Please include:

• GitHub ID to add: https://github.com/dkulic
• Project to be added to: AnonCreds

One of:

• Team to be added to:
• Role: Maintainer -- anoncreds-maintainer
  • Read
  • Triage
  • Write
  • Manage
  • Admin

Please include:

• GitHub ID to removed: taccatisid
• Project to be removed from: besu

They have been removed from besu-maintainers group, just need to be removed from Hyperledger org.

Thanks

Please remove:

• GitHub ID to removed: frankisawesome
• Project to be removed from: besu

I've removed from besu-maintainers group - just need to remove from Hyperledger org

Thanks

Please include:

• GitHub ID to add: Chengxuan
• Project to be added to: FireFly
• Team to be added to: https://github.com/orgs/hyperledger/teams/firefly-committers

Please include:

• GitHub ID to add: liran-funaro
• Project to be added to: No project, just to the Github org please.

One of:

• Team to be added to: Fabric contributors

Please include:

• GitHub ID to add: gabriel-trintinalia
• Project to be added to: besu
• Role:
  • Write

Nomination 🗳️

Nominee Name

Venkatraman Ramakrishna
https://github.com/VRamakrishna

Short Personal Bio

Venkatraman Ramakrishna is a Senior Researcher in IBM Research-India (Bangalore) with almost 15 years of industry experience in Microsoft (Bing) and IBM, following a B. Tech. from IIT Kharagpur and an MS and PhD from UCLA. With a background in distributed systems, mobile computing, and security, blockchain technology has been the focus of his research and development activities since 2015. He has been actively involving in evaluating, using, and building, Hyperledger technologies since the inception of the foundation. Ramakrishna has built enterprise blockchain solutions in trade finance and shared KYC for IBM using Hyperledger Fabric, and conducted performance measurement and analysis of Fabric, contributing to the Fabric Test source code. Since 2019, he has been building tools and protocols for interoperability among DLT platforms and networks, and is the creator and lead maintainer of the Weaver Labs project that is now being merged with Hyperledger Cactus to form Hyperledger Cacti. Ramakrishna has co-authored a book on Hyperledger Fabric development, presently in its second edition, titled "Blockchain with Hyperledger Fabric: Build decentralized applications using Hyperledger Fabric 2".

Short Personal Pitch

I have keenly followed, and been involved in, Hyperledger Foundation activities since its inception, and was one of the earliest users and evaluators of the Fabric project. I have subscribed to, and advocated, the enterprise blockchain vision championed by Hyperledger, promoting it in a limited way by co-authoring a book on Fabric development to make this technology comprehensible and accessible to the average programmer. I have tracked the heterogeneity and fragmentation of the DLT ecosystem for several years, prompting me to conduct research and development in enabling interoperability, an area in which I have made seminal contributions culminating in the Weaver Labs project. Over the past year, I have been promoting the cause of consolidating all the interoperability efforts under Hyperledger within a common project, which led to the creation of Hyperledger Cacti (announced in HGF 2022) as a merger of Hyperledger Cactus and Weaver. I have been actively, and will continue to be, involved in promoting standards for interoperability among various distributed ledger technologies and networks built on those DLTs, both within Hyperledger and under independent standards bodies like the IETF. I believe that interoperability (or the lack of it) is one of the foremost challenges facing the adoption of enterprise blockchain technologies, and if elected as a TOC member, I will ensure that cutting edge tools for interoperability are provided within Hyperledger and will promote the adoption of these tools across various Hyperledger projects, setting a benchmark for safety and scalability.

Please include:

• GitHub repo to transfer: https://github.com/bcgov/aries-endorser-service
• Project to be added to: Aries
• Teams with which access: (examples on GitHub team list)
  • Team name: aries-admins, aries-cloudagent-python committers (maintain)
  • Role:
    • Read
    • Triage
    • Write
    • Manage
    • Admin

FYI @WadeBarnes @ianco

Discussion 🗣

If you are tagged on this issue it means you are eligible to vote in the upcoming Hyperledger Foundation TOC Election.

