Time:

• February 11, 2020 at 8 AM Pacific

Dial-In Information:

You can join either from your computer or from your phone:

• From computer: https://zoom.us/my/hyperledger.community
• From phone: +1(855)880-1246 (toll free US number) or view International numbers
• Meeting ID: 403 498 3298

Attendees:

(28 people in the zoom link)

• Christiaan Pauw, Nova Institute
• Alex Howard, Nova Institute
• Kamlesh Nagware, Snapper Future Tech
• Vipin Bharathan, dlt.nyc, Chair of IDWG and of the Capital markets SIG-Also lab steward and tech ambassador

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Discussion topics

• Welcome everyone from the SIG chairs

• Hyperledger introduction (David)

• Walkthrough SIG resources (Martin)

• General SIG mission and community meetings (Tom)

  • Recurring bi-weekly Tuesday meetings?

• SIG member introductions (All)

  • Identifying related initiatives/resources (blockchain, digital, finance, governance, sectoral …)

• Early actions for the SIG members (e.g. Aartum into CA2SIG)

  • Migrating Aartum into CA2SIG

• Wrap-up and next steps

• Take part in Hyperledger's summer mentorship program – submit a project proposal before end of February

Notes and Action Items (minutes):

Call summary—

• Kickoff to the SIG (29 people in the zoom call attending) !
• General introduction to the SIG and the proposed mission and scope by the Co-Chairs and introduction to Hyperledger by David Boswell
  • Chairs proposed to hold a bi-weekly meeting for the SIG at the timezone proposed (8am Pacific Standard Time)
• Opened the space for member introductions (at the half mark of 30 min). 
• Members shared their work and background, which exhibits a good array of diversity, from large corporations, to startups, academia and non-profits
• No objections were made to the bi-weekly meetings and timeslots. So Co-Chairs will create a recurring calendar for these meeting. 
• Two comments were made by members around the role of standards in order to prevent overlapping efforts around DLT (distributed ledger technologies) for Climate without interoperability
  • This can spark a specific working group within the SIG
• Missing topics that were not discussed
  • The proposal by Aartum to migrate into the CA2 SIG (will be discussed in the next session)
  • Take part in Hyperledger's summer mentorship program – submit a project proposal before end of February

Action items—

• Everyone is encouraged to add their profile in the member directory, and start loading useful resources around climate and DLTs. 
• Everyone is encourage to start conversation in the Climate SIG chat and share the email list to other networks that might be interested in joining.
• Co-chairs will create timeslot for recurring meetings (will send calendar invites soon)
• The mention for standards can be followed-up by a suggestion from Linux Foundation on best practices, strategy and governance around the development for these. 
  • Co-chairs will follow up this discussion with LF and invites suggestions from members
• Other proposed topics for future meetings
  • Existing Hyperledger frameworks suitable for the climate accounting space, and share of ongoing projects using HL for climate
  • The carbon and energy footprint of DLTs and blockchain, both to have transparency on environmental impact of the technology and dispel myths when needed
• The agenda for the next meeting on February 25 is posted and open to the community

Recording: 

Here is the recording for the kickoff meeting: