Cohort 3 Opening Session: Guest Insights & Curriculum Overview

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hello and good day everyone I'm very happy to welcome you all to the launch of study group coher third this is organized by women and ethereum protocol I'm wearing the shirt today this program is not just about learning it's about building the community that's what we are trying to do here we are trying to explore ethereum trying to find ways by which people can contribute to open source projects and we all can grow together before we begin I would like to take a moment to thanks to all those amazing people who have made this thing possible here we have some special guests for this particular cohart 3 inauguration we would love to hear their thoughts and uh their contribution and we would love to

understand how it feels like being a woman in ethereum ecosystem so let me welcome our special guest from protocol support ethereum Foundation Ino I'm expecting Sophia as well thank you Samy Roso for joining us I would also like to thank thank my co-founder laduna and Sh sh is unfortunately not here but you're going to listen from laduna in a few minutes for all those hard work that they have made into uh bringing this grip here today and I would like to thank to all our past participants coordinators mentors I already see Gan here thank you Gan for joining in and uh all the mentors who are not here but have helped us Run coher 1 and two Sam

Wilson and U and Basu team here so thank you everyone for bringing this together and huge shout out to Kya who has put cohort 3 here and is championing to support you get your ways into the ethereum ecosystem so in next hour or so you're going to learn about the wiip missions and goals and Luna will be sharing how we all started I think because she is the one who has made that push that wib is existing today so huge shout out for her and then we will learn about a little bit about our past cohorts then we'll get insights from ethum experts and then we will find out what is planned for coher 3 so before we

get started um L if you would like to maybe start with a brief introduction and how this all started yeah great first of all I'm Lonna Higgins I work at the theum foundation I am so happy to welcome each and every one of you here today it's so exciting to see how the participation continues to grow you never know like when you start to work on an initiative like how it's going to form how it's going to shape is it going to be valuable will other people see the value in it so every time I'm able to join a call or be a participant in the work stud group I'm so pleased that um we chose the right path in uh our Focus for

WIP so in the beginning when we started to brainstorm on how we could make the ecosystem more inclusive to women there were so many different directions that we thought about going in um tackling pain points uh tackling safety in the ecosystem but we landed on education we felt like education is is one thing that will always open doors for you and can never be taken away from you and you can use it as your leisure to create whatever you want in any environment and so that's how we came up with the wiep work study group we wanted to create an environment where women felt that they can be vulnerable they can get the

support of other women without the pressure immediately to get everything right this week I've been working on some different projects through the ethereum foundation on chain um going through different you know tasks on on chain and I realized how frustrating it can be when you're surrounded by the people that you think know it all and you're kind of afraid to ask questions because you might feel like you should know it um and that's what we really wanted to create a safe environment for women to one become contributors to the ethereum protocol and we felt like that would open the doors that would create inclusive within the ecosystem without directly um targeting individual paining

points and so over the last two cohorts I just would like to say thank you so much to Lena to Gan who has Spearhead headed the first two cohorts um I will always say I am not on the technical side I am more on the organization side so having Lena and Gan step in to really put together a work St uh study program that was very beneficial that really didn't require anything more than their volunteer time um I'm just so grateful that they were able to step in katcha I'm super excited for cohort 3 it's looking amazing I I want to say thank you to the client team volunteers who have stepped in to also Elevate the work

study um program it's just a really exciting um place to sit when you see like your initiative growing and women being supported um not only do we uh focus on work study but we also work on focusing on how can we get more participation from women in the larger events that are happening throughout the ecosystem whether that's through grants whether that's through Partnerships mentorships so we are completely focused on how do we get as much maximum participation from women and understanding what do we need to do to support that so before I pass the floor I just want to encourage each and every one of you to um contribute to the WIP

Community um if there's initiatives if there's things that you need support on if there's things that you think um require our Attention our platform this WIP is for you it's for us it's for the community so even though we have co-founders and leaders and coordinators it is really an open platform for us and everyone in the community to contribute to so please never hesitate to reach out tell us your ideas let us know how we can help um this is what we're here for so thank you thank you so much ltin I couldn't agree more than this like this is an initiative but it is running because of the community here we are going to talk

a little bit more about uh wiip missions and visions and just walk you through what the journey that we have uh in in the past one year I have shared this in the last afan presentation so people who may not have been there would find it new but for people who are already with us I'm happy if you have any thoughts and if you would like to share more about it and and maybe let us know how we have done in our uh efforts to make Mission more successful as ladna mentioned that we are more focused on education but we do have other things in mind and we are trying to build this as a safe space to empower all the women's whenever they are ready they can join our ecosystem and start making contribution right away

