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The Hyperledger Foundation is launching the Hyperledger Challenge to harness the power of communities to ideate, develop, and launch innovative solutions developed using open-source technologies. Any innovation that advances the current state-of-the-art of enterprise-grade distributed ledger technologies leveraging one or more Hyperledger projects is eligible for the Hyperledger Challenge.
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- Participants in the ideate challenge will be given feedback on their submission, access to training courses, and matched with mentor(s) based on the identified need to support the development of their prototype solution.
- Winners of the ideate challenge will have their project featured as a Hyperledger Labs to encourage the community-wide engagement and development of the prototype solution.
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- Winners of the prototype challenge will have their project featured as a Linux Foundation Crowdfunding project for follow-on collaborative development.
- Winners will also be provided marketing support including the opportunity to demonstrate their solution to the Technical Steering Committee, Special Interest Groups, and promotion across Hyperledger channels.
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- Winners of the Launch challenge will receive a travel scholarship to attend Hyperledger Global Forum 2022. This will be an unique opportunity to demonstrate your solutions before a global community.
- Runner-ups will receive Hyperledger Certification voucher(s).
Challenge Timeline**
- January 18: Ideate submission opens
- March 1: Ideate submission ends
- March 1-15: Ideate submission evaluation and mentor assignment
- March 15: Prototype begins
- May 10: Prototype ends
- May 10-24: Prototype evaluation
- May 24: Prototype winners announced
- May 24: Launch begins
- July 19: Launch ends
- July 19-August 2: Launch evaluation
- August 2: Announce Challenge Winners!
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- Teams who have any affiliation with a member of the evaluation committee will not be allowed to participate in the Challenge.
- Employees of an organization that co-sponsors the Hyperledger Challenge are not eligible to participate.
- All participating teams will be required to follow the open-source license requirement for projects and associated code developed during the challenges as detailed here: https://www.hyperledger.org/about/charter
- License Requirement: “All Hyperledger software must be made available under an Apache 2.0 license. This applies to lab projects in which Hyperledger Challenge projects will be hosted under. Please, make sure to license all incoming code and new code accordingly, and ensure that all commits are made with proper sign-off so that no DCO related issue is introduced.”
- Code of Conduct: “All Hyperledger community members must adhere to the Code of Conduct”
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