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Dec 18
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Meet the TSC: Hart Montgomery, Fujitsu

By Hyperledger Blog

Back to our blog series that focuses on the motivations and backgrounds of the individuals that make up Hyperledger’s Technical Steering Committee (TSC). The TSC is a group of community-elected developers drawn from a pool of active participants and is a core element of Hyperledger’s Open Governance model. The TSC is responsible for all technical decisions – from which features to add, how to add them and when, among others.

Now let’s introduce the next Hyperledger TSC member, Hart Montgomery from Fujitsu . Let’s see what he had to say about Hyperledger, his role in the TSC and the community!

Describe your current role, background and why you wanted to be a part of the Hyperledger TSC?

I’m a cryptographic researcher.  I consider myself very lucky to have a day job where my main responsibility involves coming up with new cryptographic protocols for practical applications.  A typical day for me usually involves more work with a pencil and paper (or whiteboard and marker) than coding.

There are several reasons why I wanted to participate in the TSC.  Most importantly, I wanted to help out on issues regarding security.  I want to continue to help ensure that rigorously proven/tested crypto standards and consensus protocols are used and that we as a community can have confidence in the security of Hyperledger projects.  Perhaps somewhat selfishly, I want to make it as easy as possible to do research and development in the blockchain space.  To sum it all up, I think it’s beneficial to have someone with an academic crypto background on the TSC, and that’s my role.

Hart Montgomery, Research Scientist in Cryptography, Fujitsu

How are you or your company currently using Hyperledger technologies or how do you plan to?

Fujitsu is using Hyperledger in many different aspects of its business, and will probably use it for even more applications in the future.  Hyperledger will be used in everything from our cloud unit K5 to our fintech business to our healthcare offerings.  I like to say that blockchain (or, in our case, Hyperledger) is needed when you want the functionality of a distributed database where the users don’t have a trusted central authority on which they can all rely.  For an IT company like Fujitsu, this primitive turns up in a large number of business applications, so Hyperledger is important to a large amount of business units in Fujitsu.

What are the benefits of Hyperledger’s open governance model?

I think the (upcoming) Introduction to Hyperledger paper will make this argument better than I can here.  If you’d like a sneak peek, visit the whitepaper github (https://github.com/hyperledger/hyperledgerwp).

What advice would you offer other technologists or developers interested in getting started working on blockchain?

This is a question I get asked a lot!  I think it’s extremely useful for people looking to get involved in development to have a good understanding of the foundations of the technology.  I’ve seen quite a few blockchain proposals where a lack of understanding of cryptography or consensus algorithms has led to serious problems.  To that end, I’d highly recommend things like the Stanford cryptography course (taught by the inestimable Dan Boneh, with all course materials available for free at https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/courses/OnlineCrypto/).

What’s the one thing you hope to accomplish by being a part of Hyperledger’s TSC?

I have two main goals for what I’d like to accomplish on the TSC:  ensure that we maintain best security practices while using cutting-edge technology and help to bridge the gap between industry and academia in the permissioned blockchain space.  I think maintaining good security (and particularly ensuring that our distributed ledgers are algorithmically sound) speaks for itself.

I’m of the opinion that both the people and the techniques of the world of academic cryptography and security can be incredibly useful for building blockchain platforms and I would like to see more of both of them involved in Hyperledger.  On the other hand, blockchain is probably one of the few areas of computer science where practice has gotten a bit ahead of some of the academic research.  I think it’s important to accurately convey to the academic research community where we are and what we consider some of the important problems in the space to be.

What’s a missing feature or spec that you hope Hyperledger can add in the soon future?

I’d really like to see a shared crypto library that allows all of the projects to use the latest implementations of things like cutting-edge zero knowledge proof techniques and SNARKs, as well as modular calls for existing standardized crypto.  We don’t need three different people to build implementations of threshold signatures, for instance—we could save effort if we only had one library, and improve security as well.  This would hopefully make it much easier for developers of projects to interact with crypto primitives and save people working on and developing Hyperledger a lot of effort.  I’m planning on working on this in the near future.

What’s the biggest struggle or challenge you see Hyperledger having to overcome?