it's an inclusion of like so many things people come with different ideas different thoughts and different backgrounds not everything is same for everyone but we would like to make sure that they are capable of doing making contribution to the open source we are encouraging more women who are here for the first time that they haven't been made any contribution to open source yet ethereum can be a deep sea but uh stepping there toes are not bad this is an effort this is the journey we launched a w group last year in Danver on 29th February and since then we have made so many conversation with different participants we try to meet time to time and this is the journey throughout uh

throughout the year and I look forward to have many more cohorts coming in and contributing to the eum ecosystem I'm going to run it fast forward because I know we have a lot more things to come up so it's a general high level overview of what we are trying to do here is kind of creating diversity to the developers group we we are working on diversity on all front and ethereum we do work on client diversity similarly we are also working on diversity on the uh Developers it's all about building community and study group will provide you the right connection to meet the people who are already engaged in the ecosystem and may get advantage of people who who are

already making contribution with their experience sharing we are also trying to provide Technical Resources to bring you up to the speed so um you would get to know more about it when kataa would be sharing all about the plan that we have it for cohort 3 this is going to be definitely different from what we did it in in the past the idea is even if you are not able to make contribution right away with this cohort you should be going away with some knowledge that would help you bring back with more information and you would be in a position to make your contribution then we try to bring this program and for people who may not be uh aware I would like to share that uh we there is also ethereum protocol fellowship

program ethereum protocol study group which is which we feel is a kind of um a flow from wiip cohorts they can go into that EPF cohort um this is just like you know for people who are on the very early stage of ethereum development or blockchain development in general if you have any question comments uh these are our contacts we are always available to help and answer your questions but the best way to connect with us would be the Discord and the telegram group that we have created Discord we encourage more because that's where you will find more more of the developers and if you want to contribute to ethereum ecosystem all the research work all the conversation happens on Discord e r& discard with

that I would like to uh pass it on to our next speaker I think uh Gan is here to maybe let us know more about uh how we did with the past two cohort so maybe you can talk about the numbers and share some quick recap and the same presentation at the women in etherum protocol Meetup during Devcon so it might be a bit redundant for those who already attended that but it's still fun uh you know nice to see how far we have come uh where we started from so um the women in AUM protocol study group for those of you who are fairly new we have run two cohorts of this and the aim of

this is to on board the largely devs who are in interested in contributing to etherum protocol so we want to remove the barrier of complexity to open source contribution that was the thought with which we wanted to start the study group and uh the way the study group runs is that uh we collaboratively pick up issues we of course get uh help from different teams like last time we had besu and teu uh teams uh helping us out and uh the the time before we had some interesting issues uh um that we could work with so every cohort we have different teams uh in our ecosystem that

are helping uh with repos uh we find some issues that are fairly easy to crack and uh the study group host will distribute the issues to those who are participating in the study group and uh you know they work together uh to basically start their contribution right so you start small you start uh with the easy issues and then you you know climb up the ladder and over a period of of time the idea is that open source contribution should feel easy it should feel doable and it should feel like you have all the right steps to know how to contribute to open source okay having said that we have some insights from our previous uh cohort so congratulations to all the graduates we have a bunch of

them we are so happy to see so many names uh congratulations to everyone who participated and was you know able to when we say graduate uh basically they were able to solve um one or more issues as part of their cohort so we have Crystal Kaa Ki uh R ezy uh Aliyah Irene uh kyaa prti VZ haa shanii asle Huda Kya has come twice because she saw too many issues Mercy IJ root uh Kadija Mira uh euphemia lavender Marlin TC Steph Rael coxy Glory Vikes and Alisha I'm assuming that's the name okay

so congratulations to everyone uh everyone did a great job and we happy that you were able to take out some time and just you know contribute uh uh to the cohort itself U the way the cohort works as I already mentioned uh we have weekly sessions uh where we meet together right uh and uh we discuss the issue that has been assigned to everyone uh we don't actually give any solutions the host don't Prov provide any solutions to the issue uh but we just encourage you to share where you you if you are if you blocked somewhere uh then what could be some potential ways that you could uh you know get going to solve your issue uh the GitHub that we using for that is uh wi team/ study group for

