Title: _Council_of_Paris_2019__Call_for_Rings
Category: Protocol_Calls___happenings

Author: boris
Date: 2019-02-22T22:35:53.087Z

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Council of Paris

When: March 4, 2019
Where: CNAM - 292 Rue Saint-Martin, 75003, Paris, same venue as ETHCC

Basic details:
Website: https://ethereumevents.global/events/2019-council-of-paris/ 28
Agenda: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BYudpf2TfjO-qbAoSuzFBH0Ab_BRiQJ31VUhGoc6n_Y/htmlview
Registration: Council of Paris 2019 40
Sponsors who want to pay with fiat: Council of Paris 2019 - Open Collective

Please fill out this form:
Session Interest Form to help us schedule rooms
If you can facilitate or take notes for a session, check this guide out.
Purpose
The purpose of this document is to develop an understanding of which rings are participating in the Council of Paris and who is participating on each ring.
Further discussion here:
More broadly, don’t worry too much about “rings” – if there is a topic, EIP, or experience around the Ethereum ecosystem you’d like to discuss, please add yourself here. We’ll be wrangling the agenda so everyone has room and time to meet. As well, your job is to spread the word and get people to sign up. You can even consider having an organizing call ahead of Paris, write up some wiki or HackMD pages, or in general prep for having productive meetings during the time we are alll together in person.
Please suggest a new ring and begin to organize if you know of a set of related EIPs or significant issues in the Ethereum community.
The reason why it was determined to follow with this format and list the most popular rings of Prague 2018, is to ensure there will be continued dialogue, progress and accountability over the action items suggested in the rings. New rings will be added from the form.
Suggestion: if you think you will be a facilitator for a ring, please put “facilitator” next to your name under participants. If someone else already has a facilitator title, please coordinate with them.
Exact times and rooms will be assigned as part of agenda wrangling process.
Rings
1. Education
Working doc: Education Ring - Council of Paris 2019 - HackMD
To provide direction and process flow for knowledge management in the Ethereum ecosystem. The three main directives will be to help with:


Educating ourselves (those currently in the Ethereum community)


Educating the rest of the world (either devs or non technical community)


How we bring devs to opensource (grow the technical engagement of Ethereum)


Desired outcome(s):
Topics of Discussion


Newcomer education and broadening understanding for non-tech audiences


Discuss & Build on education models being currently worked on


B9 labs and DoD education for 1000 devs - progress update


Interested Participants


Simona Pop


María Paula Fernández


James Beck


Elias Hasse (Facilitator)


Aidan


Adeola


2. Wallet Ring
Notes from session: Notes from Paris Wallet Ring - HackMD
Make wallets more useful, interoperable, user friendly, decentralized, secure, accessible.
Topics of Discussion

Please suggest in this doc.

Participants

You!

3. Signaling Ring
Discuss the problem of signaling and measuring preferences in decentralized networks.
Topics of Discussion

Please suggest in this doc.

Participants


Daniel Kronovet


You!


4. Fund Recovery Ring
Topics of Discussion

Please suggest in this doc.

Interested Participants

Afri 5chdn

5. Meta Magicians Ring
Discuss rings, events, operations, and how we can scale and organize together.
Topics of Discussion


Role of FEM


Your suggestion


Interested Participants


Boris Mann (facilitator)


Peter Mauric


Adeola


6. Security Ring
Discuss security community structure and planning.
Topics of Discussion

Please suggest in this doc.

Participants

You!

7. Token Ring
Discuss token standards.
Topics of Discussion


Modelling securities with tokens


Intersection of security tokens with exchanges (centralised & DEX)


Confidential transactions with security tokens


Participants


Adam Dossa (Polymath)


James Waugh


8. Business Models Ring
Discuss business models (streaming money, subscriptions, NFTs, ERC20 tokens) for dapps
Notes from 2018/10/29: Business model session outline - HackMD
Topics of Discussion

Please suggest in this doc.

Participants


María Paula Fernández


Colin Platt


Yalda Mousavinia


Aqeel Mohammad


Thomas Jay Rush


Simona Pop


Adeola


9. Oracle Ring
Discuss oracles and their interfaces for smart contracts (EIP 1154 or equivalent)
Topics of Discussion

Please suggest in this doc.

Participants


Hadrien Croubois (Amxx)


You!


10. Data Ring
Discuss issues related to on-chain and off-chain data including size, usability, scalability, openess, etc. We will investigate difficulties and opportunities.
Topics of Discussion


Full nodes versus light nodes - known issues


The “Infura Problem”


DappNode, Denode, VIPNode


State Trie Pruning, Blockchain Pruning


State Rent Proposals


Publishing Data (can we avoid capture and censorship?)


Participants


Thomas Jay Rush (TrueBlocks)


Ankit CHIPLUNKAR (tokenanalyst)


You!


11. Trust & Reputation
Discuss issues related to on-chain reputation, uses, misuse, reputation models.
Topics of Discussion


Transferrable reputation: how to avoid what happened with the donut experiment


Staking reputation for voting (Colony’s model)


Decentralized reputation


Etymology of trust and trustless - how we define the tools we build for a globalized audience


Participants


Daniel Kronovet


María Paula Fernández


Hadrien Croubois (Amxx)


Yalda Mousavinia


Aqeel Mohammad


James Waugh


Lili Feyerabend


You!