Charles Kettering once said, “If you want to kill any idea in the world, form a committee on it.”  While a cross-industry collaboration like Hyperledger offers a wide variety of benefits, we have to make sure that we can continue to move forward and make good progress despite the many differences of opinion held by Hyperledger members and contributors.  As more and more companies and people join Hyperledger (a very good thing!) it could become more and more difficult to move the projects forward.  For instance, Bitcoin has seen struggles due to large differences of opinion amongst key stakeholders.  While I think the current governance structure (and the people involved in it) are excellent, I view maintaining cohesion as the biggest challenge for Hyperledger in the long run.

What use cases are you most excited about with Hyperledger and/or blockchain?

As a cryptographer, I’m most excited about applications that have interesting and nontrivial confidentiality and privacy requirements, for the obvious reason that they typically involve novel uses of cryptography.  There are quite a few applications that involve heavy cryptography, and I’m excited to have the opportunity to work on them.

 

Nov 28
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Meet the TSC: Baohua Yang, Oracle

By Hyperledger Blog, Hyperledger Fabric

Back to our blog series that focuses on the motivations and backgrounds of the individuals that make up Hyperledger’s Technical Steering Committee (TSC). The TSC is a group of community-elected developers drawn from a pool of active participants and is a core element of Hyperledger’s Open Governance model. The TSC is responsible for all technical decisions – from which features to add, how to add them and when, among others.

Now let’s introduce the next Hyperledger TSC member, Baohua Yang from Oracle . Let’s see what he had to say about Hyperledger, his role in the TSC and the community!

How are you or your company currently using Hyperledger technologies or how do you plan to?

We are glad to join Hyperledger to help strengthen the underlying infrastructure for blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, especially to enhance the fundamental elements in scalability, security and interoperability. We recently launched Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service, our first blockchain as a platform service, which uses Hyperledger Fabric as its foundation. Leveraging Hyperledger’s technology with our own innovation, we are offering an enterprise-grade blockchain platform that is fully managed by Oracle and provides customers rapid provisioning and simplified operations with built-in monitoring, continuous backup, and point-in-time recovery.

What are the benefits of Hyperledger’s open governance model? 

The open governance model encourages collaboration among leaders and organizations in the industry, and academia to raise prevalent topics. It invites more voices to the community to share opinions, offer idea concepts, and engage to help ensure the proper design and implementation of distributed ledger technology components. Ultimately, this all helps create an active and healthy ecosystem. The more we can invite people into the discussions and development, the greater the chance for wider adoption of this exciting new technology.

What advice would you offer other technologists or developers interested in getting started working on blockchain?

There are a number of fundamental techniques required for working in blockchain, including distributed system architecture, cryptography and control theory. For anyone interested in exploring a career in blockchain, these are key areas I would recommend you emphasize. But, that being said, it is just as important to keep an open mind, and make an effort to have conversations with others. The only way we get better is through experience, discussions and exploration, so don’t be shy to ask question and try new things. I’d encourage anyone exploring blockchain technology to clone the available code and see what happens!

What’s the biggest struggle or challenge you see Hyperledger having to overcome?

As a joint effort from a number of enterprises and community developers, Hyperledger has been widely adopted in various scenarios. It would be beneficial to the larger Hyperledger community if we were able to collect feedback from previous adoptions in a streamlined process. This would allow us to quickly evolve the technology to meet real-world requirements in finance, supply chain, healthcare, and many other industries. In addition, we would love to help individuals and organizations quickly get started with blockchain technology and Hyperledger through additional education activities such as seminars, training sessions, documentations and more. Blockchain is quickly becoming a critical technology for enterprises and the more we can help others embrace this technology, the stronger the network becomes.

What use cases are you most excited about with Hyperledger and/or blockchain?

We are very excited by the promise that Hyperledger and blockchain technologies, in general, can help improve transactions in many industries, including supply chain and the financial services industry. From improving the traceability food and parts in transport, to improving invoice factoring, blockchain can reduce the total cost of complicated process, and increase the transparency and agility with fewer resource. We are excited to help build this foundation, encourage its growth and help other industries realize the benefits of blockchain.

