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title: "Foundation Update for July 2017"
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excerpt: "This is just a short post to update you on the goings-on of the Zcash Foundation in the past couple of months."
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categories: blog
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tags: []
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date: 2017-07-07
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author: amiller
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Hi everyone,
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This is just a short post to update you on the goings-on of the Zcash Foundation in the past couple of months.
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We have been steadily making progress on setting up the organization and starting projects.
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How to talk with us and be involved.
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First off, a couple quick notes on how to reach us.
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- The Foundation’s [github repository](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/ZcashFoundation/) has emerged as the central / authoritative place for all official foundation activities.
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- Our [github issues page](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/ZcashFoundation/issues) has been an active area of discussion for things the Foundation should do.
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- The [#the-zcash-foundation channel](https://chat.zcashcommunity.com/channel/the-zcash-foundation) on the Rocket chat is an active chat room.
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Welcome Yan Zhu as the fifth member of the Zcash Foundation board
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Yan Zhu is a long time developer and supporter of online privacy and privacy enhancing technologies. She was one of the original developers of Secure Drop, and is currently a Technologist Fellow at Electronic Frontier Foundation, and also currently works at Brave as a senior software engineer.
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Job posting: a part-time Senior Project Manager.
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We’ve posted a [Job description for a project manager](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/ZcashFoundation/issues/10) to help push forward Foundation projects.
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Working Groups
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We’ve set up a [working groups structure](
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https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/ZcashFoundation/tree/master/WorkingGroups), as a way of defining projects and coordinating volunteers. You could propose a working group today. Github issues are a good way to start a discussion about project ideas.
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Paige from the Zcash company has been leading the first working group, on [“Privacy Preserving Donations for Non-profits”](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/ZcashFoundation/tree/master/WorkingGroups)
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Administrative updates
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- We filed our 1023 form to apply for 501(c)(3) status with the IRS.
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- We have posted all of our [board meeting minutes](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/ZcashFoundation/tree/master/board-documents/minutes), and board decisions made over email:
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- I have been holding an “office hours” hangout roughly once a week (Fridays at 12pm central time) mostly to give a status update and get some work done. Let me know (on the [rocket chat](https://chat.zcashcommunity.com/channel/the-zcash-foundation)) if you’re interested in being invited.
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[[Portuguese Translations]](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/ZcashFoundation/issues/31)
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