Consolidated Minutes - Nov & December 2019

Owned by Rajesh Krishnan
Nov 26, 2020

Local Meetups

Bangalore - Dec 15

Venue: Walmart Labs, Bangalore

Attendance: 75-80

Topics:

  • Introduction to Avalon
  • Splinter (channel concept on top of Sawtooth/Sabre)
  • Use case: Food Trust Supply chain

Take-aways/lessons:

  • Attendees knowledgeable about Fabric/Sawtooth
  • Sawtooth usability is good

Dev Forum Updates

Aires/Indy

  • Happens every 2 weeks
  • Attendance between 7-12
  • Two tracks:
    • Hands-on - development & walk-throughs
    • Concepts
  • Putting together a calendar of events for the next quarter

Sawtooth/Transact/Grid

  • Happens weekly
  • Start introducing transact and grid topics

Avalon

  • Kickstarted in Nov 19
  • Happens every other Tuesday at 8:00pm IST
  • Suggestion to follow Aires/Indy model of hands-on+concepts
  • Attendance: ~10
  • Jira etc for logging defects started. Details to be shared w/ community.

2nd National Meetup Recap and Retrospective

The 2nd National Meetup was held on Nov,15th. It featured a number of interesting technical and non-technical presentations and demos. The star event was the keynote by Brian Behlendorf himself!

We recorded an attendance of 170+ with most of the attendees connecting directly to the Zoom webinar, with the rest joining via their city meet-ups and YouTube Live feed.

Some of the observations in the retrospective were:

  • Content:
    • We need more demos
    • We need to emphasis on business / non-technical content as well, so the event will be more attractive to the business community
    • Limit the number of presentation slots to give adequate time to everyone. Set up a committee to review proposals and select the best proposals.
    • Invite contributions from China/Singapore/middle-east as well.
    • Encourage core-contributors to come and present.
    • Another suggestion was to focus on what's relevant for the Indian subcontinent.
  • Participation
    • We saw less participation this time around than the last time, when we had 200+ attendees.
    • Start marketing the event earlier
    • Engage with city meet-ups earlier and more frequently
    • Lock down agenda earlier so it becomes easier to advertise

How to keep the community engaged

  • Next Meetup in May
  • Conduct a Hackathon between now and May
  • Have a list of topics to present at weekly meetings. Need volunteers for talks.
  • Put up an agenda for weekly meetings

Hackathon Planning

The Sofocle team have offered to use their Zeeve platform to conduct the hackathon. We will set up a small committee of volunteers to plan for it. Anyone interested in volunteering for the planning is welcome to join.

Volunteers so far: Sofocle, Kamlesh, Amol, Arun, Ajay, Pankaj

Amol to start a mail thread on possible Hackathon topics. Align topics to the HL Greenhouse.

KBA Hackathon: Done in conjunction w/ Allianz. Insurance use-case, given a-priori. Teams of 3 had to make a presentation and the best teams were selected for the hackathona. HL Fabric & Corda were ledgers of choice.