# "Who are the ones being educated?" Discussion
## [< Education Ring - EthMagicians Council of Paris 2019](https://hackmd.io/k166XmT8S5ysdHA_uXM02g)

Identify the target groups, who are the sudents in Education?

### Why educate?

Diversity, onboard new users

With that, we can start to answer who, what, how...

User story: nn Ethereum, I was very intimidated, confused
We need more diversity in the community

Good examples of education efforts:

- DGov Foundation
- ML youtube videos Siraj Raval
- EmberJS as a platform with good onboarding, education, documentation

**Intimidated by all of the tools**

Why educate is somewhat about who to educate

Listing out those who need to learn about the platform:

### 3 Core Groups

**Users**

We tend to talk about users abstractly, let's talk about them as people.

The tech is heavy. We need to make it more accessible.

**Developers**

Different kinds of developers: dapp devs, "Ethereum itself" (protocol devs), corporate devs

**Investors**

Narrative outside the community is wild and crazy. Overly positive declarations, overly negative declarations.

### Other important groups

Policy makers, lawyers, etc. want to learn about Ethereum

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

Thinkers, people interested in the social fabric, philosophers

**users of various categories of dapps**

legal administrators, accountants, financial operators, token traders

entrepreneurs who want to build or use the network to pay their contractors

### Vision of Ethereum

Big question in education is having a cohesive vision of Ethereum which can be easily communicated

If someone is new, this could bring them in

What is the vision of Ethereun, we each attempted to articulate that:

- "Ethereum enables interaction between people. It establishes an environment of trust. It enables interactions without needing trust."

- "Frictionless interaction to enable finance, voting, putting our daily lives on the internet."

- "Ethereum enables experiments."

- "Unstoppable code. It is what technology enables in society. Those who hold the power cannot stop us."

- "Platform to make decisions without a figurehead to decide."

- "Reliable medium for social coordination which cannot be interfered with."

### Focal Points

We still look to the Ethereum Foundation. Is its resources being used for education?

NOTE: From the EF website at https://ethereum.org/foundation...

> The Ethereum Foundation’s mission is to promote and support Ethereum platform and base layer research, development ***and education*** to bring decentralized protocols and tools to the world that empower developers to produce next generation decentralized applications (dapps), and together build a more globally accessible, more free and more trustworthy Internet.

How to inventivize education

Devcon is an educational event!

Can we use events better?

**"Ethereum Onboarding Conference"**

We can do this in coordination with universities

Should not be ablout shilling anything

It should be realistic

**People need to own this**

We need to make sure that people with the right intentions are onboarding people

Also, who are good advocates for the platform, convey its vision and values

"Devcon" is inward-facing

'On-boarding Con" is outward-facing

Such a conference would attract a lot of funding for sponsorships.

**How to drive newcomers to what benefits them**