2019-05-28 Meeting notes

Date

May 28, 2019

Meeting Recording

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1c789jwECYF5QR_qeOZ3Oxu8t5LdhucyD

Attendees

• @Karen Ottoni (Deactivated)

• @Leila Yosef

• @Bobbi Muscara

• @Pradeep Pentakota

• @Marc Liberati

• @Andres "Dre" Bonifacio

• Lindsay Nuon, Founder Women of Color in Blockchain, startup–Set up your LFID! 

• Sahida Khatun, from Calcutta, founder of an organization Ratq Science & Tech–Set up your LFID! 

• Matt Rosen, TraceRx–Set up your LFID! 

Goals

• Introductions: Who's new to the group or call?

• Review To Do items

• Survey: Finalize and distribute

• How to create an LFID and edit the Wiki

• Debate & Discussion: Dan Middleton, Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee Chair recently brought up the topic of accessibility in our mailing list. This is an oft neglected topic and perspective and it'd be great to engage this group in a discussion around it. What your thoughts? Experience? Questions? Here are a few related articles to peruse:

  1. Blockchain Accessibility - The Importance of Digital Accessibility

  2. The Accessibility issue more people with disabilities should think about

  3. Bitcoin needs to be more accessible for the visually impaired

  4. The Secret World of Disabled Gamers

  5. Smart Cities could be lousy to live in if you have a disability

  6. Disability Rights Advocates Sue Sharks Over App Accessibility: The non-profit organization Disability Rights Advocates has filed a class action lawsuit against the NHL’s San Jose Sharks for the team’s failure to make the Sharks’ mobile app more accessible to fans with vision disabilities. Blind people typically interact with digital content via screen readers, but the Sharks’ mobile app is currently incompatible with both VoiceOver and TalkBack, the native iOS and Android screen readers, respectively, according to a DRA press release.

• Miscellaneous: Share any comments, ideas, announcements, upcoming events.

Meeting Notes

• Survey: @Bobbi Muscara has made the changes we went over in the last call. The survey is ready to be sent out.

• How to create an LFID

  • Watch quick 1.5 min video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEc4JRyaAoA)

    1. Visit https://identity.linuxfoundation.org/

    2. Select "I need to create a Linux Foundation ID"

    3. Choose username, add email and password. Do not use any of the social login links.

    4. Input your first and last name

    5. Click "create new account"

    6. Check your email and validate the account

    7. Save your username and password so you don't have to login again! Remember that your email address is not the same as your username

    Why do I need an LFID? This allows you to:

    -Browse through our mailing list history on groups.io: https://lists.hyperledger.org/g/social-impact-sig/topics

    -Edit and add content to our Social Impact SIG Wiki, while you can always view the wiki without logging in, if you want to make changes you'll need to login with your LFID username and password. Save them for both sites and you'll only log in once! Please add yourself to our Directory page, propose doing a presentation on our Community Presentations page, and use this as your own space for ideas and discussions!

• Debate & Discussion: >>moved to next call

• Miscellaneous: Share any comments, ideas, announcements, upcoming events.

  • @Pradeep Pentakota shared this event happening soon: #NASSCOM_Foundation is searching for the best #social_innovations from across India. If you think your company has a tech based innovation that can help change the social fabric of India, apply now for the #NASSCOM Social Innovation Forum 2019 at    https://nasscomfoundation.org/nsif
https://nasscomfoundation.org/nsif. Last day to apply is June 9th!

  • Matt Rosen will be at the Blockchain for Social Impact event June 10-11–anyone else? Reach out to Matt to meet in person

  • Any attending UN Blockchain for Impact event on June 4th? Please reach out to Karen and we'll see if we can meet at the end of the day.

Action items