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The Solana validator community discusses the recent mainnet-beta outage report, an upcoming validator educational workshop on February 21st, 2024, and SIMD 33 - timely vote credits. The SIMD was proposed and implemented by a validator operator, Zantetsu from Shinobi Systems.  The call includes discussion on how governance will work in order to activate the feature on mainnet-beta.

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IMPORTANT LINKS:
Anza report on the Feb 6 2024 mainnet-beta outage: https://solana.com/news/02-06-24-solana-mainnet-beta-outage-report
Validator educational workshop playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLilwLeBwGuK6jKrmn7KOkxRxS9tvbRa5p 
Feature activation schedule: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/wiki/Feature-Gate-Activation-Schedule
Governance channel in Solana Tech Discord for timely vote credits: https://discord.com/channels/428295358100013066/1207686462041104474
Timely vote credits SIMD 33: https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/blob/main/proposals/0033-timely-vote-credits.md

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Chapters
00:00 Intro And Agenda
00:36 Mainnet Beta Updates
02:43 Testnet Updates
03:36 Rex St. John - Anza DevRel
05:19 Validator Educational Workshop Feb 21
06:49 Timely Vote Credits Overview
13:23 Governance For Timely Vote Credits

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Solana Community Validator Discussion - February 15 2024