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We are considering this role because community members in different parts of the world are offering to help us in ways that we don't currently support and there are regional specific ways people can contribute to Hyperledger. We've seen this so far in China where local community members are helping work through contribution barriers faced in that region. Other regions also have barriers – to pick just one example, contributors from South America who don't speak English face a language barrier when contributing to a predominantly English-oriented project.
What activitiescan activities can regional chapters get involved with?
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- Support local events and organize regional events
- In order to scale our meetup efforts which are currently being supported by one Hyperledger staff member, we can delegate authority to Regional Leads to support meetups in an area. They would be empowered to approve new city leaders, but would send requests to remove city leaders (based on some bad behavior) upwards to Hyperledger staff. This additional bandwidth to support meetups will be critical in an effort to ensure a positive experience for all meetup attendees and for raising the expectations we set for meetup organizers.
- They would also focus on doing things across cities in their region: for example, if there are special guests in the region they can notify the city leaders there and coordinate a "tour". Or they could run other types of regional events, including boot camps, work sprints, localization drives, hackathons, etc.
- Address region-specific contribution barriers
- Tools: There are examples where tools that are used in the Hyperledger project aren't accessible or used in a region. For example, community members in China don't use Google Docs so information that is posted there is not available to them. Identifying these hurdles and working with Hyperledger staff is a very important function.
- Time zones: Many aspects of the Hyperledger community are time-specific and are not equally accessible to everyone. For instance, the TSC call happens in the middle of the night for many contributors. Regional Leads can help address this issue – some ideas have already been floated, such as nominating a rotating list of local community members to stay up late to attend an important meeting and acting as a bridge to give input in that meeting and to take notes back to the local community.
- Language: Many regions of the world do not use English and this becomes a contribution barrier. Regional Leads can work with Hyperledger staff to address this. For instance, we may decide to translate technical and marketing material into different languages so this information becomes more accessible in a region and can be placed in region-appropriate channels.
- Other contributions opportunities
- Collecting local Hyperledger use cases to highlight (in local press, presentations, etc), to share in regional chapter wiki as well as other Hyperledger outlets like Hyperledger Blockchain Showcase.
- Working with local universities to help them learn more about Hyperledger and to help get students and professors connected to the community
- Please add suggestions and ideas for other ways Regional Leads could contribute...
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