# Education Ring - Council of Paris 2019

## Topics
* Standards, Material Quality & Certification
* What are we teaching - [sub-ring notes](https://hackmd.io/Md4OxlWPTaC4HyTYRKWUyw)
* Funding
* Language
* Accesibility

Aidan: in Singapore a major conversation was language - lack of accesibility

Jamie: what is it that we are educating about

"Just translating the yellow paper to my mother does not help"

## What are we teaching

[sub-ring notes](https://hackmd.io/Md4OxlWPTaC4HyTYRKWUyw)

Summary:

Why educate?

Listing out those who need to learn about the platform:

- Users
- Developers
- dapp devs
- "Ethereum itself" (protocol devs)
- corporate devs
- Investors

Others:

"External experts" - how to related Ethereum to their field

What is the Vision of Ethereum?

## Accesibility:
- Language
- We cannot check for accuracy / take time from devs / it takes a while to get things picked up by the community
- James: creating a ring on translation and generating a network
- Aidan: we dont have developers to contribute / there is no dev accesibility. Technical documentation is failing. ETHresearch is not translated and it cant be translated (because it's live and a forum)
- Need to redefine and research all material out there to "not reinvent the wheel"
- ETHresearch as a forum does not really work because it stretches too much - needs diagrams, infographics, better information display
- "entry level approach"--> everyone needs to have approximate knowledge about everything in order to pick up whatever area interests them. Every article or forum needs to have a high level overview of the core discussion/article.
- ETHresearch is not even possible to follow for English speakers due to the info overflow, not curated discussions, etc.
- ETHhub does the job on "approximate knowledge" for a wider audience
- Finding the most essential documentation and come up with a package - then get it translated
- Idea: focus shifting overtime and being promoted

Next steps:
- Open forum
- Asking people what's missing
- Figure out what needs translation
- what are the essential fundamental docs?
- Is it important for people to learn at a basic level
- conducting interviews with devs to see really what they need