Sr. SRE, Pagoda
Technical Advisor - Firat Sertgoz, Engineering Manager, Pagoda
Technical Advisor - Patrick Engvall, Sr. Engineer, Pagoda
Technical Advisor - Pierre Leguen, Software Engineer, NEAR Foundation Finance
Broadcast MC & Project Advisor - Marcus Ribeiro, Ecosystem Relations, NEAR Foundation

Other partners, advisors, and team members as invited...