Weekend Update

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

Hyperledger In-depth: An hour with Mindtree—Making disruptive technologies the silver bullet for airlines in new normal

As both the commercial airlines and cargo industries emerge from the pandemic, they are looking at innovative disruptive technologies to streamline supply chains, optimise operations, drive collaboration and ensure safe, seamless flying experiences for passengers globally. In this webinar, industry experts will discuss how passenger airlines, air cargo, and airports can successfully leverage the power of new age technologies (like blockchain and more) to overcome the challenges they had to face in the wake of the pandemic, and revitalise growth. 

Tune on Wednesday, September 22, at 7:00 AM PDT. For more information and to register, go here.

TDeFi BizThon Business Hackathon

Have an idea for how blockchain can be used in media, finance or sustainability use cases? Consider entering the TDeFi BizThon Business Hackathon. Held in association with Future Blockchain Summit and GITEX, the BizThon is open to everyone, be it developers, entrepreneurs, project managers and other technologies, and offers a number of prizes across several tracks. The deadline for signing up is September 20.

Go here for details.

Get Involved with Hyperledger Cactus 

You are invited to get involved in helping advance Hyperledger Cactus, an incubation status project that aims to be a pluggable enterprise-grade framework to transact on multiple distributed ledgers without introducing another competing blockchain. The community leaders have spotlighted a number of ways to get started. Learn more here.

Virtual Meetups 

• Tuesday, September 28, at 21:00 UTC / 15:00 MDT: Hyperledger Denver hosts “Trusted Data Ecosystems: Finding The Value In Identity”
• Thursday, October 14, at 15:00 UTC / 17:00 CEST: Hyperledger Budapest hosts “Blockchain Scaling & Interoperability with Perun Framework”

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here. 

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

Hyperledger In-depth: An hour with Oracle

As tokenization use cases in the enterprise and beyond have become more real, the lack of built-in tokens in Hyperledger Fabric has become an issue. In this discussion on “Enabling Tokenization Options on Hyperledger Fabric,” Mark Rakhmilevich of Oracle will explain a new approach to implementing fungible and non-fungible tokens on Fabric based on IWA’s Token Taxonomy Framework (TTF) model of token types and behaviors. He will demo generating Fungible Token (FT) chaincode and using it in an application based on the recently released version of Blockchain App Builder. This talk will also cover how this accelerates the use of FTs and NFTs in a broad range of use cases and Oracle’s plans to make use of tokens easy and quick on Hyperledger Fabric.

Tune on Wednesday, September 8, at 12:00 PM PDT. For more information and to register, go here.

Paris Blockchain Week Sumit Webinar: Building a Best-in-Class Blockchain Production Application       

The Paris Blockchain Week Summit will host a discussion about best practices and key considerations in building production blockchain systems, including architecture, on-chain and off-chain strategy, data privacy, compliance and ecosystem governance. Panelists for the session include Andei Semenov from CONA Services, Karen Ottoni from Hyperledger, Antoine Le Feuvre from SUEZ Smart Solutions and Arka Roychowdhury from Cognizant.

To learn more or to register for the webinar, which is Thursday, Sept 9, at 8:00 AM PDT, go here.

Virtual Meetups 

• Wednesday, September 8, at 9:00 UTC / 18:00 JST: Hyperledger Tokyo hosts “9月8日オンライン開催 Hyperledger Tokyo Meetup” (Japanese)

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here.

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

Hyperledger’s Brian Behlendorf on DisrupTV

Hyperledger Executive Director Brian Behlendorf was a recent guest on DisrupTV, a web series focused on leadership, innovation and disruption. Catch his episode here.

Free Training Classes

It’s back to school season, so now is a great time to boost your blockchain skills with one (or more) of the five free and self-paced Hyperledger classes from Linux Foundation Training. Go here for details and to enroll.

