# EPS - Guide for teachers First of all, thank you so much for taking the time to participate in the first round of Ethereum Protocol Fellowship Study Group (or EPFsg). We sincerely appreciate your effort, and we'll do our best to put it to good use. After our experience with EPF, we are creating a study group program to help people dive into Ethereum R&D and later make EPF onboarding easier. Learn more about it in the [announcement blog](https://blog.ethereum.org/2024/02/07/epf-study-group). Here are some details about the program and your role to get you started. ## Program details EPS is a 10 week educational program and will run from February 19 till April 24. Each week has 1-2 live webinars with a speaker from core development/research. We kindly ask you to make a presentation for one of these weeks. Our goal is to educate about the core protocol and create more resources for aspiring core developers. The program is opened and permissionless which means anybody can participate. Feel free to share it with people interested in learning about the protocol. To interact with students, you can join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/8RPnPGEQtJ ## Your presentation The time slot for presentation is 90 minutes. You don't have to use all the time presenting, we keep spare time in the slot if there are questions or discussion. The presentation should be technical and help people to gain insight into that part of the protocol. The format can be similar as Devcon, Edcon or other technical conferences. Feel free to share your experience when you were diving into the core development yourself. We recommend to focus your presentation on explaining actual internals of the protocol, tools and their context. It should contain a lot of resources which people can study further after your talk. The session will be streamed live and hosted on a streaming service. We will provide invite link for the call shortly before the session. ## Reading materials If there are any specific knowledge prerequisities for your presentation, please share some reading materials before your talk. We'd like students to get ready for each presentation to get maximum value out of it. You can send them to Mario or add [directly to the doc](https://github.com/eth-protocol-fellows/protocol-studies/blob/main/docs/eps/week1.md) in github repo for current week. Please share any resources, reading materials or tutorials people could use before or after the presentation. Feel free to create an excercise for students, sort of homework, reading or tutorials to follow to learn more about the topic. We will add this to our knowledge base. ## Contacts EPS is organized by EF Protocol Support team. Please, feel free to reach out to: [email protected] Telegram: @havelm Discord: Mario Havel#9726 [email protected] Telegram: @joshdavislight Discord: JoshD#4078
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EPF - Guide for mentors

First of all, thank you so much for taking the time to be a mentor for the third EPF cohort. We sincerely appreciate your effort, and we'll do our best to put it to good use. Being mentor does not require a lot of commitment, it should be a smooth experience of helping to onboard new contributors. Here are some details about the program and your mentorship role to get you started. Program details Cohort 5 starts in mid June and run for 5 months. At the end, at Devconnect in November, you will also have a chance to attend a physical meetup with most active fellows. The program is opened and permissionless which means anybody can participate. From hundreds of application we receive, we are selecting around 20+ people who will also receive a stipend. All together, we expect around 30 individuals to contribute within the cohort. Participants are completely free to decide what project they want to work on. To nudge them into certain direction, feel free to submit project suggestions for fellows. If there is anything you/your team/your project need help with and you would like to see participants work on, please share it in the mentors form.

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Page to summarize archive nodes setups, recommended practices and potential issues. Feel free to add info about your setup below. Prague setup Hardware Machine Dell PowerEdge R320

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