Learning Tokens for Hyperledger Community Building
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Description
project scope
Employ Learning Tokens to register and certify attendance, learning scores, and engagement in Hyperledger Special Interest and Working Groups, Virtual Meetups and Workshops, Webinars of local Meetups, or Regional Chapters.
Document this experience for application in a future phase to Hyperledger projects use, collaboration, and maintenance.
overall objectives
To reflect everyone’s engagement with proof of collaboration at every event.
To gather such proofs in skill wallets of expertise.
To match expertise profiles with the market demands for talent.
To provide KPIs for data-driven decision-making.
problem/opportunity in need of effort
Open-source projects thrive in communities with transparent collaboration, active engagement, and shared knowledge. Formal courses and community events are vital for such purposes.However, although courses certify competencies, they lack a granular registry of skill acquisition, and community events, for the time being, have neither granular recognition of engagement nor formal proof of collaboration.
probable implementation path to explore and fix the problem
Learning Tokens provide a much-needed currency of expertise to represent the granularity of skill acquisition with an open-source mechanism that uses the composable Token Taxonomy Framework (TTF) of the InterWork Alliance Initiative (IWA) of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) to recognize, register, and certify skills acquisition and competencies while rewarding community engagement in collective learning.
Learning Tokens result of the Hyperledger Mentorship Program 2023, expands on the 2022 mentorship, and continues the work at the Hyperledger Lab with the same name.
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Learning Tokens are digital measurements of granular assessment: Attendance Token represents the value of being present, and Score Token for Learners represents the value of acquiring a unit of competency. Help Tokens for Learners represent the value of engagement in collaborative support, and Score Tokens for Instructors represent the value of their teaching performance.
Learning Tokens register Institution, Instructor, Course, and Learners. Its metadata records fields of knowledge and taxonomy of skills. (Look at README https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/learning-tokens)
The three main components of Learning Tokens are Oracles, a Registry of Trust, and Skill Wallets.
Scoring Guides are the oracle to assign tokens to learners.
A Registry of Trust supports the lifecycle and impact of tokens.
A Skill Wallet holds the tokens that certify a skill profile.
We shall provide a template that Chairs of SIGs, WGs, or Coordinators of Virtual Meetups of Workshops, Regional Chapters, and local Meetups could use to define their different scoring guides and the metadata of the tokens for their events.
API integration with third-party services, Meetup, Zoom, and YouTube, shall provide the engagement data for creating and transferring Learning Tokens according to Scoring Guides.
Learning Objectives
Appreciate the relevance of community building for the open-source culture by interacting with all groups of Hyperledger.
Understand the importance of employing granular units of competency for planning, conducting, measuring, and evaluating learning processes.
Apply a research orientation and problem-solving capacity to generate multiple solutions.
Grasp fundamentals of DLT, programming tools, data structures, personal privacy and governance principles.
Use API integration of smart contracts.
Expected Outcome and Deliverables
Introduction, early June
First Webinar to present the Learning Tokens methodology to stakeholders, Chairs, and Coordinators of SIGs, WGs, Regional Chapters, Virtual Meetups, and Workshops
First Phase, Oracles, three months, June, July, and August.
Meetings with interested stakeholders to understand and document their requirements
Creation of Templates for Scoring Guides.
API integration with third-party services:
Meetup
Zoom
YouTube
Redefinition of Smart Contracts, if needed.
Second Webinar to present Oracles, Scoring Guides, andAPI integrations.
Second Phase, Registry of Trust, one month, September.
Recommendations for reliance and robustness of our source of trust
Interview with potential market stakeholders, some of them members of Hyperledger Foundation and others who have already manifested interest.
Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) with 1970 centers of learning Blockchain & DLT registered at Global Standards Mapping Initiative (GSMI 4.0)
Howest University of Applied Sciences, Bruges, Belgium
Bloxberg Initiative Hub, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Qualificalia at Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Documentation of alternatives, implications, and guidelines for Governance.
Third Webinar to present guidelines for Governance.
Third Phase, Skill Wallets, two months, October and November.
Continue consultation already started with
ID SIG and Hyperledger Community
Open Wallet Foundation
Kaleido
MIT Digital Credentials Consortium
Create HD Skill Wallets for all Learning Tokens stakeholders using Kaleido’s infrastructure.
Establish the communication between third-party services and our Learning Tokens ecosystem.
Fourth Webinar to present Skill Wallets.
Relation to Hyperledger and Impact on the community
Participants in Hyperledger Special Interest and Working Groups, Virtual Meetups and Workshops, local Meetups or Regional Chapter events would have proof of engagement and collaboration.
Recommended Skills
Problem-solving capacity to generate multiple solutions.
Oriented towards research.
Fundamental grasp of blockchain principles.
Knowledge of Hyperledger Besu.
Familiarity with Solidity programming data structures.
Ability to set up a local blockchain prototype environment using Hardhat, Solidity, and MetaMask.
Capability of API integration of smart contracts using ABI with ether.js.