Nominee Name
Bobbi Muscara
Nominated By
Self
Short Personal Bio
Barbara (Bobbi) Muscara is the founder of Ledger Academy and Chair of the Hyperledger Learning Materials and Development Working Group. Ledger Academy, is a Blockchain Education Company that supplies custom Learning Materials to clients interested in Blockchain Education programs, a recent client includes the Linus Foundation. Ledger Academy sponsors (3) Blockchain Meetup Groups with a combined membership of over 1800, this includes the Hyperledger Princeton Meetup group. Ledger Academy also sponsors startups in the blockchain space. A few of the most noteworthy include BCEMPLOY, The Giving Chain, Ledger Consulting, and GoNFTYouself.
A current active participant in the Hyperledger community since 2018, she is currently on the Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee, Chair of the Learning Materials Working Group, and an active contributor to the Public Sector, Social Impact, Climate Action Special Interest Groups. Bobbi has been a presenter at the Hyperledger Global Forum in both in 2020 and in 2021. The work she has done for the Social Impact Special Interest Group led her to develop a Blockchain for Social Impact curriculum that directs the learner in the process for building a blockchain project to benefit local communities. The Giving Chain project is the result the BSI curriculum.
The Giving Chain
The Giving Chain project, a blockchain initiative to reallocate wealth with an accessible, decentralized charity giving platform and the (D2R) donor to recipient application. The Giving Chain in 2019 successfully collected and distributed 100 plus "Giving Bags" of food to local food insecure individuals and area food banks, The project won recognition from The Government Blockchain Association (GBA) 2020 award program. The Giving Chain is a sponsored Linux Foundation Mentorship project for 2021 and Bobbi is the Mentor . The Giving Chain current projects are Project Princeton, Project Uttarakhand, and Project India Women. The first two will gather excess farm produce in India and NJ and redistribute to Foodbanks and Flood victims. of India. The Project Women India is creating distribution channels for hygiene product to be delivered to Rural parts of India.
https://github.com/bobbi28
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobbijn/
Short Personal Pitch
The Hyperledger community is the most innovative, collaborative, and creative group of people in the industry. Through my time on the Technical Steering committee, certain objectives, or direction shine through. First is the determination to break the silos and bridge the communication gaps between Projects, Working Groups and Special Interest Groups. The Hyperledger mentorship opportunity for the Giving chain has made it clear this can be done. Currently, a group from the Learning Materials Working Group is managing the Giving Chain project, which was born out of the Social Impact Special Interest Group and the Hyperledger Meetup Groups, we are building a blockchain platform for Disaster Management potentially using Sawtooth or a Firefly Solution. The second direction I see the TSC taking in 2022 stems from the work I was a part of with the Whitepaper / Greenhouse Task Force to clarify the Hyperledger mission to build the community. The task force realigned the graphical representation of the Hyperledger community and revised the Hyperledger Charter to reflect the inclusiveness and the dynamic community. The Learning Materials Working group is dedicated to educating newcomers as to the vast Hyperledger landscape and resources available. During our Bi-weekly calls we take time to explain the ins and outs of the community to make contributing easy. If re-elected to the Technical Steering Committee, I will humbly make it my mission to encourage community growth as well as foster communication channels for cross collaboration among community projects. Thank you.