Title: Wiki__Proposed_agenda_for_the__Council_of_Berlin__
Category: Protocol_Calls___happenings

Author: jpitts
Date: 2018-05-16T17:29:53.639Z

_For updates and a summary of all information, see the website http://ethereum-magicians.github.io/berlin-council/_
_Please support this community effort! The suggested donation is 0.1 ETH for attendees, larger projects / company sponsorships are welcome: **https://donations.ethereum-magicians.org/**_
Please sign up to let us know you’re coming, and/or publicly list yourself below in the Attendees section: Berlin Council Sign Up

July 14 Saturday - All Magicians
Group discussions as a “Full Council”, focusing on our goals as an organization and our process.
Please see the proposed topics.
Lunch
EIP Process Overview - EIP editors to present
Discussion about the “Stuck Ether” EIPs
Evening
Lightning Talks
General community topics


On the problem of wealth distribution, Lane Rettig


A practical approach to develop distributed governance models, Tim Bansemer


Gas Based Voting Tool - Christoph Jentzsch


Lowering Gas Prices with Child pays the Parent - Griff Green - Child pays the Parent in Ethereum - Help Build this EIP!


DAppNode: Decentralizing Node Infrastructure - Griff Green - https://dappnode.io/


How to build a DApp for 10 million end-users - Ben Bollen


Technical Challenges with Receiving Community Signals and Measuring Sentiment - Phil Lucsok


Supporting Development on Ethereum and the Web3 Tech Stack - Jack Platts


Token Standards and NFT Updates - Matt Lockyer


Add yourself here: Lightning Talk, Name, Optional Link


Introducing working group topics / announcing working groups


Creating Communities around Causes (in general) - Griff (Will talk about Robbie’s Group)


ETH Anti-Phishing Workgroup (Skype) - Griff (MyCrypto’s Group)


ScalingNOW! (Riot) - Griff (in transition)


Open Source Block Explorers NOW! (Telegram) - Griff


Secure Smart Contract Development (Telegram) - Griff (Robbie’s Group)


Open Source Web3 Design NOW! (Telegram) - Griff (Mitch’s group)


Social scalability for Ethereum (new idea) - Lane


Add yourself here: Group Talk, Name, Optional Link



July 15 Sunday - Working Group Sessions
Covering the proposed topics for working groups.
Please add topics that you would like to work on!
Here are the latest proposed topics for the working groups:

Virtual Machines: EVM / WASM / K-EVM / IELE
EIPs relating to new opcodes / changes to opcodes
UX: account management / signatures / wallets
Upgrading clients / making forks less dire
Compensating nodes / paying rent on contract storage
Status codes and improving the developer experience
Security and contract auditing (or is this covered by EthBerlin?)
Social scalability


Evenings
Dinners are not covered, but we will organize some group activities that people can participate in.

July 13th Friday: German beer garden
July 15th Sunday: Wrap up dinner, potential group order to the backyard of c-base

July 16-18 - “Side-chains encouraged”
Working Groups / Birds of a Feather / Shoulder gatherings
Want to gather together in cafes or co-working after the main event? Feel free to self-organize gatherings. Please link here to any wiki pages or websites for these.

July 19-20 - Gnosis DappCon
As this event follows the Council of Berlin, we encourage all Magicians to go, and perhaps some can present our work!



dappcon.io



DAPPCON 25
The leading summit for applications & infrastructure for an open internet






Attending the Council of Berlin
Are you planning to attend? Please add your name or handle, and a one liner on what you most want to discuss. Please also sign up to let us know we should order you breakfast and lunch

Greg Colvin
Jamie Pitts
Boris Mann
Dean Eigenmann
Josef Jelacic
Nick Johnson
Lane Rettig
Andy Tudhope
Dmitry Palchun (AKA Ethernian, from 15.07)
María Paula Fernández (Golem)
Igor Adamski (Golem)
Gert-Jan Rebel (Golem)
Pedro Gomes (WalletConnect)
Rachel-Rose O’Leary (CoinDesk)
Evgeny Ponomarev (Fluence)
Cyrus Taghehchian (Splyt Core Foundation)
Tomislav Mamić (Dgov 2018, https://dgov.earth)
Matt Lockyer (NFTy Magicians, etc…)
Tim Bansemer (inblock.io, #dgov18)
Thomas Jay Rush (QuickBlocks)
Peter Mauric (Parity)
Christoph Jentzsch (Slock.it)
Griff Green (Giveth)
Afri Schoedon (Parity)
Jutta Steiner (Parity)
Scott Moore (Gitcoin)
Mark Beacom (Gitcoin)
Phil Lucsok (Parity)
Jack Platts (W3F)
Remco Bloemen (0x)
Johann Barbie (parseclabs.org)
add yourself

Author: boris
Date: 2018-05-17T14:56:40.995Z

This is a great start. Let’s have an attendees section at the bottom where people can say “I’m coming” – I think long single page makes the most sense.
Love the “side-chains encouraged” wording!

