9/9
Verified Dates with Trade Finance group for Sept 29th and November 17th
Verified Dates for Social Impact October 26th
Mona has an NFT idea to present.
Will send out an invite to the group for the LDWG meeting at 1 pm. Please add items to agenda for discussion
Agenda
Intro
Timeline (Bobbi)
Get the rest of the information for teeshirts and business cards
Business Update
Update Promotional Video (Madhu)
Discuss Fund Transfer from Gofundme (w/d info) and Linux foundation (invoice)
Create an Excel worksheet with data points (Bobbi)
Technical Update
Update on Firefly code (Hardik)
NFT idea (Mona)
Next Steps ( Invoice funds for UX designer)
Next Plan
9/6
LMDWG Agenda for Giving Chain
'THE GIVING CHAIN' updates:
- PRESENTATION SCHEDULE
Oct. 26 - Hardik Gupta, Madhu Bhatia from The Giving Chain https://thegivingchain.org/index.html
ANDREA, TRADE FINANCE SIG Greetings and salutations. The LMDWG call is today at 1pm EDT. I will be verifying the date with the team, looking at the dates Wed Sept 29th at 5 pm CET (11 am EDT) and November 17th at 5 pm CET (11 am EST). September 29 puts the project within a month of completion. The November date will be perfect for a Project Wrap up and Next Steps. I will let you know after our meeting today. Thank you for this opportunity.
- Mona BLOG SO PROUD !!!
Report on FireFly CODING Report
Here’s what I did just now:
1) created a stack
2) ran it
3) it generated a web UI for each member I specified and I see dashboards on local ports
I just set up the blockchain in my local is all that happened.
It’s a good first step and happy to discuss, but of course still a lot more work to be done :)
I wanted to also share a quick setup doc I put together. I have attached it to this mail and will also post to our team page.
I have a feeling anyone that had issues setting up the cli was missing configuration of the go path.
NEXT STEPS
Test Firefly solution HARDIK
Compile all data from Project Days EXCELLENT JOB MADHU
Decide on donation distribution ALL
Update Website -BOBBI
Send out tee Shirts - Need Mona's address, and email name and Hardiks Email name..
GITHUB REPO
9/3
The team had a meeting to
- Review current PowerPoint Giving Chain 2021 September 3, 2021.pptx
- Review the Data Collection points we must collect during this weekend fundraiser
- NFT - Discussed how we are going to build an NFT of each collection.
- Discuss the FireFly and how we think it could work, we are going to work on it this weekend.
9/2
The team participated in the FireFly developers call. We will work on getting to know the code this weekend
9/1
Firefly call: Started with a description of the NFT tracking donations using the FireFly idea for the Giving Chain Project.
Hardik - Discussed the solution Mona came up with and will incorporate into the documentation.
Please document the process of our project we can document it for LMDWG documentation collection. write about it.
8/24
durhamdaniel2@gmail.com meet at the BCEMPLOY has international supply chain connections and can get delivery cost if we can come up with locations.
8/23
Hardik - PowerPoint for FridayPowerpoint for Friday PLEASE EDIT
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Firefly: Sit in on Wed. meeting and talk about presenting our stuff to firefly after Sept 2.
Technical data for Monday
Blog and Mona
8/20 See Business Track for meeting details.
8/17
Upcoming Meetings and Presentations
Topic(s) | Presenter(s) | Organization(s) | Date | Links | |
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| The Giving Chain | Hardik Gupta, Madhu Bhatia | LMDWG Mentees | October 26th | bobbi@ledgeracademy.com |
From Mona
I can create a rough draft in word in the meantime, but would need to know the platform to use their editing tools.
Of course, I would also share the rough draft and allow you guys to edit before posting anything.
I have a couple ideas I wanted to run by you guys as well from both technical and marketing perspective.
One idea: https://www.thegivingblock.com/
This platform on boards charities and accepts donations in different cryptocurrencies to that organization wallet address.