12. EIPs & Ecosystem Standards
Topics of Discussion


EIP Process, especially core EIPs and hardfork planning


Istanbul hardfork


Interested Participants


Hadrien Croubois (Amxx)


Boris Mann (facilitator)


13. Ethereum Roadmap
Topics of Discussion


Continue the work done in Prague and catch up with the current existing roadmaps


Discuss Ethereum 1x


Interested Participants


María Paula Fernández (co-facilitating/ taking notes)


Daniel Kronovet


Simona Pop


Lane


Colin Platt


Chris Remus


Boris Mann


Hadrien Croubois (Amxx)


Greg Colvin


Adeola


Gregory Markou


14. Web3 UX
Discuss the progress of Web 3.0 application UX since the Devcon reunions. Identify pain points and potentially come up with vocabulary to describe the tools we use to a non-crypto audience.
Topics of Discussion


Vocabulary


UX painpoints


Teams building with top notch UX


Participants


María Paula Fernández


Hadrien Croubois (Amxx)


Simona Pop


Marko


Yalda Mousavinia


Aqeel Mohammad


Lili Feyerabend


James Beck


You!


15. Whisper-v2: Universal Secure Messaging for ETH2
Ethereum becomes a heterogeneous network of shards and different L2-nodes. It implies changes on secure messaging. Now many projects are reimplementing secure messaging instead of using whisper. It is a sign of an adoption problem. Let us fix it.
Topics of Discussion


What prevents whisper adoption?


Which projects working on own secure messaging now?


What projects require secure messaging.


How the unified secure messaging-as-service should looks like in ETH2. What are the requirements? How we collect them?


Background discussion:


Whisper-v2 : Request for requirements for ETH2 unified messaging protocol


Participants


Ethernian


Lane


Antoine Toulme


A2be


somerb


jpitts


Hadrien Croubois (Amxx)


Gregory Markou


16. Ethereum Project Management: Cat Herders
Proposing this ring to get together all the people that have been gathering in this group, discuss funding, and face to face dialogue.
Topics of Discussion


History and goals of the initiative


How to get involved


Project management vs. governance


Why is PM so hard in Ethereum?


Roadmap to DAOification


Participants


María Paula Fernández


Lane


Aidan


Colin Platt


Chris Remus


@Ethernian


Yalda Mousavinia


James Beck


Adeola


You


17. DAOS
People are calling 2019 the year of the DAO. How do we enable and encourage success? How do we mitigate dystopia?
Topics of Discussion


DAOism – “My DAO is better than your DAO” – waste of time to think this way, or important to enhance our governance models and messaging?


DAO dystopia – Ethereum Police State – DAOs will be used for evil, whether we like it or not – is there a role for a DAO to mitigate bad actor DAOs?


How do we get more people to build DAOs?


How do we get more services and infrastructure for DAOs?


DaoCon0: how do we make it great?


& more


Participants


Yalda Mousavina


María Paula Fernandez


Tomislav Mamić


James Waugh


Thomas Jay Rush


You


18. “5 Whys" retrospective: "Why we are too slow in adopting innovations we are creating”?
It’s taken 16 months from Byzantium to Constantinople (still not in production), despite the fact that Constantinople is relatively noncontroversial and doesn’t actually change very much. According to the best estimates 1, we won’t have a functional (from the perspective of most layer two developers) Eth2 until 2021 (phase 2) at the earliest.
We try to ask 5 Whys recursive starting with “Why we are too slow…”
Topics of Discussion


5 Whys retrospective: Why we are too slow in adopting innovations we are creating?


Economical and other incentives of innovation adoption?


Background discussions:


Experiments we should be running


Thought experiment: Ethereum has failed in 5 years. Why did it fail? How we can prevent it?


both started by @lrettig
Participants


@Ethernian


Lane


Marko


Greg Colvin


Gregory Markou


You


19. Immutables, invariants, and upgradability
What kind of social contract do we have to follow?
Topics of Discussion


Remediations for EIP-1283 reentrancy bug: have we broke any promise about gas cost of operations.


CREATE2 allows to change the code for already deployed contract: is it a breach of immutability assumptions?


In general: What is our social contract about immutables and invariants?


Background discussion:


Immutables, invariants, and upgradability


started by @lrettig
Participants


@Ethernian


Lane


Hadrien Croubois (Amxx)


20. Protocols to preserve the people working on Ethereum’s integrity
After the events unfolded during this past weekend that resulted on a massive outburst of accusations, conspiracy theories, demands, and verbal violence triggered by mob mentality, it is time, as a community, that we take a look at other tech communities and develop our own protocols (in case of abuse of power, harassment), talk about what is tolerable and what we should condemn and in which form, and work on our own procedures to behave as a unified, however decentralized community that has mature protocols and processes to deal with event that might jeopardize people’s integrity, and therefore, Ethereum’s development (eth is developed by humans!)
This session will not be livestreamed. Participation form is here. 
Topics of Discussion


Power abuse


Harassment (various forms)


prevention protocols


mobbing /cyber bullying


Doxxing


D&I


Participants


María Paula Fernández


Lili Feyerabend


James Beck


Simona Pop

Author: mariapaulafn
Date: 2019-02-28T13:53:05.192Z

Posting here for posterity: Elias our education lead at ETHBerlin and responsible for the Blockstars program to train 1000 devs, will be facilitating the Education ring.