Context

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Election process: https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/TSC/TOC+Election+2022

Eligible Voters

@0x009922
@6r1d
@adecaro
@adeebahmed
@adityajoshi12
@agunde406
@ahamlat
@ahmed82
@airvin
@ajsutton
@aklenik
@ale-linux
@alexandratran
@Alexey-N-Chernyshov
@aludvik
@ameliabradley
@anagha-ks
@anandbanik
@andrew-coleman
@andrewwhitehead
@antonydenyer
@AntTargett
@appetrosyan
@arsulegai
@ashcherbakov

Please include:

• GitHub ID to add: BAStos525
• Project to be added to: Iroha

Team so be added to:
iroha-admin

Please include:

• githubid: davidkel
• project: hyperledger/fabric-chaincode-node

I'm wanting to not be defined as a maintainer anymore for this project

Please include:

• GitHub ID to add: @CHempel-esatus
• Project to be added to: Aries

One of:

• Team to be added to: aries-framework-dotnet-committers

• Role:

  • Read
  • Triage
  • Write
  • Manage <------- This one
  • Admin

• Notes: Discord postings where made on the aries and aries-framework-dotnet channels soliciting input from the community and no objections were received. The intention is that Christopher and Sebastian Bickerle be made maintainers. It appears that Sebastian already is a committer. The change is requested because the previous maintainers are not being responsive in handling issues and pull requests. We might want to look at possibly removing at least one team member, as they have not been active in Hyperledger for quite a while.

Thanks

Please include:

• GitHub ID to add: hkny
• Project to be added to: AnonCreds

One of:

• Team to be added to: Anoncreds-spec-editors
• Role:
  • Read
  • Triage
  • Write
  • Manage
  • Admin

Please include:

• GitHub ID to add: @janrtvld
• Project to be added to: Aries Framework JavaScript

One of:

• Team to be added to: https://github.com/orgs/hyperledger/teams/aries-framework-javascript-committers

PR in AFJ to add to maintainers: openwallet-foundation/credo-ts#1016

Please include:

• GitHub ID to add: https://github.com/QuentinI
• Project to be added to: hyperledger/iroha-python

One of:

• Team to be added to:
• Role:
  • Read
  • Triage
  • Write
  • Manage

Nomination 🗳️

Nominee Name

Jim Zhang
https://github.com/jimthematrix

Short Personal Bio

Jim is the Co-Founder and Head of Protocol Engineering of Kaleido, the creator of Hyperledger FireFly. He has been involved in the permissioned blockchain space since early 2016, starting with the development of Hyperledger Fabric 1.0 as a committer and responsible for the node.js SDK and the node.js chaincode engine, and more recently as a committer of the Hyperledger FireFly project specifically responsible for the fabconnect component.

Jim co-founded Kaleido in late 2017 after exiting from his 17-year career at IBM as the lead architect of the IBM Blockchain Platform. Since then he has spent a lot of time in the various open source communities around enterprise blockchain technologies, including: Quorum, Hyperledger Besu, Hyperledger Fabric Go SDK, contributing both code and ideas, and most recently serving on the Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee for the 2022 term. He has also been active in the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance technical working group, co-authoring multiple versions (v2, v3, v4, v5) of the EEA Client and Blockchain Technical Specifications.

At Kaleido Jim is responsible for the platform's support of the blockchain protocols including Quorum, Hyperledger Besu, Hyperledger Fabric, go-ethereum, Polygon Edge, and R3 Corda, as well as advanced technologies such as cross-chain interoperability (based on Hash Timed Lock Contracts), Zero Knowledger Proof tokens (based on zether) and Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs).

Jim has written extensively about the permissioned blockchain protocols, his deep technical analysis on Enterprise Ethereum vs. Fabric vs. Corda has been a popular authoritative source for protocol evaluations.

