Yaaaay!
Monero Meetup: Paris, France - May 21th, 2015
Thursday 21st of May 2015 in the magnificent Mozilla offices, located at 16 bis rue Montmartre, 19h30 to 22h (approx.).
Google+ Event: https://plus.google.com/events/cv85079ug4ijrc0o6uc46b1i3jg
Mozilla and Monero share several goals; Mozilla is about taking back the web, Monero is about taking back the finance.
To summarize:
- Conference will be held in English. Questions can be in French.
- Format is round-table meeting. I envision the following participants: Riccardo Spagni (Monero team, focus on the "how"), David Latapie (Monero team, focus on the "why"), Karl Chappé (co-organisator, celebrity in the French cryptocurrency and libre software scene), André Reinald (Mozilla and peerstorage).
- The main topic will be at first privacy in technology in general and particularly in cryptocurrencies - the present situation in France (increasing control after the Charlie Hebdo shooting) will make such an event particularly on-topic. The meetup won't be only about Monero, although since Monero is the present leader in actual cryptocurrencies privacy, the meeting will be biased toward it.
- Since our sponsor, André Reinald from Mozilla, is a strong proponent of the blockchain-less technology that is behind MaidSafe and particularly peerstorage.org, a later consideration will be about how peerstorage.org and Monero could help each other.
Personally, I'd like web-related projected technologies like MoneroDNS and a future "Monero plugin in Firefox" (like freespeechme's Namecoin plugin) to be considered, but we'll see.
Afterward, we will probably move either to Sof's Bar, a longtime Bitcoin hideout, or a nearby bar.
Karl Chappé approached me after he read my post on darkcoin, anoncoin, shadowcash, monero. He was impressed by the quality of the post. He expected to have a privacy meeting like in SF
I approached Tristan Nitot, which I knew for 12 years (Openweb powa!) who in turn referred me André Reinald. I had a one hour talk with André and voilà!
I'll think about it. cryptofr could handle it.