Mojaloop Community Central: Peter Houston

Community Council Agenda 2025-08-11

Peter Houston — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 18:46:20 +0000

Community Council Meeting
11 August 2025
via conference call

Agenda

Welcome and Roll Call
Approval of 02 June 2025 Minutes
Nairobi Convening 
Program Committee Discussion
AOB
Adjourn

Community Council Minutes 2025-03-24

Peter Houston — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:23:34 +0000

1.0 WELCOME, ROLL CALL, AGENDA REVIEW, MINUTES APPROVAL
Mr. Simeon Oriko welcomed the group, called the meeting to order at 9:02 AM ET and reviewed the agenda. The Minutes of March 10 were reviewed and approved without objection or abstention.
RESOLVED, Minutes of March 10th are approved.
2.0 ACCELERATOR PROGRAM STRATEGY
• Mr. Oriko presented the new Accelerator Program strategy and discussed the overall objectives for this program and the program’s strategic necessity and value in the Mojaloop ecosystem.
• The goal is to establish a large role of system integrators in Mojaloop deployment and emphasized the importance of the system integrator to contributor pathway. Additionally, there is an ongoing audit of previous Accelerator Program activities.
• Mr. Oriko further discussed: alumni engagement strategy, workstream integration, participant motivation
• KPI’s for the accelerator program were discussed as well: completion, graduation rate as well as workstream contribution metrics and transition rate.
• There was feedback and discussion from CoCo. Mr. David Higgins discussed whether an accreditation program would be reasonable. Mr. Oriko further discussed some of the advantages and disadvantages of an accreditation program. Split and defined participant pathways were discussed further.
• Mr. Paul Baker suggested packaging projects (GitHub) and using them as a reference. This could be a readme file or recorded demo.
• Mr. Baker and Mr. Oriko further discussed how to engage specific companies and how they engage with Mojaloop Accelerator program. The relationship with the Training Program was also discussed.
• Mr. Oriko then asked the Community Council to spend next week reviewing this document, before advancing further
3.0 CONVENING UPDATE
• Mr. Oriko discussed the convening agenda and plan.
• Mr. Oriko noted that a lot of people will decide to attend the Convening later or last minute depending on what the Convening agenda/topics are.
• Mr. Innocent Ephraim mentioned invites to convenings as a potential alumni benefit, newsletter, or other potential avenues for engagement for the Accelerator Program.
• Mr. Oriko also recapped the full agenda, discussing both the technical and business focused sessions as well as “silent” track that allows people to meet, collaborate.
• Mr. Oriko requested CoCo members send the link to system integrators or others who are interested.
4.0 AOB: None Discussed
5.0 ADJOURN: Meeting adjourned at 9:58 AM ET.

Community Council agenda 2025-03-24

Peter Houston — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 21:32:03 +0000

Community Council Meeting
24 March 2025
via conference call

Agenda

Welcome and Roll Call
Approval of March 10 Meeting Minutes
2025 Objectives
Accelerator Program Strategy
AOB

Community Council Minutes 2025-03-10

Peter Houston — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 21:30:36 +0000

1.0 WELCOME, ROLL CALL, AGENDA REVIEW
Mr. Oriko welcomed the group, called the meeting to order at 9:02 AM ET and reviewed the agenda.
2.0 PRODUCT COUNCIL RE-STRUCTURING
• Mr. Paul Makin provided an overview of the proposed re-structuring of the Product Council Challenges and Proposed Actions
• Mr. Makin conducted a review of the current challenges, as well as the original background and purpose of the Product Council
• Mr. Makin outlines three new approaches, knowledge building, workstream monitoring, and roadmap support and production ideation.
• Knowledge building will involve general information sharing and focused webinars.
• Workstream monitoring will involve continuous monthly workstream meetings and Mid to LATE PI workstream reviews.
• Roadmap support will involve product ideation, prioritization, and requirements for community voting.
• In addition to these new structures, the weekly meeting(s) will be replaced.
• Mr. Warren Carew provided the adopters perspective. Mojaloop needs to be better presented. It could be helpful to better facilitate that overall.
• Mr. Makin acknowledged this, although noted some of his concerns would be better addressed by the overall MLF community, not the product council specifically.
• There was further discussion on Product Council need to facilitate better discussion between adopters and MLF.
• David and Mr. Makin broadly discussed the audience for Product Council.
• Mr. Oriko clarified after discussion that Governance structures decisions will need to be made broadly with MLF Community input, per Mojaloop Foundation processes.
3.0 APPROVAL OF FEBRUARY 24 MINUTES
• Minutes of February 24 were approved without objection or abstention.
4.0 AOB
• Mr. Oriko briefly reviewed the new Bitergia metrics tool.
• This tool will be tracking Metrics from Slack and GitHub. There was discussion of the overall GitHub metrics and how they map out against the community.
5.0 ADJOURN: MEETING ADJOURNED AT 9:47 AM ET.