every cohort we'll make a new uh repository and uh you can continue we'll keep track of all the contributions all the issues in that repository I'm assuming Kya that that's the process you're going to continue as well for uh cohort 3 so this is the first thing where we you start with even listing your issues on GitHub so you start feeling comfortable with GitHub you start feeling comfortable with making changes on GitHub even if it is just some small static data and that's a good start for you um demographics across our cohorts we have had people from 21 countries participate uh because it is virtual in nature so you could you know just about uh pick an issue solve it uh where you where you are based and then

you know just come for help seek for help uh during our weekly sessions right so we have had large presence from India and Nigeria we have seen a lot of buding developer ecosystem from these regions uh but of course Russia Ghana UAE turkey Kenya USA Germany we have seen presence from everywhere right and then you can see there's one person who has joined from different different other countries as well so basically it's it's a very Global cohort that way as Puja earlier mentioned as well you will get to meet other people you will also get to understand a bit of like um what the web three culture is like in other countries if you get to you know make new friends uh you know as part of uh this whole

cohort right um in terms of demographics of years of experience in web3 development um because we directly start with GitHub contribution we do uh advertise that we um want people to have at least two years of experience uh in coding so they feel comfortable writing code they feel comfortable playing around with code um that's like the bare minimum thing we expect from people but it's interesting to see that people with web3 experience we have a lot of people who have significant web3 experience joining us right uh years of experience in web3 development so we have uh the highest of course is actually two years is the highest percentage and then

freshers slightly less experience or just started out kind of thing but we have significant ific number of people the so you can see that the experience ranges between 1 to 6 years so whether you are just getting started with web3 or you have a lot of experience in development or even web3 development and want to start contributing to ethereum um repositories this is a great place for you to start right no barriers whatsoever and uh yeah that's pretty much it some insights from our previous cohort and um we want to uh thank everyone who has helped make these carts happen um Sally and Sam um I think

because they were pivotal in kind of just being there helping out but we also had other folks kin and other people involved helping us around the clock in terms of U if they were stuck and things like that so um yeah some numbers we had 83 applicants uh um 42 participants 20 closed issues this is really amazing to see and this is on live repos you all like it's not something that repos that we created right so very cool to see 20 closed issues seven more I think they are closed now because this was figure in November and then we had few people participate in the fellowship program as well so that's that's very nice good exposure there we have some nice quotes um you can chat and laugh and and learn

with a billian community and if you people who started from the beginning were able to progressively make uh good amount of uh you know progress on their issues and they were progressively able to learn as well so someone if you are struggling and feel like it is overwhelming to you join the study group and you realize that everyone's struggling right so it's not just you and then you struggle together and then you solve together right that's the whole idea and you push each other encourage each other and hold each other accountable for U you know doing things you don't you don't give up halfway through because something is very hard right you have a community to support you and uh yeah some Snippets from our sessions as I mentioned it's virtual you're free to join um and

you're also free to join mostly uh most cohorts at any point in time but I don't know if this one's designed a bit bit different but uh you are mostly allowed to also do multiple issues and like so but it's a very flexible uh kind of study group so it's also fun and yeah that's pretty much it uh my partner crime Lena is missing but super thankful to her as well for being my co host and uh I wish everyone best of luck for the next word thank you so much again for sharing that I think some of the questions were there in the chat around what we are going to do what is the end result and expectation so you kind of set the expectations over there already uh yes it is an opportunity to

contribute to ethereum ecosystem directly that's what we are trying to provide here and to provide you more information about like how you feel when you are part of ethereum ecosystem and how you can uh actually support ethereum protocol we have our next speaker nixo who has joined the ethereum protocol support team and works for ethereum foundation um welcome nxo and let us know how you're feeling and what are the words of advice for this new group of women who would like to contribute to ethereum ecosystem hi everybody I'm nixo I'll first introduce myself I came into the space a number of years ago I got interested in crypto and then I kind of dropped out of crypto for a little while

and the thing that brought me back into crypto was running a node and staking and so when the beacon chain launched I came back into ethereum in much more engaged uh way and I was learning how to run a note I'm not a super technical person I actually came to ethereum from I used to be an oceanographer and ethereum just started overwhelming all of my interests and so I uh left oceanography to work in ethereum and the way that that happened is that I the more I learned about how to run a node how to deal with the the networking of it how to figure out what infrastructure I needed the more I started helping other people figure out

their own situations so I volunteered for an organization called e Staker and then I started working with e Staker um once I moved into ethereum full-time and then from there I uh moved to the EF I've been at the EF fulltime now for just a month heart time for about 6 months yeah so today I'm going to talk about rough consensus because I came in through staking there was a need for somebody to kind of communicate to core devs what staker's needs were and vice versa to communicate from cevs to stakers what what um research was coming through the pipeline What affected them get people to sort of like speak up if