Hyperledger Mentorship Project Reports

This week five mentees from the Hyperledger Mentorship Program wrapped up their projects and presented their work. To find out more about these projects and see the final reports and presentations, follow these links:

• Blueprint-like interface for Hyperledger Iroha Special Instructions (Zoe Krucky) 
• Cactus-samples – Business Logic Plugins for Hyperledger Cactus (Tzu-Shen Wang) 
• Global Scouting of DLT / Blockchain Educational Opportunities (Amit Chaudhari) 
• Hyperledger Burrow and Hyperledger Iroha extend existing Solidity VM integration (Ayush Jalan)
• Hyperledger Iroha and Hyperledger Cactus Integration (Han Xu)

Virtual Meetups 

• Thursday, September 2, at 12:30 UTC / 18:00 IST: Hyperledger India Chapter hosts “Getting started building apps on FireFly and contributing to Open Source”
• Thursday, September 2, at 22:00 UTC / 19:00 BRT: Hyperledger Brazil Chapter hosts “Tecnologia Blockchain aplicada à segurança alimentar” (Portuguese)

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here.

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

Hyperledger Media and Entertainment Special Interest Group Guest Presentation: Blockchain Studies at HBCUs

Join the Media and Entertainment SIG for a guest presentation on Blockchain Studies at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The speaker will be Dr. Ali Emdad, Associate Dean of the Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Blockchain and Financial Technology (The FinTech Center) at Morgan State University. 

For more information on the online meeting, which is Tuesday, August 24, at 9:00 AM PDT, go here.

Virtual Blockchain Employ Job Fair

Attend this job fair to hear ConsenSys, Hyperledger, Accenture, and others discuss open positions. Join breakout tables to sit down and discuss opportunities with the top companies actively looking to hire folks for their blockchain teams. Indian Blockchain Institute (IBI), a Hyperledger Training Partner, will also be on and to talk about educational opportunities that will put you onto the blockchain career path.

For more details on the job fair, which is talking place on Tuesday, August 24, at 6:30 PM EDT, go here.

Now in Japanese: Certified Hyperledger Fabric Developer and Certified Hyperledger Fabric Administrator Exams

Linux Foundation Training is now offering both the Certified Hyperledger Fabric Developer (CHFD) and Certified Hyperledger Fabric Administrator (CHFA) exams with Japanese content and proctors.

Go here for more on CHFD-JP and here for CHFA-JP.

Linux Foundation Training Back to School Sale

Buy any of the Linux Foundations certification exams and get the companion training course for free. Use code “Free21,” and get a $575 bundle of certification and training for $375.The offer is good through August 24.

Go here for more detail.

Virtual Meetups 

• Tuesday, August 24, at 22:30 UTC / 18:30 EDT: Hyperledger Princeton hosts “Blockchain Employ Job Fair”
• Thursday, August 26, at 10:00 UTC / 19:00 KST: Hyperledger Korea hosts “Hyperledger Meetup Korea #30 – 블록체인 지갑의 동작 방식 및 표준” (Korean) 
• Thursday, August 26, at 16:00 UTC / 18:00 CEST: Hyperledger Budapest hosts “Hyperledger Fabric and Monitoring”

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here.

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

Hyperledger In-depth: An hour with Privici

Students need to get back to interacting with each other and faculty face to face in order to maximize their education experience; similarly, employees need to interact with each other from time to time in person to generate new ideas, form relationships and build the next best thing together. The post pandemic world will have the effects of the virus with us for a while, so how do we protect each other in a way that also respects our privacy? 

In this session on “Verifiable Credentials – How to bring students and employees back to school and work while respecting their privacy in the covid era,” Mahesh Balan, CEO of Privici, will discuss how verifiable credentials can be used securely check the status of a vaccination, antibody test or virus test without having to track this in a central database. He will cover ways this can be achieved and the practical limitations and issues of trying to bring this technology to the fore for Covid mitigation. He will also demo examples, talk about the technology and standards and what the world can expect in the immediate future as well as the wide applicability of this technology as Self-Sovereign Identity becomes more prevalent in multiple domains.

Tune on Wednesday, August 18, at 10:00 AM PDT. For more information and to register, go here.

Fall Open Source mentorship projects (paid)

The Linux Foundation is accepting applications for a range of paid mentorship projects for the fall. See the line-up here.

Virtual Meetups 

• Thursday, August 19, at 22:00 UTC / 19:00 BRT: Hyperledger Brazil Chapter hosts “Boas Práticas para Composição de Frameworks Hyperledger Fabric em Redes Blockchain” (Portuguese)

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here.