(Their team assists the nonprofits and works with them for setting up wallet, etc)
Since investors are keen on reducing their tax burden for crypto gains this might help with donations.
Here I also have a link to their contact us/book a demo page: https://www.thegivingblock.com/nonprofits
They may also help with marketing promotion since we would be on their platform, absolutely worth bringing up.
If you'd like I am also happy to assist with getting in touch with them if you guys decide this is a good direction.
Another Aside:
This is good to know from technical perspective.
I started looking at Firefly over the weekend. Firefly has IPFS (interplanetary file system) integrations.
I have passion and sufficient understanding of Web 3.0 tech since blockchain/crypto is my favorite area of tech.
The IPFS project comprises the data layer of Web 3.0. If you'd like we can highlight this fact as technical promotion/marketing promotion since Web 3.0 is an interesting topic.
Blockchain Social Impact Project + Web3.0 integrations?? Sounds nice :)
This is just all food for thought, my intentions are simply just to help as much as I can within my capacity and availability.
For me, to see others benefit from this project is the biggest reward :)
Kind Regards,
Mona
Agenda Technical Working Group The Giving Chain
Introduction
Attendee Introductions
Business Matters
Fund Raiser - Go Fund Me Page: https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-giving-chain
- Print out for Go fund Me
-Social Media Blast for Fund Raiser
-Blog for Hyperledger about project and fundraiser (Mona)
-WEB SITE Review Tee Shirt Sales
-Collect mailing addresses for tee shirt delivery to project managers: Info for Email and Business cards POSTER DESIGN
-Discuss product links
Art Show Entries
Technical matters
Sawtooth and Grid
Kaleido and FIREFLY
Other blockchains - BESU ?
Supply Chain Sig
Simba Chain
ALL OF THE ABOVE
Project Catch up
8/15
Set up Go Fund Me Page
https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-giving-chain?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet
Please share Link
8/13
Next Steps:
Monday: Tech meeting to discuss firefly solution
Friday Business meeting to discuss fundraising efforts
Presentation
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8/11
For The Presentation
Bobbi Will work on recap slides and Business slides
Madhu work on Tech slide introducing Firefly
Hardik work on slides for software as a service and firefly as a solution for our project
FORMAT
Intro
Recap of first three checkpoints
Business Update
Technical update
Art show
What Next
FIREFLY information from Nicko, 
, at 8/11 meeting. Free service you can sign up for, we will join Wednesday's Firefly call.
https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/firefly-samples
https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/firefly-cli
https://labs.hyperledger.org/firefly/gettingstarted/gettingstarted.html
Spoke Nick
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Bobbi Muscara is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Giving Chain Re-group
Time: Aug 11, 2021 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
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8/9
Sawtooth meeting introduced the idea of the Grid and running on top of Sawtooth might be our answer.
Business Track - finalize marketing materials
To Do - Work on Fridays presentation
8/6
Meeting with Sawtooth
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Next Public Meeting Friday the 13th.
8/2
Working Group Meeting
Recording:
Powerpoint for Working Group call:
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| Write Blog For Hyperledger |
| Schedule and advertise meetup event https://www.meetup.com/BlockchainCourses/events/279872258/ |
Tech. Team |
Business Team Contact / connect people with data points Order Promo Material, teeshirts, buttons, swag from hyperledger, set up a store on the webpage to sell shirts and make donations. NFT's? |
7/30
Had meeting , Cover three projects status.
Next steps,
Post meeting for two weeks. - change calendar, create meetup invite BLAST TO SOCIAL MEDIA
Have working group meeting Monday to talk about Business materials and Sawtooth
Post to sawtooth Chat rooms
Hello everyone, Just wanted to float an idea out there. This summer The Giving Chain was accepted into the Hyperledger Mentorship program and has entered into hyperledger labs. Our Giving Chain projects tracks donation on the sawtooth blockchain from donation point to recipients location. We are just starting to work on the sawtooth code to adjust it to meet out needs. We are interested in having a discussion with the sawtooth group for any and all advise. Just a heads up , we were thinking of joining your call next Friday, any chance we could get a few minutes on the agenda? Bobbi
7/28
Git hub Repo - Lab or LMDWG?
