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Article about Ethereum Governance that will be posted to ethereum.org
# Ethereum Governance ethereum.org
The Ethereum Governance is decentralised by many organisations that are making sure of Ethereum Progress 


## Ethereum Governance Coordinators Roles
Following groups are coordinating core protocol changes. Ethereum is decentralised

Ethereum Magicians - Community Communicators
Main role is to maintain community forum, host (mainly in person) discussions, support EIP process, moderate forum

Ethereum Cat Herders - Management
Started as Management to All Core Devs, now doing a bunch of EIP related work, primary hosting calls

EIP Editors - Moderators
Making sure EIPs are well written, there are no mistakes, editing EIPs, moderating Ethereum/EIPs repo

(All) Core Devs Coordinators - Protocol Maintainers / Contributors
Implementing EIPs, working on Core Protocol, coordinating core protocol changes. EIPs are created by 

Protocol Guild - Core Devs Coordinators
Collective of core protocol contributors. Maintaining onchain registry and directly fund protocol devs working on public good.

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Ethereum Magicians
The main role of this group is to act as Community Communicators. Ethereum Magicians are maintaining community forum hosting (mainly) in person discussions, supporting EIP Process with initiatives like leading NFT Standards Working Group. 

Ethereum Cat Herders 
The main role of Ethereum Cat Herders is to as Project Management of All Core Devs by helping out organise and host All Core Devs Calls. Ethereum Cat Herders are hosting a couple EIP related calls like Peep an EIP, EIP IP (something else to be added here?)

ACD 
As mentioned in my last article, Core Devs are responsible for maintaining the code. The ACD are not coordinators, they don't coordinate but they implement the code and discuss EIPs, technical difficulties and challenges on Ethereum. 

The new groups
These groups were spin off in order to make some groups more coordinated


EIP Editors
The main role of EIP Editors is to act as Moderators. EIP Editors are working on Core Protocol by making sure EIPs are well written without mistakes. They are editing EIPs and moderating Ethereum/EIPs repository. 


Protocol Guild
This group has spin off to help fund Core Devs. The People that keeps the Ethereum (code) heart beating, this group is to help funding these people. As described by Protocol Guild itself "A collective of Ethereum contributors working to boost the incentives around stewarding the core protocol by maintaining an onchain registry of its membership which allows ecosystem sponsors to directly fund the membership, their work, the public good".

Learn more about Protocol guild here https://protocol-guild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ 


Closing thoughts, Ethereum Governance is decentralised, have many groups 