the things that were coming in the pipeline were at all harmful to stakers or confusing or needed to be changed or shifted in some way so I I really the thing that brought me to the EF is I started attending the all core developer calls um to make sure that staker's interests were accurately represented because it tends to be um a group of people who are quieter they're um Anonymous they don't like to speak up um because they are putting a a huge amount of money on the line and they usually just like want to be quiet about it so ethereum is unique in the governance uh model that it takes on because in

traditional system we have elected officials or we have some sort of hierarchy or in um corporate environments we have Executives who are hired to some position to make decisions about how the company's going to change what the road map is going to look like how fast people are going to move on making these changes but that's pretty possible in ethereum where no one person is in charge of anything um and so you need some sort of alternate governance model and a lot of crypto uh organizations have opted for stuff like onchain governance so like you could have a consensus uh mechanism or that that is governed by the number of tokens

that you have and the Cadence and um changes are those decisions are made by token holders but ethereum is unique in that it just uses rough consensus so basically there there are calls that are organized once a week there are the all core Dev calls once a week and then there are breakout calls outside of that and there are coordinators within those calls but what what those coordinators are looking for is not to direct people but to find the consensus of the participants in that and the participants in those calls are all sorts of stakeholders and when I say stakeholders I don't mean like tokens or value or anything like that I mean people who are actually participating in the protocol and who the protocol

affects in different ways um so the first thing when there is a problem in the ethereum protocol it's usually like users who discover it it's developers who are building on the protocol it's l2s who are trying to use the L1 to settle down to it's consensus parti uh consensus participants like validators and all of that is sourced on like social media people start complaining people start bringing their um their ideas their issues their problems to places like ethereum magicians um or if they are already like engaged in research um and have better ideas then they bring those things to eth research those things tend to be like in the in

the past it's been unpredictable gas fees it's been Builder centralization that um validators have seen it's been poor wallet ux unstructured bite code call data the that the fact that call data is too expensive for l2s to use so like this is an abundance of issues that can be sourced by uh any sort of user of the ethereum protocol or developer on the ethereum protocol and so the next step is to start doing research um on what the problem is and whether or not a solution can be found this tends to be done by researchers um sometimes users or devs who become researchers in this process uh these are solution these are this is research that is done um in any

venue but a good Central Point to sort of like collect discussion and uh solicit feedback is ethereum magicians and eath research and I'll tell you the the the difference between those forums is a little soft but ethereum magicians tends to be for uh things that are like more pragmatic things that affect uh defi or Builders or um things that still need to go into the core protocol changes that need to go under the core protocol but that aren't super like lofty academic years out whereas research uh e research tends to be like a little a little bit more of an academic setting where um they're they're dealing with like harder

problems that may have a longer road map yeah so once once they start sorting through a solution and I will say this is the hardest step it is there there tends to be a big dichotomy between things like research and um application of that research so this coming up with a solution tends to be the hardest step because the researchers sometimes aren't users themselves they're just dealing with this they're kind of nerd sniped they're very smart they maybe have like phds in cryptography so this is I think where a lot of where there's a lot of room for people to come in and pick on existing research and figure out how to apply it to a protocol um so this tends to be users researchers devs and Community all

working together um and they're still using The ethereum Magicians Forum they're now working on GitHub they might be like starting to implement an EIP they might be coming to the all core Dev calls they might be uh facilitating their own breakout calls um and so at some point they're going to create an EIP and this EIP is going to be brought to the all core Dev calls it's going to be proposed for um some fork and at that point you might think okay we're ready to implement it right and usually not an EIP is going to go through lots of iterations before it's ready to be implemented and then once it is implemented it'll start being shifted to the responsibility of the cevs and I

mean the EAP is going to already hopefully have some spec tests done it's already going to have some implementation but the cevs are going to implement it see how it interacts with all of the other eips that are going into some Fork um and this is usually a much longer process there's Dev Nets and test Nets before anything ever goes on the main net and then at some point you get to a spec freeze and hopefully the EIP goes live on mainnet yeah so that's sort of high level the process here and like this is a a graphic that Trent veps from the he like facilitates the protocol Guild if anybody's unfamiliar with the protocol Guild it is uh a

