# Weekly Update - Livepeer on the Road **URL:** \ **Category:** Updates\ **Created:** [November 3, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.livepeer.org/t/weekly-update-livepeer-on-the-road/107 "2017-11-03T15:12:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**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:** [November 3, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.livepeer.org/t/weekly-update-livepeer-on-the-road/107/1 "2017-11-03T15:12:47Z")
**On The Road** It’s been an unconventional couple of weeks for much of the Livepeer team. Generally we’ve been focused on building out our protocol for the past few months, but last week and this we had the opportunity to get out in the community a bit, show people what we’ve built, and learn from other decentralized projects. Some events that team members attended included: - [Eth Waterloo Hackathon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=H_WBFIoWFYg) - Ethereal SF - [Silicon Valley Ethereum Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/EthereumSiliconValley/events/243985966/), where we presented. - [Devcon3](https://ethereumfoundation.org/devcon3/sessions/p2p-web3-goes-live-livestreaming-video-on-the-peer-to-peer-internet/) where we’re also presenting. If you’re there stop by Saturday at 1pm in the P2P breakout room. - Held the first community organized Livepeer meetup in San Francisco. Looking forward to ones in NYC and Berlin soon. Here are the slides from the SV Ethereum Meetup talk: [https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWx1LoUzk7JuwQmwduuBbr4hf5U4F6QUzLLtiz2EURrpx](https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWx1LoUzk7JuwQmwduuBbr4hf5U4F6QUzLLtiz2EURrpx) Overall it was great to show off Livepeer in action to lots of projects in the space. The reception to our technical first approach was very strong. There’s a lot of energy in decentralized tech right now, even though there is also a lot of unhealthy noise around marketing token sales at the moment. **Technical Updates** On the technical side, we’re getting closer to a launchable protocol. We built out the smart contracts that will set the genesis state and initialize the network with the proper state. I wrote a post about some of the issues that all projects have to be addressed [to get a protocol live on the Ethereum Mainnet](https://medium.com/livepeer-blog/getting-a-protocol-to-the-mainnet-3912bd549d37) We also have kicked off work on upgrading the web player so that broadcasters can register a stream/channel in advance, share the link, and actually give their users a good, well designed experience to consume the stream, whether or not they’re actually running a Livepeer node. This will be a good update for our current [barebones web player](http://media.livepeer.org/player.html). Get in touch with @jozanza if you have feature requests! @joewest has started building out the [test env](https://github.com/livepeer/testenv) repo, which aims to simplify the Livepeer development experience. Any developer should be able to get the entire Livepeer environment running by running just one or two commands. **Contribute to Livepeer** We set up a public [project proposals board](https://github.com/livepeer/project-proposals/projects/1) where folks can see some of the projects that the community would love to see built. Feel free to propose any ideas, comment on any existing proposals with questions or ideas, or find collaborators to jump on a project of your own. We can support and help with development potentially. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.livepeer.org/t/weekly-update-livepeer-on-the-road/107)._