Nov 14
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Meet the TSC: Binh Nguyen, State Street

By Hyperledger Blog, Hyperledger Fabric

Back to our blog series that focuses on the motivations and backgrounds of the individuals that make up Hyperledger’s Technical Steering Committee (TSC). The TSC is a group of community-elected developers drawn from a pool of active participants and is a core element of Hyperledger’s Open Governance model. The TSC is responsible for all technical decisions – from which features to add, how to add them and when, among others.

Now let’s introduce the next Hyperledger TSC member, Binh Nguyen from State Street. Let’s see what he had to say about Hyperledger, his role in the TSC and the community!

Describe your current role, background and why you wanted to be a part of the Hyperledger TSC?

I am currently a development director at State Street. I founded Open Blockchain, an open source project, which became the initial codebase of Hyperledger Fabric. I have been the chief architect of Hyperledger Fabric project since genesis and been working passionately with the community on architecture and implementation of Fabric. With my hands-on experience in blockchain, serving the community as a TSC member would allow me to help:

1) guide our technical projects in the right direction

2) involve in building and growing our community

3) learn from other members for my professional and personal development

4) be visible: after all, it’s not about who you know, it’s about who knows you

Binh Nguyen, State Street

What are the benefits of Hyperledger’s open governance model?

I’ve been working on open source projects and learned to appreciate the model, more so for blockchain due to its potential to transform our economy, governance systems and businesses. No one company or organization should have control of the technology but by an open governance, we can ensure it is driven by the interests of the community and humanity. This is, to me, the number one reason why we do what we do in Hyperledger.

What advice would you offer other technologists or developers interested in getting started working on blockchain?

For those who want to work on shaping blockchain technologies, I would say read up and join Hyperledger; we are always welcome more developers. For those who are looking at building blockchain applications, my advice is to start small with a clear use-case, like bitcoin, a very simple but powerful and elegant application of blockchain. The key is to maximize the network effect between members participating in the blockchain. If you can crystalize that, you have a good blockchain application use-case.

What’s the one thing you hope to accomplish by being a part of Hyperledger’s TSC?

I am grateful for having been elected to TSC. My key objective is to help our community foster leading exemplar of blockchain projects for the good of everyone.

What use cases are you most excited about with Hyperledger and/or blockchain?

I am excited about a lot of blockchain use-cases as this technology can be applied to many different areas, both public and private sectors. From voting records to asset titles management to shipping and logistics. But the set of use cases that I think would have the most immediately impact on everyone of us is finance: from clearing and settlements to capital markets to payments. Financial institutions are facing once-in-a-lifetime disruption, and that’s what I am so excited about blockchain.

 

Oct 19
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Meet the TSC: Dan Middleton, Intel

By Hyperledger Blog, Hyperledger Sawtooth

Back to our blog series that focuses on the motivations and backgrounds of the individuals that make up Hyperledger’s Technical Steering Committee (TSC). The TSC is a group of community-elected developers drawn from a pool of active participants and is a core element of Hyperledger’s Open Governance model. The TSC is responsible for all technical decisions – from which features to add, how to add them and when, among others.

Now let’s introduce the next Hyperledger TSC member, Dan Middleton from Intel. Let’s see what he had to say about Hyperledger, his role in the TSC and the community!

Describe your current role, background and why you wanted to be a part of the Hyperledger TSC?

My background is in distributed systems and applied cryptography with a particular interest in anonymous credentials. I’ve spent many years working across the boundary of research and commercialization. Currently I’m Head of Technology for Blockchain at Intel.

Being a part of the TSC is a great opportunity to be directly involved in this new and interesting field. I get to work alongside bright people with diverse technical views and see their approaches to the challenges we face.

Dan Middleton, Head of Technology for Intel’s Blockchain and Distributed Ledger program & maintainer of Hyperledger Sawtooth

How are you or your company currently using Hyperledger technologies or how do you plan to?

Intel is using Hyperledger Sawtooth in a number of internal and external engagements.

I’m personally quite interested in Supply Chain applications of blockchain. I’m really proud of work from other committers on this latest addition to Sawtooth’s capabilities.