mechanism by which people who work on the ethereum Cor protocol can get paid um in a neutral sense it doesn't come from the EF it comes from like CL crowdsourced funding from uh organizations that are affected by ethereum so it tends to be like token allocations from airdrops or stuff like that so this is sort of an illustration of everybody who's in the protocol Guild and when we talk about core developers we're or when we talk about client devs this is sort of who we're talking about is the ones in the in the purple boxes everybody else tends to be like referred to generally as core Dives in researchers um and most of these boxes fit into that into that category and just an illustration these

are all of the ethereum upgrades um that have happened since beginning of ethereum and when I was putting this graphic together it made me realize how much standards have changed throughout ethereum's Lifetime and how very brand new all of these processes are and how like um how much room they have to grow and change and solidify because even see these the little green boxes above each Fork is how many eips were in each Fork um and even the the records kept for how many eips are in each Fork are like different from Fork to Fork um roughly the same pretty easy to find but like the standards have been changing and the Cadence um that Forks are happening the

protocols that that um eips that Pro that Forks use to get eips into upgrades have been changing and there's a whole conversation right now post there's this whole conversation right now because pectra is about to be implemented that's the fork that's going to happen in about two months and it was a little messy it was a little chaotic and so the conversation is happening right now on how to make this process more efficient how to um increase the fork Cadence um and so this process will be shifting um and hopefully solidifying into something fast efficient and standard that's pretty much all I have there are five resources here I wrote a blog post

couple weeks ago um on rough consensus on like the the process of getting an EIP in the process of writing an EIP there are two and then the next one is a a talk from Timo on U from ECC a couple years ago on this process uh there there are so many more things I can say like the if you're writing EAP there are um cool yeah so there there are so many more things but um these resources will give you sort of an overview on um all of those uh resources and guides and uh processes yeah so that was me if anybody has any questions I'm happy to take any questions I don't know if I have any time left I think I ran over by a minute

thank you so much for the presentation and just a small correction that the EPF officer I think that is being run by EPF team Josh and Mario but we do conduct an office hour that is espcially dedicated for EIP editing so when authors are in process of creating eips then we have these office hour in order to support them and facilitator to document the best proposal for becoming an eum standard along the way thank you so much for this talk I hope more women would get inspired as it is evident that we have so many people around us to help us support in whatever field we want to get involved with uh we are inviting next another guest from ethereum Foundation who is going to talk about her journey

as um protocol support team welcome to Sophia gold hi yeah so I didn't really prepare anything I work on protocol support at the EF I was hired um not that long ago last year at the same time as nixo protocol support is uh somewhat of a catchall team at this point um and I I am still kind of figuring out how to explain um to people what I do and and also possibly still figuring out what I do but I think both for that purpose and and for the purpose of this group it would maybe be useful to talk about you know my background and how I got here because I you know I come from a technical background but before that I

come from a non-traditional background and I think that's important right in our industry so I studied fine art as an undergrad I've never taken a computer science class in my life the last math class I took was calculus in high school and my 20s I worked you know a wide variety of jobs I worked in finance for a little while but I also waited tables for years and then at some point basically I you know got sick of being poorer and uh somehow had the idea that you know software development is was a a change that I could make and that you could kind of you know just do things as people say you know I think that was an easier

move to make last decade right than of course it is right now with uh the hiring landscape in Tech and you know the macro landscape but I think you know it's still important as like a job option you know for people who you know maybe don't have credentials or or not like kind of put on some track earlier in life so yeah I mean I got into that largely just through self-study and you doing side projects uh my free time and you know some degree of Open Source contribution and I you know I ended up being a backend engineer I think kind of the theme of my career that has really been increasing including like up you

know until present has been specialization which you know to some extent I think you know went against the grain of of a certain you know strategy and Engineering you know especially last decade when big Tech was um you know hiring so much uh which was you know um you want to be as much of a generalist as possible which is like what most big tech jobs are and and switch between jobs very frequently at least if you care about compensation which to be honest I do obviously not singularly because I work at the EF but you know I think it it'd be silly to say that doesn't matter but I I feel Vindicated especially now you know in the the greater landscape and finding something that really fits me with what I do here at protocol support

uh so you know that that started out as I you I worked in what a relatively Niche programming languages and that you know it was something that kind of narrowed the field of jobs but you know the thing about a jobs you only need one of them right so I think benefited me and then in 2018 after um the Ico boom you there that was a catalyst for a lot of Engineers to pour into into crypto as you know these products had a lot of funding and were kind of racing uh towards uh mainnet and a lot of you know I've been working in functional programming languages a lot of functional programmers were were getting into crypto and there's this idea that of course you didn't pan out that it was going to solve a lot of

