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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 has maintained a core group who are dedicated to making it easy to create or find documentation that supports the community. The newly designed Wiki page's makes it easier to on-board newcomers. The Resource Library is currently expanding and is the main source for learning materials and documentation for projects. The Task Sign up / Team Members page serves as a dashboard for members to pick up some project work or sponsor a task. The newly formed USE CASE library is adding more cases in the Hyperledger community and will soon add an index. We continue to assist 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 completed its survey
Issues
- Membership - Increasing membership is our focus, our calls typically have 5- 6 individuals. 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 completed the group member survey.( LMDWG )in an attempt to generate interest and better understand membership demographics. Response was low.
- EdX Update - The LMDWG edited the LFS171X course,"Hyperledger - Blockchain for Business" was during the summer for the July release date. We did not get invited to edit "Introduction to Hyperledger Sovereign Identity Blockchain Solutions: Indy, Aries & Ursa"
- 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 The current directory holds outdated information and it needs to be updated.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 resources on our team (Ravi and Nathalie) who are interested in this project but we need direction and a goal for the GITHUB repositories. Emails have started.
Overall Activity in the Past Quarter
We hold our Bi-weekly meetings consistently with agendas, minutes and recordings posted to the Wiki page. No one has stepped up to Co-Chair and we will continue to look. We are seeing an increased interest in the group and have a new core base members. This quarter we collect core documentation from the projects and stored in central resource library. We also collected and organized use cases. 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. 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 is active in the was active in the Hyperledger Meetup project to create a white label program to guide the Meetups in creating a social impact blockchain project."The Giving Chain" and the D2R application was a huge success ( www.bcprinceton.com/project-day ) and will be a featured demo at the Big Apps Blockchain Day October 3rd in New York City.
- 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.
- Ravi's presentation
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.