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# Core Maintainers
There are a few groups - organisations that are maintaining Ethereum Core Development: 
- Ethereum Magicians
- Ethereum Cat Herders
- EIP Editors 
- (All) Core Devs

About this group: 
On behalf of Eth Magicians we would like to create neutral space for discussing protocol updates and upgrades within Eth Core Maintainers - groups and organisations. We are putting this group together to ensure that there' s enough decentralisation, organisation and neutrality around governance of core protocol. There are many groups maintaining the protocol and we need to make sure that everyone' s on the same line. Creating group of Core Maintainers is crucial to support better governance and core protocol coordination. 
There has been competitive behaviour but there's no reason to compete when doing decision making on Core Protocol level (layer). We would like to create Eth Core Maintainers group to create a place for core maintainers to collaborate and communicate together.

This initiative is led by Eth Magicians. 
Initally the roles of each group / organisations were explained in following article : [Ethereum Core Maintainers](https://medium.com/ethereum-magicians/ethereum-core-maintainers-%EF%B8%8F-3e0cd90d3172)

## What each group does & group representatives: 
- Ethereum Magicians - Community Communicators
    - Main role is to maintain community forum, host (mainly in person) discussions, support EIP process, moderate forum
    - Who: Anett
- Ethereum Cat Herders - Management
    - Started as Management to All Core Devs, now doing a bunch of EIP related work, primary hosting calls
    - Who: Pooja
- EIP Editors - Moderators
    - Making sure EIPs are well written, there are no mistakes, editing EIPs, moderating Ethereum/EIPs repo
    - Who: Sam
- (All) Core Devs Coordinators - Protocol Maintainers
    - Implementing EIPs, working on Core Protocol, coordinating core protocol changes
    - Who: Tim 
- Protocol Guild - Core Devs Coordinators
    -   Collective of core protocol contributors. Maintaining onchain registry and directly fund protocol devs working on public good. 
    -   Who: Trent
- Eth Staker 
    - potentially invite
## Acknowledgment:
Roles between these organisations / groups SHOULDN'T cover, every group does their job and don't do work of other group without communicating it to other organisation / group

Encouragement to work together, figure out which EIPs should we push forward, create programs, work together on discussions... in order to decentralise Ethereum Core Governance. 

We all are responsible for decision making of Ethereum Protocol, yet we struggle to collaborate together. This group was created to improve decision making within the groups / organisations as we should COORDINATE not CONTROL. 
Talk about our individual organisations / groups plans not compete and take someone else's job. 
We, as groups / organisations, needs to differentiate ourselves, improve communication and collaboration. 

## Action points: 
- [Join group chat](https://t.me/+O-lcB7wPXHA0Y2Y0) 
- Share protocol roadmaps, open it for collaboration - how different groups can collaborate together
- Share our individual plans, see how we can collaborate, share our work... 
- Invite Sam
- Invite Trent
- Create action points to share:
    - what is everyone working on
