Title: Council_of_Prague_Announcement
Category: Protocol_Calls___happenings

Author: boris
Date: 2018-08-10T14:57:32.272Z

We are calling for the gathering of the Council of Prague. The working plan is that we will gather across 3 days – October 28th - 30th – before DevCon4.
That may be cut down to just 2 days or otherwise have short days. Oct 30th is “day 0” for DevCon4 which will mainly be registration day there. Oct 28th is last day of the Status hackathon.
@JosefJ and his company Polynom are acting as our Host Organization on the ground and has a tentative venue that should fit up to 150 people.
Unlike Berlin, the core will not only be unconference style. Ring Makers and EIP authors will be invited to set aside chunks of time (2 - 3 hours) to work together in moving issues forward. This also is very specifically different than content at DevCon – we gather to make progress on EIPs/ERCs. This may be pair programming, plugfests for interoperability testing, whiteboarding, circle discussions, or anything else that moves towards running code and rough consensus.
@jpitts & @gcolvin will be submitting a proposal to talk about FEM at DevCon as well, as part of getting more people involved.
We will be announcing a call for volunteers (as in, an actual live call) – if you want to get involved please leave a comment below or PM me and we’ll make sure you get a call invite.
Basic details:

Website: https://ethereumevents.global/events/2018-council-of-prague/
Registration: Event Organizer: Become an Event Hosting Legend | Eventbrite – waitlist right now while we finalize details
Wiki Agenda: Council of Prague Agenda · ethereum-magicians/scrolls Wiki · GitHub – please edit and start gathering your rings

Author: pet3rpan
Date: 2018-08-10T16:24:57.692Z

Hey, would love to volunteer

Author: boris
Date: 2018-08-10T17:33:18.128Z

Great, thank you! We’ll do a volunteer call next week!

Author: jacques
Date: 2018-08-10T18:10:53.291Z

I’d love to get involved and talk about ERC820/ERC777!

Author: fubuloubu
Date: 2018-08-10T22:47:17.263Z

Would like to be involved. Not sure about volunteering to organize, but I make an excellent duck.
Perhaps the format can be a bit more relaxed: spread out over multiple days as you stated, maybe visiting different Prague locales, with longer and deeper discussions that are not as physically intensive.
DevCon will be 4 days of madness, would not want to tire people out too much pre-con.

Author: boris
Date: 2018-08-11T00:24:38.974Z

Great @jacques – that’ll likely be part of the Token Ring. Add that to the wiki with your name so people can find you.

Author: boris
Date: 2018-08-11T00:29:08.573Z

Great. Will put you on the list for the organizing call.
Will you be helping form the Smart Contract Security Ring sessions?



 fubuloubu:

Perhaps the format can be a bit more relaxed: spread out over multiple days as you stated, maybe visiting different Prague locales, with longer and deeper discussions that are not as physically intensive.


If people want to organize such things – sure! We are mainly limited by organizing bandwidth, which ideally the Ring structure will scale.
I think deep work does need a change of pace so we can mix technical work with learning how to work with other people.
I will likely make some plans for the length of Devcon that is mainly a hang out / hack space and really focus on moving things forward so we can all go home and go heads down.

Author: fubuloubu
Date: 2018-08-11T02:08:45.834Z

boris:

Will you be helping form the Smart Contract Security Ring sessions?


We are actually a part of the framing committee on DevCon’s security track, but we can definitely form a few extracurricular sessions to involve those who are attending the conference proper. I think that is very important to support.
We can also do a session about our ring and how ETHSecurity will fulfill the role of organizing all efforts related to security. @captnseagraves, what do you think?

Author: pablanopete
Date: 2018-08-11T05:46:34.079Z

Hey this is awesome! Would love to participate and had just mentioned on twitter that Status will be having a huge Hackathon in Prague near these same dates and would love to cross-collab and make this meld together if it makes sense!
Link for ref:
Https://Hackathon.status.im
Very excited for this.
The status hack event is the 26-28th but the Sunday would be awesome to have some kind of cross-collab possibly

Author: captnseagraves
Date: 2018-08-11T14:43:43.273Z

@fubuloubu @boris Yes, this sounds like something ETHSecurity should be a part of. I’d like to learn more about the structure and what is needed from our end. It would be great to be on the call. I’m trying to be more conscious of overextending myself

Author: wighawag
Date: 2018-08-11T17:26:11.473Z

Hi, kind of new here (though have taken part im several EIP) as I did not find the time yet to be involved but this could be a good opportunity to start.
Is there a ring for web3 APIs? I would like to discuss the future of the web3 API / Json RPC. I have at least one topic in particular that i would like to discuss : encryption and dapp user data access. But I would like to discuss the future I’m general and how we get web3 browser on board to avoid fragmentation.
How could I be involved on these days?

