Here’s a recap of our October 12th, 2022 ILF Community Call with Meeting Notes below. For those new to our community, ILF stands for Interledger Foundation. We are a community of technologists, digital creatives, researchers, entrepreneurs, and educators working to build new pathways to financial inclusion and equity through digital transactions. ––––––– Meeting Notes: 00:00 - ILF Community Call 01:10 - ILF Updates: * Interledger (ILP) Summit 2022 | 12-13 November 2022 – Speakers: https://interledger.org/summit/speakers – Schedule: https://interledger.org/summit/schedule – Summit Schedule App: https://ilpsummit.sessionize.com/ – Live Stream Recordings: * Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whp4R… * Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85OXE… – Friday Welcome Reception and Expo: The 2022 ILP-Financial Services grant awardees shall showcase their projects at the expo. The expo is a great place to connect, kick-start the conversations, and celebrate the work done in the financial inclusion and payments space. At the expo, you’ll meet past and present grantees and the global Interledger Community. 06:47 - Fynbos Updates: - Matt & Adrian are going to be at the ILP Summit - Adrian - talk on Payment Pointers - Waitlist open for Fynbos - Engaging activity planned for ILP Summit - Looking to get feedback 09:35 - Coil Updates: - Coil team going to be at the ILP Summit - Nathan - Rafiki demo to be ready to showcase at the ILP Summit - Standardize open payments repo Community Projects Showcase: 11:35 - gFam.live by Adam
Meeting Notes: == ILP SUMMIT == As you may have already heard the news, the Interledger (ILP) Summit is happening in New Orleans, LA from 12-13 November 2022. * Speakers confirmed and ongoing next steps * Announcement of Speakers soon on the website. * 153 ticket registrations * Plans to expand the ILP Summit attendee capacity * ILP Summit - Agenda – Friday, 11 November: * Welcome Reception + Expo | 6.30 PM to 9.30 PM – Saturday, 12 November: * Keynotes + Breakout Sessions | 9.30 AM to 5.30 PM * Attendee party | 7.30 PM to 11.30 PM –Sunday, 13 November: * Keynotes + Breakout Sessions | 9.30 AM to 4.00 PM – Tickets – If you haven’t already registered for the ILP Summit, get your Ticket here: https://ti.to/interledger/ilp-summit-2022/with/lmjgsxzb-ng == Welcome ILF new Team Member == * Max Kurapov == ILF Team in Africa == * Briana Marbury and Alex Lakatos in Africa. * https://twitter.com/avolakatos/status/1580591584810188800?s=20&t=nSZxSn2pYiM6dmpPcd4ZiA * https://twitter.com/bmarbury/status/1580593289987641344?s=20&t=nSZxSn2pYiM6dmpPcd4ZiA * https://twitter.com/africa_hacks * Mojaloop Conference in Zanzibar: https://twitter.com/mojaloop/status/1578053228079595521?s=20&t=nSZxSn2pYiM6dmpPcd4ZiA == FinServ CFP == Links on announcements: * Interledger Foundation Community Space - https://community.interledger.org/interledger/announcing-our-ilp-based-financial-services-research-and-development-grants-5aae * ILF website announcement - https://interledger.org/news/announcing-our-ilp-based-financial-services-research-and-development-grants/ * Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/p/CjikXlxrOal/?igshid=NzNkNDdiOGI= * Twitter - https://twitter.com/Interledger/status/1579514399190286337?s=20&t=XrtE_4mA9uyrZ0vEBWnWsg * LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6985277938304720896 == Hacktober Fest == * https://github.com/interledger/rafiki/contribute * T-shirts for contributors == Rafiki == * Rafiki - integration on Auth server; * Demo at the ILP Summit == Fynbos == * Working with a new FinTech partner, who is focused on enabling cross-border payments and has a global presence. * Adrian Hope-Bailie & Matt are going to be at the ILP Summit. == Get Started with Rafiki == Session by Sabine Schaller
Meeting Notes: == ILF Updates = * What is Interledger? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pISxxwDcODs&t=2s ) Explainer Video launched. * ILF Summit - Speaker CFPs - 40 submissions - Being reviewed currently * Financial Services CFP - 12 Projects accepted - onboarding in the process - kick off in October. Full public announcement on October 10. Grantees would join upcoming community calls starting in October ILP Summit Travel Grantees onboarding ongoing * The first published report by DFS Labs in Africa, focused on Small and Medium Enterprises. * Course kickoff in Maryland state - Bowie State University (Historically Black ) – Under Business school - design and information systems - students from marketing, entrepreneurship – Students to attend ILP Summit - showcase poster sessions on their projects – Interledger Foundation (ILF) awarded Bowie State University(BSU) a $25,000 grant to partner on an undergraduate course that will enable students to explore open payment technologies and issues in eCommerce and personal finance. This pilot cohort (https://interledger.org/news/the-interledger-foundation-and-bowie-state-create-new-partnership/ ) signals the Foundation’s intent to forge partnerships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) thereby accessing historically excluded communities; and equipping youths with the requisite information on digital financial ecosystem, open payment systems, micro-transactions and Web Monetization so they can transact business from anywhere in the world. == Rafiki Summit == Members of the ILF, Coil and Fynbos teams met for two weeks during August in Berlin for the Rafiki summit. What is Rafiki you ask? Rafiki is an open source project that exposes the full Interledger API, and thus allows any third party, such as a wallet provider, to deliver Interledger functionality to their users. The team made significant progress in building out the feature set of Rafiki at the summit and work continues to integrate Open Payments (https://docs.openpayments.guide/ ) with Rafiki. We welcome feedback from our community on GitHub (https://github.com/interledger/rafiki). * Session on Getting started on Rafiki by Sabine in upcoming ILP Community call in October. == Web Monetization API == * Alex and Uchi were at TPAC, working with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to develop the spec for the web monetization that could integrate into the web browsers. They gave a talk about the new version of the Web Monetization API. Web Monetization is a JavaScript browser API that allows the creation of a payment stream from the user agent to the website. The Web Monetization API allows web apps to accept continuous micro-payments from users. * Web Monetization is being proposed as a W3C standard at the Web Platform Incubator Community Group (https://discourse.wicg.io/t/proposal-web-monetization-a-new-revenue-model-for-the-web/3785). * Learn more about the Web Monetization API from the documentation here https://webmonetization.org/docs/api/ and https://webmonetization-preview.netlify.app/docs/ Have questions or need help? Join us on Slack here: https://communityinviter.com/apps/interledger/interledger-working-groups-slack
= ILF Updates = Financial Services Judging Round,Decision soon ILP Summit Date: 12-13 November 2022, Location: New Orleans Website live -Tickets open -Travel Grant -Call for Speaker’s CFP open Topic areas we are looking for sessions in: Building with the Interledger Protocol network Expanding the Web Monetization community and ecosystem - Broadening Financial Inclusion with technology and advocacy Growing open payments, micro-transactions, and mobile money -Designing for Interoperability New Web Monetization silent release both versions work in the foreseeable future – test it out and provide feedback Documentation website Github link Walkthrough of the specs in the next Community Call We invite you to explore and contribute to the Interledger Foundation projects; All our projects are Open Source. Get started by ‘Starring’ = Coil updates = Try out the WM extension reach to Uchi from Coil for any questions. Uchi from Coil is going to be at DefCon Talk about how Web Monetization is used to pay in a privacy -preserving way for content creators Apex Developer Summit Coil & Interledger Talks = Rafiki Updates = Progress on auth server, folks at coil getting ready to physically bring together the distributed team to come together Fynbos & ILF to work together hoping to achieve the following goals: – Rafiki featured engraved for Fynbos – Key directory - where clients using open payments identify/register themselves with a trusted source – Locally runnable Rafiki Demo which can be set up by any developer and shown in vsli to be demoed by anyone interested in spreading Rafiki. – Document open payment APIs Community Call: https://github.com/interledger/rafiki Have questions or need help? Join us on Slack:
ILF Updates We’re excited to announce we’re bringing back the Interledger (ILP) Summit in New Orleans, LA, on November 12-13, 2022. At the #ILPSummit2022, meet industry leaders, participate in engaging sessions, and enjoy all The Big Easy has to offer! Read more & join the waitlist here – Travel Grant to attend the ILP Summit: – [Speaker CFP live:](https://sessionize.com/interledger-summit-2022/ Financial Services CFP) 30 Applications are up for review and sent to the Judge’s panel. 5-6 weeks for the review Mid-August successful applicants shall be notified- Grantee announcements kick-off Mid-September The research phase of grantees will be eligible for the next two phases of the grant applications. = Coil updates = Content on the developer website in sync with the web monetization spec. Apex XRPL developer summit CFP open = Rafiki Updates = Open Payments integration with the auth server Milestones, issues, and weekly calls are now open to the community. Front-end work in progress Rafael from Coil helping with infrastructure and fixing docker builds Work ongoing on the key registry Sandboxing Environment = Open Payments = More details on: Docs.openpayemnts.com = Fynbos update = Two new joiners to the team The goal is to have an MVP up and running in 6 weeks for the registry In-person sprint 2 -week sprint in Berlin in August Have the whole directory under Interledger GitHub Whitelist the Open Payments Network directory URLs work on the vision of decentralization = Community projects = Jaskaran Kambo - working on implementing Interledger protocol for their platform Demo in next community call Marc Zuze - working on a platform on the XRPL called Sonar Muse which is an NFT music store and streaming platform. Sonar Muse is using Interledger and Coil to build the streaming platform and payout the artists involved in a song to their payment pointer, for every stream by a user with a Coil account. Have questions or need help? Join us on Slack here
