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.
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