Short Personal Pitch

I would like to nominate myself to serve on the Technical Oversight Committee. I will strive to be a voice of technical acumen, as most of the technical issues and project proposals coming before the committee involve vastly different areas of technologies. I have unique strengths in having hands-on experiences in many technical areas both under the Hyperledger umbrella as well as those that may become future Hyperledger projects.

If elected as a member of the TOC, I will work with the other members to ensure that we continue to nurture a collection of vibrant technical communities around the top level projects as well as the labs projects, by holding the project leaders responsible for their continued dedication to the vision and success of the projects. At Kaleido for the past 5 years I have got front-row perspective into the struggles of enterprise customers in adopting blockchain and related technologies, as we participated in calls with leaders in both technical and business ranks and strategize on the best route to building and launching the groundbreaking solutions. This is something I can bring to bear as the TOC gives considerations to future proposals for projects and labs, as well as helping current projects and labs that hold the most significance to the success of Hyperledger as a whole.

Last but not least, Asia is a vibrant region in both blockchain technology development and adoption. With my Chinese heritage, fluent in both English and Chinese, and experiences in working with consortium projects in the region (Australia, China, Japan, Korea, Singapore Thailand) and standard bodies such as CAICT, I can help to connect the talents from that part of the world, and bridge the communication gap in both directions that may exist due to culture and timezone differences.

Thank you for your considerations and support!

Jim Zhang

Nomination 🗳️

Nominee Name

Sam Curren
telegramsam

Short Personal Bio

My career has been spent in the digital identity space, with a 7-year span spent in lean manufacturing and supply chain traceability. I have an MS in Computer Science and got hooked on identity by attending IIW as a college student. I've been involved early in Indy, and from the very beginning of the Aries project. I've been heavily involved in DIDComm spec development, first during its inception in Aries, and then at the DIF working group organized to support its progress.

Short Personal Pitch

I'd like to contribute to the TOC to help support and guide efforts within Hyperledger. I have appreciated Hyperledger's support of the projects I've participated in up to this point, and I'm looking forward to contributing back to those support efforts. My years as a working group co-chair have helped me understand the challenges and opportunities that groups and efforts face. My participation in other identity-related communities can also help with external coordination for identity-related topics.

Thank you for considering me for this role.

Nomination 🗳️

Bobbi Muscara

Short Personal Bio
Bobbi Muscara is an Author and CEO of Ledger Academy a Blockchain Education Training Center. Bobbi has been working on educational initiatives for technology training for over 22 years. Serving as the Chairperson of the Learning Materials Working for the past 5 years, she manages the bi-weekly meetings, curates the Hyperledger community resources library, and leads various task forces. The most recent is the Documentation Standards Taskforce, whose mission is to create templates and documentation standards to help project maintainers develop community educational resources. Bobbi has been a member of the Hyperledger Technical Oversight Committee for two years working with the Greenhouse Taskforce, Global Forum Planning Committee, Diversity and Inclusion Taskforce and the Hyperledger Mentorship program.

Short Personal Pitch
It has been an honor to be a member of the Hyperledger TSC and now the TOC and I hope to be able to continue to serve and advance the educational support to the Hyperledger Community. I look forward to continuing working on the Documentation Standards Taskforce and look forward to having a leadership role on the New Member Onboarding Task Force. Along with hosting the Hyperledger Princeton Meetup Group and Princeton Blockchain and A.I. with an active 2000+ members, I speak at industry events about the Hyperledger Blockchains and how folks can get involved. Ledger Academy is the sole sponsor for the Giving Chain, and the D2R application, a social impact blockchain project leveraging Hyperledger Technologies and I am organizing a Global Hackathon for spring 2023 with the goal of getting this project into the Hyperledger Labs.
Ledger Academy is currently updating the Linus Foundation EdX course "Introduction to Blockchain Technologies" and moderating the Hyperledger Fabric Developers and Architect class forums. Ledger Academy courses are taught on-line and in the Ledger Academy Metaverse.
It would be a privilege to have the opportunity to work with the new TOC in 2023!

