Hello friends! As you may know, Sapling is scheduled to activate on Sunday. (Wondering what Sapling is, or why it matters? Check out the Zcash Company's helpful series of blog posts.)

To celebrate, the Zcash Foundation is hosting a livestream! In addition to Foundation staff, participants will include a handful of Zcash Company employees and other community members.

Date: Sunday, October 28

Sunday, October 28 Time: 4pm to 8pm Pacific Time

4pm to 8pm Pacific Time Link: YouTube (via Hangouts Live)

Since Sapling is currently expected to go live at 6:30pm Pacific Time (UTC-07:00), we scheduled the livestream to run from 4pm to 8pm PT. If we need to make radical adjustments to that time window, the new details will be posted in the forum thread and announced on Twitter.

The livestream will take place on Google Hangouts. It's not ideologically ideal, but Hangouts integrates well with YouTube… which is still the main place where people watch video content of all kinds. Also, Hangouts can accommodate a fairly large number of participants if you have a G Suite account (and the Foundation does).

Here's the link, although it won't show you much until the livestream starts.

Please, put the Sapling livestream on your calendar! We hope to chat with you on Sunday.