I've been thinking about this Antoine, great idea! I will reach out.
Cheers, Bernard On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 1:27 PM Antoine Riard <antoine.ri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi lightning devs, > > Proposing myself to organize next year's LN Summit in Africa, with a rough > date somewhere in June 2024. > > There are a lot of reasons to hold a summit there. Africa is a beautiful > continent, there is a rich cultural and historical past, a lot of > fragmentation in the financial systems of the 56 states that can be solved > with a compatible payment protocol, an explosive demography with a lot of > energy to get things done, more and more Lightning developers coming from > this continent and formidable perspectives to grow "full-stack" local > Lightning economies. > > Usually, we don't announce the organization of CoreDev or LN Summit on > open communication channels, as there is a goal of serenity of the > engineering conversation (and as we would like to avoid being trolled by > BSV fans or tabloid-style of journalism). For this time, given the > operational challenges can be a bit more complex (e.g visas travels, > "tropical weather"), better to have this announced far ahead [0]. > Operations and financial resources should be okay, though nice if we have a > multi-stakeholder approach, "skin in the game" from a bunch of folks is the > best way to guarantee fairness and transparency of the process. > > If you have any objection to my personna contribution to the organization > of the LN Summit 2024, thanks for letting me know during the coming weeks, > either in public or on this thread, or privately by mail. As usual, I'll do > my best to set strong transparency and accountability standards. In matters > of open-source, talk is cheap, better to speak by your actions. > > With any project, the best advice is always to start small, so the first > step sounds to be to survey all the countries with reasonable operational > stability that can fit the location (Algeria, Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria, > etc). I'll look into it and share the feedback privately to the Lightning > attendees (based on neutral and technical proof of works heuristics), > somewhere at the end of the summer. > > Setted up a dedicated communication endpoint for this: > lnsummit2...@ariard.me > > If you're a LN dev, don't hesitate to reach out if you wanna to be part of > the organization, this is a good opportunity to transfer knowledge between > generations of contributors. > > Cheers, > Antoine > > [0] Already co-organized the CoreDev event in Zurich back in 2021 so I do > have already the operational templates. > _______________________________________________ > Lightning-dev mailing list > Lightning-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev >
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