Author: boris
Date: 2018-08-11T18:34:43.499Z

The best thing to do is to document what you want to discuss on the Agenda wiki https://github.com/ethereum-magicians/scrolls/wiki/Council-of-Prague-Agenda
This might turn into an unconference session, part of Ring working sessions, or a lightning talk. Feel free to write more in a separate wiki page and link it in if you have more background to share. Reaching out to other people / teams who are working on those topic areas to join the discussion would be good. There has been lots of discussion here about EIP 1102 which I guess is part of this topic.
Does that make sense?

Author: boris
Date: 2018-08-11T18:37:25.483Z

I’d see you as forming the Security Ring and going from there.
Basically, to be responsible for picking the topics of discussion around security EIPs / ERCs / best practices, noting them on the agenda wiki. We’ll be organizing that into space / agenda time across 3 days depending on what people need / interest levels.

Author: boris
Date: 2018-08-11T18:37:48.300Z

Sent you a PM with some thoughts.

Author: jacques
Date: 2018-08-13T03:00:55.025Z

Thanks, I’ve added it here: https://github.com/ethereum-magicians/scrolls/wiki/Token-Ring
Can you just confirm this is the correct place?
It only mentions Berlin in September (which I sadly cannot attend).

Author: boris
Date: 2018-08-13T15:11:48.556Z

Hey @jacques – Adding your name as a participant in the Token Ring is good – but it’s not specific to any particular event.
To plan for Prague, do a little write up on the Agenda Wiki https://github.com/ethereum-magicians/scrolls/wiki/Council-of-Prague-Agenda  – eg. exactly what you said “Jacques, want to talk about encryption and dapp user data access / Token Ring participation”
We’ve found in general that people are having issues with bottom up agenda creation, so we’re going to have to work on it!

Author: Bagaric
Date: 2018-08-17T09:50:40.351Z

Hey guys. We’d like to volunteer to do the video work for the event (w/o streaming though). Here at ChronoLogic we have a video crew, and we’ve done coverage of previous ETH events (EdCon Toronto, EthCC Paris, DappCon Berlin, ENS Workshop London, etc.), you can find some of those here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTAH_8hSgbzd8Mq84zMsZJQ/videos
What we usually do at events like these is:

Film interviews with speakers and attendees
Produce trailers (e.g. ENS Workshop London https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZISpMPBqUA)
Film talks/presentations

. Who should I contact to talk more about it? Cheers

Author: boris
Date: 2018-08-17T13:29:22.971Z

That sounds great! I’ve sent you a PM to talk details.

Author: tomislavmamic
Date: 2018-08-20T11:40:47.284Z

I’d like to volunteer onsite. I can do anything.

Author: boris
Date: 2018-08-20T17:36:22.484Z

Thanks! We’ll have a volunteer kick off call soon!

Author: Nik
Date: 2018-08-29T12:26:07.748Z

Hey
Quick question - is Council of Prague interested in UX, especially looking at Crypto adoption or just code facing issues?
Thanks

Author: boris
Date: 2018-08-29T14:11:41.449Z

All are welcome! Looking for people to self organize topics and gather interest in working together.

Author: Nik
Date: 2018-08-29T18:27:19.976Z

In that case, I’d like to join

Author: boris
Date: 2018-08-29T23:32:15.840Z

Great – just made an announcement and scheduled a volunteer call for next week if you can make that: ECF sustaining sponsorship, call for volunteers

Author: wingliudata
Date: 2018-09-03T15:26:40.453Z

A few of us from IBM would love to help and we will try to attend the call for volunteers. Great job organizing this event @boris.

Author: wighawag
Date: 2018-10-19T12:51:40.980Z

Hi, I added myself in the wiki as I would like to discuss the 3 proposals for web3 browser I published here for which I created a thread there
Let me know if there anything I should do to bring that forward. I would also be interested in making a lightning talk to present the ideas and start a conversation.
Cheers
Looking forward to the council!