Lightning Education as Infrastructure: Scaling Technical Capacity Across Multiple Countries
summary
Runs a repeatable pipeline that finds coders, delivers a five-day bootcamp + hackathon, then funnels graduates into Bitrust pathways; outcome shows participants learn basics fast but drop off because mentorship, beginner-friendly OSS issues and tooling are missing. Identified concrete gaps: Polar and docs are English-first, node setup and liquidity (inbound vs outbound) are confusing, and mentors are scarce. Proposes building developer-first tools, local-language docs, simple node installers and curated beginner issues; success metric is 2–5 active Lightning builders per country.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Lightning Education intro
- 1:06Human infrastructure matters
- 4:01Scaling in Africa
- 6:33Lightning developer bootcamps
- 9:01Infrastructure gaps
- 12:30New dev challenges
- 14:15Building tools for devs
- 15:42Scaling builder production
- 16:25Q&A