Author: tenthirtyone
Date: 2018-05-18T00:13:31.982Z

Hey there. For now, I plan to attend.
Could we discuss communications and how we can engage the larger community? We’re covering heavy topics, or plan to, and I want to avoid the criticism of “Who are you people and why are you making decisions for the community” criticism.
My current project is not public but should be in time for this event. We are working on problems in the non-profit/charity sector. Looking forward to meeting you all.
Alex

Author: jpitts
Date: 2018-05-18T00:38:38.758Z

Thanks for bringing this up. I was thinking about this today and discussed  with @boris about how we can reach out more effectively.
I hope to have a representative, diverse, and highly qualified group come together in Berlin in order to move the work forward.
We’ll post information about the event more widely next week, aiming to raise awareness, to attract and get a good count of how many wish to attend, and to get more feedback about the agenda.

Author: fulldecent
Date: 2018-05-20T19:40:42.700Z

Hello team. Has anybody found sponsors for this event? I am seeking to see who benefits from these meetings and if they may sponsor me attend and cover my travel expenses. Thank you.

Author: boris
Date: 2018-05-21T16:55:35.581Z

This is an all volunteer event with support from Web3 Foundation on the ground in Berlin.
Some of the people who filled out the Expression of Interest form indicated that there is interest in sponsoring, but it’s unclear that the Magicians can handle funding directly since there is no formal entity.
We’ll discuss it this week.

Author: JosefJ
Date: 2018-05-21T17:26:10.253Z

Hope it’s ok to post it here, but if there is someone non-Europe based hesitant to come over. You can combine the trip and visit Prague two weeks before the Council for UX & adoption unconf:



DAPP UX & adoption unconf in Prague (June 30) User Experience


    Hi everyone, 
as I mentioned at the web3 UX unconf, I’m organizing a followup UX event in Prague this June. 
To goal of the event to learn from each other’s approaches, share best practices and find a way to collaborate in order to bring all of those groundbreaking apps to masses. 
The event is happening in the Institute of Cryptoanarchy in Prague, on the June 30. It’s a free one day invite-only event which will publicly live-streamed. 
The event is locked, for now, to first secure spots for peo…
  

It’s 1h flight or 4h direct train ride Prague → Berlin
I can help with working space to make sure you stay productive

Author: mariapaulafn
Date: 2018-05-21T22:53:09.886Z

Planning to attend, Just taking notes for my team at Golem

Author: decanus
Date: 2018-05-22T14:31:24.952Z

Hey, I am planning to attend the event too. I work on dispute resolution research at ENS, so there may be some interesting overlaps.

Author: boris
Date: 2018-05-22T15:57:40.903Z

Great. I added you to the attendees list above

Author: boris
Date: 2018-05-22T15:57:50.676Z

Awesome, added you to attendees

Author: JosefJ
Date: 2018-05-27T18:56:52.697Z

@boris Would like to attend as well  Considering the DEVCON4 will be in Prague, I’d like to discuss which side-events should we organize and how can I help with that.

Author: boris
Date: 2018-05-28T15:15:33.788Z

I was trying to kickstart people editing the wiki  Please do add your name above. And, while you’re editing – if there is an EIP you want to do a lightning talk around, add that too!
And yes – talking about what do alongside Devcon in Prague also has to get started! We should have a call about that with @jpitts. I’ll PM you an email and we can go from there – I am in Berlin as of tomorrow night.

Author: Danibelle
Date: 2018-05-29T23:03:38.203Z

HI @boris, @jpitts … I’m available to help coordinate communicate and otherwise gather and aggregate… curious about the call I hear being scheduled through a few channels but nothing firm I’ve seen yet?

Author: jpitts
Date: 2018-05-30T06:55:31.949Z

Great to have you help out @Danibelle, @boris and I will DM you here with info about getting involved.

Author: Recmo
Date: 2018-06-04T16:31:14.628Z

If I’m still in Europe by then, I’ll definitely attend!

Author: koeppelmann
Date: 2018-06-04T21:43:36.847Z

Hey - Martin from Gnosis here.
In case you are still looking for a space to host the event we can invite you to http://fullnode.berlin/
Let me know if that is of interest.
Also - we are organizing http://dappcon.io/ - governance will of course be a topic. E.g. Jarrad from Status will further talk about the results of the recent survey. We are still open for further speakers/ topic suggestions.

