Proposal Meeting #2 · First Circle · Session B · 13 November 2026
Ten high-level themes from the full 56:47 recording, published with consent—carefully separated into what happened and what remains only a proposal. Each theme links to the moment in the full transcript.
Consent · 14 November 2026, 04:20 UTC: Shaka confirmed that Meeting #2 was recorded with consent and may be transcribed, published and shared with the ʻohana and orchestra. The recording opens with everyone’s thumbs-up to being recorded. These notes are paraphrases of what Shaka, Aakaash, Sha and Vipul said; the complete transcript and audio are open for anyone who wants the exact words. Private links, contact details and personal circumstances are not published. Automated transcription can be imperfect; speaker labels are editorial.
Shaka opened from the 4Seas lobby in Chiang Mai, confirmed the recording consent out loud, and framed the call: the orchestra has been shared across the last three Devcons and the DevConnects between them, Devcon 8 ended at Jio World Centre in Mumbai, and Devcon 9 Lisbon arrives a month earlier next October. The aim is to better support contributors and make the road to Lisbon a series of real activations.
Transcript · 0:00Shaka said directly that there will be no token for OSO, that DAOs have been “good and bad, and some have been hacked,” and that the main goal is to get together and play more music. The orchestra’s “liquidity” is that musicians can show up anywhere and play without a VC. He described his own shift from fundraising toward harvesting and stewarding. No governance mechanism, voting system or on-chain structure was selected.
Transcript · 1:25Shaka described the present as “no on-chain activation” other than the ability to receive a donation, with osoartist.eth subnames, own-wallet connection and agent x402 wallets described as in the works, so a listener could ask their agent to tip a singer or give one equal gift to the whole orchestra. These notes do not independently verify readiness, security or any live payment flow; they record what was said.
Transcript · 3:17Aakaash met the orchestra jamming Bollywood songs at night during an ETH Mumbai hackathon and became a rhythmic backbone of the Road to Devcon 8. Sha, calling in from Goa, sang unscheduled with the DJs and guitar at Devcon 8 and is building a creative, immersive-media universe. Vipul, a company secretary and advocate working in IP and copyright, offered legal care. Each described Devcon 8 as a place where Ethereum showed itself as culture, not only code.
Transcript · 5:34Shaka framed the OSO DAO as an open door for far more than music at Devcon: code, voice, sound engineering, and the person who simply helps others get there would all count equally. Equal recognition was explored as the core principle; no membership list, score, allocation or formal entitlement was approved.
Transcript · 10:16Shaka argued the orchestra should keep walking into Devcon voluntarily—as tourists and friends playing music, never as employees—because gifts are welcome everywhere. If grants ever arrive, he would like the first proposals to be reimbursement requests with receipts for Devcon 8 travel, creating a receipts-first protocol, with consensus among everyone present. He hoped that more than half of participants might take no funds and vote their share forward for about three years—toward a shared European backline, for example. No threshold, amount, recipient, treasury or distribution was decided.
Transcript · 12:03Shaka recalled the Devcon 8 black guitar dropped three times by people from three continents, repaired from the Devcon budget, and proposed that the orchestra bring more of its own backline in future. He noted instruments already living in Prague, Barcelona, an EF office in Berlin and at 4Seas in Chiang Mai as possible seeds for a European backline ahead of Lisbon, and named EthCC and the Devcon 9 music sanctuary as hoped-for next destinations. Nothing was purchased, placed or confirmed with any venue.
Transcript · 15:06Aakaash described a stage where coders came for peace after their sessions, where people sang in public for the first time, and where vocalists found musicians and musicians found vocalists. Shaka reflected that an orchestra belongs “in its pit,” supporting the main story rather than taking the stage, that holding the schedule lightly left room for unscheduled contributors like Sha, and proposed a Devcon 9 Lisbon “music sanctuary” shaped by stewardship rather than slots. Sha later described the space as a break from conference “attack mode.”
Transcript · 18:21Sha proposed recording a shared Devcon 9 song remotely and playing it live; donating any surplus to local music initiatives—such as a music school for under-served children—wherever the orchestra lands; connecting with Portuguese musicians who might bring instruments; and inviting music-tech makers to showcase new equipment at no cost. Shaka welcomed the ideas and mentioned an existing live recording by Levi as a possible first single. None of these are scheduled, funded or agreed.
Transcript · 30:42Shaka proposed that beyond showing up to play, people could consent to join the orchestra’s ledger with a wallet address or a steward-protected subname so retroactive thanks can find them; that the orchestra’s presence at Devcon should again come through a Devcon Improvement Proposal written and signed by all; and that multi-sig treasuries and co-stewarded, shared agents are experiments worth exploring. He described the DAO as “a proposal” with all code open source and built in public, and asked for contributions and open content. Vipul’s copyright care sat alongside Shaka’s view that gifts across borders are simpler than sales—his view in conversation, not legal advice. Nothing was adopted.
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