Bitcoin Design Community - 2025 Events planning call #5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywzs9IyjYk8
**🎬 Presidio Event (San Francisco - Late September)**
- Venue confirmed at a co-working space.
- Capacity: Capped at 20 participants; 9 spots already filled.
- Next steps: Finalize schedule and application form.
- Planning doc to be shared in the conference channel.
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**🇨🇿 BTC Prague**
- Six content blocks finalized; aim for 3–4 more.
- Design Foundation to sponsor furniture.
- Idea: Demo booths for user testing (e.g., Bitcoin Core app).
- Need volunteers to help organize activities and take ownership.
- Goal: Final plan by next Thursday.
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**🇳🇴 Oslo Freedom Forum**
- UX research ongoing with teams White Noise & Dana Wallat.
- Concern: Ensuring their apps are functional and test-ready.
- 3 research plans in total to be shared publicly.
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**🌍 Design-a-thon (Main Global Event)**
- 57 participants; project submission phase underway.
- Website updates to include project joining options.
- Articles published; social media activity ongoing.
- Sponsors: In talks with Blockstream, Plan B, and others.
- Workshops:
- - Accessibility intro, resource sessions, deep dives (esp. May 4, 6, 9, and 15).
- - Designer support for teams (Sahil involved).
- - Accessibility likely the most detailed ever for a Bitcoin event.
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**🎯 Judging & Follow-up**
- Plans to create criteria, judge lists, and scoring spreadsheets.
- Target date for project submissions: May 17.
- Judging planned for May 18.
- Additional tracks (e.g., accessibility) to have their own criteria and sponsors.
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**🛠️ Bitcoin++ / DevPost Hackathon (Austin)**
- Design track sponsored by Bitcoin Design Foundation.
- Not much Discord activity yet; may proactively schedule workshops.
- Potential accessibility-related workshops to be added.
- 🔧 To-Do Items
- - Add workshops to the community calendar.
- - Finalize judging process and panel.
- - Reach out to participants via Discord and email (~last week of April).
- - Promote project ideas, encourage pitch sessions at kickoff.
- - Encourage creative, fun, unexpected projects (e.g., AI chatbots, onboarding for Nigeria).
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**🗣️ Community Input & Localized Projects**
- Call for hyper-local, region-specific solutions (e.g., Nigeria onboarding).
- Mi Primer Bitcoin and Blockstream local packages recommended as starting points.
- Pitch sessions and collaborative momentum encouraged.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/947878