2020-07-07 Contributor Call

EMEA/AMER Friendly Time -  1500UTC (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20200707T150000&p1=224&p2=179&p3=195&p4=47&p5=1440)

• 8am Tuesday (7 July) Los Angeles
• 11 am Tuesday (7 July) New York
• 3pm  Tuesday (7 July) UTC
• 5 pm Tuesday (7 July) Paris/Berlin
• 1 am Wednesday (8 July) Brisbane

Agenda

• Housekeeping
  • Antitrust notice - https://www.linuxfoundation.org/antitrust-policy/
  • This meeting is being recorded
  • Please Mute unless speaking
  • If you have a question use the raise hand feature
• General Announcements
• Release updates
  • Upcoming 1.5 RC 
    • RC2 has been cut
      • Mainnet fast-sync passed
    • July 14 (AMER) /15 (AUS): Besu 1.5 Release
• Roadmapping
  • discuss what we plan to include in 1.6
  • any asks from the community?
• Work Updates
  • Ethereum Mainnet ephemeral testnet - YOLO
  • Ethereum Mainnet upcoming fork - Berlin
    • EIP 2315: Simple Subroutines for the EVM
    • EIP 2537: BLS12-381 curve operations
    • Two other repricing EIPs not committed.
• Other Business
• Open Forum
  
  • Open contributor questions
• Future Topics
  • Request Welcome