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📅 Original date posted:2023-06-23
🗒️ Summary of this message: Antoine Riard proposes to organize the Lightning Network Summit in Africa in June 2024, citing the continent's potential for a full-stack local Lightning economy.
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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.riard at 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:
> lnsummit2024 at 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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