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

Hyperledger Climate Action and Accounting Special Interest Group Guest Presentation: To Net Zero with Verifiable Credentials

Join the Climate Action and Accounting SIG for a guest presentation by Andreas Kind and Maximilian Weinhold and Florian Ansgar Jaeger from Siemens on “To Net Zero with Verifiable Credentials.” Verifiable credentials, as promoted by the W3C as well as the Hyperledger projects Indy and Aries, can give individuals control of their identity attributes in a privacy-preserving manner. Estainium, an association of manufacturers and trusted technical inspection organizations, extends the use of verifiable credentials for sharing product-level information in supply chains, specifically for letting suppliers cryptographically prove product carbon footprints (PCFs) down-stream while preserving common supply chain confidentiality assumptions. The aim of this PCF sharing infrastructure is to drive industrial production towards net zero carbon emission.

For more information on the meeting, which is Tuesday, August 10, at 8:00 AM PDT, go here.

The Giving Chain

The Giving Chain, a project under the Hyperledger Summer Mentorship Program, collects donations in local communities and transfers gifts to those in need. Decentralized tracking of donations can revolutionize charity giving, adding trust, accountability and dignity to the process. 

To get involved, join the next meeting on Friday, August 13, at 12:00 pm EDT. More details are here.

The Giving Chain is also part of the LFX Crowdfunding effort. Find out more here. 

Virtual Meetups 

• Wednesday, August 11, at 22:00 UTC / 17:00 CDT: Hyperledger Latinoamerica hosts “Haciendo que las cadenas de suministro sean seguras con blockchain”

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here.

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

Hyperledger Trade Finance Special Interest Group Guest Presentation: International Trade Future Self – Digital Twin

Join the Trade Finance SIG for a guest presentation by Brendan McEnroe, CTO of Trade Window, covering Digital Twin, DID, interoperability and the challenge for eBoL.

For more information on the meeting, which is Tuesday, August 3, at 8:30 AM BST, go here.

Hyperledger In-depth: An hour with KrypC

The first Hyperledger Fabric major release since v1.0, Fabric v2.0 delivers important new features and changes for users and operators alike, including support for new application and privacy patterns, enhanced governance around smart contracts, and new options for operating nodes. Hyperledger Fabric v2.0 introduces decentralized governance for smart contracts, with a new process for installing a chaincode on your peers and starting it on a channel. The new Fabric chaincode lifecycle allows multiple organizations to come to agreement on the parameters of a chaincode, such as the chaincode endorsement policy, before it can be used to interact with the ledger. 

In this discussion on “Best practices and major obstacles for upgrading to Hyperledger Fabric Version 2.2,” Chris Smith of KrypC will share his team’s experience updating their customer’s Hyperledger Fabric infrastructure to version 2.2 as well as some of the obstacles their customers faced and how KrypC navigated these obstacles to ensure a successful update.

Tune on Wednesday, August 4, at 9:00 AM PDT. For more information and to register, go here.

Video Replay: An Introduction to Minifabric, a Hyperledger Lab

The Minifabric demo by IBM’s Tong Li from a recent Hyperledger Media and Entertainment SIG meeting is now on YouTube. The video walks through how to easily setup a HyperledgerFabric blockchain network, install and upgrade chaincode, invoke transactions, inspect your ledger and change channel configurations. Watch it here.

Virtual Meetups 

• Thursday, August 5, at 17:00 UTC / 11:00 MDT: Hyperledger Denver hosts “Global Scouting of DLT / Blockchain Educational Opportunities”

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here.

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

Hyperledger Media and Entertainment Special Interest Group Guest Presentation: An Introduction to Minifabric

Join the Media and Entertainment SIG for a guest presentation by IBM’s Tong Li on Minifabric, a  Hyperledger Lab. Hyperledger Fabric is the clear leader in permission based blockchain frameworks. It has become the de facto standard for enterprise blockchain platforms. Its performance and data privacy capabilities are second to none in the very crowded blockchain fields. However, its powerful capabilities come with some challenges in its deployments, implementations and understanding, especially for those who are used to other blockchain systems such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. 

It does not have to be that way. With the right tooling, one can easily deploy Fabric networks, learn how Fabric works, understand the life cycles of Fabric artifacts and become an expert as a Fabric network administrator or chaincode developer. Minifabric allows users to easily setup a Fabric network, expand the network, install and upgrade their own chaincode, invoke transactions, inspect the ledger, and change configurations of their channel. This presentation will explain how to go through these tasks using Minifabric to develop valuable skills and a complete understanding of Hyperledger Fabric.

For more information on the meeting, which is Tuesday, July 27, at 9:00 AM PDT, go here.