Please include:

• GitHub ID to add: anna-jackson
• Project to be added to: FireFly
• Team to be added to: https://github.com/orgs/hyperledger/teams/firefly-committers

Nomination 🗳️

Nominee Name

Arun S M
@arsulegai

Short Personal Bio

I am a Staff Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech India, leading blockchain initiatives. Prior to this I worked at Intel's India facility on their blockchain initiatives. My blockchain journey started as an experiment to run chaincode in TEE when Hyperledger Fabric was at 0.6 version. At present I serve 2nd term as a Technical Oversight Committee member and co-lead the Hyperledger India Chapter. My first code contribution was to Hyperledger Sawtooth project, where I also became a maintainer. Now I am a maintainer of Hyperledger Bevel and a lab HLF Connector. I also lead and maintain the Hyperledger Tooling repositories.

Short Personal Pitch

I would like to nominate myself to serve on the Technical Oversight Committee. My position at Walmart places me uniquely in the community where at one end we experience use of blockchain at scale like nowhere else, and on the other end we are pioneers in adopting new features. At the same time, this position helps in determining what as an end user organization would like to prioritize when it comes to the advancement in the blockchain technology. My approach to lead a team at work is to follow clean code, and clearly defined process. Hearing everybody's voices, listening from the grounds up and also listening to the people who use the technology will pave the way to better decision making.

In my 2nd term as a Hyperledger TOC member I focused on building a stronger and empowered contributor base. The efforts towards which were to make information available to new contributors, encourage continued participation in any way possible, consider maintainers' say in any decision. The year saw major updates to the charter, came the time for new projects but more importantly EOL'd projects. It was great to see the scope for Hyperledger defined to include multiparty system solutions. At present, I am leading the Hyperledger Security Process Update Task Force. Out in the open source community, there's a lot that happened in the last one year.

It is my honor to be seen as a leader in blockchain technology space. The global collaboration along with other such leaders led to Hyperledger Challenge 2022. The event was to welcome new ideas, hone them by bridging to the existing ecosystem. It is amazing to see couple of projects that were part of the challenge are pursuing to gain full project status under the Hyperledger Foundation. I also had an opportunity to speak at the global forum and serve as a program committee member. Thanks to Hyperledger Foundation team for the recognition during the conference in Dublin. I have always supported diverse participation, enjoyed educating learners about the technology. Continuing on what is setup last year, I am mentoring a project to improve user experience with the https://start-here.hyperledger.org/. The Hyperledger Tooling repositories are now playing key role in bringing latest information from the community right through the Hyperledger Wiki space. Delegating activities and encouraging community leaders, establishing workstreams/taskforces has exceeded expectations in participation of Hyperledger India Chapter's weekly meetings. Encourage Indian student community, support learning and expose contribution opportunities. One such effort is to establish Hyperledger India Chapter Student Society.

That's not all, code contributions is still my top priority. Hyperledger's developer showcase series covers a few more questions on my interests. From the time I started to help out the community based in India, it has been my pleasure to meet several tech enthusiasts. It is amazing to see how people are willing to join back, contribute back once they understand the technology. Often times it is lack of awareness that makes one think that Hyperledger community is out of their reach. The TOC representation will help me to bridge the voices and bring in new perspectives. My next year priorities will be to bridge voices of sister open source community groups, encourage the projects that will accelerate the technology adoption.

There is a saying in India/Sanksrit "Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam" which translates to world is one family. Having a diverse representation in the TOC, from different demographies and geographies will make it a much stronger blockchain community in the world.

Please include:

• GitHub ID to add: ahamlat
• Project to be added to: besu

One of:

• Team to be added to

Nomination (TOC voting member — $2022$ )

I hereby self-nominate for the Hyperledger Technical oversight committee.

Personal Bio

Relation to Hyperledger

I am the tech lead of the Hyperledger Iroha project, and have overseen the major development of the project for this year. I have assembled the team currently developing it and provided guidance to any and all outside contributors to the project.