Community Council Minutes 2025-02-24

Peter Houston — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:57:18 +0000

1.0 WELCOME, ROLL CALL, AGENDA REVIEW
Mr. Oriko welcomed the group and reviewed the agenda

2.0 APPROVAL OF 13 JANUARY MINUTES
Quorum was achieved, and the minutes were approved.

3.0 2025 COMMUNITY COUNCIL CO-CHAIR ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. Ephraim was welcomed as the co-Chair of the 2025 Community Council

4.0 2025 ANNUAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL CHARTER REVIEW
Mr. Oriko shared an overview of the Community Council Charter and described the annual process for reviewing and updating the charter. The following changes were proposed:
Section 2.2 Membership, Elections, and Participation:
Elections:
• A proposal was made to update the succession terms and election cycles for Community Council to allow for more consistent engagement and continuity
• Under the proposed changes, Community Council terms would be extended to two years from one.
• No change would be made to the term limits; a member may serve two consecutive terms before stepping down for at least one term before becoming eligible to serve again.
• Beginning in 2026, CoCo members serving in their first term will automatically be extended to an additional year (a two-year term).
Guest Participation:

• Add language clarifying that guests (observers/contributors) do not have voting rights
Attendance and Accountability:
• A proposal was made to build and codify into the charter a process to address chronic absenteeism from meetings, including tracking, communication, and if necessary, removal and replacement.
• The Council agreed that absences with apology/explanation should be treated differently from absences without apology, as members may occasionally have obligations that prevent them from attending 2 or more consecutive meetings but are otherwise engaged and committed to participating/contributing.
• The following process was proposed:
o Member misses 2 consecutive meetings without prior apology or explanation
o Mr. Oriko will notify the member and ask if the member is still willing and able to participate as a Community Council member
o If the member is still interested but is unable to participate at meetings for a period, the Community Council may, at its discretion and based on factors such as past participation and contributions, decide whether the member should remain on the Council or be removed.
o If the member is no longer willing and able to participate, the member will be asked to relinquish the seat on the Community Council
o If necessary, the Community Council will then hold a vote to formally remove the Council member, and will hold a simple nomination to fill the seat
o Formal removal will only take place by a quorum vote of the Community Council
4.1 Meetings, Groups, and Documentation
• A request was made to remove a repetitive paragraph (a formatting error).
VOTE: With no objections, the Community Council approved the proposed Charter updates, and the updates passed.

ACTION: Mr. Oriko will update the language on the Charter and share with the Community Council.

5.0 2025 COMMUNITY COUNCIL OBJECTIVES
The Council reviewed and discussed Community Council 2025 Objectives, using the view-only FY2025 Strategic Objectives made available by executive leadership as a framework.
• Mojaloop Foundation is a mission-driven non-profit, not a vendor, and needs to be understood as such.
• The Community Council will align its 2025 activities to the Mojaloop Foundation’s broader strategic objectives and initiatives.
• Council Members were asked to consider what the Community Council can do to identify resources to support initiatives, and bring as many people, partnerships, and resources behind these initiatives (eg accelerator program) as possible.
• Members agreed that balancing responsiveness to the marketplace, as well as focus on Product Council workstreams, is essential to achieving goals.
• Emphasizing Mojaloop as a DPG was also listed as critically important
ACTION: Mr. Oriko has shared the Community Council 2025 Objectives document and CoCo members are asked to review and add input directly into the document.

6.0 ACCELERATOR PROGRAM ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY

Due to insufficient time for discussion, this topic was deferred and will be addressed at the next meeting.

7.0 AOB

8.0 SUMMARY OF ACTION ITEMS

 COMMUNITY COUNCIL CHARTER: Mr. Oriko will update the language on the Charter and share with the Community Council.next meeting March 10
 COMMUNITY COUNCIL 2025 OBJECTIVES: CoCo members are asked to review and add input directly into the Objectives document and work asynchronously

9.0 ADJOURN
The meeting was adjourned at 10:03 AM EST. The next meeting will take place on 10 March.

Community Council agenda 2024-03-10

Peter Houston — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:37:41 +0000

Community Council Meeting
10 March 2025
via conference call

Agenda

Welcome and Roll Call
Approval of 24 February 2025 Minutes
Product Council Restructuring
AOB
Adjourn