2023 ILF Community Calls

Here is a recap of our March 8th, 2023, Interledger Community Call with Meeting Notes.

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.

Welcome and kick-off (Chris)
-- Public agenda & notes document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T_Q_eRZtL8GluJR9rVADd7fvkB8mPluMk-d96LM4vlg/edit#heading=h.5h7n1qc54soc
-- We have slots for more regular or deeper updates on projects that build on the Interledger protocol, so please feel free to reach out to Vineel or me if you would like to be a future Deep Dive and see the section below to add any quick updates you would like the community to know.

00:00 == Interledger Foundation (ILF) updates by Chris == 
* Rwanda ~ Mojaloop
-- Chris is at The Mojaloop PI-21 OSS Community Meeting in Rwanda along with grantees ThistaWorks and the People’s Clearinghouse 
* ILF started working with Mojaloop and People Clearinghouse Mexico to make a payment from the Rafiki instance to Mojaloop hub.
* The first step, the one-way payment, will be demoed in Rwanda this week.

* Igalia
-- We’re starting our engagement with Igalia to put Web Monetization into Chromium this month.

00:56 * ILF is going to be in South Africa this month
-- Briana is speaking at Blockchain Africa
-- ILF Developer Meetup in Cape Town
-- Briana, Adrian, Karl, and Senisha Moonsamy (Head of Department, TIA) are participating in a panel discussion. 
-- Sabine Schaller is unveiling Rafiki v1 Alpha on stage for the first time.

01: 26 * New ILF Ambassador Syrus Scofield  
-- He is CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) and will focus on building resources, new

02:07 * New opportunities for the ecosystem
-- Our first Arts & Culture grant Future/Money is live. Details here: https://community.interledger.org/interledger/the-futuremoney-grant-application-is-now-live-2k28
-- Sneak peek: We are preparing new opportunities for ILF Community

02: 56 * -- CTA to the community: We’re seeking help changing the extension. If anyone is interested - reach out to Alex. alex@interledger.org

03:12 == Rafiki (Max) == 
-- Completed development work. All APIs are working and able to be called via the (updated) Postman collection
-- Currently pushing forward with documentation and publishing helper packages to npm before the final v1 stamp
-- Final stretches of making Rafiki production ready for adoption by wallets
-- Opportunities to run tests of Rafiki locally with the Postman collection, review and assist documentation as necessary 
-- Contact Max or Sabine if you want help experimenting with the APIs

04:45 == Fynbos (Adrian) ==
-- Beta testing complete. Great feedback and some significant updates as a follow-up.
-- Some issues with our FI partner, so working with a licensed MSB to switch how we access card and ACH rails before we do more testing and onboarding.
-- Evaluating multiple partners to enable us to launch in EEA (EU and UK) soon
-- Will start reaching out to beta testers in EEA soon (next month or two)

10:00 == Deep-dive: Open Payments client/library (Max) == 
-- Max Kurapov from the ILF team will give a deep dive presentation on the Open Payments client/library.
-- Key Link: Open Payments - ILF Community Call (https://docs.google.com/presentation/u/0/d/10F3Nxe4H2B8j3g9vuvRe6lXoQJhVYVzPDfTWqnVj8rQ/edit)

Interledger Community Call - 8 March 2023

Here is a recap of our April 12th, 2023, Interledger Community Call with Meeting Notes and links to recordings.

**Recording and Podcast**
- [Watch Meeting recording on Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KPTHcsHCmM&t=135s).
- Listen to the Podcast for free on SoundCloud here.

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.

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**Interledger Foundation (ILF) updates** 
= Future | Money Grant (Lawil )=
- 96 submissions
- Judges have started the processes 

**Open Payments Huddle - 27th April **
- https://www.eventbrite.com/e/interledger-foundation-presents-open-payments-huddle-tickets-608736817207

**ILF hosting two sessions at the upcoming Global Digital Development Forum** 
- https://www.digitaldevforum.com/

** ILF in Cape Town, South Africa **
- Briana talked at Blockchain Africa about Financial Inclusion
- Sabine did a lecture at a local university
- ILP Developer Meetup with Snake Nation - 65+ attendees (Awareness and gathering feedback from local communities, local wallets)
- Soft launch of Rafiki v1 Alpha launch

**Rafiki (Sabine and Max**): 
- 1.1 alpha release with admin API frontend - https://github.com/interledger/rafiki/releases/tag/v1.1.1-alpha
- New docs to the repository
- Populating Rafiki.dev, a one-stop place for account servicing entities
- Testnet ~ Breakpoint work week in Romania
- Demo on Testnet soon; Get an account, add the mock amount, and send and request money on the networking. 

**Welcome Sabine and Catherine to Interledger Foundation (ILF)**
- ILF growing
- Catherine Fukushima focuses on fundraising, philanthropy, and partnerships.  

**Deep-dive: SumAssembly**

**WebMonetization**
- Web extension developers - talk to us!
- We need help with WebMonetization extensions
-- - Ping us on Interldger Slack - https://communityinviter.com/apps/interledger/interledger-working-groups-slack
- Paid / Grants/ Contracts/ Vountarily, all options are open. 
- A few things we're looking at: 
1. A mock version of Web Monetization. Web Monetization work with Open Payments. 
2. Change Web Monetization models streaming and tipping initially. Future Example: pay-per-view; the tally of money spent over a time; rate of streaming.
- Email - alex at interledger dot org or Say hi to Alex on Slack.

ILF Community Call - 12 April 2023

Here is a recap of our May 10th, 2023, Interledger Community Call with Meeting Notes and links to recordings: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T_Q_eRZtL8GluJR9rVADd7fvkB8mPluMk-d96LM4vlg/edit#

ILF Community Call - 10 May 2023

Here is a recap of our June 21st, 2023, Interledger Community Call with Meeting Notes and links to recordings: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T_Q_eRZtL8GluJR9rVADd7fvkB8mPluMk-d96LM4vlg/edit#

ILF Community Call - 21 June 2023

Here is a recap of our 12 July, 2023, Interledger Community Call with Meeting Notes and links to recordings: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T_Q_eRZtL8GluJR9rVADd7fvkB8mPluMk-d96LM4vlg/edit#

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Interledger Community Call - 12 March 2025

Call Summary and notes: https://community.interledger.org/interledger/interledger-community-call-summary-12-march-2025-3b70

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Public note-taking document:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T_Q_eRZtL8GluJR9rVADd7fvkB8mPluMk-d96LM4vlg/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.7yv86kj37ov9

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Interledger Community Call - 8 March 2023

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