It’s going to let people automatically add telemetry to records and provide provenance for anything that needs to be tracked (food, software, hardware, etc.). That aspect of traceability is one of the strengths of blockchain I’d like to see tested in the market.

It’s inspired by the case study that Intel previously contributed: https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/sawtooth/seafood-case-study

What are the benefits of Hyperledger’s open governance model?

Transparency drives a lot of really good behaviors. Decision making is all in the open and it’s clear for anyone who’s interested to see and participate in how the technology is built. (It’s also an interesting parallel with operating distributed ledgers).

What’s the most important technical milestone for Hyperledger to reach by the end of 2017?

There’s a number of important technical milestones for each project and workgroup under the Hyperledger Umbrella. I’m focused on the Sawtooth 1.0 release and definitions of critical metrics in our new Performance and Scalability workgroup.

What advice would you offer other technologists or developers interested in getting started working on blockchain?

Pick something that you are passionate about.  

What’s the one thing you hope to accomplish by being a part of Hyperledger’s TSC?

Maintaining the Intellectual honesty of the project. There’s a lot of uncertainty and ignorance about blockchain in the marketplace. We have an opportunity to present a responsible view of the technology so consumers and companies can make rational decisions.

What’s a missing feature or spec that you hope Hyperledger can add in the soon future?

The industry needs a way to meaningfully measure the performance of blockchains. Metrics designed for monolithic systems will not help people make good decisions about blockchain platforms where availability and integrity features are paramount. The work we are starting in the Perf. & Scalability WG should arrive at useful measures that reflect the unique aspects of blockchains.

What’s the biggest struggle or challenge you see Hyperledger having to overcome?

Hyperledger is NOT a single ledger and is not a single project but this is immediately confusing to everyone on their first encounter with the name. As an umbrella, Hyperledger encompasses a wide range of projects each with a unique contribution to the field. Advertising the full breadth of work here is a constant challenge.

Oct 05
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Meet the TSC: Mic Bowman, Intel

By Hyperledger Blog

We return to our blog series that focuses on the motivations and backgrounds of the individuals that make up Hyperledger’s Technical Steering Committee (TSC). The TSC is a group of community-elected developers drawn from a pool of active participants and is a core element of Hyperledger’s Open Governance model. The TSC is responsible for all technical decisions – from which features to add, how to add them and when, among others.

Now let’s introduce the next Hyperledger TSC member, Mic Bowman from Intel. Let’s see what he had to say about Hyperledger, his role in the TSC and the community!

Describe your current role, background and why you wanted to be a part of the Hyperledger TSC?

I lead the distributed ledgers research group in Intel Labs, focused on the use of advanced processor technologies for improving the scalability, resiliency, and confidentiality of blockchain technologies. The Hyperledger Working Group provides a channel for delivering new blockchain technologies to the broadest possible base of enterprise users.

Mic Bowman, principal engineer & head of the distributed ledger research group at Intel

What are the benefits of Hyperledger’s open governance model?

The open governance model ensures that interests of the community supersede the interests of any individual organization. It fosters an environment where companies can work together to deliver common building-block technologies that enable lost-cost experimentation and ultimately deployment of enterprise blockchain applications.

What advice would you offer other technologists or developers interested in getting started working on blockchain?

Blockchain is not one technology. It is an approach to solving problems of decentralized trust. To be successful, start with the problem you want to solve, not the technology you want use to solve it.

Sep 29
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Meet the TSC: Chris Ferris, IBM

By Hyperledger Blog

Describe your current role, background and why you wanted to be a part of the Hyperledger TSC?

I’m IBM’s CTO for Open Technology and as such, responsible for all of IBM’s strategic open source initiatives. Blockchain technology is one of the most important new technology directions for IBM and given our long standing preference for open technology under open governance, I worked closely with the Linux Foundation to help make Hyperledger a reality. I’ve served on the TSC since its inception and had the honor of being elected to serve as its chair twice by the organization’s technical community. As to why I want to serve on the TSC, basically to help the community deliver a consistent experience as possible amongst the various projects and to help the various project communities find opportunity to collaborate with each other.

Chris Ferris, CTO for Open Technology at IBM

How are you or your company currently using Hyperledger technologies or how do you plan to?

