This section publishes independent analysis of the Intersect Membership & Community Committee (MCC) — covering 11 public meetings from November 2025 to March 2026. All findings are grounded in the official meeting transcripts.
The reports examine whether official summaries accurately reflect what was discussed, how elected members participated, whether leadership fulfilled its responsibilities, whether commitments made in meetings were followed through, and whether governance structures served the community or entrenched institutional control.
Reports
Summaries vs. Transcripts
A systematic, meeting-by-meeting comparison of official summaries against raw transcripts. Decisions fabricated from proposals, conflicts sanitised, and accountability failures erased from the institutional record.
Key Findings → Report 02Member Participation
Attendance and speaking analysis for all 10 elected members across 11 meetings. Maureen drives everything, Nathan attended zero meetings, and Boaz delivered 1,900+ translated terms while barely speaking.
Analysis → Report 03Leadership Assessment
Evaluation of Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary performance. A transition from weak to assertive leadership, a secretary who overstepped into governance, and structural dysfunction that persisted throughout.
Accountability → Report 04Promises vs. Reality
14 commitments tracked from source transcript to final outcome. 5 delivered, 3 partial, 6 not delivered. Hub KPIs promised repeatedly and never completed. ClickUp access broken for five months.
Accountability → Report 05Critical Observations
Governance red flags, the overruled committee vote, tool dysfunction as institutional control, and a committee that degraded from engagement to learned helplessness over five months.
Findings →Key Findings at a Glance
"The summaries are not neutral records. They systematically remove conflict, convert proposed ideas into formal decisions, invent action items never stated in meetings, and omit accountability failures."
— Report 01: Summaries vs. TranscriptsSummaries vs. Transcripts
- Decision fabrication: proposals consistently converted to formal decisions
- Conflict sanitisation: anger and confrontation erased from record
- Invented action items never agreed in meetings
- Accountability failures systematically omitted
- Hub data crisis (165,000 attendees for 21 events) hidden from record
Member Participation
- Nathan Kanapi: 0 of 11 meetings attended — seat vacant 5+ months
- Maureen Wepngong: 11/11, drives agenda and creates deliverables
- Boaz Balume: 11/11 attendance, 1,900+ French terms translated
- Hub working group operated via WhatsApp silo
- Laurentine systematically excluded from hub workstream
Leadership Assessment
- Darlington: friendly but ineffective Chair during transition
- Maureen: strong vision undermined by inability to build consensus
- Sanjaya: active Vice Chair with key initiative ownership
- Abhik: secretary who fundamentally misunderstood the role
- Committee not well-led — dysfunction at every level
Promises vs. Reality
- 14 commitments tracked — 5 delivered (~36% delivery rate)
- Hub KPI document promised since December, never completed
- ClickUp access broken from November through March
- 2024 hub financial data never obtained despite repeated promises
- French translation: one of the few concrete deliverables completed
Critical Observations
- Committee vote overruled: Feb 17 vote to open a meeting was reversed
- Tool dysfunction as institutional control — ClickUp restrictions cascaded
- Committee degraded from enthusiasm to learned helplessness
- Secretary's dual loyalty: advocated for Intersect over committee autonomy
- A committee in name only — structured powerlessness
Meeting Index
| Date | Key topics | Attended | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 18, 2025 | Transition & new member onboarding Outgoing members, vice chair election plan, Fund 15 proposal, hub letter |
9 | Recording |
| Nov 25, 2025 | New Chair takes over; Co-Chair election Sanjaya elected Vice Chair, operational framework, hub audit proposal, X account access |
9 | Recording |
| Dec 2, 2025 | X account policy; AMM results; Nathan's absence Annual member survey, ClickUp workshop vote, Nathan replacement discussed |
9 | Recording |
| Dec 9, 2025 | Workshop follow-up; Workstream ownership Miro board walkthrough, X Spaces office hours, social media strategy |
9 | Transcript |
| Dec 16, 2025 | ClickUp confrontation; Chair tells Tex to hand over access Major tool access dispute, Terence step-away ultimatum, X Spaces scheduled |
9 | Recording |
| Jan 6, 2026 | New year kickoff; 2026 Hubs strategy In-person events proposal, budget timeline, X Spaces update, 20hrs/month reminder |
7 | Recording |
| Jan 20, 2026 | The Grid presentation; Hub silo conflict Ecosystem data layer demo, WhatsApp group revealed, bi-weekly meeting dispute |
9 | Recording |
| Feb 3, 2026 | DoraHacks; Budget remit; Translations Hackathon platform pitch, community blueprint, French/Sinhala translation, ClickUp access still broken |
9 | Recording |
| Feb 17, 2026 | Budget draft; Remit deadline 300K ADA budget cap, Hub KPI urgency, contested vote on guest attendance |
7 | Recording |
| Mar 3, 2026 | Grid approved; DoraHacks to GMC Budget votes, hub post-mortem data gap, French translation 99%, "meeting rug" incident |
8 | Recording |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Budget structure; Event model; Elections Category ownership, hub reimbursement model, handbook debate, French translation complete |
7 | Recording |
Methodology & Source Notes
All five reports are based on a complete reading of the official meeting transcripts and the official meeting summaries (minutes) for all 11 MCC meetings. Every factual claim is traceable to a specific transcript passage. Participation data was derived from transcript evidence — the attendee lists in summaries were cross-referenced against actual speaking records in transcripts, as several summaries contain attendance inaccuracies.
These reports represent independent community analysis and are not affiliated with Intersect or any official body. All source recordings and transcripts are publicly linked via Intersect's official documentation channels.