 Here with Daniel Burnett and Taz Dienins, so yeah, thank you so much Thanks, yeah All right, so they're still filling in a little bit here. All right Okay Thanks everyone So we're gonna be talking obviously about community projects And I'll just I'll just launch right into it I'm gonna talk a little bit about the history and then Tosh will get into what we're doing today and and what you can What you can do through the community projects going forward Okay, so So when we created the community projects originally our goal was to increase or improve the quality of standards in the Ethereum community and and that's an interesting statement. That's actually what was brought to us initially by Some folks who were concerned with quality and what they meant by that was EIPs are great and EIPs have moved the entire ecosystem forward. That's for sure but they often don't meet the quality and completeness level of standards that That businesses would expect something you would see from traditional standards organizations such as ITF or W3C or OASIS or ISO or whatever, okay? And so businesses and governments are a lot more comfortable adopting those kinds of technology standards then the then some of the ones that they've seen from EIPs and so the goal was to was to see are there projects that could benefit from this additional level of of rigor So we have a formal but open standards development process that includes input from multiple organizations and stakeholders And one of the goals with this of course was to reduce the bureaucracy Okay, so for any of you who've ever participated in any of these other standards organizations, you know They have a reputation for being very slow Ponderous cumbersome and so our goal is to see if we could put in the minimum amount of your bureaucracy to still allow us to get to a good result so This is the the work itself is actually managed and run by OASIS open OASIS is a non-profit technical standards body been around for a long time They're actually known for a lot of XML standards and many others as well What they did is they actually started a new OASIS open program specifically for open source software and standards development So we created an OASIS open project I say we so was the Ethereum Foundation Consensus and the enterprise of theorem alliance in 2019 started this project And again, we focused really heavily on the low bureaucracy piece So the EA which of course I obviously represent with my my shirt here was founded in 2017 Initially focused for any of you saw my presentation earlier today. You know what I'm gonna say We were focused initially on standards development for private chains Okay, and that's because the public chain wasn't ready for businesses to use it a number of years ago But we have a broader mission now at the EA to include much more Ecosystem development work and Ethereum advocacy. So we are looking at moving well We've already been moving beyond private chains for a while now We're actually looking much much more broadly than that So in particular even though enterprises in our title and we know that people sometimes hate that enterprise word The reality is we are business focused and so you'll hear that more and more from the EA You can almost think of us as You know the Ethereum business alliance, you know as far as the way we we operate so we actually we like the way OASIS started the the open projects and Decided that we would work together with them. We particularly like how inclusive it was of the entire Ethereum community It's important to point out that EA membership is not required to participate in the community projects And that's why they're called community projects. Okay at this point. I think I'm switching over to Tosh to tell you what we're up to Yeah, so, oh, thank you. So what do we look for in an EA community project? What kind of projects are good fit? Ethereum first name Ethereum first projects as the name implies Ethereum should be central to the project. Although it doesn't have to be exclusively Ethereum. It can support other chains We look for projects that want to do open standards development often from initial source Initial open source software so there can be a software implementation around which a standard is developed or there can be no implementation You just develop a standard it first either one's okay, but it must be open i.e. contributors must be willing to sign a contributor license agreement that ensures that there will be no All contributions are open sources no intellectual property No patents associated with the contributions to that standard so the standards to be completely open source and To start a project we look for at least three and ideally five Organizations to sponsor a project so one company cannot define a standard a standard exists when multiple or entities get together And hash out their differences and agree on something so we look for at least three and hopefully more than three Entities often that have competing interests to get together and discuss and agree on something which we can call a standard So How is it governed the EEA community projects is governed by a project governing board and then each project has a technical steering committee So there's one project of a governing board and there's a TSC for each standards development project The PGP meets every two weeks It it manages the TSC's it authorizes it makes rules for the TSC's it does not make technical decisions It's just a kind of a middle level of governance between Oasis and the TSC's Dan and I are the co-chairs And the TSC also includes members from each Sorry, the PGP also includes members from each TSC so each TSC gets a seat on the PGP and Also companies that sponsor the EEA community projects by giving us money get a seat on the TSC on the PGP if they want one Yeah So each project is governed by its own technical steering committee So the technical steering committee makes sets the governance rules for that project They can be pretty flexible the PGP has to approve the rules So there is some degree of customizability for each project to set their own rules and get approved by the PGP the members of the PTSC are typically the most active contributors to that project and The TSC's report to the PGP So what projects do we have or whatever we worked on so far baseline protocol is probably the biggest one baseline protocol is a standard that enables Enterprises to synchronize complex multi-party business processes with privacy and without moving data from systems of record Using Ethereum as a common frame of reference So basically it enables companies that engage in multi-party business transactions to do so in a way that doesn't leak any Confidential information from their databases it also ensures that all of their system each companies systems are in sync And that each company is doing the correct thing and proving that with their knowledge proofs We also have a layer two standards working group we just talked about that earlier at a different room So the layer two standards working group as the name implies is developing standards for layer twos, which is I think very important There's been some work done on formalizing the standards and specifications for the JSON RPC client API and We've been talking about a new project called token script possibly coming in token script is a Javascript web assembly and XML framework To improve the functionality security and usability of blockchain tokens And if you have an idea for a project, we would love to hear from you We would love to hear have more projects coming into the EA community projects to improve the quality of standards development within the Ethereum ecosystem so We have sponsors sponsors have provided money to help us get stuff done Some big companies like EY Accenture and SAP and also a lot of smaller crypto focused companies. So there's quite a wide variety of sponsors If you are interested in getting in Starting a new standards development project or participating in one of the existing ones, please get in touch. Here's how And thanks for sticking around till the last last talk of the day Amazing. Thank you so much. So yeah, I reached out to Dan and Taz if you have any idea some ideas to Keep improving the Ethereum ecosystem or you want to join a project with them So, thank you so much and thank you all. This is the last talk of the day and a very amazing day for DevCon Which this is the biggest DevCon till now. We are more than five five thousand people So amazing. I hope you enjoy it and I'm Anna and thank you so much. Have a great life