# Engineering Milestones (8/4/2017)

**URL:** <https://forum.livepeer.org/t/engineering-milestones-8-4-2017/71>\
**Category:** Updates\
**Created:** [August 4, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.livepeer.org/t/engineering-milestones-8-4-2017/71 "2017-08-04T15:12:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![dob](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.livepeer.org/dob/32/7_2.png) [@dob](https://forum.livepeer.org/u/dob)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.livepeer.org/t/engineering-milestones-8-4-2017/71/2 "2017-08-04T18:47:33Z")

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Calling all interested transcoders…the testnet soft launch is a good chance to begin to learn the process of getting elected, keeping a node running that does the work, etc. It should run on a free (or nearly free) AWS server instance for a low # of jobs, so it won’t be a big commitment.

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