Author: jpitts
Date: 2018-06-05T07:24:25.857Z

Thanks Martin @koeppelmann! We have been making arrangements for the space with c-base but will keep it in mind.
I was really excited when I found out that DappCon was planned for July 19. Our organizing teams should make sure that participants in the Council can continue their work through to Dappcon, perhaps via shoulder events.
Perhaps at DappCon we can as a group report on what we accomplished. I expect lot of the work will center in contract-related standards. I will contact you and the organizers with more specifics as I am working with @boris and @Danibelle to firm up the agenda for our event.

Author: lrettig
Date: 2018-06-10T12:52:50.315Z

I signed up to do a lightning talk, above. I also added a proposed opening topic, “Discussion about Openness.” This would be a discussion to make sure everyone is on the same page about how much of the contents of the event can and should be shared publicly (via notes, livestream, photos, comment attribution, etc.). It should hopefully be a no-brainer that absolutely anything can be shared at absolutely any time without permission

Author: tjayrush
Date: 2018-06-10T16:00:46.892Z

I’ll just chime in here. I know everyone probably already knows how I feel about this,  but I think “absolutely anything can be shared at absolutely any time without permission” should be on the promotional material.

Author: jpitts
Date: 2018-06-10T23:57:51.643Z

Good point, @tjayrush, we’ll make that sure people can add topics. Also, take note of one of our proposed principles:

Open Process. Any interested person can participate in the work, know what is being decided, and make his or her voice heard on the issue.

Author: phiferd
Date: 2018-06-11T01:43:22.160Z

I would love to attend, but still trying to figure out if I can make it work. Interested in options to attend remotely.

Author: pedrouid
Date: 2018-06-11T18:32:01.169Z

Signed up. I’ll definitely attend!

Author: Mettenim
Date: 2018-06-25T10:25:15.664Z

Just registered, looking forward to following up on some of the Dapp UX topics from Prague in Berlin!

Author: evgenyponomarev
Date: 2018-06-25T14:17:49.447Z

Just signed up. Would be happy to join discussions regarding dapps UX, contract storage incentives, protocol upgrades.

Author: pmauric
Date: 2018-06-26T08:06:05.589Z

Hey! Just submitted the form, looking forward to it

Author: mariapaulafn
Date: 2018-06-26T23:12:48.751Z

Chipping in on behalf of Golem, we looked into EIPs (thanks @boris for encouraging us) - The EIPs that interest us the most:

Account abstraction

EIP-101: Serenity Currency and Crypto Abstraction
EIP-86: Abstraction of transaction origin and signature


EVM improvements


EIP-1014: Skinny CREATE2 (solves token wrapper transactions race condition issue)

EIP-210: Blockhash refactoring (optional, you have to review it)


Sharding!

No EIPs for it, but we want it

Author: exiledsurfer
Date: 2018-07-02T09:43:03.725Z

planning to attend; coming to listen & learn

Author: boris
Date: 2018-07-02T20:52:15.088Z

fantastic! Long time Twitter watcher of yours, looking forward to meeting you in person 
What would be really helpful – and I should ping @jarradhope about this too – is which EIPS does the Status team care about? @mariapaulafn told us what EIPs Golem cares about – something similar would be great.
Hope you’re enjoying your hiking trip!
Any other teams or individuals – please speak up about the EIPs you want to see happen so we can get them discussed!

Author: mattlock
Date: 2018-07-03T20:23:02.893Z

Attending + Dappcon. In Berlin 13-21/07.

Author: boris
Date: 2018-07-04T13:31:43.291Z

Great! Can you give an update on NFT EIPs and future work?

Author: mattlock
Date: 2018-07-04T14:09:20.708Z

Absolutely! Would love to. There’s lots of interesting NFT, “Item”, Interface and Composite proposals, I’ll prepare a few slides and taxonomy of the space so far.

Author: tjayrush
Date: 2018-07-04T20:32:51.486Z

Buying my plane tix now.

Author: ceresstation
Date: 2018-07-04T22:12:48.127Z

A bit late to this but just submitted the form, looking forward to participating!

Author: exiledsurfer
Date: 2018-07-05T11:42:09.976Z

yeah, looking forward to meeting you in person also, Boris

Author: Danibelle
Date: 2018-07-05T20:09:43.156Z

You’re right on time

Author: GriffGreen
Date: 2018-07-06T15:42:25.610Z

EDIT: NM… I figured out how to edit and added this myself 
Things to add!
Attending:
Griff Green
Christoph Jentzsch (Sat Only)
Lightning Talks:

Gas Based Voting Tool - Christoph Jentzsch
Lowering Gas Prices with Child pays the Parent - Griff Green - Child pays the Parent in Ethereum - Help Build this EIP!

DAppNode: Decentralizing Node Infrastructure - Griff Green - https://dappnode.io/


Other topics I can/would like to talk about:
Open Source Block Explorers NOW!
Giveth: Collaborative Crypto Grants
Organizing Communities around Causes
Much love!
Griff

Author: misterigl1
Date: 2018-07-07T05:50:38.206Z

I’d love to talk about open source block explorers, maybe in combination with collaborative crypto grants.
Also attending the council + Dappcon, happy to talk about standards, tools and generally anything improving developers experience.

