Ethereum Series (V): Introduction to the Ethereum Community, Foundation, and Contributors

Community

Start discussions and ask questions, choose forums wisely, and help us keep the forums clean.

Reddit

The Ethereum subreddit is the most comprehensive Ethereum forum. This is where most community discussions happen and where the core developers are most active. If you want general discussions about news, media, reports, announcements, brainstorming, this is the forum to go for. Generally speaking, everything Ethereum related to the wider community is here. Discussions are completely free. However, this forum is not suitable for seeking practical help or getting quick and clear answers (if you need these two things, use Gitter Rooms and Stack Exchange respectively)

Please read the Ethereum reddit branch rules before posting

More professional Reddit branches:

1. /r/EthTrader - Ether trading, prices and markets

2. /r/EtherMining - Discussion about Ethereum mining

3. /r/Ethmarket — A marketplace for individuals to exchange goods and services for Ether

4. /r/Ethinvestor — Ethereum investment news and outlook, as well as long-term trends in Ethereum market development

5. /r/Ethereumism — A few more thoughts on -isms, schools, and mysticism — The Other Side of Ethereum

Stack Exchange

Ethereum Stack Exchange is part of the StackExchange online Q&A community. StackExchange is a free Q&A site where all questions and answers are saved for posterity. This site is best for asking technical questions. You can help fellow Ethereum users and increase your reputation by answering questions.

Gitter Rooms

For daily chat, you can choose Gitter. This is a virtual common workspace for developers, where you can quickly get help and some support if you need it.

Gitter uses Github accounts and provides Github integration (pull request notifications, etc.), personal channels, Markdown formatting, etc.

Most Gitter channels are organized around specific repositories or general topics like research management. Please choose the appropriate room and keep the discussion topic relevant.

See the full list of gitter rooms related to the Ethereum organization. Here is a list of active public channels:

1. go-ethereum - about geth (and tools related to the go implementation)

2. cpp-ethereum - About (and tools related to) the C++ implementation

3. web3.js - About web3.js, the Ethereum JavaScript user interface library

4. Solidity——Solidity contract-related programming language

5. serpent — Serpent language for contract development

6. mist - GUI data acquisition and processing browser, official wallet application

7. light-client —— About light client and LES protocol

8. research —— Ethereum research

9. Governance - About developer management

10. whisper - anonymous data telegram publishing

11. Swarm — a decentralized content storage and distribution network

12. EIPs - Ethereum Improvement Protocol (EIPs) Discussion

13. ethereumjs-lib — JavaScript library for Ethereum core functionality

14. devp2p - ÐΞV's peer-to-peer network protocol and framework

Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs)

The Ethereum Improvement Protocol (EIP) program is intended to be a framework and informal business process for coordinating improvements to the protocol. People first propose ideas to the EIP repository as an issue or pull request. After basic filtering, proposals receive a number and are published as drafts. The EIP must be agreed upon by the community before it can become active. Proposed changes should be made with the understanding that final approval depends on the consensus of Ethereum users. For discussion of the EIP, go to the EIP gitter channel.

1. Ethereum Improvement Protocol Guide and Samples

2. Ethereum Improvement Proposal Template

3. Ethereum Improvement Protocol and README

4. Gitter channel for Ethereum Improvement Protocol discussions

Meetups

1. Meetup Host Directory

2. Meetup channel on the Ethereum forum

Revocation Statement

Skype

Some community discussions still use skype rooms, but we want to move away from that and encourage people to use gitter or slack.

Ethereum Forum

Stephan Tual's famous Ethereum forum is no longer maintained and may be decommissioned soon. We encourage everyone to use the recommended options listed above.

Ethereum Foundation

The Ethereum Foundation is a non-profit organization registered in Switzerland that manages funds raised from the sale of Ether to better serve the Ethereum and decentralized technology ecosystem.

Stiftung Ethereum was founded in June 2014 in Switzerland. Its mission is to promote the development of new technologies and applications, especially in the field of new open, decentralized software architectures. Its goal is to develop, foster, promote and maintain decentralized, open technologies. Its main, but not only, focus is on promoting the development of the Ethereum protocol and related technologies, as well as supporting applications that use Ethereum technology and protocols. In addition, Stiftung Ethereum will support the decentralized Internet in various ways.

View the website to learn more about the Foundation's management team

Ethereum Foundation's community portal

1. Homestead Official Website - Main Entrance

2. Reddit - See the community

3. blog

4. Twitter

5. Youtube

6. Facebook - Not Often Used

7. Email - Use when necessary

Official communications from the Ethereum Foundation are usually presented as general posts on the Ethereum Blog. Some posts are technical, some are organizational, and some are personal. All blog posts are announced on Twitter and Reddit. Our recordings are mainly on the Foundation YouTube channel, including all talks from the developer conferences DEVCON0 and DEVCON1. ​​For community discussion forums, see Community.

Contributors

This text was created by the Ethereum community as part of the Homestead Text Initiative, coordinators are:

1. Viktor Trón (“zelig”)

2. Hudson Jameson (“Souptacular”)

We would like to thank everyone involved for their efforts:

1. Ricardo de Azevedo Brandao

2. Santanu Barai

3. Brooks Boyd

4. RJ Catalano

5. Joseph Chow

6. Keri Clowes

7. François Deppierraz

8. Bertie Dinneen

9. Erik Edrosa

10. Andrey Fedorov

11. Rocky Fikki

12. Alex Fisher

13. Enrique Fynn

14. Arno Gaboury

15. Taylor Gerring

16. Dave Hoover

17. Joël Hubert

18. Makoto Inoue

19. Keith Irwin

20. Matthias Käppler

21. Bas van Kervel

22. Michael Kilday

23. Chandra Kumar

24. Guangmian Kung

25. Hugh Lang

26. Yann Levreau

27. Roman Mandeleil

28. Kévin Maschtaler

29. Andrew Mazzola

30. Dominik Miszkiewicz

31. John Mooney

32. Chris Peel

33. Craig Polley

34. Colm Ragu

35. Laurent Raufaste

36. Christian Reitwiessner

37. Josh Stark

38. Scott Stevenson

39. Bob Summerwill

40. Alex van de Sande

41. Paul Schmitzer

42. Afri Schoedon

43. Sudeep Singh

44. Giacomo Tazzari

45. Ben Tannenbaum

46. Dean Alain Vernon

47. Paul Worrall

48. Luca Zeug

49. Weiyang Zhu

50. Will Zeng

And these anonymous participants:

1. 12v

2. c0d3inj3cT

3. ijcoe6ru

4. LucaTony

5. madhancr

6. mxD

7. Omkara

8. tflux99

9. xyzether

References:

For links to the list in this article, please refer to Ethereum Homestead Documentation, page 11, 1.1.6 Community