Ethereum Cat Herders Meeting #136

[poojaranjan]

Date and Time

July 30, 2024 at 14:00 UTC

Location

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84834303064?pwd=YTVDNUxvSjEzL1VTOXNoNmI1a2RlZz09

Agenda

New users on ECH Discord and/or contributor's introduction

1. ECH updates

ECH Engineering (@geovgy)

• Website
• L2E Page
• Projects (classic) will be sunset on August 23, 2024

ECH Ops (zk, Hgedia, Notes contributors)

• ECH Podcast
• Ecosystem Project Demo
• Meet The Herders
• EIPsInsight
• PeepanEIP
• Grants
• WiEP at Eth CC
• Others
  • ethereum/pm breakout room & other updates
• Dev meetings notes

2. Ethereum network upgrades

• Prague/Electra Network Upgrade Meta Thread
• EIP-7600: Hardfork Meta - Prague/Electra

3. Other Protocol & Application Development

• ePBS Meeting Playlist
• EOA/AA Breakout Room Playlist
• eth_multicall Meeting Playlist
• Roll Call Meeting Playlist
• EOF Implementers Meeting Playlist
• Sequencing and Preconfirmation Call Playlist
• Verkle Implementers call 17
• All ERC Dev
• ECH Meeting Playlist

4. Events, Fellowship, Hackathon

• EDCON
• EthSingapore
• Devcon 2024

Useful resources

• Prague/Electra Playlist

5. New initiative/association/team discussion

• Staking related content
• Potential new ideas for community engagement
  • Suggestion: Can we think about adding an AI tool to our new ECH website? This tool would help visitors by having a conversation with them to provide answers. For example, if someone wants to know about the current EIPs that are open or recently closed or the latest updates about Pectra, they can ask the AI tool in a conversation way.
  • EIP Details Bot by Chat GPT?

6. General updates/discussion

• ECH Stats.
  • Warpcast - 9 Followers
  • Twitter - 7044 Followers
  • Discord - 2506 users
  • YouTube - 3443 subscribers
  • LinkedIn - 305 Followers

7. Review of outstanding action items from previous ECH meetings

• Summary 135

The date for the next meeting is Sep 13th, 2023 at 14:00 UTC

(If anything else, leave a comment.)

[zkdoof]

Updates:

ECH Engineering

• Vercel Analytics added to the ECH website, this has no cookies.
• Two new videos released for WiEP at EthCC
• Learn to Earn updates coming soon - EIP authors will be able to claim specific Pectra NFT
• Learn to Earn NFT undergoing edgecase tests

Grants/Fundraising

• Octant Epoch 4 concluded with support from 44 donors, raising over 8 ETH

Operations

• New initiative to upload audio versions of All Core Dev meetings on Ethereum Cat Herders' podcast
• Progress on entity registration for charitable status, but don’t know how long it will take
• One ecosystem project demo (web3js) planned for upcoming weeks
• Participation in upcoming events like Devcon and EthSingapore being planned
• Haresh is sick but working to get a MTH scheduled w/ Rory. 



Todos:

Development:

• Update copyright on the ECH website and add “A project by ECH institute” - @geovgy
• Add a disclaimer about educational purposes and not providing financial advice on the website - @geovgy
• Explore adding an AI tool to the ECH website- @geovgy & Santosh

Operations

• Create a tracker (Google Sheet) for podcast tasks and sharing activities - @zkdoof
• Prepare upcoming grant applications
  • Submit application for Gitcoin 21 grant - @zkdoof
  • Apply for OP (Optimism) grant round 5 - @zkdoof
• Hide or update the Pandora link on the website if it's not working correctly - @zkdoof
• Create a document listing goals and targets for ECH for the next six months - @zkdoof
• Update general stats on the website (followers, subscribers, etc.)- @geovgy
• zkDoof will coordinate with George for website changes and updates - @zkdoof & @geovgy

[Aleneth]

Closing in favor of #412