Community Call - 14 September 2022

The Interledger community calls shall be once a month, on the second Wednesday of the month.

We’ll have 5 regular update slots from:

  • Interledger Foundation
  • Rafiki
  • Fynbos
  • Coil
  • Open Payments teams
    with additional slots open for anyone that would like to share their project or a discussion item for the broader community.

The next community call will be on 2022-09-14T15:00:00Z2022-09-14T16:00:00Z

Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/pzs-iwrv-jny
Or dial: ‪(GB) +44 20 3956 1581‬ PIN: ‪476 812 309‬#
More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/pzs-iwrv-jny?pin=2824719901292

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Please post topics you’d like to discuss here and some background context for the rest of the community.

We have slots for more regular updates on projects that build on the Interledger protocol, so please feel free to add your project to the agenda, and talk a little bit about your project in the comments below.

Have questions or need help? Join us on Slack here.

Meeting Notes and recordings:

== ILF Updates =

  • What is Interledger? 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 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 with Rafiki. We welcome feedback from our community on GitHub.

  • 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.

  • Learn more about the Web Monetization API from the documentation here and here.

Have questions or need help? Join us on Slack here: Join interledger on Slack - Community Inviter

Recordings are available on:

  • Soundcloud: Stream episode Community Call - 14 September 2022 by Interledger podcast | Listen online for free on SoundCloud.

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