Maintainer Days October 21-22, 2024

Owned by David Boswell
Last updated: Oct 03, 2024 by Roger Brogan
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  • When and Where: Monday, Oct 21 and Tuesday, Oct 22, 2024 in San Francisco in the Salesforce Tower (Room details will be added soon.)
  • 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 If there are MAINTAINERS.md files that are incomplete or out of date you may not be included in our list of maintainers.

Register

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

TimeTopic
9:00 - 9:30 AM

Welcome and introductions

9:30 - 10:00 AM

Pair up with another maintainer and learn how to submit a PR to their project

10:00 AM - 12:00 Noon

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@hyperledger.org
  • 11:30-Noon Kaleido Team: Privacy preserving plugin
Noon - 1:00 PMLunch
1:00 - 2:00 PMCommunity building and available resources we offer to maintainers (David Boswell and Sean Bohan)
2:00 - 3:00 PM

Infrastructure tools and how to maximize your project’s infrastructure (Ry Jones)

What questions do you have about community infrastructure?

  • More information about documentation – Material for MkDocs - Documentation Template
  • More on Github Actions and new Github features people may not be aware of
  • How to set up a scorecard
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

Evening

Happy hour – location TBD

Day Two, Tuesday, Oct 22

TimeTopic
9:00 - 9:30 AM

Re-welcome and introductions for any new attendees

9:30 AM - 12:00 Noon

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@hyperledger.org
  • 10:00 - 10:30 am : Interoperability Deep Dive
  • 11:30-Noon Kaleido Team: What's New in FireFly
Noon to 1:00 PMLunch
1:00 - 2:00 PM

Project lightning talks (tell people about your project in under 5 minutes)

  • Hyperledger Cacti – Peter Somogyvari
  • Hyperledger Iroha – Dmitri Venger
  • 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@hyperledger.org
2:00 - 3:00 PM

Cross-project collaboration discussion (Tracy? Hart?) and ecosystem mapping (Arun?)

3:00 - 3:30 PM

Break

3:30 - 4:00 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? 

4:00 - 5:00 PM

Closing and wrap up (Tracy)

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

  • Add suggestion here...

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.