Diversity Plan

To ensure the diversity of the Hyperledger Iroha community the current team of maintainers suggests the following plan. Following the plan is expected to lead to a bigger and more stable community for future development of the framework.

Our Vision

We see open-source community as a perfect place where anyone could feel confident that their ideas and contributions will be appreciated.

Why diversity is important

• Open-source product cannot maintain itself in a homogeneous environment;

• Best ideas and best people to do the job cannot be centralised

Goals to diversify the community

Goal 1. To create a comfortable place for contributors of different backgrounds, cultures, genders and from different fields of knowledge

• To welcome and encourage different types of contributions, not only code contributions but also translations, help with documentation and other materials, use-cases and others, so any member of the community could be appreciated for his/her unique contribution;

• To encourage more translations of documentation to make it more accessible;

• Make an incentive model clear to the contributors, explaining them under which circumstances Hyperledger can provide them with freebies

Goal 2. To diversify the vendors working on Hyperledger Iroha

• To fork Iroha for Soramitsu projects to make it more independent from the current team’s vision;

• To present Hyperledger Iroha to the leading  vendors that might be interested in developing Iroha within the community; right now we have some discussions going with our use case partners in Japan;

• Provide support in understanding Iroha and developing with it

Goal 3. To proactively reach out to diverse communities of developers interested in blockchain development.

• Work with other HL communities on different projects, such as Smart Contract WG;

• Work with universities - create workshops, use-cases for learning more about blockchain; we currently have a fruitful experience with the University of Aizu in Japan and Innopolis University, Russia, where students work on Iroha-powered projects and contribute to the docs and codebase of the project

• Contacting developers’ communities online to inform them about opportunity of contributing to Iroha and using it for their projects;

• Participate in meetups, promoting Iroha as a playground for ideas for contributors, and as a robust tool

• Start weekly calls with the community for project planning.