2020-12-03- Weekly Meeting & Agenda

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• Every Thursday at 3:00 to 4:00 PM India Standard Time
• Zoom link: https://zoom.us/my/hyperledger.community?pwd=STZQd0xMZU9xRVVOVnpQM3JNQ2dqZz09

Agenda

If you’re new to the group, please…

• Introduce yourself  - New Member, Babu Jayaraj , Jio Platform

• New confluence space for the Hyperledger India Chapter - Hyperledger India Regional Chapter Home

• Aadhil connected with IEEE Kerala CS Chapter. Online event - https://cs.ieeekerala.org/akcssc20/
  
  • Pending: Branding confirmation
  • Next Steps? IEEE Blockchain Standard, quarterly event with IEEE chapters for college students 
  • High level plan – Aadhil
• Proposal of chair election in Hyperledger India Chapter.
• Vikram created a draft on voting and blockchain.
• 2021 Goals for Hyperledger India Chapter - Sunitha C.

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  Hyperledger 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
7. Hackathon in Q1 - High level plan , Q1 we will focus on outreach
Q2 Training/mentorships/internships
Q3 Hackathon
Q4 Hyperledger India Chapter Student Ambassador Program ??
8. Hyperledger member companies from India - David| Next week 10th Dec.
9. Review of Hyperledger India Chapter 2020 review

10. Link to the document from Vikram. -

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

Arun S M

Babu Jayaraj

Adhil Gafoor

Anant Avinashi

Ravi 

Kamlesh Nagware

Vikram Sharma

Rajesh Krishnan

Amit Sharma