- Josh to set up general mailing list, encourage grantees to share their results there
- Been a month a half since 2017Q4 grants awarded, general impression was positive
- Zcash4Windows issues...failure of process from unreviewed code (port)
- Proposal from Matt: the Foundation can solve the security auditing problem
- Should we launch our own dev team?
- Hire outside security auditing?
- Yan notes that 90% of the work is in actually fixing the issues, not finding them
- Maybe hire a team to provide technical oversight for work done by others/contractors?
- Some of the $250k for this years' grants budgeted could also be used to hire people for oversight
- Next grant programs (2018Q2, 2018Q4)
- Add more reporting requirements (rather than just six months after the project is done)
- Approve now for the sake of making an announcement
- $125k in favor from Andrew, Yan, will reduce grant amounts to $125k
3. Governance, public support
- Andrew is taking non-profit law very very seriously :)
- We have a long runway on proving public support test, decided to table topic for now
4. 2018 Vision and Roadmap
- Josh presented his [vision and roadmap doc for 2018](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/ZcashFoundation/blob/master/2018-VISION.md)
- Eager to have opportunity to play a role in enabling community governance over a cryptocurrency
- Yan: thoughts on drawing line between Company and Foundation?
- Josh: wants Foundation to take on more responsibility but without being construed as active collaboration, has to be case-by-case
- With Zcon0 there will be lots of collaboration, but long term there should be bright lines between the work we do and the work the Company does.
- Weekly Foundation <> Company sync is by necessity, for now
- Josh: Ideally 2-3 years to become more fully independent---especially with regard to protocol development
**Josh and Antonie Recuse Themselves, Only Board Members**
1. Vote to approve Josh's document/plan to be Executive Director. Passes four in favor, one absent.
2. Andrew brings up question of how new board members are added to community.
- Possibility of having a group of voters designated 100+ from community to then chose more board members.
- Decision to add two more board members through vote some time in future, will be discussed on GitHub transparently: four present board members agree.
3. Frequency of board meetings discussed, everyone happy with current tempo.
