Eris DAQ

What does Eris do?

1.How is it's architecture different from Bitcoin, Ethereum, Scuttlebutt or Maidsafe?

2. What I can build with Eris?

3. How skilled I should be?

4. What programming languages I should know?

5. How do I connect to people using Eris to build Dapps?

6. How is it different from Ethereum?

7. Do I have to have an equivalent of Ether?