Hyperledger Project

Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Meeting

October 25, 2018 (7:00am - 8:00am PT)

via Zoom

TSC Members

Resources:

• Chat:  chat.hyperledger.org (use your LFID to login)

• Github:  www.github.com/hyperledger

• Wiki:  wiki.hyperledger.org/

• Public lists:  lists.hyperledger.org

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

Event Reminders

• APAC Hackfest -- week of March 4th (details coming soon)

• Schedule announced for Hyperledger Global Forum, December 12-15 (Basel, Switzerland)

Quarterly project updates

• Hyperledger Iroha update

• Update is read into the record

• Q: is there contributor churn? How is diversity?

• A: No churn, low diversity

• Dan points out there are no Iroha meetings on the Community Calendar.

• Comment: too many chat forums (Telegram, Chat, Gitter)

• Reply: bots are used to mirror contents of Telegram to Chat

• November 1st:  Hyperledger Composer update

Quarterly WG updates

• Technical WG China update

• Update is read into the record

• Comment: why a testnet?

• Reply: Need place to dogfood, or run a proof-of-contribution token as an example

• Comment: could more active Technical Ambassadors help?

• Reply: Hyperledger is trying to recruit more

• Comment: Hyperledger doesn’t fund meetups directly

• Further comment: Hyperledger does provide some assistance for food when getting started, but not space rental

• November 1st:  Training and Education WG update

Crypto-lib

• Proposal

• Q: Mic: what is the commitment from projects to incorporate crypto-lib?

• A: Hart: none

• A: Nathan: Indy wants to use ASAP

• Q: would depending on crypto-lib hurt our process of 1.0?

• A: Dan: no reason it would hurt

• A: Dan: Sawtooth is interested in adopting, is actively involved in develop to ensure Sawtooth can use it

• A: Silas: Burrow wants to use it

• A: Chris: Fabric doesn’t know. There would need to be Go bindings developed; it would be a post 2.0 item

• A: Salakhiev: Iroha: no plans, would consider in future

• Comment: the governance structure is unique

• A robust discussion follows and moved to the mailing list

Testnet discussion/proposal

• Deferred to next week