security issues in the wake of for example the Dow hack and uh so I I worked as a core developer uh for a number of years on tesos which is a at the time a big Ico era project and then after that I moved to being moved into engineering management and polka dot you know did another Ico era uh project in sort of a hybrid Engineering Management and product management role to the extent that product management is is is a thing for a protocol rate which is very unique and um I think kind of like a a theme there is that I would say you know you have to be smart to be engineer

but you don't have to be that smart right and what I think people discount a lot is there are a lot of Personality factors in it so things I've noticed with you know mentoring Junior Engineers when it comes to things like jumping into large code bases or debugging a lot of those really are are you know personality issues more so I think than intelligence but then another factor that I think people tend to encounter and and I did at a certain point later in your career is you know whether you really like programming enough to do it long term and I think the people that I've worked with who are really worldclass uh programmers uh you know they just like love doing the job so much and I think that's almost a

requirement to get really to that level and and um frankly I I didn't which is is another common thing I think that happens and so that was kind of like a maybe you could say like a second transition in my career into finding something else to do that allowed me to like Leverage the skills that wasn't implementation and you know but at the same time I really like working in crypto know I feel good about what I do and the problem solving what we what we get to work on and the speed it moves at I find really fulfilling so you know I benefited from doing that and particularly in L1 context which I think is actually even more Niche right in terms of the the number of people that understand how and

and care about how l1s work you see this on Twitter a lot especially if you work on ethereum that you know is widely discussed but I think not widely understood and you know so that basically is brought me to um my job in protocol support where basically what I'm doing right now is coordinating uh R&D at the EF around the execution layer right so I think most of you are you know fairly aware about how ethereum works that we have you run two binaries when you're running a node basically for for historical reasons around the merge and the execution layer which is are basically the pre-merge proof of State

clients that um you know run the evm keep track of accounts it has largely it's it's changed very little in the past and um uh it's also not historically really not been a focus of research at the F so um we are trying to very quickly change that uh and you know develop a research plan for the future of it and so you know like I said at the beginning I'm kind of like figuring out you know still how to do that um but I think that it requires um an understanding of like a wide breath of things you know it's very interdisplinary and um as opposed to you know researchers that can to some degree have like a large degree of impact uh

working in a pretty small field that you know you might have a you know studied in school I kind of have to have more of a broader but more shallow level of understanding across the protocol but then also you know try to apply some lessons about how organiz technical organizations uh you know move in development and also even um kind of interpersonal issues that can arise uh with researchers and devs um as they um work on these things in a fast changing landscape so yeah I mean I would say like again you know I come from a technical background uh even though I'm not actually doing engineering right now

and I think that that is is um a great way to get into whatever you'd like to do in in crypto or intac in general uh because you know um despite all of the uh you know problems that that that you know we experience in terms of diversity in terms of bias and access to things it is I I think one of the most meritocratic career paths you could take and uh you know particularly doing open source development is you know a opportunity to it leaves like a large open door I think right to go in and any decent open source project is going to have like

issues organized flagged for beginners and somebody that you should be able to talk to about contributing with those and as someone who's been on you know the hiring side right hiring Engineers um that's that that that is so doing that contributing to like a a r people larger open source project it is would be one of the largest things to make somebody stand out to me right and I you know prefer that greatly over like data structures and algorithms interviews which frankly personally I've always been terrible at um and and you know as much as you we try to make them neutral do have some element of bias so that and and you know specialization I I

think would probably the two best pieces of advice I have based on you know my own background thank thank you so much for these advice and uh for this inspiring share coming from diverse background and finding a path in etherum is truly motivating for those still considering joining the ecosystem as NX also mentioned that she was an naog grapher and now she is part of eum ecosystem similar for you and having economic independence as an incentive I think it can be a powerful motivation behind this but what matters at the end of the day like you are enjoying what you want want to do here in the ecosystem so great thank you so much and if there are any question for Sophia or

nio please feel free to drop it in the chat with that I would like to invite our next guest uh she is a co-developer at prism and perhaps she can help us understand more the role of women in ethereum protocol development welcome Sami Ru okay so I'm Sammy I'm an ethereum core developer on the prison consensus client I originally started um by doing Digital Arts in multimedia technology um and from there I wanted to become a graphic designer when I graduated that I worked as a graphic designer for a year before I very quickly realized that I absolutely hated

