A few important notes from the Bitcoin Foundation:

DEVCORE WORKSHOP, OCTOBER 16, San Francisco: Please attend the DevCore
Workshop: "Developing the Developers" on October 16th, at Draper University.

Faculty includes:
Core Dev Greg Maxwell of Blockstream
CoreDev Matt Corallo
Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Author of Mastering Bitcoin
Gavin Andresen, Chief Scientist of the Bitcoin Foundation
CoreDev Jeff Garzik
Charlie Lee of Coinbase
Michael Perklin of the Cryptocurrency Consortium

Tickets are only $150, $100 for Bitcoin Foundation members, and $25 for students.
Corporate sponsorships are also available for only $1000. Please also spread the word
on social media and though email. Tickets are available at
http://bitcoinfoundation.org/devcore-workshop/

WEBSITE: Please visit the new website at bitcoinfoundation.org and stop in to the forums
and participate in discussion -- the new site is designed to be more interactive and allows
easier contribution of content: if you have a paper, article or other material you'd like to
share, please let us know.

COMMITTEES: Strong committees are great for helping Bitcoin and the mission of the
foundation - committees such as Regulatory Affairs, Education and others have
contributed greatly. If you have an idea for a committee or would like to join one, please
let us know.

DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNICATION: One area we've been thinking about a lot recently
and which was discussed at this week's board meeting is the need for improved
communications related to core development. It's important for members of the
community, investors, and CEOs to know and understand what's going on in core
development. We think this is a great role for the foundation to take on, and will have
some announcements soon.

ELECTIONS: Elections will be announced in the near future. Please consider running or
nominating any excellent candidates you know of.

MEMBERSHIP & SPONSORSHIPS: Please make sure your membership is current. If you
are a corporation, please consider increasing your membership level. Every contribution
helps.

 RISK MANAGEMENT STUDY: Board member Jim Harper is leading a Bitcoin risk
management study. You may know that the last such study (
https://bitcoinfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Bitcoin-Risk-ManagementStudy-Spring-2014.pdf ) completed by the Bitcoin Foundation, predicted the importance of
the blocksize discussion. Participation in the asset characterization and risk
characterization phase of the study is still open to Bitcoin Foundation members here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ve3kr1qd1rqtoJUx2LZLpjKN2KhvSBV7G2sam7BT50/edit?usp=sharing.

BITCOIN FOUNDATION SPEAKERS BUREAU: We've started a free service for meeting
organizers who would like to have high quality Bitcoin speakers appear at their events.
So far, speakers include Jeffrey Tucker, Perianne Boring, Nic Cary, Nick Sullivan, Roger
Ver, Vinny Lingham, Erik Voorhees, Matt Rozak, Connie Gallipi, Elizabeth Ploshay
McCauley, Bobby Lee, Brock Pierce, Jim Harper, Paul Snow and others. The service is
free for both speakers and meeting planners. If you know a meeting planner, spread the
word. If there are great speakers we should add, or if you would like to join let us know.
To qualify you must either have an endorsement from one board member or the Executive
Director, or have a video of a Bitcoin speaking engagement which we can review.

THE FUTURE: Like Bitcoin itself our organization has faced change and hurdles. We are
excited about the future and how we can all work together to help Bitcoin.

Bruce Fenton
Executive Director