Hello Antoine, This proposal is a great one coming from the lightning dev community.
To note, different community across Africa organises local meetups focused on technical session around Bitcoin and lightning network for example Qala Africa and a couple of BitDevs community across a couple of East and West African countries. It will be a good step to connect with these communities first to bootstrap planning. I will reach out privately. Great idea here. Cheers nully0x Sent with Proton Mail secure email. ------- Original Message ------- On Saturday, June 24th, 2023 at 1:00 PM, lightning-dev-requ...@lists.linuxfoundation.org <lightning-dev-requ...@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > Send Lightning-dev mailing list submissions to > lightning-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev > or, via email, send a message with the subject or body 'help' to > lightning-dev-requ...@lists.linuxfoundation.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > lightning-dev-ow...@lists.linuxfoundation.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Lightning-dev digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. LN Summit 2024 Organization (Antoine Riard) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 10:39:18 +0100 > From: Antoine Riard antoine.ri...@gmail.com > > To: "lightning-dev\\\\@lists.linuxfoundation.org" > lightning-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > > Subject: [Lightning-dev] LN Summit 2024 Organization > Message-ID: > CALZpt+Hev9Z2ZXanCeqiG_g5q-xuhP_CYCv=g5ww2f+7kqb...@mail.gmail.com > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 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. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/attachments/20230623/7469a241/attachment-0001.html > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Lightning-dev mailing list > Lightning-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Lightning-dev Digest, Vol 94, Issue 17 > ********************************************* _______________________________________________ Lightning-dev mailing list Lightning-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev
