Add Josh from Protocol Support

[taxmeifyoucan]

Name: Josh Davis (@joshdavislight)
Team: Protocol Support
Start time: 2025-06
Weight: 1

Eligibility:

Josh has been part of EF for more than 3 years now, and with the restructure last year, he became fully dedicated to work on the protocol. As a part of Protocol Support team, he has been helping to conduct ACD calls and took technical responsibility over almost all core developer calls. With this role he also helped to develop ACDbot and he is also contributing to Forkcast, making the all integrations with dev process smoother. His other work was on publications like Pectra Book and organizing EF internship that helped internal protocol teams. The major part of his work is dedicated to Ethereum Protocol Fellowship and Protocol Studies.

I want to mainly highlight his work on EPF. We worked on 4 cohorts of the fellowship together, helped to bring dozens of new developers to the core protocol. Many of them are now part of Protocol Guild and can vouch for benefits of this work. I understand there was discussion whether EPF organization work is indeed eligible and with this PR I'd like to argue for this. Maintaining the developer talent and knowledge base should be crucial for sustainability of the protocol. If the Guild decides it's not the case, I would propose Josh with 0.5 weight and lower my multiplier also to 0.5 because almost half of our time during year is dedicated to this, at least in the past.

Some of his contributions:

ACD calls
Forkcast contributions and features
EIP updates
Fellowship and study group

[eserilev]

Josh would be a great addition to the protocol guild IMO

[Inspector-Butters]

I wouldn't be here if it weren't for Josh. I'm pretty sure this holds true for a decent number of other EPF fellows as well. He belongs in PG.

[raxhvl]

+1 to @Inspector-Butters! Josh does amazing work attracting talent through the EPF and internship programs.

[tvanepps]

I am also in support of including EPF as a PG-eligible workstream. a few requirements before I'd want to have this PR merged:

• remove the mention of "Protocol Studies" as this is not being proposed as eligible
• an explicit note that this eligibility is intended just for the coordinators of the EPF program, and not the participating fellows. extending membership to them (as has been suggested in the past by mkalinin here and here) would require a more thoughtful consideration and oversight
• backdate his start date to the start of the EPF-related work, instead of June 2025. if the Summer of Protocols/protocol studies program was a meaningful % of time the last few years, then we can figure out what the balance is in the onboarding form