2021-08-17 Meeting notes

Date

Aug 17, 2021

Attendees

• @Alicia Noel

• @Nancy Min

• @Bobbi Muscara

• Harsh Multani

• Christopher Berno

• @Elisabeth Green

Discussion

• The Giving Chain - @Bobbi Muscara

  • https://thegivingchain.org/index.html

  • Kickoff project in September

    • Giving Chain will come present to the SIG

  • Three current projects:

    • Giving Chain Princeton - supporting food banks

    • Giving Chain Uttarakhand - flood relief

    • Giving Chain India - menstrual hygeine

      • They are looking for a way for the project to be sustainable, not just donating items for one time use.

      • Has a GoFundMe page - https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-giving-chain?member=13229787&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer

      • Linux Crowdfunding page - https://crowdfunding.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/hyperledger-the-giving-chain

• 2021 SI-SIG Roadmap:

  • Hackathon

    • Proposing a Worldwide Hackathon

      • Replicate India Hackathon on a global scale, include Hyperledger Africa, Hyperledger India

      • Need to find a time that works for ALL of the SIGs

        • Next cross-SIG meeting is in September.

  • Blogposts

    • @Shawn Wilborne: Part 2 of the 4 part series: Hazardous materials. Call to action in the future for Hackathon/developing a Hyperledger Labs project

      • Ready for review! Feel free to comment directly:https://1drv.ms/w/s!Am3ZbGQdRa7sgY-1Igp5xO2fZHxwg_I?e=cWUjZS

      • Target date: September

    • @Bobbi Muscara 

      • Blogpost on The Giving Chain project - will share a draft this week.

        • Will include GoFundMe Link

    • @Alicia Noel Blockchain for Social Impact in Agriculture.

      • Target date: October

    • @Marc Liberati- UN Volunteers is consolidating feedback from Young UN/UniCoin project. Can put together a post of lessons learned, findings on how to optimize, incentivize care work. Possibly for fall.

    • Other suggestions?

  • Future Presentations

    • Does anyone have suggestions for future presentations?

      • Textile space??

      • Sustainable mobility

        • https://dlt.mobi/ - Tram Vo will speak at our August 31 meeting

        • https://devpost.com/software/a-fysvau

  • Launching a SI-SIG project

    • Other project suggestions?

      • The SIG could focus on the Giving Chain

      • Unicoin is looking for online volunteers

  • Community Outreach

    • Social Media (Linkedin, Twitter, etc.)

      • Start 'call to action' promotion beginning of September

      • Start promoting Mobi event in med August

      • Promote Shawn's blogpost mid to late September

      • Promote Bobbi's blogpost when it goes live

  • Desired wiki page changes

    • Organize meeting notes links on the left side of the page

    • Chris will take notes as he explores the wiki and share them

  • Other ideas?

    • World Humanitarian Day is this Thursday, August 19

      • http://green247.org/ledger.htm

Announcements

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