2021-08-31 Meeting notes

Date

Aug 30, 2021

Attendees

@Alicia Noel
@Nancy Min
@Shawn Wilborne
Christopher Berno

Discussion

2021 SI-SIG Roadmap:
- Presentations
  - MOBI - Postponed to Sept. 28
    - Flyer is being made
    - Post to LinkedIn
    - Post to Supply Chain SIG and Climate Action SIG Mailing Lists
  - The Giving Chain - @Bobbi Muscara
  - - https://thegivingchain.org/index.html
    - Currently running a food drive for the Princeton project
    - Kickoff project in September
    - Giving Chain will come present to the SIG - Oct. 26
  - Climate Action SIG - will present Oct. 12
  - UniCoin Project - @Alicia Noel will ask @Marc Liberati if he can present an update on the UniCoin project
  - Rutgers Blockchain Group - @Alicia Noel will ask if the students can come present what they are seeing and working on.
- 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.
      - David Boswell is coordinating
    - @Alicia Noel to ask Rutgers Blockchain group if they want to be involved
- 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 postponed until Tuesday, Sept. 28.
      - 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 mid September
      - Post to LinkedIn
      - Post to Supply Chain SIG and Climate Action SIG Mailing Lists
    - 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?

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