IBM has offerings and solutions based on Hyperledger Fabric and Composer – two of the Hyperledger projects that IBM incubated.

What are the benefits of Hyperledger’s open governance model?

IBM believes strongly that open source should be developed, where possible, under open governance. We’ve worked closely with the Linux Foundation and other open source foundations to help move key projects in this direction. The benefits of open governance are myriad, but important characteristics are

– eliminates single vendor/individual control over a project’s evolution,
– greater potential for diversity of community and ecosystem growth
– greater potential for sustained success
– collectively, diverse communities under open governance tend to innovate at a greater pace than single vendor/individual projects

What’s the most important technical milestone for Hyperledger to reach by the end of 2017?

I’d like to see us make greater strides towards integration and interoperability between projects.

What advice would you offer other technologists or developers interested in getting started working on blockchain?

Get involved in one of the Hyperledger hosted projects 😉 In all seriousness, the best way to get involved in any open source initiative is to start at the edges and work your way in. Start by fixing bugs and helping to improve documentation as these are often the underserved aspects of any project and help in burning down any technical debt is always welcome. As you become more comfortable, start thinking about taking on more work, such as working on a new feature with others in the community, etc.

What’s the one thing you hope to accomplish by being a part of Hyperledger’s TSC?

The continued success of Hyperledger and its hosted projects.

What’s a missing feature or spec that you hope Hyperledger can add in the soon future?

I think we need to devote more to thinking about how the various projects might one day interoperate and/or compose with one another. I also think that this needs to be more than merely an academic exercise. It needs to be based in real, working code with the implementation support of multiple of the various projects.

What’s the biggest struggle or challenge you see Hyperledger having to overcome?

Generally, the community’s greatest challenge is working across project boundaries. It is tough when the development community around a given project serves as the foundation for vendor offerings as there are always demands on people’s time and resource expenditures. Making time for such interactions is critically important and often yields the best results – but this can be a tough sell.

Sep 21
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Meet the TSC: Kelly Olson, Intel

By Hyperledger Blog, Hyperledger Sawtooth

Back to our blog series that focuses on the motivations and backgrounds of the individuals that make up Hyperledger’s Technical Steering Committee (TSC). As a reminder, the TSC is a group of community-elected developers drawn from a pool of active participants and is a core element of Hyperledger’s Open Governance model. The TSC is responsible for all technical decisions – from which features to add, how to add them and when, among others.

Now let’s introduce our next Hyperledger TSC member, Kelly Olson from Intel. Let’s see what he had to say about Hyperledger, his role in the TSC and the community!

Describe your current role, background and why you wanted to be a part of the Hyperledger TSC?

My current role is as Director of Distributed Ledger Technology at Intel. Hyperledger is the leading organization in the open source development of blockchains for enterprise. I’m looking forward to advancing this cause and encouraging collaboration among the many Hyperledger projects.

Kelly Olson, Director of Distributed Ledger at Intel Corporation

How are you or your company currently using Hyperledger technologies or how do you plan to?

Intel is leveraging Hyperledger Sawtooth for a number of internal and external deployments.

What are the benefits of Hyperledger’s open governance model?

For technology to be trustworthy it is important that not only the source code be open source, but also the process by which it is managed. It is important that anyone can contribute to the process so that the best ideas can be used.

What’s the most important technical milestone for Hyperledger to reach by the end of 2017?

I’d like to see more projects mature to a 1.0 release in the remaining few months of 2017.

What advice would you offer other technologists or developers interested in getting started working on blockchain?

The best way to understand the benefits blockchain provides, and how it can be used is to start experimenting. I’d recommend that anyone interested start with one of the getting started tutorials provided by most Hyperledger projects.

What’s the one thing you hope to accomplish by being a part of Hyperledger’s TSC?

I hope to ensure that software coming out of Hyperledger is secure and developed with best practices.

What’s a missing feature or spec that you hope Hyperledger can add in the soon future?

I think that interoperability and privacy are two elements that have yet to be solved in an adequate way for blockchain software. I’d like to see more collaboration between the projects with a goal of achieving some level of interoperability.

