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Welcome to the “Untold Stories behind the Hyperledger Community,” a monthly podcast in which we invite contributors from across the Hyperledger ecosystem to share about why they're using Hyperledger projects and why they are actively involved in the community. While there are lots of venues to learn about the what of Hyperledger technologies, this show is focused on why individuals roll up their sleeves to help develop and deploy them.

Each episode features an in-depth discussion with guests who are helping to shape the future of enterprise blockchain and their journey as leaders, developers and open source contributors. Conversations will delve into topics such as why they got involved with Hyperledger, why they're excited about the technology and how they deal with the challenges involved in contributing to a large, global open source community.

This episode features Karim Stekelenburg and Berend Sliedrecht, contributors to the Hyperledger community for several years, specifically on Aries and Aries Framework Javascript. We discuss their backgrounds, their work contributing to open source, and their work on Aries Framework Javascript. Recently their company announced a new project, “Making Aries Framework Javascript a Global Framework” and we dig into that to find out more.

Some of the links discussed in this episode:

The Hyperledger Blog post on "Making Aries Framework Javascript a Global Framework":
https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/hyperledger-aries-framework-javascript-identity-wallets-standards-push

Animo
Animo website: https://animo.id/
Animo YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@animosolutions

Paradym
Paradym website: https://paradym.id/
Paradym docs: https://docs.paradym.id/
Paradym Wallet:
AppStore: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/paradym-wallet/id6449846111
PlayStore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=id.paradym.wallet&hl=en_US

Aries Framework JavaScript
Aries Framework JavaScript repository: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript
Aries Framework JavaScript docs: https://aries.js.org/
Discord: https://discord.gg/hyperledger - #aries-javascript
Working group notes: https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/ARIES/Framework+JS+Meetings
Working group calendar: https://lists.hyperledger.org/login?r=https%3A%2F%2Flists.hyperledger.org%2Fg%2Faries%2Fcalendar

Making Aries Framework Javascript a Global Framework Project
Original project post - Animo website
https://animo.id/project/making-aries-framework-javascript-a-global-framework
Live proposal doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fja1pQvB6UJcJR7d00HaEDTk-WMUFS9SZNkle-jm2BE
Architecture Reference Framework:
Publication: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/european-digital-identity-architecture-and-reference-framework-outline
Working doc (repository): https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/eudi-doc-architecture-and-reference-framework

Socials
Twitter handles:
Berend: @berend_io
Karim: @ssi_karim
LinkedIn:
Berend: https://www.linkedin.com/in/berend-sliedrecht-3a24b517b/
Karim: https://linkedin.com/in/karimstekelenburg
GitHub:
Berend: https://github.com/berendsliedrecht
Karim: https://github.com/karimStekelenburg

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Every month we invite developers from across the Hyperledger ecosystem to share about why they're using Hyperledger projects and why they are actively involved in the community.

Each episode features an in-depth discussion with a guest who is helping to shape the future of enterprise blockchain and their journey as a leader, developer and an open source contributor.

Conversations will delve into topics such as:

- Why they got involved with Hyperledger
- Why they're excited about the technology
- How they deal with the challenges involved in contributing to a large, global open source community.

In episode 2, Ben Thomas, who leads marketing and communications at Hyperledger Foundation sits down with Sophia Lopez, a pioneer in the blockchain space, who has been involved in the Hyperledger community from day one. Sophia shares her inspiring journey and career path, from studying Engineering Sciences at Harvard to her 10-year career at IBM and her most recent role as the President and Co-founder of the company Kaleido, who has been the main contributor of the Hyperledger FireFly Project.

During the discussion, Sophia provides valuable insights into her mindset, where her infectious energy and entrepreneurial drive come from, and how her early career experience in research, financial analysis, business strategy, PR, marketing, and communications led her to join IBM and focus on technology. Sophia also talks about her pivotal experiences at IBM that impacted her decision to leave and become a company founder.

Sophia delves into the birth of Kaleido, how it all began, and the challenges that turned into light bulb moments or key pivots. She explains the reasoning behind contributing the Hyperledger FireFly project to the Hyperledger Foundation and provides advice to other organizations about why they should consider getting actively involved in the Hyperledger community.

As a leader in the field, Sophia also shares her experience with diversity in building open source community and code, and her advice to women looking to follow in her footsteps. Additionally, she provides insights into the biggest misconceptions enterprise businesses have about adopting new technology and the advice she would give to business and technical leaders trying to understand it or overcome challenges to adoption.

Through this engaging and informative conversation, listeners will gain valuable insights into the Hyperledger community, the power of open source blockchain technology, and the importance of diversity in building a successful and innovative open source community.

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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.
It serves as a neutral home for various distributed ledger frameworks including Hyperledger Besu, Fabric, Sawtooth, Indy, as well as tools like Hyperledger Avalon, Cactus and libraries like Hyperledger Aries, Ursa. Learn more about Hyperledger projects: https://www.hyperledger.org/use

Discord: https://discord.gg/rVCn4j7UFd
Case Studies: https://www.hyperledger.org/learn/cas...
Training & Certification: https://www.hyperledger.org/learn/tra...
Tutorials: https://www.hyperledger.org/use/tutor...
Webinars: https://www.hyperledger.org/learn/web...
Events: https://www.hyperledger.org/events
Vendor Directory: https://www.hyperledger.org/use/vendo...

Subscribe to the Hyperledger Newsletter: https://www.hyperledger.org/newsletter

Follow-us on Twitter @Hyperledger

Learn about Hyperledger Membership: https://www.hyperledger.org/about/join

#Hyperledger #Blockchain
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Every month we invite developers from across the Hyperledger ecosystem to share about why they're using Hyperledger projects and why they are actively involved in the community.

Each episode features an in-depth discussion with a guest who is helping to shape the future of enterprise blockchain and their journey as a leader, developer and an open source contributor.

Conversations will delve into topics such as:

- Why they got involved with Hyperledger
- Why they're excited about the technology
- How they deal with the challenges involved in contributing to a large, global open source community. 

Episode 1 features Tracy Kuhrt who has been involved in the Hyperledger community for several years in several roles. She was a Linux Foundation staff member who supported the community, she has been a developer and a project maintainer, for the last two years she has led the Technical Oversight Committee as the group's chair and she is the Associate Director, Blockchain and Multiparty Systems Architecture at Accenture. Because of the depth and breadth of her experience, she is a great guest to start our series with.

Hyperledger – Open Source Blockchain Technologies

Hyperledger is an open source community focused on developing a suite of stable frameworks, tools and libraries for enterprise-grade blockchain deployments.
It serves as a neutral home for various distributed ledger frameworks including Hyperledger Besu, Fabric, Sawtooth, Indy, as well as tools like Hyperledger Avalon, Cactus and libraries like Hyperledger Aries, Ursa. Learn more about Hyperledger projects: https://www.hyperledger.org/use

Discord: https://discord.gg/rVCn4j7UFd
Case Studies: https://www.hyperledger.org/learn/case-studies
Training & Certification: https://www.hyperledger.org/learn/training
Tutorials: https://www.hyperledger.org/use/tutorials
Webinars: https://www.hyperledger.org/learn/webinars
Events: https://www.hyperledger.org/events
Vendor Directory: https://www.hyperledger.org/use/vendor-directory

Subscribe to the Hyperledger Newsletter: https://www.hyperledger.org/newsletter

Follow-us on Twitter @Hyperledger

Learn about Hyperledger Membership: https://www.hyperledger.org/about/join

#Hyperledger #Blockchain
License
Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)