Interledger Community call Agenda: ILF Updates Alex talking at CodeMentor and DevTalks Alex was at the European Parliament talking about Open Payments with the European Union stakeholders Announcing ILP Summit 2022! Stay tuned for more details. Briana Marbury talks about how the Interledger Foundation is Strengthening its Infrastructure & Increasing Financial Services Providers in the Ecosystem. Coil updates -Events & Educational work Global Hack Week WordCamp Europe Rafiki Updates Hiring Developers for Rafiki Open Payments API endpoints were implemented; private incoming payments are made in Web Monetisation. GNAP auth server - authorization flow Milestones, issues, and weekly calls are now open to the community. Connection detail resource that can get the connection details from the incoming payments from the URL about ever having to know about the incoming payments Changes to the ILP pay Library Added to Rafiki JASON valid data, which checks for any open payment requests Open Payments updates Clean-up of the repo landing page Web Monetization use case where the browser pauses payment on a web page and instructs a wallet to send a payment to that payment pointer Incoming payments include URL where you could get stream connection details. As privacy-preserving as possible for the Web Monetization Right now, the packets are created within the browser More details on Docs.openpayemnts.com Fynbos update Due diligence is happening for the Electronic Money Distributor License. Exploring new partner banks in the US. Product Development: – Hiring Backend Engineer (for onsite) Community projects Matt Mankins - Monetized.link – A simple tool to create a paywall for any URL – Monetized.link allows end-users to wrap their website URL to a Web Monetized enabled link. – Users with a Coil browser extension can readily access a URL – Alternatively, the users can still access a website directly and what Monetized. link is helping is to create a URL that can be used in promotions/ social media, etc to be accessed by the Coil/ Web Monetized enabled browsers Have questions or need help? Join us on Slack here
Interledger Community call Agenda: ILF Updates Welcome Julaire Hall, our new Interledger Programs Outreach Manager Announcing Grants for Interledger Protocol -Based Financial Services Rafiki Updates Open Payments API endpoints implemented; private incoming payments in Web Monetisation. GNAP auth server authorization flow Milestones, issues, and weekly calls are now open to the community. Two API endpoints - incoming and outgoing payments have cleaner code Open Payments updates Fairly standard risk methods - list (all incoming or outgoing payments) – get - update - delete resources Web Monetization use case where the browser pauses payment on a web page and instructs a wallet to send a payment to that payment pointer More details on **Fynbos update ** Vendor agreements; launch in June as planned - Integrating Rafik into Fynbos Tech stack A lot of work done on the Design side I started integrating with the banking partner officially. Do you have questions or need help? Join us on the Slack here
Interledger Community call Agenda: Coil Updates Focus on Rafiki, Open Payments Spec. Adding Nathan to the Rafiki team. Rafiki Updates In the process of adding Open Payments V.2 endpoints to Rafiki List Endpoints work in progress Spec updated last week Quoting has been extracted as an extra step and is not included in the creation of outgoing payments anymore Spec’d out the auth server for Rafiki Open Payments will use GNAP for authorization Milestones, issues, and weekly calls are now open to the community ILF Updates Peer Pay - Chile | GftW Grantee Grantee Report https://community.webmonetization.org/qwyre/qwyrecom-what-we-learned-and-our-ethical-foundations-and-plans-for-future-development-grant-report-2-4kof – Gavin Chait of Qwyre speaking at the Community Call on Monday, April 25 at 10:00 am EST. – To register for this event go to eventbrite – More details on the community call: The Mozfest tipping experiment got a good response. Content Platforms/ Creators received toppings 300+ active tippers Double the activations by mid-summer Next couple of months continue to experiment Curating gallery spaces for WM content was a success = Fynbos Update Beta users in the US this quarter Hoping to have open-up uses in EU and UK at the end of Q3 - Licensing work ongoing Working with Banks to sponsor us to The product will leverage Rafiki, integration to Tech stack currently ongoing Help the community get to the point where integrating Rafiki is well-documented. Open Payments API v2 Updates Got away from the Asynchronous nature of APIs Simplified the Incoming payment flow check received amount/ can’t see a pending state/ processing state/ completed state Removed quotes from payments, added them as a separate API You can follow along with the spec proposals on GitHub Join the calls to discuss - https://docs.openpayments.guide/ - start getting feedback from people Hyper Audio Have questions or need help? Join us on Slack
Interledger Community Call Agenda: Coil Updates: Mozfest, OSFAfrica Rafiki Updates: Open Payment APIs being implemented in Rafiki ILF helping with Product Management of Rafiki Milestones, issues, and weekly calls are now open to the community. https://github.com/interledger/rafiki/milestones - ILF Updates: Vineel joined us as a Community Manager Mozfest experiment is progressing nicely Web Monetization specification is now “stable,” working on Documentation. Kicked off the Hiring of a new TS Developer for Rafiki. You can still apply Fynbos Update: - due diligence stage with commercial partners. Working with Wolfsberg CBDDQ , confident in a private beta in the next 2-4 weeks Open Payments API v2 Updates, Slides available on Forum
