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RocketChat continues to present an unneeded point of friction bringing in members from the larger Ethereum community. We are considering linking a different chat channel (Slack, Gitter) to RocketChat to assist this friction and give community members a separate entry point.
The Besu team would like the TSC to consider Besu’s active status proposal again along with this quarterly report.
- Additionally, we have another organization, WhiteBlock building on Besu. ETC has been supporting Besu generally as well as contracted WhiteBlock to add keccak256 PoW mining.

The diversity of the project has continued to grow with an additional maintainer from a new organization onboarded. We now have 4 separate organizations represented with maintainers.
We previously received feedback from the TSC to continue to demonstrate usage of Hyperledger tools, which we have done since onboarding. We are currently transitioning to GitHub issues.
Non-PegaSys contributions have been 28% of the contributions since our prior quarterly report.

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Continue to run our bi-weekly contributor calls and grow the attendance
We have been using the Hyperledger tools consistently and with general success. Onboarding onto RocketChat is still a barrier for some community members.
Team is transitioning to GitHub Issues from Jira issues.
A security audit on the Besu codebase has been in progress by Tevora. The final report is due on Friday, 3/27.

As a part of joining the Hyperledger community, the Besu team has participated in the community by:

Continuing to work on Besu’s support of Caliper, including 5 commits to date
Presented on supply chain SIG
Attended the Hyperledger Global Forum and presented several talks
Attended Hyperledger meet-up in Phoenix
Presented at Hyperledger Korea meet-up
Provided proposal on DCO process for Hyperledger
Approved to be Co-mentor with Mark Wagner on Hyperledger mentorship project to have Besu run on OpenShift
Published a couple of blogs on Hyperledger’s site:

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