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;

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

Common Activities

• Conduct weekly working group meetings with projects and partners to coordinate initiatives, decisions, and tasks.
• Hold weekly committee meetings to facilitate strategy discussions, oversight, and updates on current status.
• Tally votes and coordinate the distribution of funds.
• Manage a site or product that displays projects, decisions, tasks, and a projected roadmap for public viewing.
• Manage the funding and proposal request process, coordinating funding status with the committee and the community.
• Facilitate a discussion forum for debate and discussion of RFPs and proposals.
• Invite suitable project and partner team members to relevant meetings to manage projects and tasks.
• Review and refine proposals for clarity, conformity, and thoroughness to ensure voting members have the information to make informed decisions.
• Gather project status updates and budget expenditure reports for reporting purposes.

Working Group Members

• Project Oversight - Konrad Merino, Head of Partner Success, NEAR Foundation
• Project Manager - Trentin C Bergeron, Sr. Technical Program Manager, NEAR Dev
• Business Development, Partnerships - Dillion Freeman, Blockchain Success Manager, NEAR Foundation