2021-05-14 Meeting notes

Date:

14 May 2021 

10:00am EST

• Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/96679329022 

Attendees

• Helen Garneau

• Anthony Lusardi
• Hart Montgomery
• Tracy Kuhrt
• Bobbi Muscara
• Arun S M
• Arnaud J Le Hors
• Travin Keith
• Csilla Zsigri
• David Boswell
• Daniela Barbosa  

Welcome and Introductions

Who you are, and what your interest is in the Whitepaper effort.

Agenda

• Welcome
• Review last meeting
• Presentation of DLT Landscape
• How to automate Landscape
• Next meeting deliverables

Previous Meeting Summary:

4/9

• Different audiences to serve better

  • Are you technical/not
  • Are you familiar with HL/not
  • People looking at HL is understanding which to use: general enterprise/government audience interested in blockchain, but with enough information and direction (w/ links to projects, etc.) for technical people to find it interesting enough
  • Two Audiences (chose your own adventure)
    • Business or just someone not familiar/new contributor looking to get involved
    • Technical/experienced/familia
• Hyperledger Annual report layout- to replace Hyperledger Whitepaper
  • Overview/business audience 
  • Business user/non technical/interested in HL/DLT
  • Page 1: intro to HL: High level, Stack/types of ledgers
  • Participate page
  • Can be overwhelming, how to give sign post, understandable map
  • Above projects "what is a project", categories, other SIGs/WGs/Highlevel
    
    • Business content: Use cases, business education content- understand dependency between projects
    • Click on project and see other dependencies 

• Discussion on Landscape Layout- to replace greenhouse
  • For Technical audiences/more experienced 
  • easy to update
  • Can filter to dig deeper, Click on more info
  • Experienced community members, trying to build and make connections between projects- already familiar with it
    • Technical audience may want something further
    • Can get into the details
  • Github to updates- easy way
  • Developer content: Landscape/projects, how related, SIGs/WGs- get started
    • Explain Dependency between projects
    • Stack/diagrams, helps
    • all projects within a certain category would be kept equal, but there was some discussion on differentiating between projects by their stage (e.g v1) as well.
    • it could make sense to surface active or graduated projects more than an incubating project.
    • "project families" clustering idea.
    • https://lfanalytics.io/projects/hyperledger
    • https://landscape.hyperledger.org/
    • https://lists.hyperledger.org/g/maintainers

Today

• Greenhouse: Review HL Member Landscape: https://landscape.hyperledger.org/card-mode?grouping=category&project=company&style=borderless
  • Csilla: dlt landscape
  • HL: https://github.com/dltlandscape/dlt-landscape 
• Whitepaper: Review Yearly report:
  • Technical: Start here: https://start-here.hyperledger.org/
  • Business: SIGs, Landscape, membership
  • Priority should be on website, if need a 'leave behind' collateral, make short/consice paper/static view (built on efforts of webpage)
• Possible New Project: 
  • Charter: https://www.hyperledger.org/about/charter
    Karen Ottoni - provides historical reference
    
  • Update/refresh
    • Edit what needs to be updates
    • Mission statement needs work- 1.a/1.b
      • To reflect "multi-party" systems (industry standard?)
    • Is this the right place to be: Yes

• Start getting buy-in from maintainers, previous flat presentation to show people
  • Ask "Want numbers to grow?" 
  • Connect with maintainers: 
    • Email List
    • Attend calls for projects
    • Present numbers on growth/shrunk, with what collateral, what we haven't tried - question adoption "should something be done"
    • Are projects at a place where you want them to be

Next Meeting Deliverables

• Landscape V1- Tracy
• Wireframe of SIG/WG cards
• Review Charter doc edits

Action items

• Csilla Zsigri Csilla to share demo of landscape work she is doing
• Helen Garneau  Sort entry points between Business/Technical interest into shared doc
  • Projects + labs + WG + SIGs / Usecase, webinars, meetups, 
• Helen Garneau Create Charter Shared Google Doc for Edit- 
• Tracy Kuhrt Draft of landscape – https://l.hyperledger.org/projects