Q1 2022 Quarterly report

Owned by Erik Valiquette
Jan 13, 2022
2 min read

Supply Chain-SIG Overall Health

The Supply Chain SIG is healthy and continue to build the community. It especially helped to get our regular sessions out on YouTube to increase awareness. Our continued goal is to bring value to Hyperledger and to the community. 2021 was a transition year with Tom Klein taking over from Marco and Erik Valiquette joining the team as co-chair. Participation continues but growth was stagnant in the last 6 months with limited growth and limited deliverables. These two will be our area of focus for 2022.

Issues and Challenges

  • Our mailing list is still hovering around 300 subscribers. The mailing list is being under-used and will be part of our growth plan for 2022
  • Limited zoom call attendance is still an issue. Our plan is to continue having calls every 2 weeks and also include calls in Asia time zones.
  • We are getting a few new individuals to participate but would like to see more enterprise participation.

Overall Activity in the last 6 months

  • Host Biweekly zoom meetings. The first five months had speakers on various supply chain related topics.  Since June we've moved to alternating a speaker and a working session.
  • Still getting 1-3 people joining the subscription list each week, with a 2-3 departures a month.
  • Started two small project teams to start establishing our value. 
    • Use Cases small project was completed in October. Surveys we sent through various channels (HL Newsletter, LinkedIn Pages, personal networks) with less than stellar response rates. Based on almost non-existent responses from there community, it was decided to extract information from past presentation to see if we could issue some basic information in the form of graphics.
    • RFQ template/questions: Still ongoing with work by a graduate student, Nicolo Sardelli, at LIUC in Italy leading. There have been two rounds of examples with a plan to finalize in 1Q22.
  • Discussions to merge Supply Chain and Trade Finance SIGs complete. SIGs will merge as of January 2022. Ongoing discussions around logistics.

Planned Work Products

  • Cross-SIG project on a carbon-emissions tracking ledger for supply chain being discussed with the Climate Action & Accounting SIG.
  • Hyperledger Challenge support and mentorship. Erik is on the organizing committee.
  • Refreshing the Supply Chain SIG wiki page to make it more engaging.
  • Looking to facilitate roundtables or workshops with deliverables.

Participant Diversity

  • Still needs work across all dimensions. Based on observations, our biggest gaps are 
    • Women/POC - ongoing
    • Getting different geographies involved
    • Technical skills – making some progress
    • Folks from enterprises. We feel we need to focus on this
  • We are open to ideas from the Hyperledger team on how to continue evolving.

Additional Information 

Thanks to Daniela and David for participating more actively in our group over the last 6 months. We believe the SIG can and will bring value to the Hyperledger community and that supply chain is a timely topic that can be used to bring together several other important topics around a common table. We are going to use the United Nation’s Sustainable Developments Goals as a template for further discussion with other SIGs and projects.