Meeting Notes 8/12/2019

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Last updated: Aug 12, 2019
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Introductions from people on the call: 

 I. Welcome 
      Join Group https://lists.hyperledger.org/g/learning-materials-development-wg

Introduction to Learning Materials Working Group

The Learning Materials Development working group is focused on developing open source training material (licensed as specified by the Hyperledger Charter) to educate people interested in expanding their knowledge of Hyperledger and its projects. The working group will consult with other Hyperledger working groups, team members, and the project maintainers to identify training needs and develop strategies, as well as, material to address those needs.

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Introductions from people on the call:  Idowu Akinde, Saptarshi, Siva, Jim Mason, Scott Schneider 


II. EdX Update / Discussion:

  • 1. Blockchain for Business EdX Updates EDITS COMPLETED  (smile) 
  • 2 . Technical Course: each Project will have its own mini course. easier to maintain,  
    • Jim : Hard to keep the EDX course updated when the Fabric versions are moving ( 1.4.2, 2.0  ) He has some screen shots that he can share and will test out and share with us the super cool new Android 10 application to set up a Fabric instance on your phone.
  • Members from the Working Groups and Projects would own their sections .  Working Group need to determine best way to assist Edx in course ware for Hyperledger.
  • 3. GitHub issues: Need maintainer https://github.com/hyperledger/education

III. Wiki / Pages (Updates and Additions) 

Resources Page

Key Terms: Group needs to develop a glossary of terms for the community 

USE Case Template: Use case added by Jim,1. ed to organize and index use case library 2. create template that can be standard for all project. 

Development of Standards._ White paper completed, use case in progress, next graphic library for community to access.

Graphic Standards: must take PowerPoint and add to wiki as index-able color sets for documentation.

Survey

1. Learning Materials development community survey: poll community for interest, new leadership and membership involvement:

Saptarshi inquired as to who will host and what questions will be asked  , Google drives for now but to develop questions for survey we will use the wiki page.

2. Hyperledger Community: three surveys, Working Groups, Special Interest Groups and Projects need to be developed to determine 

  • What documentation has been developed
  • What documentation is needed 
  • How can the LMDWG help
    Saptarshi and Siva agreed to help develop the surveys 


 IV. Recruitment

The new survey will be sent in hopes to reengage inactive members of the group. Associations with Universities 

Objectives: Suggestions on how to increase membership.

VI. Presentations (1:30)

Summer project Technical meetup   Groups tech crew were not on the call. (sad) 

VII. Old Business:


VIII.   New Business

 IX. Close          Next meeting August 26th 2019,