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By Silona Bonewald - the VP of Community Architecture at Hyperledger
First draft by Edmund To below
The first Hyperledger bootcamp takes place on the 7th and 8th of March, Thursday and Friday, which are two working days. If you would like to attend but will need to ask the approval from your manager, you can consider forwarding this page or to send the letter below to your manager.
The objective of the letter below is to share what Hyperledger and Linux Foundation are, why it is relevant to your organisation and industry, why we should all attend.
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Dear Sir/Madam,
We are writing to invite employees of your organisation to attend the first global Hyperledger bootcamp at Cyberport Hong Kong, on the 7th and 8th of March, Thursday and Friday organised by the Linux Foundation. The Linux Foundation is a non-profit organisation and this is free for anyone to attend this bootcamp.
The Linux Foundation hosts many of the most important open source projects in the world, including Linux Kernel (operating system), NodeJS (Programming language), Kubernetes (Container orchestration tools), etc. Hyperledger is the umbrella hosting all 12 blockchain and distributed ledger related projects and is the fastest growing project in the history of the Linux foundation. Currently there are over 300 members of Hyperledger including some of the largest technology companies, financial institutions, leading universities, central banks and regulators.
https://www.hyperledger.org/members
In the past couple of years, we have seen companies in Hong Kong exploring blockchain as a technology in different industries, including trade finance, stock settlement, supply chain, etc. See the references below. We strongly believe for Hong Kong as a city, if we want to remain competitive, we need to understand those technologies at the most fundamental level, or even better if we can contribute to those open source projects, and this bootcamp is the perfect place for everyone to start.
Many of the maintainers and contributors of Hyperledger projects globally will come to Hong Kong and spend two days working with the participants of the bootcamp and those projects include enterprise blockchain frameworks (Hyperledger Fabric / Sawtooth), digital identity project (Hyperledger Indy), blockchain security and testing tools (Hyperledger Ursa / Hyperledger Caliper). You can read all of our projects here:
https://www.hyperledger.org/projects
We understand in order for the employees of your organisation to attend this bootcamp, they might need to leave their position for 2 days. We want to take this chance to emphasise that your employees are taking very good initiative towards continuous learning and can assure you that the long term value they can bring to your organisation will be far greater than the impact of them leaving for 2 days.
We hope to see employees of your organisation at the bootcamp and you are very welcome to join us too.
Yours sincerely,
The Linux Foundation and the Hong Kong Hyperledger Community
References:
https://www.hkma.gov.hk/eng/key-information/press-releases/2018/20181031-4.shtml