Steps
Screenshots
Presentation
Recap:
What is The Giving Chain
How Can you get involved (Crowdfunding)
Website - what on and how to navigate
Three Project updates
Checkpoint (1)
Checkpoint (2)
Checkpoint (3) Lets Chat
Business (timeline and planning steps) September 3rd, 4th, and 5th. Test run
- Technology
- Stack: Google maps API, database management systems, public-private keys (cryptography), excel
- Tracking on an instance of Sawtooth blockchain on a single node (Dev).
- Tech. _ Git hub repo
- COMMENTS QUESTIONS
7/26
The technical group met after the LMDWG call. The discussion focused on how to create the Github repository to house our work. Two choices, in LMDWG repo or directly to Labs repo. Hardik will choose and fork the saw tooth code and begin changing it to our needs.
MUST figure out how to track the donation. Digital picture, NFT, Token Which is secure?
SDK's anyone know how to build this piece off of the website www.thegivingchain.org?
7/23
Second project day presentation
Explained to folks the three projects we are undertaking.7/
7/22
GITHUB
- Github LAB
Create repository according to LAB Directions - ADD information to the Hyperledger /dev/weekly developer newsletter goes out each Friday to hundreds of Hyperledger developers. It is a collaborative effort. If you have a project release, pull request, community event, and/or relevant article you would like highlighted next week, please leave a comment for consideration on the upcoming newsletter wiki page.
BLOG
- Contributions to infrastructure
- Team Contributions Time and Talent
- Contributions to Project Day $$$
- Become Project Manager
PRESENTATION
- Intro and Recap
- Three Projects
- Next Steps
- Tech Team
- Enter Into Lab - Space for Tech Team To work
- Decide on blockchain ( can it scale as we add features?)
- Business Team
- Social Media ( advertise project)
- Presentation - for fund raising Elevator slides
- Project Managers - develop connections with Donors, Drivers and Recipients
- Web Site Team
- Tech Team
7/19
Working Group Meeting:
Agenda Working Group Meetings
Old Business
Call Ric S. from Aid Chain
Crowdfunding Links
Project Managers
Web Site
New
7/15
Ric S. from aid tech call - No show will reschedule
Crowd funding Update - Two funds created
PowerPoint Slides
Project managers
Web site Team
7/12
Wondering if a Technical meeting was held on Friday? Yes, Hardik will add notes
FRIDAYS PRESENTATION:
Opportunity for artist to represent our project at the GBA art competition (bobbi)
- Intro and Housekeeping
- GBA ART contest (GBA awards) (Bobbi)
- Go over information from first presentation
- Scalable
- Introduce the idea of everyone becoming a project manager in own community
- Examples of Impact Opp.
- Bobbi Giving Chain
- Hardik cover his project
- Go over joining community
- Teams (On hands for leading ideas on new project for project mgr. )
- Crowdfunding www.tgc.com 2 ways 1. corporate 2. General fund
- Encourage open communication on a social need in the participants community . If comfortable present a few slides on your idea.
BENEFITS - Social Medias that you are presenting at the next Hyperledger project meeting, LINKEDIN and BUSINES CARD - Project Manager Hyperledger Giving Chain
BENEFITS of joining a project as a team mate - Develop Business and Technical Teams (name and assignments)
Week 1: Impact Opportunity
- Define Project and team members.
- Select your challenge requirements.
- Define the scope of problem you are addressing.
- Why is blockchain needed to solve this problem?
- What is the size of the market? What demographics will you serve? Which industries will you impact? Any concurrent trends?
- What are some current solutions to the problem you identified? Do they work effectively?
- Who are the stakeholders involved? How are they thinking/feeling/acting currently?