I have volunteered help to the Hyperledger Ursa project, lending both experience in Rust as well as any experience of formal verification accrued at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

Relevant experience

I have primarily academic computer science and computational physics background. I was one of the chief proponents of Free and Open Source software at the Slavonic University of Armenia. I have accrued experience of:

• $15$ years in C++ ( $5$ years academic, $3$ years FOSS contributions, $3$ years Commercial and $4$ competitive),
• StandardML ( $1$ year academic),
• Python (as a Bayesian data scientist for $3$ years),
• Rust ( $1$ year commercial, $1$ year FOSS contribution),

Personal Pitch

I'd like to use this as an opportunity to further help the growth of the Hyperledger ecosystem to facilitate inter-project communication, mutual help and prosperous interaction with outside contributors.

Please include:

• GitHub ID to add: @6r1d
• Project to be added to: HL Iroha

One of:

• Team to be added to: https://github.com/orgs/hyperledger/teams/iroha-maintainers
• Role: the one set by the team rules, please

Nomination 🗳️

Nominee Name

Arnaud Le Hors
https://github.com/lehors

Short Personal Bio

Arnaud Le Hors is Senior Technical Staff Member of Open Technologies at IBM, working on a range of technologies including Blockchain, Edge Computing, the Web, and Open Source security. He has been working on standards and open source development for over 25 years. Arnaud currently is the main representative for IBM at W3C and INCITS, a member of the Hyperledger Technical Oversight Committee and contributor to Fabric, a member of the European Blockchain Observatory, the chair of the EdgeX Foundry Open Retail Reference Architecture (ORRA) project, and a member of the OpenSSF community.

Short Personal Pitch

It has been an honor to be a member of the Hyperledger TSC since the beginning of the organization and I hope to be able to continue to serve, drawing from my extensive experience in Hyperledger as well as other open source and standards organizations, to keep helping make the Hyperledger Foundation and its various projects successful.

Nomination 🗳️

Nominee Name

Bhaskar (@bhaskarvilles )

Short Personal Bio

My research interests include Blockchain interoperability, Blockchain Security and Projects I'm currently working as Developer at I FLO TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD.

Short Personal Pitch

To make HyperLedger projects more stable and secure and therefore membership beings many more duties and responsibilities to overcome my limitations of Contribution to the community

Please include:

• GitHub ID to add: https://github.com/guijd3p
• Project to be added to: aries-vcx

One of:

• Team to be added to: aries-vcx-contributors

Please include:

• GitHub ID to add: tock-ibm
• Project to be added to: No project, just to the Github org please.

One of:

• Team to be added to: Fabric contributors

Nomination 🗳️

Nominee Name

Marcus Brandenburger (mbrandenburger)

Short Personal Bio

Marcus Brandenburger is a Research Staff Member at the IBM Research Lab in Zurich, Switzerland working in the area of Blockchain Security and Applications. His research is focused on secure distributed systems using Confidential Computing. Marcus holds a PhD in Computer Science from TU Braunschweig, Germany. Since 2018, he has been an active contributor to the Hyperledger Community. In particular, he is a maintainer of the Fabric Private Chaincode project, and writes code for the Fabric Smart Client and Fabric Token SDK labs.

Short Personal Pitch

Hyperledger is fascinating community. In the last few years I have had the opportunity to collaborate with many brilliant and talented people within Hyperledger. It has been a great experience working together with industry partners and young talents in academia towards a common goal to push the state of the art in the area of distributed ledger technology. Meeting the people (often just hidden behind a github handle) in person at various Hyperledger events and learning their stories is mind opening. I appreciate the great work the Hyperledger TSC does and I am grateful to have the chance to contribute to a flourishing open-source community.

Now, I would like to take the chance to continue this journey and join the Hyperledger Technical Oversight Committee. I want to lend my expertise in helping the Committee to support the Hyperledger community to foster the usability across the Hyperledger portfolio without scarifying security, while building a strong and healthy community to develop and maintain industry leading distributed ledger technology.

