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Feb 08
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Project Services Update: Ensuring Hyperledger Projects and Labs have Access to the Tools and Services They Need to Grow

By Ry Jones and David Boswell, Community Architects Blog, Hyperledger Foundation Staff Corner

The Hyperledger Foundation offers a strong backbone of services and tools to open source projects in the blockchain ecosystem. These are built to sustain projects’ needs for growth and adoption and extend beyond just code management and technical decisions. When developers start a new project or a new lab at the Hyperledger Foundation, we want to make sure that they will be successful and regularly improving the tools and services they have access to is a big part of that. 

Like many enterprise open source communities, over the years Hyperledger Foundation staff has worked with project maintainers and the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) to assess tools and services and make them available to the community.  These project services are regularly reviewed and updated as community requirements change and projects mature.

Just as open source development continues to evolve, so too do the many tools used to support the projects.  For example, over 20 years ago in the early years of open source, launching a project might have included setting up an IRC server for chat, putting the code on a CVS server and setting up Bugzilla to track bugs and issues  Developer tools improve rapidly, and communities use a whole new set of tools today.  We need to keep adapting as things evolve to serve our projects. We did this last year when the Chat Task Force reviewed the chat tool we were using at the time and they recommended a move to Discord to provide a better experience to community members.

We’ve started this year by reviewing the available tools and services and seeing where we need  to bring in something better or add something new. This post will explain the recent changes we’ve been making.

Recommended List of Developer Tools

We’ve created a new page on the Hyperledger wiki that documents all of the tools that are available. This page breaks the available options down into a set of categories to help developers and maintainers make decisions about what tools to use. This includes a recommended set of tools to use for documentation, continuous integration, artifact storage, communication and issue tracking. In the past, this information hasn’t been as clear as it could be and we want to save people the time of evaluating a range of tools on their own when we have done that work and can offer our guidance.

There are tools we offer beyond the recommended tools that are available to address other specific needs. To help give guidance for all tools, we’ve clearly documented which tools we plan to provide on a long-term basis as well as those we may not be able to support past the short term for a variety of factors. We also specify tools we currently offer while we work to  move projects to better tools as well as tools we used to provide but no longer do. 

The set of legacy tools in the community reflect that Hyperledger was founded in 2015 and many of the tools we’ve relied on in the past now have better alternatives. For one example, we have been using Azure Pipelines but anticipate it will be replaced by Github Actions in the near future.

Additional Resources for Documentation and Translation

Documentation is critical to the health and success of open source projects. However, this is an area that can get overlooked when talking about tools and services since the focus is often on how to help developers create the code instead of document it. We’ve been looking at ways to help get more documentation activity happening in the community and have some ideas we are going to try this year.

Our annual Mentorship program is a prime opportunity to bring more people into the community to work on documentation for projects and labs. Last year a mentee helped develop documentation for Hyperledger Cacti that was delivered in the Blockchain Interoperability with Hyperledger Cacti workshop in November.  Based on the success of that project, we are reserving several spots in the 2023 program for documentation related efforts. If you are involved in a project or lab and would like to work with a mentee who can help you improve existing docs or add new docs, then consider signing up as a mentor. The call for projects and mentors is underway.

Translating documentation into other languages is also a key part of making this information available to everyone who wants to use or learn about a project. Only around 20% of the world’s population speaks English so, if we provide our content only in English, it dramatically limits who is able to get involved with using or contributing. We have had some success with community members translating content, such as Hyperledger Fabric documentation, into other languages. In the process, we learned that we could benefit from tools that are specifically focused on helping people with their translations.  We are looking into other options this year and welcome feedback about what people would recommend or find useful.

Exploring Other Changes Around Accessibility and Security

Later this year we’ll also be looking into ways to provide more services around security and accessibility. On the list: ways to improve the existing process for running security audits, expand the bug bounty program to more projects and help for rolling out security best practices. We also want to make sure that as many people as possible can use our tools and are not running into barriers, so we plan to conduct an accessibility audit. The audit will help us identify areas where we can make improvements that enable more people to take part in the community.

If you have questions about any of this or would like to suggest additional tools and services for us to take a look at, feel free to reach out.  And, if you’re a maintainer of a project or lab and would like to talk more about how to get help using any of this for the development you’re doing, let us know. You can reach out to us at community-architects at hyperledger dot org.

Oct 14
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Staff Corner: Thanking community members for their contributions

By Ry Jones and David Boswell, Community Architects Blog, Hyperledger Foundation Staff Corner, Hyperledger Global Forum

Our community is strong and growing thanks to hundreds of community leaders around the world. We recently got back from Hyperledger Global Forum 2022 in Dublin where the strength of our community was displayed in force. While we were there, we had the opportunity to recognize our community members in a number of fun (and hopefully meaningful) ways. 

This year, on the main stage, we announced the winners of our annual Community Recognition Awards:

This year’s honorees were:

  • Daniel Szegö, DLT Advisor, CBDC Think Tank Budapest – Recognised for hosting the most meetups of any organizer this year and doing events in three languages, In addition, he also actively brings community members together around Hyperledger Fabric and Kubernetes projects
  • Josh Kneubuhl, IBM Research, IBM – Recognized for his cross project and lab collaboration with the Hyperledger Fabric community.
  • Arun S M, Staff Software Engineer, Walmart Global Tech India – Recognized for his active role in welcoming new community members on Discord and as one of the leaders of the Hyperledger India Chapter.
  • Char Howland, Software Engineer, Indicio – Recognized for her active role in the Hyperledger Aries/Identity community, including running the identity implementers calls and welcoming new members to that growing community.
  • Nicko Guyer, Senior Full Stack Engineer, Kaleido – Recognized for being very active on Discord and Github and very good at onboarding new people into the Hyperledger FireFly community.
  • Andrew Whitehead, Senior Software Architect, Portage CyberTech – Recognized for being an active Hyperledger Aries contributor who helps with onboarding new people and does a lot of work on security.
  • Antoine Toulme, Senior Engineering Manager, Splunk – Recognized for being extremely responsive on the Hyperledger Besu channels as well as contributing workshops and more.
  • Marcos Sarres, Director Executivo, GoLedger – Recognized as a co-lead our Hyperledger Brazil Chapter and organizer of many very well received meetups for the community this year.
  • Vipin Bharathan, Principal Consultant, dlt.nyc – Recognized for running the Identity WG, serving as the Chair of our Financial Services SIG and doing so much to welcome others into our community.
  • Peter Somogyvari, Software Product Architecture Manager, Accenture – Recognized for always making the time to onboard and help new community members, taking on multiple mentees through our mentorship program and so much more.


Hyperledger Foundation Executive Governing Board Chair David Treat, Executive  Director Daniela Barbosa and Senior Director of Community Architects David Boswell join Community Recognition Awards recipients Marcos Sarres of GoLedger, Arun S M of Walmart Global Tech India, Vipin Bharathan of dlt.nyc, Nicko Guyer of Kaleido and Josh Kneubuhl of IBM  on stage at Hyperledger Global Forum 2022 in Dublin.


Daniela Barbosa presents Community Recognition Awards to Accenute’s Peter Somogyvari and Splunk’s Antoine Toulme

Throughout the event, we were also handing out small pieces of swag to thank the community members who were there. Taking the time to travel to the event and spend multiple days meeting and talking with others is an important contribution attendees were making to the health of the Hyperledger community. We wanted to recognize them for their time, effort and commitment.

One of the items we were giving out were Hyperledger coins that said “Community Code Collaboration Contribution” on the back and had 2022 on the front. Since the event this year was being held in Dublin, we designed the coins to have the two color look of a 2 euro coin.

We started making coins to thank community members – an idea long championed by our current TOC Chair, Tracy Kuhrt – in 2021. People seemed to like them so we wanted to do it again this year. It also seems fun to have an ongoing series of coins that change each year that people can collect to show how long they’ve been active in the community. We don’t know what a 2023 coin would look like yet, so feel free to send us suggestions.

For special occasions, we’ve also engraved the coins for some of the technical leaders in the community. Check out this video of a coin being engraved by a laser for Danno Ferrin, our TOC Vice Chair:

There are many other ways to recognize people for the contributions they make – one of Ry’s personal favorites is a comment in the NTPd source code. At the Hyperledger Foundation, we’ve also issued badges, given poker chips for events and other contributions, published Developer Showcase blog posts and have made stickers and shirts.

Different ways to recognize people will be relevant for different people. Some people may want a coin or shirt and others may not. We’re interested to hear what sort of recognition is important to you so we can make sure what we do is meaningful. Please send us your thoughts (email community-architects@hyperledger.org). And, if you’d like to earn a coin, a token, a badge or anything else, get involved in the community, and we’ll be happy to thank you for your contributions.

Aug 09
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The Hyperledger Global Forum Community Fair: Where to connect with people who share your interests

By David Boswell, Senior Director, Community Architect, Hyperledger Foundation Blog, Hyperledger Global Forum, Regional Chapter, Special Interest Group, Working Group

It has been over two years since we had a chance to get together in person and connect with Hyperledger community members from all over the world. Since Hyperledger Global Forum 2020, there have been hundreds of opportunities to meet online in calls and during virtual events, but those virtual interactions are just not the same as connecting with someone in real life.

The “hallway track” of a conference – the time in between sessions and other parts of the formal schedule where you walk around and meet new people and reconnect with friends and colleagues – is often people’s favorite part of an event. This informal opportunity to engage is what has been so hard to reproduce virtually (the Zoom breakout rooms, 2D and 3D online spaces and other attempts were worth trying but just aren’t as effective) so we are really looking forward to this part of Hyperledger Global Forum (HGF) this year.

To help people connect at HGF (#HyperledgerForum), we’re trying something that has been used in community events that Mozilla has run in the past. These community events were helpful in bringing people with similar interests together. For instance, you may be really interested in what is happening with blockchain in the telecom industry or you may want to speak in Spanish to someone about what is going on with deployments in Latin America, but you don’t know who to speak with as you’re walking around the event.

In order to help you find the right people to connect with, we’ll be setting up a Community Fair in the Expo Hall. The Fair will have a series of table tops manned by people from different parts of the community who are interested in meeting and talking with you. This will include people from our Special Interest Groups who are implementing Hyperledger projects in a range of different industries, people from our Regional Communities who are traveling in from all over the world, and people from our Working Groups who are exploring technical questions about distributed ledgers.

The goal of HGF is to create an event where community members from around the world can meet, align, plan and hack together in person. The sessions, workshops and other parts of the formal agenda will be very useful to help you do just that. We hope that the Community Fair will be another great addition to the formal part of the agenda.

Groups planning to participate in the Community Fair:

Regional Chapters

  • Brazil Chapter
  • India Chapter
  • Latinoamerica Chapter
  • Japan Chapter

Special Interest Groups

  • Climate Action and Accounting SIG
  • Telecom SIG
  • Financial Markets SIG
  • Media and Entertainment SIG

Working Groups

  • Learning Materials Development WG
  • Performance and Scale WG
  • Identity WG

Community Events

  • Hyperledger Challenge winner

Registration details for HGF are here. We hope you’ll join us and make the most of the Community Fair. Its goal is to make it easier for our community members to make valuable connections and find people and resources that align with their interests and needs, regardless of where they are in their enterprise blockchain journey.

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