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From YouTube: Panel: Learning Materials and Development..-Alfonso Govela; Jim Mason; John Carpenter; Bobbi Muscara

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Panel: Learning Materials and Development Working Group. The Map of Hyperledger - Alfonso Govela, Hyperledger Latinoamerica; Jim Mason, Paramount & Sky Web Team; John Carpenter, Global Blockchain Summit; Bobbi Muscara, Ledger Academy

Learning Materials Development Working Group educates people interested in expanding their knowledge of Hyperledger. We report to the Technical Steering Committee. We consult with Hyperledger team members, project maintainers, and communities to identify training needs. Together, we develop strategies and resources to address those needs for both technical and non-technical audiences. LMDWG has assembled a vast Resource Library of Projects and Tools, Use Cases, Key Terms, Learning Materials for Special Interest Groups and Working Groups, Templates, Meetups, Labs, Marketing, and News. A synopsis of current community announcements, requirements for Best Practice Badges, and GitHub resources. We proof-read edX Blockchain courses for Linux Foundation Hyperledger. We have 50+ registered and recorded meeting agendas. Come to our Wiki Page and get your Map to travel the Galaxy of Hyperledger

To learn more about Hyperledger, the open source community focused on developing a suite of stable frameworks, tools and libraries for enterprise-grade blockchain deployments. Which serves as a neutral home for various distributed ledger frameworks including Hyperledger Fabric, Sawtooth, Indy, as well as tools like Hyperledger Caliper and libraries like Hyperledger Ursa click here: https://www.hyperledger.org/

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Hyperledger is an open source community focused on developing a suite of stable frameworks, tools and libraries for enterprise-grade blockchain deployments.
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A

Thank you. Thank you very much for for uh being here with us. I've been jumping from from one session to to another. um Let's, let's introduce ourselves john, then jim then I'll, introduce myself please john.

B

Yeah alfonso thanks for uh inviting me to be a part of this panel. I serve on the hyperledger learning materials working group. I am the co-founder of the global blockchain summit and I'm really passionate about hyperledger and especially smart contracting, and I do a lot of collaboration with the accord project team, which is focused on natural language. Smart contracts.

A

C

So, jim mason, um I work with paramount software and sky web team on as a blockchain practice leader on a lot of different blockchain projects and I've been working in the hyperledger space since 2017..

C

Originally, I had worked with fabric to build out a vehicle identity blockchain. That means I was eventually part of a multi-mobility open, blockchain initiative for the mobile blockchain space worked on some standards groups there part of the european um blockchain forum. Now, where we upload study and develop papers. If you will around topics that relate to regulation or the economy on blockchain kind of thing as well, but I do a lot of projects in the energy space. I've done some also in supply chain as well as mobility.

C

So it's a great technology that adds a lot to solutions. It's of course it's not by itself a solution, but it it certainly does added alcohol. It is an important aspect to a solution in my mind as database or any other kind of technology. When you look at it. So that's that's my background. The learning materials working group honestly, um I lead the hyperledger public sector working group and I'm jealous of how well bobby mascara, has organized the learning materials, development working group, and I work with you guys on it.

C

But I'll say uh it's it's the only one I go out there and I look at and say: well it's more than just a list of speakers and presentations and stuff. It literally is what I call a library that has been put together and really thoughtfully organized and to have a library, that's useful as a resource.

C

It means that somebody has to iterate all that content and organize it, and I will say, although bobby's not here, she's instantly more confident as a curator than I ever would be so we're lucky that in a sense she was the one that has put together this uh group and really provided the resource that I'm using a lot.

C

In fact, actually right now I can tell you I minded over the last week, I'm working in trade, finance and in supply chain, and if I go out into the learning materials working group, I can find, under the use cases section a lot of resources there that relate to things like letters of credit, and it's not like it has everything in the world. But I'm amazed when every time I go back there at the depth of the content, that's there, along with the templates that we all can use as well.

A

You jim I'm co-chair with with bobby muscat, I'm I'm very honored that bobby uh proposed me to be a co-chair of the learning materials and development working group. um As yourself, I'm I'm quite an admirer of of bobby. You know um her daughter is getting married and that's the reason she'll be with us in a in a video okay. I'm very happy also to see that we have a large large audience of participants, okay and the learning materials. Basically, the way I like to see it is like it is the map of hyper ledger.

A

Okay, it's it's uh an entry point to our inner uh universe. uh We.

C

A

Big community um we've grown to 73 000 members in in the meetup uh in 180 meetups. We have plenty of special interest groups, special working groups in hyperledger, and all this has happened in five years.

A

So if anyone wants to know not even learn but just to know, what's going on in this big bang moment of of hyperledger uh learning materials and development working group wiki, it's.