- What are the geopolitical, cultural-social-economic factors that must be taken into consideration? What are some nuances and complexities that must be addressed?
End of Week Presentation
*** FYI
Sponsorship Opportunities Available in the Sponsorship Brochure
A Call for Entries
The GBA will be hosting a digital (online) Art Show during Government Blockchain Week, Sept 27- Oct 2, 2021
‘What I Hope to See Blockchain Achieve in My Lifetime’
Do you have ideas of flying delivery robots, smart sneakers, programmable flowers, or trips into space? Why not express them in an artistic way and submit your image?
This show is not just for conventional artists. Blockchain innovators have ideas that need to be expressed beyond words. Draw, paint, AI-generate, sodder, or build your ideas for all to see. A digital image of your work will be viewed by hundreds of leaders from around the world, and all attendees to Government Blockchain Week will be able to vote on the winners. Cash prizes for Best In Show, Second Place, and Third Place will be awarded from the stage of the US Capitol on Friday, October 1, 2021.
Submissions will be judged on 5 categories:
1) Creativity/Originality. How insightful and innovative is this idea?
2) Practicality. Could this idea work? Is it even remotely possible?
3) Helpful/ Humanity. Does this idea help anyone? Who? How?
4) Involvement. Is the artist involved in the deployment of this project? How? To what extent?
5) Visual appeal. How pleasing is the image to behold?
Please describe in the entry form how your art answers numbers 3 and 4.
This art show has a dual purpose. We hope to utilize a blockchain voting app, built by the GBA Voting Working Group, to allow all participants of Government Blockchain Week to judge the show. Winners will be chosen from each of the categories, and each of the 5 winners will receive recognition and an award from the stage on October 1 at the US Capitol. We are in process of creating NFTs out of selected pieces that will be for sale at this event. Artists will receive 75 percent of any NFT sales of their work. You do not want to miss out! The Government Blockchain Week will be attended by hundreds of blockchain innovators and government policymakers who will vote on your work. All artwork in this show will be printed into a brochure with the artist’s name, contact information, and a paragraph about their piece. Additionally, the entire show will be posted digitally for our members around the globe to see.
The call for entries is open now and we will be taking submissions until August 15, 2021. Artists will be contacted by end of August whether or not they have made the show.
Contestants do not need to be GBA Members to submit, nor do they need to be present to win. This contest is open to anyone.
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
-Pablo Picasso
The cost of submission is $10 for GBA members and $20 for nonmembers per entry.
Artists-Be sure to check out the Annual Achievement Awards. Do you know someone who qualifies?
7/8
Creating a slide for Bemploy event to promote the giving chain (bobbi) COMPLETED
Created a page on the wiki for Social Impact Projects (bobbi)COMPLETED
Prepare presentation for Friday afternoon technical giving chain meeting. (Hardik)
Topics:
Promote Giving Chain Technical meeting (both)
Sent Jim Sullivan an email
7/6
Set meeting for 9am EDT
Cancel Monday Mentorship meeting and rescheduling for Tuesday
- Need to make sure Zoom room works the day before ( people had trouble entering room password wasn't published properly) Hardik and Bobbi test zoom room before we send out link.
- Create new presentation for this week mostly recapping 7/2 and creating teams (Business / Technical )based on sign up sheet.
- Make sure to take ten minutes for lab exercises: social media postings and help folks who need to enter information. Bobbi - research a social need
- Discussion on checkpoint questions , have a slide with each question from checkpoint 1 and our answers ( discuss tomorrow) and encourage folks for input. Encourage folks to create a small presentation to discuss a social impact idea for next weeks sessions.
Send out invites to Friday by Wednesday
- Hyperledger
- Meetup
- Social Media
Website discussion.
7/2
First meeting, problem with Zoom room
Well attended.
Recording:
, 7/1
Meeting to discuss powerpoint for presentation tomorrow.
End goal: get everyone on call to add name to wiki page and talent.
