Actions/On-going

• ACTION:  Chris Ferris to start an email vote to approve Cello for incubation.

• ACTION:  Baohua to finalize draft doc for TWGC and collect volunteers to help resource the WG.  Bring guidelines to TSC for review by early January.

• ACTION:  Todd/Brian to work to propose dates/plan for China Hackfest, in addition to coordinating Hackathon.

• ACTION:  Chris Ferris to drive forward CII Security Badge discussion

• ACTION: Todd to search availability and come back to TSC list with a plan for February Hackfest in San Francisco (add tentative dates to calendars)

• Each WG to document their purpose, objectives, and/or deliverables through a Charter that is brought back to the TSC by or before January 12th.

• Internship Program -- if you are interested in being a mentor for an intern, please let us know (this will launch sometime next year)

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Hyperledger Project

Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Meeting

December 15, 2016 (7:00am - 8:00am PT)

via GoToMeeting

TSC Members

Resources:

• Discourse:  discuss.hyperledger.org

• Github:  www.github.com/hyperledger

• Wiki:  https://wiki.hyperledger.org/

• IRC:  #hyperledger on freenode.net (has Meetbot)

• Public lists:  lists.hyperledger.org

• Slack:  https://slack.hyperledger.org/ (self-generated invites)

• Information on the TSC Members can be found at https://www.hyperledger.org/about/tsc

• Meetings:  wiki.hyperledger.org/community/calendar-public-meetings

Agenda

• Actions Item Review

• Whitepaper WG update (Hart)

• On-going/Tracking

Action Item Review

• Cello and Explorer teams to connect, review discussion with TSC (Baohua Yang)

• Talked with Pardha and Dan -- while there should and will be closer collaboration, agreed that Cello should still be an individual project.

• ACTION:  Chris Ferris to start an email vote to approve Cello for incubation.

• China Technical WG updates

• hyperledger-twg-china@... is live.  Self-subscribe at here.

• Suggest openness for meetings, lists, etc.

• No objections.

• Team has met; has been working on a doc around initial thinking/planning.

• Currently organizing a meetup in Beijing, next month will organize more meetups in other cities in China.

• ACTION:  Baohua to finalize draft doc for TWGC and suggest volunteers to help resource the WG.  Bring guidelines/volunteers to TSC for review by early January.

• Brian B:  Consensus within China ecosystem to hold a Hackathon on March 10-11 in Shanghai.  Should there be a Hackfest, as well?

• General consensus that people would attend a March Hackfest in Shanghai, securing dates as soon as possible will help with travel approvals.

• ACTION:  Todd/Brian to work to propose dates/plan for China Hackfest, in addition to coordinating Hackathon.

• CII Security Badge discussion

• ACTION:  Chris Ferris to drive forward CII Security Badge discussion

• Proposing a Feb 1-2 Hackfest in San Francisco (following CoinDesk Construct)

• While January 28-29 could serve as a backup, preference is for February 1-2

• ACTION: Todd to search availability and come back to TSC list with a plan for February Hackfest in San Francisco (add tentative dates to calendars)

Whitepaper WG Update (Hart)

• Plan is to finalize a “whitepaper skeleton” to be sent out in next week or so --  please read and give comments… then in early January, seek approval from TSC on skeleton (prevent being in endless cycle of circular changes)
  
• No objections to this plan.
  

FYI:  Next 2 TSC meetings cancelled (12/22 & 12/29).  Next TSC meeting will be January 5th.

On-going (no action, just tracking)

• Each WG to document their purpose, objectives, and/or deliverables through a Charter that is brought back to the TSC by or before January 12th.

• Internship Program -- if you are interested in being a mentor for an intern, please let us know (more details coming in early 2017)

• Overview of The Linux Foundation program https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/internships