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Working Group

The Learning Materials and Working Group goal is developing open source training material (licensed as specified by the Hyperledger Charter) to educate people interested in expanding their knowledge of Hyperledger and its projects. The working group will consult with other Hyperledger working groups, Hyperledger team members, and the project maintainers to identify training needs and develop strategies, as well as, material to address those needs. The output of this working group will be targeted towards both technical and non-technical audiences.

Working Group Health

The Learning Materials working group

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has maintained a core group who are dedicated to increasing membership.  The newly designed Wiki page's  makes it easier to on-board newcomers. The Resource Library is currently the main source

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for learning materials and documentation for projects.  We continue to collect documentation that the community is generating and store it in the library. The Task Sign up / Team Members page serves  the dashboard for members to pick up some project work or sponsor a task.  The group completed the edits for the new EdX course "Blockchain for Business"

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that went live in July and are scheduled to edit the Sawtooth technical application course early this Fall as well as the Indy-Aries-Ursa (IAU) course due in October. We are assisting the Special Interest groups by supplying templates, for example, White Paper templates for Telecom and Public Sector, and Use case template for Healthcare.  The LMDWG is working on a community Survey, with the help of the TSC,  to collect information for the Resources Library as well as to gain contact information from Working Groups, Special Interest Groups, and project maintainers. We are developing a project for the Meetup Groups where through a series of Checkpoints a project with Social Impact is developed.

Issues

  1. Membership - Increasing membership is our focus, our calls typically have 5- 6 individuals. We hope for increased traffic to our wiki page after the community spotlight on the Working Group. We have redesigned the Wiki home page to make on boarding easier. With guides to explain "Getting Linux login, Joining calls, setting up Wiki Pages and sponsoring a task we have created a user friendly environment for on boarding new members. We created a survey for the members of the LMDWG in an attempt to generate interest and better understand membership demographics.
  2. Resource Library - the LMDWG has a goal to collect community documentation and create a Resource Library to house all community documentation. The Resources Library can serve as a portal for people interested in learning more about Hyperledger or for those involved in a project to easily find documentation. This will serve as a location for community members to access templates and graphics for developing projects as well as a place to store these final documentation projects.  We are currently working on the USE CASE template and have completed the white paper template.
  3. Survey: An opportunity exists to Survey the projects, working groups and special interest groups to determine a contact person, get list of current learning materials created and gain an understanding of the future documentation needs. Would like to add polling questions from TSC and have the LMDWG manage the polling process.
  4. Best Practices for documentation Developing Standard /  Best Practices Badges  for all Learning Materials. The Marketing department has a call on 9/11 that should give us information that will help in develop standards for documentation.
  5. Glossary: Creating KEY TERMINOLOGY to be used in all documentation. Creating common definition for the community to use when creating learning materials and documentation.  We are in the process of gathering current community definitions and compiling them on a wiki page where we will come up with the community dictionary (approved by TSC before publishing). 
  6. Graphics - The LMDWG has a unique situation to supply the community with standards for graphics and logos that is easily shared for creating documentation. To satisfy the numerous requests by the community we created a wiki page ( under development) to access approved graphics. We hope to gain information from the marketing department.
  7. EdX Update - The LMDWG edited the LFS171X course,"Hyperledger - Blockchain for Business" was during the summer for the July release date. We set up a wiki page to manage the EDX courses we edit and specifically  for the LFS171x. We are looking forward to  the Sawtooth application courses and the Indy-Aries-Urse (IAU) course this fall. 
  8. Github Update  : we have no information on the EDUCATION repository on github. The current directory holds outdated information and it needs to be updated. We have a new resource on our team (Ravi) who is interested in this project but we need direction and a goal for the GITHUB repositories

Issues

Increasing membership is our focus next quarter. Participation in calls typically 5- 6 individuals. Our work load is forecasted to increase.

Open items from our resource page include:

  • Developing Standard /  Best Practices Badges  for all Learning Materials
  • Organizing current projects documentation into the Learning Materials Library and give  guidance towards earning  Best Practice Badge
  • Support - Documentation support in the form of editing and creating new materials
  • New Member Onboarding
  • Wiki Management
  • Creating KEY TERMINOLOGY to be used in all documentation
  • Working Groups Liaison
  • Develop Use Case Library

Overall Activity in the Past Quarter

Currently the Bi-weekly calls, Agendas , minutes, meeting recordings and Wiki Management are conducted regularly. The chat channels and mailing list activity  show little action since our membership is low.