Send off with thought how Giving Chain can work this time
Cover:
What happened ( 2019 Giving Chain)
Where We are now ( starting with new goals and resources)
Forecast
6/28
Discuss meeting: suggested time from survey is 12 noon fridays. To Do: Bobbi sent a rocket chat message to Ry Jones to set this meeting up.
Survey : 2 developer have an interest
Presentation: Hardik will get a presentation together and we will review Wednesday Bobbi to set meeting.
Website - set up so other have edit access.
Donations - start discussion on funding, how much support from hyperledger?
QUESTION: DO WE HAVE A GITHUB REPO?
HAVE ALL FOLK ENDORSE ON SOCIAL MEDIA !!!
6/23
Check to make sure test form was received. Send welcome email and survey. Blast survey to events and social media accounts
Web site ideas _ basic format and information
Set Up Framework for project work.
Weekly checkpoints
Weekly checkpoints are meant to guide you to think through your own solution prototype, stay on track, and ultimately formulate your own Blockchain / White Paper / Projects.
Each week is designed to address a particular set of questions.
Week 1: Impact Opportunity
- Define Project and team members.
- Select your challenge requirements.
- Define the scope of problem you are addressing.
- Why is blockchain needed to solve this problem?
- What is the size of the market? What demographics will you serve? Which industries will you impact? Any concurrent trends?
- What are some current solutions to the problem you identified? Do they work effectively?
- Who are the stakeholders involved? How are they thinking/feeling/acting currently?
- What are the geopolitical, cultural-social-economic factors that must be taken into consideration? What are some nuances and complexities that must be addressed?
End of Week Presentation
Week 2: Business Model Validation
- Who are your clients/users? Sketch out the persona of your user.
- What are their pain points? How does your solution solve them? Indicate your unique value proposition.
- Does your solution depend on context? Can it be scaled?
- What is your go-to-market strategy? Who can you partner with?
- How will your product generate revenue / benefit ? Will it be financially sustainable in the long-term?
- What are the implicit and explicit assumptions being made in your business and financial model (user-profiles, partnerships, costs, etc.)? How do you plan on validating them?
- What is the vision for your product? Can it significantly change the current state?
End of Week Presentation
Week 3: Technical Architecture
- Define the technical specifications of your system's architecture. Include a description of system requirements, processes, business logic, technology stack, user flows, attack factors and any other technical specifications. Attach some visuals as bonus.
- Define your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) testing approach.
- Marketing Tests: Landing Page, Explainer Video, Ad Campaign, A/B Tests, Crowdfunding
- Product Tests: Sketches, Wireframes, Mockups, Interactive, Prototype, Wizard of Oz, Concierge, Live Product
- Outline a development roadmap with a realistic timeline that takes into account your product vision, market readiness, team capabilities, functional upgrades and testing plans. What are your goals for each phase? How will your product evolve? Will you integrate other technologies?
End of Week Presentation
Week 4: Impact Measurement
- What is the impact goal of your solution? How do you ensure to capture needs of those who are traditionally underserved within your category?
- What are the key indicators that capture your impact goal? Are they compatible with globally recognized standards (e.g. IRIS, SROI, PPI)? Do you have impact measures to add to create a more equal and inclusive solution?
- What variables and data points do you need to collect? What are the tools and processes to collect those data? What are some obstacles you may face on the ground? Infrastructure issues, measurement techniquest, etc.
- How do you collect feedback? How do you improve your measurement?
End of Week Presentation
Week 5: Code
- Prototype your solution in some manner. Examples include:
- Working code
- Analog prototype / Mock-ups
- Tech Stack and Wireframes
- Create blockchain and implement.
End of Week Presentation
Week 6: Final Submissions Due
- Integrate information into a White Paper, , White Paper is your chance to incorporate new information after your submissions of weekly checkpoints.
- Prepare a 5-min video demo that includes the following:
- A description of your early stage idea: The challenge of your choice and the overview of your solution.
- An explanation of your business model: How does your solution create value and be financially sustainable?
