Hyperledger India Chapter

The Hyperledger India Chapter is responsible for growing the Hyperledger community in India, promoting contributions to Hyperledger projects and providing a platform for collaboration, mentoring and support. The chapter aims to showcase the broad range of Hyperledger projects and initiatives to the Indian audience. 

Goals

The goals of the India Chapter are:

• Help promote the adoption of Hyperledger projects.
  
• Grow the Hyperledger user and developer community.
• Promote contributions back to Hyperledger projects.
• Provide a platform for guidance, support and collaboration. 

Work Products and activities

The anticipated initial work products will include (but are not limited to):

• A platform for promoting communications through email-list, Slack/Chat, Forums etc.

• Organize technical events including hackathons/hackfests, meetups, education and training.

• Organize business and industry meetups and exchanges to promote cross-pollination of ideas and best practices.

• Setup a robust network of ambassadors and mentors.

• If required, proxy meetings of Hyperledger Technical WGs and SIGs in a Geo Friendly time.

The following weekly meetings are conducted under the auspices of the India Chapter (updated times and other details can be found on the Hyperledger Calendar) :

• Hyperledger Fabric Application Developer Forum - Asia
• Hyperledger Sawtooth Application Developer Forum - Asia
• Hyperledger Avalon Application Developer Forum
• Hyperledger Aries/Indy Application Developer Forum - Asia

The Chapter has also been conducting National e-meetups, with the goal of getting the entire country on the same platform, listening to and learning from the latest developments in the blockchain space.

Regional Leads

The leaders of this Chapter are:

• Amol Kulkarni, VP, Dragonfruit AI (previously Head of Engineering, Blockchain Program Office, Intel India)
• Ajay Jadhav, CTO, AyanWorks/Blockster Labs

Get Involved

Participation in this group is open to anyone who is interested in this topic.  To get involved with the Hyperledger India Chapter, please feel free to join the discussion on these channels and meetings:

• Mailing list: community-india-chapter at lists.hyperledger.org
  
• Chat channel: #community-india
  
• Meetings:
  • All the calendar invites from Hyperledger India chapter can be found here https://lists.hyperledger.org/g/community-india-chapter/calendar 
  • Every Monday at 3:30 to 4:30 PM India Standard Time
    • Dial-in from computer: https://zoom.us/my/hyperledger.community
    • Call in from phone: 1(855)880-1246 (toll free US number) or view International numbers
    • Meeting ID: 403 498 3298

Agenda for Upcoming Meetings

List of Tech-Talks

Meeting Minutes and Notes

• 2019-07-15 Meeting notes
• 2019-07-08 Meeting notes
• 2019-07-01 Meeting notes
• 2019-06-24 - Meeting did not happen
• Consolidated Minutes - Nov & December 2019

Member List

Collaborating with other groups

This Working Group will collaborate with other Hyperledger working groups, the TSC, Linux Foundation staff, and the project maintainers.  Julian Gordon and David Boswell will be the main staff points of contact for the group and will be available to make sure this group is plugged in where needed and is not duplicating efforts.