D

A

To come, okay and it's a place to come because, among other things, it's basically what what jim referred to as a library, it's a library of of knowledge of other parts and pieces of of hyperledger, mainly the special interest groups and and the working groups.

A

There are templates for everyone and uh originally well. I was in the public sector long long time ago, jim uh with with ross schuman, but when it began- and I remember that that bobby was the one that that took us by the hand now on how to how to use the wiki. You know um I've been in the social impact um very much into the climate action and accounting into the id working group within the capital market. Now I've been in a lot of places of hyper ledger.

A

um That's why we've we created uh with 10 countries, the hyper ledger, latino.

D

A

But um I've been in a pilgrimage of of different sites and and little chapels of of hyperledger, and what I would like to to to do in this in this short period of time is: ask you what our wiki is.

A

Besides listening john, you have the video of bobby. Maybe we should go there first, but what I'd like to ask you in the panel is: what do we have? Okay in the wiki?

A

um What can we do with it and what new fields of of interaction can we work both inside hyperledger and.

D

Outside the popular ledger,.

A

So, uh john, would would you help us sharing your screen and and showing us what bobby had has to say for.

B

For us sure, I'm glad to do that, uh and I think you know just before I try this out, and this is just going to be a test because I'm going to run it out of a google chrome tab.

B

But I think what arno said this morning in his keynote address was he mentioned bobby and mentioned her boundless energy, and I will definitely echo that uh sentiment and I think really, you know her contribute. You know her contributions to the learning materials working group cannot be understated at all and she would definitely join us if her daughter wasn't getting married today, but she had really been a core contributor to that and I'm gonna see if I can share a video now.

D

Hi and welcome to the global forum, my name is bobby mascara and I'm the co-chair of the learning materials development working group. The purpose of the learning materials development working group is to organize and share the information that the community has created.

D

Let me show you how to find us.

D

We can be found on the main hyperledger wiki page, just go to their blue drop down, menu bar and go to groups and select the learning materials development working group.

D

Once on our home page, you will see a library type book shelf where we have all of our resources, whether it's a project, resource key terms or use cases. We try to organize everything that goes on in the community.

D

Also, our home page is for community events. We keep it up to date, as we like the community to be well informed as to events meetups and special presentations that are happening that week.

D

Also, if you look at our menu on the side, we have valuable templates and resources on education in the community.

D

So please join our next bi-weekly call if you're new to the community, it's a great place to onboard and if you're a seasoned, hyperledger community member come find out what's happening this week, look forward to seeing you at our next meeting june 14th enjoy the forum.

B

But the main thing, what I'll say alfonso is just the learning materials working group has really been instructive in creating the learning materials for people to get up to speed on hyper ledger and bobby's done a great job of assembling that resources and then working with the community to kind of get the training out there.

B

So I think that's really one of the great wins and then the other thing I want to talk about also is just your contributions to really looking at some of those language: translations, spanish language, translation of a lot of the hyper ledger materials. So alfonso you want to talk a little bit about that uh sure.

A

For that entry door, that jim is saying for our inner universe. What happens is the universe is not only so complex and vast is that we cannot promote decentralization with only one language all over the world. There are many uh many many people that do not speak english, yet okay. So um there is another initiative within hyperledger that promotes translations. The hyperledger latin america chapter champions the translation to spanish, but anthony o'dowd and david boswell began two years ago: the translation of eight languages, chinese, japanese, malayalam and tamil. In india.

A

We have spanish, portuguese, french russian, and the idea is that this is an issue of inclusion. There are two issues of inclusion related to to decentralization is to let people speak and understand in their own language. It's different when you understand something in your mother tongue. That was said in in our language section the tower of babel session this this uh this morning, but also we have to break the silos and that's something that uh the trade finance grew up with andrea froscindini and sai chen.

B

A

Myself, I'm also involved in that breaking the silo means that we have to connect all the groups that that we have developed.

A

Those groups make a lot of sense because they gather together people with similar interests and that helps advance, but we might be advancing something that some other group has done best. For instance, climate, changing climate change, climate action and accounting wants to change the climate through a token, but a bipin in capital market has developed ethanol, which is already you know, a hyperledger tool that can be used for cbdcs.

A

So one of the things we we've seen through the learning materials and working group is that we have to facilitate learning through languages, but also we have to facilitate connecting the groups within hyperledger so that we can broaden our horizons, as we were talking before in the virtual meetups session brother, our horizons not only geographically with all the 180w but thematically okay, so inclusion through language and inclusion through connection of silence.

A

It's two of the activities that the learning is embarking uh upon. There is a third one with the mentorship projects of the linux foundation we have um bobby. Has one that's called the chain link for you know blockchain for for good and social impact, and then I have the global scouting, that is a project to map learning materials, learning opportunities for blockchain and dlt globally.

