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2020-11-19- Weekly Meeting & Agenda

2020-11-19- Weekly Meeting & Agenda

Nov 26, 2020

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Agenda

If you’re new to the group, please…

  • Introduce yourself  - New Member       - Amit Sharma, Jital Patel

  • Coordinating "Blockchain Tech Fest 2020" - Arun

  • TSC Meeting Update - Arun

  • New Strategy to Engage people in India Chapter - Once a week introducing different people from India.

    • Working stream action items are assigned. Leads are encouraged to follow up with the community members on a regular basis.

    • Tools for collaboration for writing a whitepaper.

  • Hyperledger Fabric 2.3 - Kamlesh

    • Ledger snapshot is introduced (organize a session on ledger checkpointing)

    • No need of systemchannel for creating an application channe

  • Toolkit for the Hyperledger protocol installation

    • Hyperledger Sawtooth

    • Hyperledger Fabric

  • Update: Aadhil with IEEE regional chapter to setup a meeting as follow-up

Action Items

  1. Consolidate/list establish companies and startups who are using Hyperledger solutions. - Kamlesh/Sunita

    1. List of Companies / Startups

    2. Reach out to the community director and get info on Hyperledger's affiliation with India

  2. Focussed meetings on Hyperledger technologies

    1. One for students. - Aadhil Gafoor

      1. Plan on helping on students

      2. Introduction to community and technology space

    2. Weekly agenda items (identify speakers)

  3. Share the information through Hyperledger India Chapter

    1. Identify content creators

    2. About hackathons, global events on the blockchain

  4. Wiki Separate Space for India chapter page/Updating India chapter page to New Space - Rajesh  LF Decentralized Trust India Regional Chapter Home

    1. Restructure the wiki space

  5. Moving Member list to a new page.  - Kamlesh

  6. Goals for 2021 - Sunitha, Arun, Kamlesh

Goals for November

  1. Whitepaper on use of blockchain for elections - Vikram

    1. Literature survey

    2. Current resources/articles

    3. Draft. – Started working.  https://blogs.gartner.com/avivah-litan/2020/11/17/blockchain-can-solve-our-voting-problems-as-long-as/

  2. Connect with students - Aadhil

    1. Tell about Hyperledger India Chapter

    2. Opportunities to contribute

    3. Internship on different projects

    4. Implementing ideas and contributing to Hyperledger Labs

  3. Collect a list of startups - Kamlesh / Sunita 

             → Membership directory page and let people update their information. Annual review of updated data.

                  "Hyperledger India Membership Directory"

Hyperledger India Membership Directory

Attendees

S. Gopinath

Jerrin Sebastian

Amit Sharma

Kamlesh Nagware

Rajesh Kirshnan

Jital Patel

Aadhil Gafoor

Ravi

Sunitha 

Vats

Vikram Sharma 

Arun S M