What’s the biggest struggle or challenge you see Hyperledger having to overcome?

I think we are in the very early stages of blockchain deployment. Today blockchains have limitations around privacy and scalability that need to be addressed before widespread adoption.

What use cases are you most excited about with Hyperledger and/or blockchain?

Blockchains provide a few unique capabilities not provided by traditional distributed databases. These include the ability for multiple organizations to securely share a common record in a more ‘democratic manner’ and they also provide strong guarantees around immutability. The best use cases I’ve seen leverage one, or both, of these properties.

 

Sep 12
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Meet the TSC: Arnaud Le Hors, IBM

By Hyperledger Blog, Hyperledger Burrow, Hyperledger Fabric, Hyperledger Sawtooth

As promised, we’re kicking off a new blog series that focuses on the motivations and backgrounds of the individuals that make up Hyperledger’s Technical Steering Committee (TSC).

The TSC is a group of community-elected developers drawn from a pool of active participants and is a core element of Hyperledger’s Open Governance model. The model has worked for The Linux Foundation for 15+ years and therefore has been purposefully passed down to each open source project to offer an even playing field for all those involved – coming as close as possible to pure technical meritocracy as one can get. The TSC is responsible for all technical decisions – from which features to add, how to add them and when, among others.

With that background, let’s introduce Hyperledger TSC member, Arnaud Le Hors from IBM. Let’s see what he had to say about Hyperledger, his role in the TSC and the community!

Describe your current role, background and why you wanted to be a part of the Hyperledger TSC?

I’m Senior Technical Staff Member of Web & Blockchain Open Technologies at IBM. I’ve been working on open technologies for over 25 years, focusing on standards and open source development, both as a staff member of the X Consortium and W3C, and as a representative for IBM. I was editor of several key web specifications including HTML and DOM and was a pioneer of open source with the release of libXpm in 1990. I participated in several prominent open source projects including the X Window System and Xerces, the Apache XML parser. I currently am the main representative for IBM at W3C, an elected member of the Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee, and a contributor to Hyperledger Fabric.

My main goal is for Hyperledger to not merely be successful technically but be successful as a true Open Source project with an active, vibrant, and diverse community. There are too many projects out there that claim to be open source but fail to have an open governance. In my role on the TSC I will continue to strive to make this community truly open.

Arnaud Le Hors, Senior Technical Staff Member of Web & Blockchain Open Technologies at IBM

How are you or your company currently using Hyperledger technologies or how do you plan to?

IBM Blockchain offering is based on Hyperledger Fabric. After a period of development of proof of concepts we’ve now entered a phase in which we see more and more projects going into production. Some of these like Everledger and Maersk have been highly publicized already with the tracking of diamonds and shipping containers respectively. What I find interesting is that these projects show how broadly applicable blockchain technology really is. This goes way beyond cryptocurrencies.

What are the benefits of Hyperledger’s open governance model?

The power of Open Source is to make it possible for people with different backgrounds and skills to come together and work collaboratively to everybody’s benefit. Everyone gets more out of the project than they individually contribute. This model however only reaches its full potential with an open governance where all contributors are treated equally and have a say in the direction of the project. Without open governance, developers are merely treated as cheap resources willing to give their time and IP without any say as to where the project goes. Sadly, many projects typically led by big corporations do function like that. As I said earlier, it is my goal for Hyperledger to be truly open and part of my role at IBM has been to help our development team to switch from a closed development environment to open source. This doesn’t just happen. One needs to understand what it takes and apply themselves to it.

What’s the most important technical milestone for Hyperledger to reach by the end of 2017?

We’ve already seen the release of Hyperledger Fabric 1.0 earlier this year, Hyperledger Sawtooth and Hyperledger Iroha are working towards their own 1.0 release. I think it would be a great achievement to see those three projects, which were the first to start within Hyperledger, reach that major milestone by the end of the year.

What advice would you offer other technologists or developers interested in getting started working on blockchain?

