Hyperledger can help build communities by gathering people sharing a common interest in developing blockchain related software. However, the only way to currently do so is to submit a HIP and launch a formal project in Incubation. This is a relatively heavy process which implies a level of endorsement by Hyperledger that is not suitable for cases where projects are immature from a code-complete, production-quality, or community building perspective, or experimental.
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Hyperledger Labs have similarities with the Apache Labs and the W3C Community Groups.
Proposals
To submit a new proposal, please follow the process outlined at Hyperledger Labs. The lab proposal must meet the following:
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You can find all Hyperledger Lab approved proposals at https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/hyperledger-labs.github.io/labs. You can also look at the pull requests for all submitted proposals.
Archiving
Stewards are responsible for curating the set of labs, moving to an archives space (see below) those that become dormant or unresponsive for an extended period (6+ months), or are explicitly deemed by the committers to be deprecated/obsoleted.
Deprecated, obsoleted, or dormant labs (as defined above) will be moved to a GitHub org “hyperledger-labs-archives” that signifies that the lab is no longer maintained. Labs in the archives are read-only, and they can be moved back out of the archives, if there is interest in reviving them.
Repository
https://github.com/hyperledger-labs - Github Organization
Communication
Mailing List
labs@lists.hyperledger.org for general discussions on Hyperledger Labs (subscribe - archives)
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