it uh uncertain of what to do I decided to just join a master's course in computer science and I taught myself how to program in python after working I'm sorry for my final year I wrote a thesis in conjunction with a crypto broker about the the decentralization of the ethereum network and from there I continued working for this crypto company before a bare Market basically uh killed them uh they ended up this what sank them um they ended up working with two or three court personnel only and from there my family decided that I had to get a real job and the real job in this case was

e-commerce which was one of the most dull experiences of my life and I worked for an e-commerce company for about two years before I decided Well I was curious to see again what crypto was up to and what was going on in ethereum space and I ended up on prism's website where I found out that they were recruiting and so I said what the hell I sent my CV went through the interview process and then when they accepted me I quit my job and and never looked back so as far as technical background goes I was pretty much fresh out of uni and had a bit of experience working for this crypto broker but that's about it um my the prison team is amazing we're um

we're a small group of only 12 developers and they're honestly some of the smartest and most talented people I've ever worked with so what is prism so I guess some of the other speakers went into bit of details about um how ethereum works and prism is a now a consensus client by offchain labs and has been so for the last two years um it was a couple months ago that we had our two-year anniversary as a refresher a um the an ethereum node is made up of a consensus client so an our case prism and an execution client so as an example here is gu the consensus client works on handles all the pro for stake

operations and the execution client processes you know smart contracts and transactions this was a snapshot that I got off client divers unity.org uh this is very promising to see because we want as many as much client diversity as we can and prism was a ruling majority for quite a long time so it's nice to see some of the other clients actually uh building in numbers uh anything above 33 % was considered risky and then anything above 66 is considered incredibly dangerous for the network from here these are some tidbits about uh or some fun facts about prism so prism is written primarily in golang uh we just

we we're V5 now we just released um some changes yesterday that allows us to go live on pectra with in the seoan hsky test net um we were originally we were written twice originally gu fork called gu sharding and was the first consensus client and also the first client have an API uh the problem was that it was written in grpc and now we're trying to remove grpc and replace it completely with pure HTP one of two sler implementations at least of from August and first client with a UI so what is an ethereum core developer well ethereum core Developers they do a

lot of different things um I guess as some of the other speakers say reviewing eips writing consensus specs and tests and in our case the most important thing is developing the prism client our our primary focus in this is to implement hard Works uh for context like a hard workk is a change to protocols rules that will require all the nodes and the network to upgrade in order to stay compatible and it's interesting because each Fork follows some o sorry I should have changed the slides um the naming Convention of the fork so the latest one is spectra the names themselves are for the consensus changes they're named

after stars and alphabetical order so in this case Electra and then for the execution changes um they reference old or previous Devcon events so in this case it's Prague and all all of the ones post merge are like this and I think um Electra is or pectra is the largest Fork post merge as far as eips included it seems like there's a QR here you can scan to see all of the IPS that have been included so far uh these are just some of the ones that uh have been included the that I just wanted to list and then when it's going to happen is going to be sometime soon and yeah this is what we

do thank you uh this QR code also brings you to the prism first issues good first issues if anyone wants to contribute one of the most important things doesn't really matter if you have a technical background or anything if you just see something that you feel like trying to tackle you can just write to anyone in the prison Discord and everyone is very willing to help you through it answer and lead and I I learned how to program and go through my current job person thank you so much Samy seeing more women from diverse background stepping into this space is like truly inspiring as you rightly said you don't

have to be a developer to contribute to ethereum just yet take the first step by joining these guest sessions and if you're not comfortable you would be in due course I'm confident you will find a path as Samy did as a developer this is just the beginning of it I have shared the link to the EIP 7600 which is B basically the hard for meta for Petra as she already explained what Petra is and all we do maintain some kind of process around how do we plan these upgrades these are all public so there are so many things to learn about ethereum execution layer consensus layer Network upgrade so many things I think uh Kya has some explainer some introduction to what to expect with this coher and

overview that we have planned for cohar 3 goals structure and how to participate so let's cover that welcome Kya oh welcome everyone I'm happy to see you actually I see a lot of familiar FES from the previous cahor yeah I'll quickly introduce myself uh I'm EPF cohort 5 fellow and uh women in theorum protocol uh Cort one and two fellow as well so I really love this program because it helped me a lot to go through my U way through the fellowship so for this cohort uh we will have the three key points education open source and contributing into ethereum

protocol uh how we are going to learn uh we will invite special guests for our sessions and they give us talks and you can ask them questions we also provide you uh useful resources uh you can dive deeper into the protocol and we all will share a knowledge not on the me and Lena but you as well because I'm sure you also know a lot um and it will be great networking I see these girls um I don't know you are so many girls in one call that makes me happy so another part important part is open source contributions because uh at