Blockchain is a new technology. In many respects everybody’s still learning so it is a great time to get started. As more and more companies launch projects leveraging blockchain they will be seeking developers with the needed skills. Those who already worked on developing these skills will become valuable resources. Because all of the Hyperledger technologies are open source there is no cost to getting started. It is merely a matter of being willing to invest your time. Practically speaking, I would advise people to start by familiarizing themselves with the different projects to get some general understanding of the characteristics of the different frameworks. They all include documentation and tutorials that are can be used to get started.

What’s the one thing you hope to accomplish by being a part of Hyperledger’s TSC?

As mentioned before, if there is one thing I hope to accomplish it is to continue driving the project towards being truly open, with not only code in open source but also with an open governance. For example, last year, I took a leading role in the development of the Incubation exit criteria. These are criteria the TSC uses to gauge whether a project is ready to move out of Incubation into Active status. The fact that the criteria we defined are focusing on the maturity of the project – how the project is run, how diverse the community is, etc – rather than the maturity of the software that is developed is a reflection of that goal.

What’s a missing feature or spec that you hope Hyperledger can add in the soon future?

As we see more and more projects reach their 1.0 release, I hope we get more cross pollination happening between projects. For instance, an effort was recently put into integrating Borrow – a permissioned Ethereum virtual machine – with Sawtooth. I hope we get to see more of that kind of efforts happening moving forward.

What’s the biggest struggle or challenge you see Hyperledger having to overcome?

As understanding of the different major components of a blockchain framework improves, with help from the Architecture Working Group, it would be great to be able to identify pieces that can be externalized and shared by the different frameworks rather than have every project host its own. This is however not an easy task and with each project focusing on advancing its own framework it is difficult to get resources allocated to this kind of cross project effort. Once all the projects become more mature it should be easier to find resources for this but it will be harder to make significant changes to frameworks that have already been deployed in production.

What use cases are you most excited about with Hyperledger and/or blockchain?

Voting. Blockchain provides a distributed, secure, and audit-able record that fits perfectly the need of voting processes. What is more important than protecting our democracies?

Aug 28
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Meet the New Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee

By Hyperledger Blog

We’re pleased to announce the results of Hyperledger’s Technical Steering Committee (TSC) annual election! The nomination period was held from August 10 to August 16. The voting period ended on August 23.

Please join us in welcoming the following new or returning members to the TSC (in alphabetical order):

  • Arnaud Le Hors
  • Baohua Yang
  • Binh Nguyen
  • Christopher Ferris
  • Dan Middleton
  • Greg Haskins
  • Hart Montgomery
  • Jonathan Levi (new)
  • Kelly Olson (new)
  • Mic Bowman
  • Nathan George (new)

The main objective of the TSC is to drive technical governance for Hyperledger. The TSC helps support the overall mission of Hyperledger to create an open source, technical community to benefit the ecosystem of Hyperledger solution providers and users, focused on blockchain and shared ledger use cases that work across a variety of industry solutions.

The TSC will elect a TSC Chair, who will also serve as a voting member of the Governing Board, and is expected to act as a liaison between the Governing Board and technical leadership of Hyperledger. Once the TSC chair vote is finalized, it will be announced to the community.

Specifically, the TSC is responsible for:

  • Coordinating the technical direction of Hyperledger;
  • Approving project proposals in accordance with a project lifecycle document to be developed, approved and maintained by the TSC;
  • Designating top level projects;
  • Creating sub-committees or working groups to focus on cross-project technical issues or opportunities;
  • Coordinating technical community engagement with the end user with respect to requirements, architecture, implementation, use cases, etc.;
  • Communicating with external and industry organizations concerning project technical matters;
  • Appointing representatives to work with other open source or standards communities;
  • Establishing community norms, workflows or policies for releases;
  • Discussing, seeking consensus, and where necessary, voting on technical matters relating to the code base that affect multiple projects; and
  • Establishing election processes for maintainers or other leadership roles in the technical community that are not within the scope of any single project.

We plan to kick off a “Meet the Hyperledger TSC” blog series where we will introduce each TSC member individually and explain what they’re working on and their role in the community. Be sure to keep an eye out for it in the coming weeks. Finally, you can plug into the community at github, Rocket.Chat the wiki or our mailing list. You can also follow Hyperledger on Twitter or email us with any questions: info@hyperledger.org.

 

 

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