Hi lightning devs, After some communication confusion, I won't be going to african bitcoin confs in december and so no opportunity on my side to get logistical experience for a future LN summit 2024 in Africa.
I'm still committed to organizing the LN Summit in June 2024, I'm proposing to move it to London or Paris or South France. On my side, it's very straightforward in terms of operations, Africa will be for another year. Aiming to give an update in February. Even in light of recent full disclosure of lightning sec issues, from now on I don't wish to take accountability if the lightning network burns in flight, I still think this is an opportunity to talk about practical mitigations that can be deployed on the lightning-side, if any (e.g miners-mempool watching and witnesses relay). Though at the very least without substantial fixes at the base-layer network, I think this can only come as strong changes in lightning sec model and economic efficiency. Good to hold one's commitment in the face of up and down. Best, Antoine Le ven. 23 juin 2023 à 10:39, Antoine Riard <antoine.ri...@gmail.com> a écrit : > 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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