Gatherings and Events

From oldest to newest

Council of Paris - March 2018 at EthCC

Highlights

- Formed a circle and discussed the proposed principles

- Agreed to have Councils three times per year

Topics: the EIP workflow, how to govern the protocol with community input

Council of Berlin - June 2018, at c-base

Highlights

- Kind of a Magicians’ camp feel, by the river at the c-base crashed spaceship

- Experimented with lightning talks, unconference format, Chatham House Rule

Topics: ether recovery, education in the community, access to blockchain data

Council of Prague - October, 2018 at National House Smichov

Highlights

- Big Magicians ceremony during the Status hackathon - Many Rings met up and moved their work forward

- Ethereum 2 Q&A with the Research Team - this had a big impact

Topics: “what happens to Eth1 when Eth2 is ready”, education, organizing in the community

Singapore Meetup with EthMagicians Community - December 2018 at SBW

Highlights

- Organized adjacent to Blockchain Week in Singapore

- First gathering organized outside of unofficial “Councils”, thanks Aidan Hyman

- Focused on education

Gathering at Denver - February, 2019 at ETHDenver

Highlights

- Organized at the hackathon itself, noisy but productive

- Second gathering organized outside of unofficial “Councils”, thanks Matt Lockyer!

Topics: funding models, governance, mobile

Council of Paris - March, 2019 at EthCC

Highlights

- Happened the day before EthCC, discussions could make use of the classrooms

Topics: funding models, evolution of the EVM, transition to Eth2, Ethereum Cat Herders

Council of Berlin - August, 2019 at MetaCartel Demo Day

Highlights

Meetings held adjacent to MetaCartel

Topics: funding models, ENS logins, smart contract security
Sum-up thread on Twitter

Ethereum Roadmap 2020 Sessions - October 2019 at Devcon5 in Osaka

Highlights

- “Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Roadmap” Session
Topics: opening up of their process to the community, legal protections, how to become a member
- “Eth1 Roadmap” Session
Topics: fee market / EIP-1559, ProgPOW, state rent (work ending), new focus on stateless clients
- “Eth1 - Eth2 Transition” Session
Topics: smart contract migration, ETH bridge, what will exchanges do
- “Eth2 Roadmap” Session
Topics: p2p interop, release phases, state retention
Recap article

Sessions at EthCC3 March 2020

Sessions hosted:

Operations Ring Intro
Run Ethereum Node session / workshop
ETH1.x Stateless Ethereum
Council
Announcement article & Recap article

Summer Sessions July 2020

Our first virtual event experiment. Hosted on Zoom for sessions and Gather for networking

Sessions hosted:
- Social Governance Recording
- EIP Improvement Process Recording
- EIP-1559 Fee Market Change Recording
Announcement article

Ethereum L2 Future - November 2020

Sessions hosted:

- Starting with L2s Recording & Notes
- dApp development on L2 Recording & Notes
- Ethereum L2 Users Recording & Notes & Thread