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Hi, my name is Brian Truax. A month ago I stepped into a new role with Informal Systems as the Business Operations Manager for the Hub Team, working alongside Jehan Tremback, Marius Poke and the rest of the team to support strategic operations. I’ve been around Cosmos since 2021. I was previously COO & Head of Product at LOA Labs , working with organizations like Regen Network, Althea, Hedera, and several others on product strategy, go to market planning, and operational support for founders. LOA Labs also validated for nine Cosmos chains including the Hub. What I’d like to accomplish with this post: • Introduce myself to the Hub Forum community - hey there • Give an overview of my role for community, since you’ll likely see and hear from me more around the Cosmos • Make a call for other product-manager types in Cosmos to asynchronously explore some particular problem spaces in their own areas of the Cosmos, particularly: • How might we better collaborate on the Cosmos Hub roadmap? • How might we better bridge technical and non-technical audiences, which likely prevents a good deal of community participation and collaboration on feature ideas that will drive value for…

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At the Commons Hub validator we appreciate and encourage your attempt to create common ground. Welcome.

We are so lucky to have you so deeply embedded in the Cosmos ecosystem Brian!!!

btruax:

• How might we better collaborate on the Cosmos Hub roadmap?
• How might we better bridge technical and non-technical audiences, which likely prevents a good deal of community participation and collaboration on feature ideas that will drive value for the ecosystem?
• How might we increase synergy between marketing minds and major product releasers, so that we continue to build bullish sentiment around Cosmos?
• How might we create better feedback loops between teams funded to work on the Hub and community?

Very important topics. Coming from public goods dev perspective:
I think there’s a lot of room for more teams (public goods or otherwise) to better collaborate on Hub roadmap and general Cosmos product direction. It’s a big opportunity to take the Hub’s needs as a priority (sometimes these needs are not well known either or considered) among public goods teams and more broadly. We’ve been fixing that between the Comet and Hub teams, but still a lot of work to do. The Hermes team has also been proactive in ICS relaying & testing (for misbehavior in particular).

Might be interesting for @susevans, @jack also.

Welcome Brian!