A

So we are going to be working this summer, three months, two mentees one from china, one from india and we would be working with humans. There would be a lot of questionnaires, but also it's going to be web crawlers, page scrapers and all that. So basically, what what what we do is uh connect connect those gaps.

A

Gmg once once mentioned in one of our sessions, what you envisioned for for uh the future of the learning materials it was, it was a special kind of brain. I think you said um yeah.

C

A

Which is not mine, it's really.

C

Not my brain, nobody wants to replicate my brain or get too far into that brain, but but I've done well um in a past life um building out a infrastructure team where we had to really learn an awful lot and much like learning materials working group. When I showed up here, it looked something like what I had done before.

C

We actually had measured this earlier project where we had said: okay every time, our team, let's say alfonso or john or somebody works on something I said at least document enough of what you've done in alphonso's days and document enough of what you've done that, if you that, if john or I have to back you up, it might take us five or ten times as long, but we're not totally lost, at least on providing support in the area you worked on.

C

So that was my goal is to make what I call knowledge portable across my team, and we actually measured it and what we found was after 18 months. It didn't happen immediately. Alfonso did his work. John did his work. I did my work. We kept dumping into I'll call it this common repository, but eventually it did pay off to the point that we were able to do. We had this live knowledge base and we literally the team we had. Even though the team had gone down 40 the volume of our coverage had gone up.

C

uh 300 percent in 18 months with fewer people all because, back to your point, alfonso you were dead on uh language is critical to get everybody, as you say, drawn in properly, and I agree that english only isn't getting that done. But beyond the language thing, your point was perfect about the idea that we have information silos and what we really need is far better portability. I used to use the example I would present to an audience and say: look um I'm not uh a brain surgeon, I'm not a certified brain surgeon.

C

What the goal of my learning uh I'll call it on-demand learning my ability to deliver on demand quickly in a perfect world which is not where I am I'd, say you need a brain surgery. John, let's say needs brain surgery at eight o'clock tomorrow morning, and hopefully he doesn't, but if he did you'd want to know that if I was the person that had to operate on them, I had all the skills I needed, but by 759 to be the best person in the world to perform that task. Well, how can I do that?

C

It's a knowledge on demand, idea that says you're not going to have the time in many cases or even the notification that you need to in a sense deliver on this stuff quickly.

C

So you need to have these resources that are quickly available and you know I'll go back to that front door model and say it's a great front door, and we just, I think you know, with your leadership and bobby's continued in the need to, as you said, add more so that we reduce the silos and that's really the goal, and you know as as much as has been accomplished, there's certainly more to do there and I think again that test of saying can somebody come in who doesn't know anything about this community but is asked or charged.

C

You know maybe john goes on vacation he's the lead dlt guy for his company. He goes on vacation. I come in as backup and I'm asked to put together a project plan immediately because john's not there is there a way. I can do that. Where would I go for my resources? If, if you know in that problem space I'd say, maybe the right answer is come in here: go to our front door and start exploring and see what project plans. What solutions? Look like!

C

Look at the templates look at some of the use cases that are out there uh look at some of the training available because that's critical, you know again that was pointed to and I'll call it to again to the credit you and bobby both, but the the what you guys have done is such a big deal. It's like even now.

C

We have that uh that other thing, if bobby, were here, she'd, be talking about bc, employee right that whole big fat uh thing that she initiated that we're now all hooked into deliver on, which is the idea that you are somebody who may be technically competent, but you really don't know blockchain and you don't know what the opportunities are in there and how do you come into this space? And how do you learn about what are the career opportunities in the blockchain space?

C

Give me something about what blockchain looks like. Can I connect with recruiters a little bit understand from their point of view, what kind of talent they want to hire? How can I make those connections? She uh initiated that whole program that we're all part of now helping to deliver over the next few months called bc employee, and I put a link to that in the chat. But that's a very, very big deal as well.

C

um So there's a lot of things that in a sense, are coming through this group and I would say it would, uh if you don't show up at every meeting, you definitely want to check in on a regular basis to see in a sense, what's changing. So, as elsa said, he has. A lot of ideas. Bobby certainly has never stopped generating ideas, since she initiated the group, and so um you know all I can say is it's one of the better resources that you're going to find in the hyperledger community for sure.

C

In my opinion, which.

A

Is why you're not there? Thank you we're just about to end the session john. Would you like to add a final comment? We are just running out of time.

B

Yeah no problem, I would just say, uh check the chat. There's the bc employee event that jim mentioned reach out to any one of us about that, and we're looking to run that starting in july and then also I put in the link for training and you can look at certified, hyperledger fabric developer training and I think that's another good uh thing that the hyperledger learning materials working group has fostered as well. Thank you.

A

Thank you both not only for this presentation, but for all your ideas. This learning materials and working group is what it is because of bobby launching it supporting it, but all of you and us collaborating thank you very much come to our wiki, all the ones that are listening come to our wiki and please bye, bye.