###### tags: ``Meeting Notes``

# 2022-03-29 Kick-Off Meeting ETHBerlin Core 2022

*Tuesday, March 29*

Attendees: Helena, Lasse, Caspar, Afri, Franzi

## Action Items

- Join our new (public) ETHBerlin Matrix Space: https://matrix.to/#/#ethberlin:matrix.org
- Join the ETHBerlin 2022 Core room (invite only) for team coordination from now on with this link: https://matrix.to/#/!eCLooRlBoBSUZZCCwf:matrix.org?via=matrix.org

## Agenda

- Update: ETHBerlin 2022 here we come?
- Factory (tbc)
- Date: Sep 16-18
- 700 people capacity roughly (that's what we also had in the last years)
- We need **you** in the core team!!
- Volunteer coordination
- Fundraising / sponsor coordination
- Hackathon experience (team formation, tracks etc)
- Art experiences
- Judging
- Community communications & engagement
- Visuals / graphics / swag
- Website
- Accounting / admin
- Core planning + theme + hacker manifesto
- Mentor coordination
- Talks / conference-part coordination / workshops?
- Party coordination
- 2022 theme
- Fiat Hyper Inflation / Bank Runs
- Back to the Roots: Orginial cypherpunk vision / what do we want to achieve with blockchain
- Values / food for thought
- We want to go back to the roots
- Remind yourself of the original cypherpunk vision
- https://nakamotoinstitute.org/cypherpunk-manifesto/
- Right to transact! Good description of this is: https://twitter.com/punk6529/status/1494444624630403083
- Anarchist and privacy-preserving tools for independence from governments and institutions (for everyone!)
- Social sustainability: How do we go from tripple yield farming fruit tokens, VC chains and making the rich richer to an open and inclusive system that makes a difference in people's lives?
- Focus on impact and actual usability! No bullshit, no hot air balloons, no token shilling
- Remember, we are a hackathon extravaganza, lots of extra of course, but in the end, the focus should lay on being the enabler for as many useful projects as possible, the goal is to have people to HACK (and to have fun)
- Pro open-source, anti rent-seeking proprietary software

- **Any questions or input from your side?!**
- Carl Bezz: other theme idea: Tear down the wall"/Berliner Mauerfall - Theme als Verbindung zwischen Berlin und dem Eth Merge.
- Caspar:
- re values: "[The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work](https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral-fn.pdf) by Phillip Rogaway, there is also a [talk by him on this topic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-XebcVSyJw). Would be really cool to get him as a speaker even.
- Research hacking track, maybe some accompanying talks/workshops to motivate the track
- privacy track would be cool
- values/topics: base layer privacy vs dapp layer privacy (u can get flagged for opting into e.g. tornado) -> did we fuck up and set a bad precedent that is hard to recover from?
- difficult to strike a balance between making it accessible enough for new people as well as tech heavy