The Foundation is currently in the restructuring phase of its communication activities. Several members of our current communication team in London leave or soon reduce their involvement in the Foundation in order to pursue for -profit companies in addition to the Ethereum ecosystem; We wish them the best chance. And so, we have both the need and a unique opportunity to “restart” this side of the organization and to look at another overview of the way the Ethereum foundation interacts with the community.
Like certain initial steps, we will do the following:
- We will make an effort to underline Skype and emphasize Gitter as a means of real -time communication for developers. Gitter has the advantages that (i) it is easier to jump quickly and participate, and (ii) cat rooms are public and visible for everyone by default. Currently, the main active gitter rooms are:
- We will continue our general management to increase the permissiveness that we have started with our Recent changes to brand image guidelinesand the emphasis on the maintenance of good sense and civility standards on strict rules. We do not follow in the footsteps of / R / Bitcoin‘If they. Discussion on Ethereumxt (I suppose that the nearest equivalent we have is ExtentWith its higher 10x gas limit) is not prohibited.
- We will relieve the brand “Eth Dev” (except “Devcon”) and focus attention on “Ethereum” in the future
In the medium term, we are considerably re -examining our internal strategy, in particular meetings, general awareness, brand policy, documentation of developers and the communication of information on protocol updates (for example, the biggest short -term updates will be at the level of the Developers Ethereum outside the Foundation proper. This subject and in other subjects as it becomes ready and hosts community comments on one of these problems.