[ZcF-general] Zcash Foundation Update — December, 2018 and January, 2019

[Sonya Mann]

Hello everyone! We didn't send one of these emails at the end of December,
due to the holiday. December was effectively a half-month, because so many
people take vacation time at the end of the year (including Zcash
Foundation staff).

Without any further ado, the list of announcement-worthy Zcash Foundation
activities from the past two months!

The Foundation co-hosted and co-sponsored an event called Blockchain
Against Evil, which you can read about here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blockchain-against-evil-tickets-52069749021
(click "View Details" for more information about the content)

Proceeds from the event were donated to Open Privacy, a fellow nonprofit
that focuses on securing people's privacy through technology:
https://twitter.com/ZcashFoundation/status/1082407682663866369

We reorganized our website and GitHub repos to make information about the
Foundation and its doings more accessible:
https://www.zfnd.org/blog/website-refresh/

We worked with Ian Miers, who is a member of our Board (among numerous
other qualifications), to turn a talk about blockchain privacy theater into
a long-form article:
https://www.tokendaily.co/blog/blockchain-privacy-equal-parts-theory-and-theater

The article will be posted on our website as well.

The Foundation is sponsoring an upcoming zk-SNARKs meetup in Tel Aviv:
https://www.meetup.com/Zero-Knowledge-TLV/events/258165596/

We announced the details of Zcon1 (June 22 – 24 in Split, Croatia) and
asked people to start applying for invitations:
https://www.zfnd.org/blog/zcon1-announcement/

And finally, Executive Director Josh Cincinnatti wrote "The State of the
Zcash Foundation in 2019," reviewing our performance in 2018 and setting
the course for the rest of the year:
https://www.zfnd.org/blog/foundation-in-2019/

Hopefully 2019 is treating you well so far! As always, if you have any
questions or feedback, don't hesitate to reply to this email.

Sonya Mann
Communications Manager
Zcash Foundation
sonya at zfnd.org
@sonyaellenmann <https://twitter.com/sonyaellenmann/>