When and Where: Monday, Oct 21 and Tuesday, Oct 22, 2024 in San Francisco in the Salesforce Tower, in the Accenture San Francisco Innovation Hub on the 33^rd Floor, 415 Mission Street, Suite 3300
Who: Anyone can attend as long as you are a maintainer of a Hyperledger project or lab. If you'd like to attend but aren't a maintainer yet, there is still time to get involved with an existing project or lab or to start your own project or lab and become a maintainer before the event. If you'd like help with the process for how to become a maintainer, reach out and we're happy to help.
How: Details about how to sign up will be shared soon.
- Note that we will contact maintainers about how to register, so make sure you are included in your project's or lab's MAINTAINERS.md file. If there are MAINTAINERS.md files that are incomplete or out of date you may not be included in our list of maintainers.

Resources:

Slides from some of the presentations are linked to below and there are also some photos available of the group exercises and collaboration sessions. Feel free to link to anything from the event in this wiki page or add content to the Google Drive at the link above.

Note that when you register, you'll also be registered for Hyperledger's Member Summit that is happening in San Francisco on October 23-24. All Maintainers are invited to attend that event as well to have a chance to connect with people from Hyperledger's member companies.

Schedule and Agenda

The agenda is designed to be a mix of open time to meet with other maintainers, brief presentations and interactive break-outs focused on important technical and community themes.

Day One, Monday, Oct 21

Time	Topic
9:00 - 10:00 AM	Welcome and introductions and identifying topics we want to discuss (David and Tracy)
10:00 - 11:30 AM	Open time for collaboration – If you'd like to schedule time to meet with other maintainers to discuss a topic or tackle an issue, put your topic here: Add your topic here and mention who should consider attending. You can add your topic by editing the page or leaving a comment. If you have questions about how to edit the wiki, email community-architects@lfdecentralizedtrust.org
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM	Lunch – options for lunch in the area
1:00 - 1:30 PM	New Threshold Encryption schemes with applications to Mempool Privacy and more by Guru Vamsi Policharla, PhD student, University of California, Berkeley
1:30 - 2:00 PM	Community building and available resources we offer to maintainers (David Boswell and Sean Bohan) Resources for maintainers LFDT community infrastructure
2:00 - 2:15 PM	Review of the TAC election process and encouraging you to submit your nomination by filing an issue on GitHub with your nomination statement (Ry Jones)
2:15 - 3:00 PM	Infrastructure tools and how to maximize your project’s infrastructure (Ry Jones, Arun) Infrastructure tools and how to maximize your project’s infrastructure.pdf What questions do you have about community infrastructure? More information about documentation – Material for MkDocs - Documentation Template Here is the template FireFly uses it Rendered site More on Github Actions and new Github features people may not be aware of Arun: (PR for couple of actions) How to set up a scorecard Sign and release for the secure software supply chain
3:00 - 3:30 PM	Break
3:30 - 4:30 PM	Contributions gone wrong -- what trips up people who try to contribute to your project? Let's identify issues and then figure out how to address those (David, Ry, Hart, Sean)
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Wrap-up
5:00 - 6:30 PM	Happy hour at 21st Amendment Brewery at 563 2nd St, San Francisco (We have the loft area reserved) – Ask Hart if you have any questions about how to get there

Day Two, Tuesday, Oct 22

Time	Topic
9:00 - 9:30 AM	Re-welcome and introductions for any new attendees
9:30 - 10:00 AM	Ecosystem mapping (Arun) What are the different ecosystems in the LFDT community? What are the projects and labs in each ecosystem? Example of the Fabric ecosystem doc
10:00 - 10:30 AM	Cross-project collaboration discussion (Tracy and Hart)
10:30 - 11:30 AM	Open time for collaboration – If you'd like to schedule time to meet with other maintainers to discuss a topic or tackle an issue, put your topic here: Add your topic here and mention who should consider attending. You can add your topic by editing the page or leaving a comment. If you have questions about how to edit the wiki, email community-architects@lfdecentralizedtrust.org 10:30 - 11:00 am : Interoperability Deep Dive 11:00-11:30 Kaleido Team: How collaborating with FireFly can help your project
11:30 AM to 1:00 PM	Lunch – options for lunch in the area
1:00 - 2:00 PM	Project lightning talks (tell people about your project in under 5 minutes) Hyperledger Cacti – Peter Somogyvari Hyperledger FireFly – Enrique Lacal Hyperledger Iroha – Dmitri Venger Hiero – Richard Bair Hyperledger Identus – Roberto Carvajal Cord CREDEBL - Ajay Jadhav Add your name and project here to reserve a lightning talk. You can add your topic by editing the page or leaving a comment. If you have questions about how to edit the wiki, email community-architects@lfdecentralizedtrust.org
2:00 - 3:00 PM	Open time for collaboration – If you'd like to schedule time to meet with other maintainers to discuss a topic or tackle an issue, put your topic here: 2:00 - 2:15 - Talk about your favorite library/framework: Peter Somogyvari ts-results-es => A TypeScript implementation of Rust's `Result` and `Option`. 2:15 - 2:30 - Talk about your favorite new language feature: Peter Somogyvari: Raising awareness of the new `Error.cause` parameter introduced by https://github.com/tc39/proposal-error-cause
3:00 - 3:30 PM	Break
3:30 - 4:00 AM	Regional community building and Collaborating with Chapters for community building (Deepika Karanji, co-lead of the LFDT India Chapter and Julian Gordon, VP, Asia Pacific and Middle East at LFDT) Idea for a new LFDT podcast featuring discussions with maintainers
4:00 - 4:30 PM	Improving new project onboarding -- What did you wish you knew when you started your project? What is missing today and what should be added? What are the best practices you'd like to see new projects follow? (David)
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Closing and wrap up (Tracy)
6:00 - 8:00 PM	Old Money Meets Digital Money Happy Hour at the Treasury

If you have thoughts about what you'd like to see on the agenda, please feel free to add suggestions below:

Add suggestion here...
From the first day
- Maintainer Improvements
- Contribution Ladder
- Interoperability
- Fabric
- Cacti
- Identus
- Hiero
- FireFly
- Iroha
- Bridge Building
- Licensing
- Identity
- Cord
- Substrate
- Credebl
- Privacy
- Automation
- Engagement
- Naming
- Project Mapping
- Lab Process
- Mentorship
- Events
- Tools
- Management Support and Advocating
- IIW

Making the case internally for attending the Maintainer Days

We understand that getting approval for travel is a process many people need to work on with their employers and we want to help you with those discussions. Here is some information that could be useful for you – if there is any additional information you could use, please let us know.

For people who haven't attended in person Hyperledger maintainer events in the past, these events have been very productive and generative for the attendees. For reference, you can see details of the last in person Maintainer event in 2019 and earlier Hackfests (the original name for Maintainer events) on the wiki.
The Maintainer Days will be a great chance to network with people from other organizations. If you choose to also attend the Hyperledger Member Summit later that week you'll have a chance to meet with even more people from the member organizations in the Hyperledger community.
We've organized this event to coincide with other events in the area you may also want to attend:
- Event in area before:
  - ETHGlobal San Francisco on Oct 18-20
- Events in area after:
  - Hyperledger Member Summit on Oct 23-24 (All maintainers are invited to attend this year even if they’re not from a member company)
  - TechCrunch Disrupt on Oct 28-30
Other resources
- Article: How to convince your boss to send you to a tech conference
- Sample letter: Note to your boss about a KubeCon event that could be modified for this event

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