Author: jpitts
Date: 2018-07-07T07:04:13.843Z

Excellent to see these topics!
We need to start thinking about how to make sure that community members can gather around these topics at the event, while also enabling members to learn about / work on more than one topic.
Those un-conference processes for showing interest in a proposed topic (used at EIP-0) can help with this.
Also important to note:

everyone is invited to be a member of this community
for now, signal who you are with a GitHub user ID
anyone can propose a topic
make topics visible, enable members to attach themselves to a topic
determine who are the champions of a topic, every topic needs a champ
have 1 or even 2 in-person working sessions for a topic at this Council
work on a topic should be carefully noted
please delay “rough consensus” until later on, it can occur on the forum, conference call, or other online medium, but a read on consensus is helpful

How can we get those who are not attending to participate? Is it helpful for each topic to have real-time chat? The major topics for the full Council will be streamed.

Author: tjayrush
Date: 2018-07-07T16:58:49.613Z

I’d very much like to talk about open source block explorers but I really want to shoehorn in the topic of decentralization at the same time. Attending the council. May attend dAppCon depending…

Author: AdeolaOST
Date: 2018-07-08T07:53:07.132Z

@jpitts as I don’t seem to have access to edit the wiki, both Ben and I will be joining from OST. Can I also add a new lightning talk topic with Ben leading the discussion on Saturday around How to build a DApp for 10 million end-users on Ethereum?

Author: jpitts
Date: 2018-07-08T15:00:08.110Z

@AdeolaOST, I believe should should be able to edit, look for the button at the bottom of the first post in this topic…

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Author: AdeolaOST
Date: 2018-07-08T21:32:16.293Z

I’m still stuck. Can’t see that Edit  function in my view:
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Author: AdeolaOST
Date: 2018-07-10T11:40:28.425Z

@jpitts - any chance you can either see if I can get edit access or add Ben and his lightning topic to the list up above?

Author: jpitts
Date: 2018-07-10T18:27:07.084Z

I’ll take another look later on today, it may be the lack of a GitHub ID.

Author: clevinson
Date: 2018-07-10T19:07:05.695Z

I’m planning to attend! Mostly as a quiet observer. I’m not very active in the dev-side of the ethereum community, but am currently doing some process research for Scuttlebutt, and would love to learn & observe how this group organizes, runs itself, and makes decisions

Author: boris
Date: 2018-07-11T11:31:55.327Z

Meta: New signups don’t get wiki editing access. We may want to change permissions so even new users get wiki permissions.
We should probably have a Meta category that is for EthMagicians operations like this.
Feedback to @AdeolaOST - in my opinion, this is a meeting of peers. If the lightning talk includes “this is the EIPs or technical solutions or stuff we need help with”, that would be best. Meetings like this are not conferences for top do@jpitts and I are going to wrangle this into a schedule / agenda tomorrow morning, assume yes, we’ll give people time to meet together and present. And get a video of it!
Looking forward to meeting you in person!

Author: benjaminbollen
Date: 2018-07-11T19:45:08.455Z

Hi all, hi @boris, Ben here from OST (Simple Token); super excited that my travel plans changed and I’ll be in Berlin (homebase) for Magicians; just wanted to clarify I understand the spirit of ETH Magicians as a meeting of peers. (we started OST in sep17; before in 2016 I was the lead dev of eris-db and worked on Tendermint; and I started out in 2014 by rewriting MaidSafe as lead dev)
We’ve been building OpenST (as layer-2) to scale Ethereum (scaling bits per second, users and developers for Ethereum). We ve built a layer-2 compatible open-source block explorer (https://github.com/OpenSTFoundation/openst-view hosted on view.ost.com) to make it accesible easily. (in talks on how we can contribute this to ongoing question for OSS block explorers)
I would love to do a lightning talk on either Jason Teutsch Verifiers Dilemma and how it is the basis to the scaling proposal (scaling bits per second) for Ethereum, and focus on the hypothesis around the reward structure for validators.
Alternatively happy to contribute our thinking and work on wallet UX and how to get tokens securely in the hands millions of new users.
and always open to suggestions from all
Ben-

Author: boris
Date: 2018-07-11T20:00:48.450Z

Great. I know other people want to talk about wallet ux, which sounds like a good working group.
And scaling is a good working group topic, too. With our video crew, it’s also great to capture presentations so they can be shared with many other people.
Are there specific EIPs for either one, or EIPs in general that the Simple Token team care about / have been working on?
No worries if there aren’t, working groups are “in scope” for EthMagicians, just that one purpose of EIPs is to drive towards referenceable standards and interop.