Community Council Minutes 2025-03-24

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.