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Josh Stark
@0xstark.eth
When you hear the phrase "the Ethereum community", what institutions do you think of first? (like: companies, organizations, groups, etc.)
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Ultra honesty - while I’m mostly an Ethereum tourist (though I’ve shipped to mainnet/etc) and literally the only thing I think about when I hear Ethereum community is ETH foundation. Then if I pause for a bit I go - “oh yea and developers too I guess”?”
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I would agree here. If I think harder I think about Devcon Bogota, which gave me a more pluralistic idea of the eth community. But it seems like the foundation is first, then maybe twitter influencers, then far behind is devs.
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Yea I think where decentralized communities often miss (especially technical ones) is marketing 🫠
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Josh Stark
@0xstark.eth
by "devs" do you mean application developers specifically?
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
For me (in this context) dev means solidity developers specifically Saying it out loud makes me go “hmmm yea I guess application developers should be a big part of the ETH community” but my brain defaults to assuming that the smart contract folks are the bulk of how I default view the “community”
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ah interesting! I was using "application devs" in a very general way, meant to include developers who write solidity which forms part of an application, rather than just "developers who built the non-solidity components of an application".
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the more broader definition of "dev" I have in mind includes: client developers, tools developers, people who maintain developer libraries, people who work on L2s not already captured by the above, etc.
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Totally get that - I think my broader self reflection is that I default consider the core, technical infra folks reading EIPs to be more of the ETH community vs people closer to users Not saying that this is normative or reflects reality, it’s just me trying to perceive my biases
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no wrong answers! really just interested in people's raw perceptions, understand how it looks from different vantage points
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