Hyperledger In-depth: An hour with SIMBA Chain

Blockchains have been around for more than ten years, and, since 2015, a plethora of systems have been launched to target more flexible use cases. More recently, several enterprise blockchain systems, such as Consensys Quorum and Hyperledger Fabric, have been launched to make blockchain simpler to apply in complex organizational configurations. In this discussion on “Connecting Supplier and DoD Blockchains for Transparent Part Tracking,” Joel Neidig and Anjon Roy of SIMBA Chain will identify a specific Department of Defense use case, extrapolate requirements, and perform a thorough assessment of the different layers of the blockchain stack to identify the existing state of the art and undertake a gap analysis of the technology for this context. They will describe a platform that meets many of these challenges and show how they architected, designed, and implemented a solution for this use case for deployment at NAVAIR connecting transactions from two separate blockchain systems, Consensys Quorum and Hyperledger Fabric, and use a graph-based approach that preserves privacy while enabling full transparency across the military and supplier networks.

Tune on Wednesday, July 28, at 10:00 AM PDT. For more information and to register, go here.

Linux Foundation Training sale

Save $100 on all Linux Foundation Training training courses and certification exams through July 30 in recognition of Systems Admin Day. Just use the code SYSADMIN100 at checkout. You’ll also get a free hat! 

Find more details here. 

Virtual Meetups 

• Thursday, July 29, at 15:00 UTC / 16:00 BST: Hyperledger London hosts “Hyperledger Fabric: Next -generation Hyperledger Fabric managed services”
• Thursday, July 29, at 12:30 UTC / 18:00 IST: Hyperledger India Chapter hosts “FireFly: Introduction and Get Involved series for India/Asia Pacific”

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here. 

Welcome to the Weekend Update. Our goal with this weekly post is to share quick updates about online education, networking and collaboration opportunities and resources for the open source enterprise blockchain community. 

If you have suggestions for resources or events that we should spotlight in a future Weekend Update, let us know here using #HLWeekendUpdate. 

Hyperledger Supply Chain Special Interest Group Guest Presentation: Certifying the compliance of vehicle components from design to production at Renault

Join the Supply Chain SIG for a guest presentation by Odile Panciatic, blockchain project vice president, Renault Group, on “Certifying the compliance of vehicle components from design to production at Renault.”  

For more information on the meeting, which is Thursday, July 22, at noon EDT, go here.

Input Wanted: Open Source Jobs Report surveys

The Linux Foundation is once again partnering with edX for the next iteration of its Open Source Jobs Report. The report examines the latest trends in open source careers, which skills are in demand, what motivates open source job seekers, and how employers can attract and retain top talent. This year’s report will also examine the effects of the ongoing pandemic on the industry.

The report is anchored by two surveys, one of which explores what hiring managers are looking for in employees, and one focused on what motivates open source professionals. Ten respondents to each survey (twenty in total) will be randomly selected to receive a US$150 gift card to the new Linux Foundation online store as a thank you for participating!

We encourage you to share your thoughts and experiences. The surveys take around 10 minutes to complete, and all data is collected anonymously. 

To get more details or to take one of the surveys, go here. 

Input Wanted: Survey on Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in Open Source

The Linux Foundation and its partners are researching areas related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within open source communities in order to better understand contributor demographics and dynamics concerning overall participation. The objective is to identify sentiments and gaps to be addressed in open source communities specifically, as a means to advancing inclusive cultures in these environments. Whether you’re a long-time maintainer, a new contributor, or if you are an open source-curious person, we want to hear from you!

The survey will take 15 minutes or less, and will be used to create an anonymized open data set that is freely available to the public to better understand the people who use and create open source technologies. It survey is open to anyone who uses, contributes to, or thinks about open source software and is available in a number of languages.

To get more details or to take the survey, go here. 

Virtual Meetups 

• Thursday, July 22, at 15:00 UTC / 9:00 MDT: Hyperledger Denver hosts “FireFly: A multiparty system for enterprise data flows powered by blockchain”
• Thursday, July 22, at 16:00 UTC / 18:00 CEST: Hyperledger Budapest hosts “Hyperledger Fabric and Monitoring”
• Thursday, July 22 at 22:00 UTC / 19:00 BRT: Hyperledger Brazil Chapter hosts “Jornalismo na era do Blockchain e criptoativos” (Portuguese)

See the full Virtual Meetup schedule here.