Ethereum Cat Herder Meeting #32: Agenda

[poojaranjan]

Date and Time

April 28, 2020, at 14:00 UTC

Location

Zoom: The link has been sent to attendees.
YouTube Recording Link: TBA

Agenda

1. Berlin upgrade

• PR to Berlin Meta
• ECH Website
• EIPs curation/summary

2. ECH substack mailing

3. EIP Improvement Process meeting

• EIP Procedure Survey update
• Blogs

4. Events & conferences

• Consensus 2020 event participation update

5. Cat Herders funding through Ecosystem Support Program & Moloch DAO

6. Eth 2.0 notes bounty

7. Ethereum Cat Herders - Promotion and Positioning (in the Ethereum community) initiatives

• Placing Community Promotion Ads at Ethereum Stack Exchange

8. ProgPOW

9. Discuss and close the ECH GitHub Issues/PRs

• ethereum-cat-herders/PM
• ethereum-cat-herders/funding.

10. Review of outstanding action items from previous ECH meetings

• Meeting 31

11. Any Other Business

The date for the next meeting - May, 12, 2020

[gcolvin]

I'd like today to see some immediate action items for helping with the ProgPoW debacle. (My apologies for not attending in the past. I've been on the run from the virus, busy with the technical details of ProgPoW, and trying to earn a living.)

As an EIP-1057 champion and Core Dev I was appalled to learn that what appeared to be an official recording of our decisions was not. Including a clear decision to move forward with ProgPow. We are fixing that.

I'm also not alone in feeling overwhelmed by the disorganized lobbying on Twitter and elsewhere. After nearly two years stakeholders have had ample opportunity to make their arguments heard on forums like the Magicians' thread for the EIP itself, but still the community feels they have not been listened to.

I feel a real need to organize discussions that can elucidate WHY people hold the positions they do. The community is too large and amorphous for votes and signals to mean much. And the Core Devs can in the end only deal well with arguments of a more technical nature.

In this case the primary question is not "ProgPow -- yes or no?" but "ASIC- or GPU-secured network -- why and why not?"

[xBruceTheGoose]

I'd be interested to find ways I'm able to contribute as a cat-herder as well as network with people in the cat-herder community. If there is time available I'd also like to discuss the potential of hosting VR meetups for cat-herders and the BUIDL network while we're all stuck at home.

Additionally, I'd like to offer a variety of educational resources for anyone who would find them beneficial; which isn't necessary as a talking point, as I could just put together a dropbox folder or something similar. That said, it could potentially be used to incentivize engagement and contribution as rewards if that would be of interest.

[poojaranjan]

Closed in favor of #122