this program you will be able to practice uh to practice and to open pool requests in our women interial protocol GitHub repo so that will make the scenes easier for you and the main part of the program as our previous cohort will be the solving ethereum clients issues for this Cort we have uh three clients besso which is written in Java it is execution client we also have prison written in go and low star written in typescript uh prism and loar are consensus client what is consensus client and what is

execution client we will learn it later on our next sessions uh with this our wonderful mentors will help us uh we have four mentors for this program Sally from B Samy she's here with us from Prism and Matthew and pH from lar uh how will you interact with mentors uh in the Discord and on GitHub so they don't they won't teach you how to code they will just explain your issue how to better solve it and this is a lot of uh like um self-work so you will work on your own and we will support you a lot in the Discord and on

on our calls so we are mainly focused on uh developers who are going to solve these issues but also if you feel like are not very confident developer you can still stay with us you can learn with us because we will have our guests and calls as well and uh you can learn uh open source contributing uh this is uh how our WAP repo will work so you can just practice with it I will provide you with some uh home assignments and um at any time you can go around this circle for example if you feel um like it's impossible for you you

know like you struggle with this issue and it's impossible just please don't drop this cohort stay with us learn with us we will support you and also if you just if you think that you will Al only learn you can try open- Source contributions and then maybe if you like it you'll go to solving issues so our weekly sessions will be on Thursday at for PM UTC and uh the duration is three months three months we will be together I'm super excited about it and the last session the closing ceremony will be on the 1st of May our communication will be in the

zoom we will drop the link into the Discord and um yeah join us for the call uh we will have two types it's similar like Fellowship uh we'll have two types of calls standard apps where you will share your uh updates your blockers if you have any questions we will try to solve it to help you um and uh for this C we won't make recordings because we wanton you to feel you like safe and ask your questions like no pressure of recording but for office hours uh we will have a special guests with a they will give talks about the protocol and

you can ask ask questions as well all about ethereum protocol how it works Etc and for these sessions we'll have a recordings so you can watch them again and again this is how our schedule looks like so office hours and standups will alternate with each other sometimes probably we have to Interchange them it depends on the uh speakers availab ability but we will yeah we will provide you in advance um so the cohort calls once again uh is to learn about the theorum protocol to practice on open- Source projects and to get your whole

requests merged at least one one is your goal so how to join the program you need to fill the registration form and join our Discord you can check out our um WAP GitHub repo I think P already shared the link and you will have a home assignment uh soon after this call we will drop it into the Discord so please check it uh this is our Discord um I don't know P I don't see if you share it or not yeah but we can share it later uh study group channel is our main Channel where we will will be communicate

and I also would like to quickly uh show you our repo can you see my GitHub as well yeah okay so this is the main readme file where um you can find the description of uh the study group and we also have like code of conduct and fpq and resources here but our main folder is cohort 3 here we will work for all the sessions this is a program guide where you can quickly um read about all these files and our main files are session tracker when you have where you have this whole schedule and you will also have the links for recordings and assignments here and the progress

tracker is where we will work on the open source so we will create this table together this one and you will open your PRS you will um progress you will update your progress here then GitHub guide provides um some you know like steps how to contribute we will work with two repositories wlp and the client repository so it depends on what client you will choose to solve its issue and the issues guide is um here the information about our mentors and links to the issues um yeah that that's it just don't worry a lot of information we will like

break it into some small steps just uh join our Discord and Welcome to our sessions and yeah we will make it easier step by step thank you thank you kataa for making it simpler I think Kya mentioned that from next Thursday we are going to have regular meeting we'll get to know more about it in the Discord Channel and huge shout out to AA I mean you brought the entire girls team here to watch this session together thank you thank you well thank you all for joining us here in this incredible journey with wiip study group we are going to start a new one with coher 3 where we will explore ethereum protocol development

we'll try to learn a lot from client developers and other experts we'll try to bring a strong and supportive community of women in ethereum so huge thank you to all our guest speakers participants and volunteers who are going to support all the way to a successful cohort and to participants if you are in the session please join us on Discord if you aren't there already if you know someone who may be interested in this let them know and invite them to Discord we are open there to answer all those questions let's stay connected we'll keep learning and we'll continue driving The Innovation together on behalf of wiip Team thank you so much see you in the next call and as I always

say women let's Elevate ethereum thank you all for join thank you everyone thank thank you see you on the next calls