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+Zcash Foundation Board Meeting
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+June 28, 2018 — started approximately 3pm Montréal time — at the end of Zcon0
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+Board members in attendance: Amber Baldet, Andrew Miller, Peter Van Valkenburgh, Ian Miers, Matt Green
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+Foundation employees also present: Josh Cincinnati (virtually), Antonie Hodge, Sonya Mann
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+Minutes
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+Prior to the meeting, Yan Zhu and Naval Ravikant resigned over email. The remaining Board members unanmiously voted for Amber Baldet and Ian Miers to take the open Board seats.
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+Topics discussed:
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+1. Interfacing and collaboration with the Zcash Company going forward, with a focus on the June 29 joint retreat.
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+2. How to appropriately create resources that will be relevant to regulators, given the legal constraints of a 501(c)(3). Reference point: The historical and ongoing ["Crypto Wars."](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars)
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+3. Who to enlist for the creation of such resources. Example topic: "What does strong privacy look like for domestic abuse victims?"
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+4. Possible branding, web development, and graphic design vendors.
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+5. How to balance usability development with other priorities.
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+6. Ideal potential longevity for the Foundation. Josh Cincinnati, paraphrased: Our goal is to be one of many stakeholders in a broader ecosystem, and we should exist long enough to become irrelevant / unnecessary.
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+7. Budgeting for technical hiring and development, especially with respect to eliminating single points of failure.