After I have been asked offline the exact date when those meetings were actually starting, I'm proposing Tuesday 15th November at 18:00 UTC, i.e 2 weeks from now. Thinking about a monthly frequency for now (from my experience attending dlcspecs/lighnting specs meetings/core dev meetings in the past, weekly sounds too much, biweekly/monthly sounds better though dunno yet good frequency).
If there is an incompatibility with another public engineering meeting in the Bitcoin space, let it know. We can talk about a better schedule during the 1st session [0].
Communication venue is #bitcoin-contracting-primitives-wg on Libera Chat [1]. Feel free to lurk already and ask questions.
No consistent agenda beyond listening to every attendee their expectations, ideas, subjects of interests they would like to see happening with this new covenants/contracting primitives R&D process.
If you have been working on a contracting protocols/side-chains/rollups/other use-cases that could benefit from extended Bitcoin contracting primitives, feel free to open an issue there:
https://github.com/ariard/bitcoin-contracting-primitives-wg/issuesLet it know if you have more questions or feedback.
Cheers,
Antoine
[0] It would be great to have a schedule inclusive of most timezones we can, 18:00 UTC might be too early for Asian and Oceanic ones. Later, we start to be exclusive towards contributors in Eastern Europe.
[1] There have been more voices suggesting jitsi/audio-based meetings rather than IRC. It's a cool format too, though coming with trade-offs.