Work Product:

Meet-up: We had a request to organize information for Meerut-up Leaders   

Working Group

The Learning Materials and Working Group goal is developing open source training material (licensed as specified by the Hyperledger Charter) to educate people interested in expanding their knowledge of Hyperledger and its projects. The working group will consult with other Hyperledger working groups, Hyperledger team members, and the project maintainers to identify training needs and develop strategies, as well as, material to address those needs. The output of this working group will be targeted towards both technical and non-technical audiences.

Working Group Health

The Learning Materials working group's  big initiative  to increase membership is underway and is gaining momentum to achieve goals. The group's Wiki page under went a format change and now it  is easier to find  information

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Overall Activity in the Past Quarter

The group went through a transitional phase with dwindling membership. The focus of the group was on the EdX update, which every one agrees is a VITAL piece to the success of the Hyperledger projects, but with the product revisions deemed to be an overwhelming undertaking for volunteers . The group shifted its focus to vetting,maintaining an updating learning materials that the experts for each project and group are developing. Members also created original learning material that have been added to the Resource Page.   

Planned Work Products

  • Creation of Standard - Best Practices -The group plans on creating a system by which all the documents on the Resource Page have been checked against Standards that represent  the Hyperledger Community. By creating a set of standards for documentation and video presentations, and by vetting the resources available on the Learning Materials page against those standards, we can be assured the message is a accurate, up to date and consistent. 
  • It  is our plan to have representation from all the Frameworks and Projects in the Learning Materials Working Group. Each group will be responsible for submitting the documentation and learning materials created by project teams.
  • Use Cases : Learning Material working group will collect Hyperledger use cases and organize them for easy access.

Participant Diversity

Since the membership has decline we are actively seeking new leadership.  We have issued a Google poll to recruit a new leadership team. New recruitment has begun in the project groups and we are reaching out to our contacts in the Education sector. We plan on getting the Special Interest Groups and Working Group involved so the Resource Page accurately reflects the work product produced.


We hold our Bi-weekly meetings consistently with agendas, minutes and recordings posted to the Wiki page.  The vice chair resigned due to personal reason and we are creating a survey for the community to locate a new one.   We are seeing an increased interest in the group and we have geared up for new members by updating our Wiki page.   This quarter we completed the edits on the Edx course LFS171x that went live in July. We created the templates for whitepaper and use cases and are working closely with the Special Interest Groups to supply the guidance needed for documentation development.  We created a structure to manage a community wide survey and are in the process of developing questions for each survey (1. Projects 2. Special Interest Groups 3 Working Groups) .  The work for the Community Glossary  began by creating a wiki page to store definition and we have started gather the common terms used.  The LMDWG was active in the Hyperledger Meetup project to create a white label program the guide the Meetup in creating a social impact blockchain project was a huge success ( www.bcprinceton.com/project-day ).



Planned Work Products

  • Survey - With the approval of the TSC the LMDWG would like to create and administer a community wide survey that determines the needs of the community. With the survey results, we will develop a system for community communication.  
  • Resource Library - To create a Resource for the community to easily access documentation and learning materials. 
  • Best Practices -Continue to create templates for the community. Complete the template for use cases and complete the Graphics Library. 
  • To use the Meetup Summer project example to create a Meetup Project for the Hyperledger community to create something of Social Importance. 

Participant Diversity

Since interest in the group has increased, we are actively seeking new leadership and members.  Recruitment has begun with in our group and we are reaching out to the marketing department for assistance in getting the word out.  With the exposure on the Hyperledger website we anticipate new interest in the group. We plan on getting the Projects, Special Interest Groups and Working Group involved through understanding their needs better with the survey.

Additional Information

Special thanks to the community for the spotlight. We hope this exposure will drive our new member to our Working Group. It is a privilege to be a part of the Hyperledger community.  https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/2019/09/05/community-spotlight-meet-bobbi-muscara-hyperledger-learning-materials-development-working-group-chair.

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