- Prototype / Proof-of-concept: A minimum viable product that captures how your product functions.
- Timeline for sustained development: A plan for project's growth beyond the scope of the incubator.
- Bonus: Include how you addressed increasing Diversity and Inclusion. How did this goal impact your team, the product, the research methods, the target groups and any other way you came up with. (To qualify for The One World Award you also need to submit a 2 pager. see above)
6/21
Link for : https://medius.studios.ms/Embed/video-nc/d7dc4c4d-b7fa-450a-b1ad-307060975865?r=857072506436
Hardik: Finish up survey and send out to list, and Hyperledger Chat rooms (LMDWG, Meetup and General) - https://forms.gle/SpBZCPaLAFjsFcGZ7
Re-do survey for a quick social media campaign (Linkedin telegram and Twitter)
Web Site : Have copy of Survey for folks who just find us through the site.
Re visit design of www.thegivingchain.org
New theme and graphics, and content.
6/16
https://nonprofits.tsi.microsoft.com/Thank-You-Volunteer-Management-Public-Preview-Application-Form/?recipientid=3a959001-bece-eb11-ba5e-00155dd3b166
Joined for preview
6/14
Next steps:
- Web page design www.thegivingchain.org
- Microsoft for Social Impact call Wednesday.
Discussion during LMDWG call:
- Complete Survey, gather more emails, and contact Jim S . for his comment for Welcome letter
- Set up Mentorship Check in calls 1pm edt every other Monday (begin 6/21)
Response
Bobbi
Added emails from older project for welcome letter and survey. Do you think we should send just the survey with a short blurb about the project ( maybe link to website if ready) to meetup groups and linkedin connections to see in there is an interest from folks outside Hyperledger in joining?
Emailed Jim for information for Welcome letter
Reviewed Survey: looks great, Do you think we should ask where they see themselves contributing to get folk hooked into project or is it too soon?
Hardik
https://forms.gle/HvxtPzrvvnBp19iF7 Take a look, What else should I add? Or are there are any specific changes that you may like. .
6/7 Email Thread
Hardik, I have a few suggestions on your recent email.
- I'm planning on creating a page under https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/LMDWG/Mentorship+Programs where I will keep all the notes and the achievements that we have made towards the goals.
- I created a page under the LMDWG where we can keep the project information, lets keep the mentorship program section about your work, assessment and project goals.
- https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/LMDWG/The+Giving+Chain+2021
- For the mailing list, I will ask around my friend circle to see if I can get a few people to join us. Also, shall I ask other mentees too? What do you think?
- I think for our welcome email you should get as many names as possible, go through the page for the mentee emails and the old project information for prior members email and please add them to the wiki page https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/LMDWG/The+Giving+Chain+2021
- I totally under the importance of the invitation email, I will try my level best to create a compelling email body. Will be ready by our next project call!
- I have started the welcome email and put my work on the letter on the wiki, Jim and Hardik please edit and fill in what you want to say to potential members to inspire them to get involved. We can go over it at the next LMDWG call and then send it to everyone on our email list.
- For the form, I have a suggestion. I think that giving choices for the meeting time would be much better than asking the group for their best time. It will create less confusion. For example
- Hardik that is exactly the way we need to whittle down to get the most convenient time for everyone. I started a Google Doc for us to edit. Jim, please edit for information you think will be relevant to have from potential team members.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1J1DBvB-oXhugVDflI3QC77ggDhqFn2pLbOXQHy2CCvg/edit
and Hardik please work on the overall form and relevant information you would want from the team. We will review at the next LMDWG call.
- I can also make it such that we will be asking for their best time. So which one do you prefer? Also what more points do you think we should include. Name, time zone, best meeting time, meeting preference weekly or bi-weekly are what I can think now.
- The more idea we have the better, ask more questions.
Jim, so glad we will be working together on help Hardik and team get the Giving Chain operational, please email questions and put edits on the wiki. Talk soon,
Bobbi
