How to Get involved

Sign-in and Sign-up

Here are some recommendations to help you get started:

Learn about the Supply Chain and Trade Finance SIG

  • Review the SIG Scope to learn about the SC&TF SIG mission, objectives, and scope of work.
  • Review meeting notes and listen to recordings of past SC&TF SIG Meetings to familiarize yourself with key areas of focus and current work.

Introduce Yourself

Contribute as a Non-Technical Member

You can do a lot to help move us forward even if you're not a coder!  We need your help, so post to the mailing list and tell us what you're working on and how we could work together.

As a non-technical member you can:

  • Share subject matter expertise from your field.
  • Organize a speaker to present at a SC&TF SIG meeting.
  • Conduct Research on how our work could make an impact.
  • Propose an idea to our Planning and Suggestions page.
  • Start a project.
  • Talk about this project on your blog or social media.  
  • Share relevant news and events to the current Weekly News Digest page.

For example, if you have an idea that could improve supply chain and trade finance management:

  • Write up your idea.  Get inspirations from our Planning and Suggestions page.
  • Take a look at what has already been shared.  Could you use some of the pieces for your idea?
  • Write the mailing list and tell us your idea or add your idea to the list on the Planning and Suggestions page.  
  • Recruit developers to help build your idea. 

Contribute as a Technical Member / Developer

If you're a developer, welcome! Here's your chance to create code that has an impact on supply chains and trade finance.

As a technical member/developer you can: 

  • Add to the test coverage
  • Implement fully designed modules.
  • Call out need for specific requirements on the mailing list.
  • Build apps based on our project.  It's open source!  

If you are a developer and new to blockchain, start by:

If you are an experienced blockchain developer:

  • Create a Hyperledger Supply Chain and Trade Finance repository on Github. (See here for how to propose a new lab.)
  • Check out the code at our (to be created) Github repository.
  • Post relevant code to our repository.
  • Get it up and running.
  • Think you can improve the code? Yes you can! (For example, how about:)
  • Improve documentation.
  • Propose a new feature or enhancement.
  • Talk about this project on your blog or social media.
  • Champion a new project! Choose a project from our Planning and Suggestions page or create your own. Visit Hyperledger Labs to learn how to get started.

Code of Conduct

Please take a moment to review the Hyperledger Code of Conduct before participating and please follow it in all your interactions with the project.