I would be honored to serve as a new member on the Hyperledger Technical Oversight Committee in 2023!

Thank you for your consideration.

Hi there, can we please add Matt to the FireFly committers group? Thanks!

• GitHub ID to add: matthew1001
• Project to be added to: FireFly
• Team to be added to: https://github.com/orgs/hyperledger/teams/firefly-committers

Please include: Anton (QA)

• GitHub ID to add: https://github.com/Tohanich.
• Project to be added to: Iroha 2

One of:

• Team to be added to:
• Role:
  • Read
  • Triage
  • Write
  • Manage
  • Admin

The Caliper team would like to publish a VSCode extension soon as part of an ongoing mentorship project.

The publishing process requires the following:

1. Creating an organization in Azure DevOps (already exists probably)
2. Creating a personal access token
3. Creating a publisher (the name will be included in the extension manifest)

We would also like to ask for some branding help (sorry, if this is not the appropriate forum for this):

• A non-SVG Caliper icon of 256x256 pixels as the extension's main icon
• A grayscale Caliper icon (the same size as above would probably be enough) for the view container of the extension

Please include:

• GitHub repo: https://github.com/hyperledger/caliper
• Endpoint: N.A., performed by the official vsce tool

Please include:

• GitHub ID to add: @genaris
• Project to be added to: Aries Framework JavaScript

One of:

• Team to be added to: https://github.com/orgs/hyperledger/teams/aries-framework-javascript-committers

We would like to add @genaris as a maintainer to the Aries Framework JavaScript project. He has been active participant in the community and contributor to the framework for a considerable amount of time.

Please include:

• GitHub ID to add: gmulhearn-anonyome
• Project to be added to: aries-vcx

One of:

• Team to be added to: aries-vcx-contributors

Notes:
Yesterday I was requesting addition of account gmulhearn, he asked me if we could rather add his work account gmulhearn-anonyome

Please include:

• GitHub ID to add: davidkhala
• Project to be added to: fabric-docs-i18n

One of:

• Team to be added to:
• Role:
  • Manage

Note: to merge ZH pull request

Nomination 🗳️

Nominee Name

Peter Somogyvari
https://github.com/petermetz

Short Personal Bio

I am a software architect at Accenture and has been a maintainer of Hyperledger Cacti (formerly known as Cactus) from the very beginning of the project back when it was just a lab. I served on the TOC (formerly known as the TSC) as a member for the current/previous cycle.

Short Personal Pitch

With my help, the TOC would be in a better position to grow the OSS community around the foundation and the projects that it contains.

I have a proven track record of creating a welcoming and friendly environment for newcomers when it comes to contributing to Hyperledger projects.

My computer science education and 10+ years of experience as a software engineer/architect allows me to approach governance questions from a very practical and realistic point of view rather than from an ivory tower of bureaucracy.

Please include:

• GitHub ID to add: https://github.com/mishasizov-SK
• Project to be added to:

One of:

• Team to be added to:
  This is weird, I am not in any of these teams? Although I can be assigned issues in aries-framework-go and be set as a reviewer as well.

I would say he should be able to be assigned issues and be selected as a reviewer to PRs in this aries-framework-go and aries-framework-go-ext projects.

• Role:
  • Read
  • Triage

while we're at it, those who are actively working on these projects are:
@HeidiHan0000
@mishasizov-SK
@vkubiv
@DRK3
@Moopli
@fqutishat
@ashcherbakov
@Abdulbois
@sudeshrshetty
@aholovko
@troyronda
@bstasyszyn
@talwinder50
@sandrask
@rolsonquadras
@Baha-sk

you can remove the following from the teams as they are no longer part of our org:
@soluchok

Nomination 🗳️

Nominee Name

David Enyeart (denyeart)

Short Personal Bio

I have spent my career working on enterprise software with a focus on business process automation, B2B, and data architecture and integration. I was excited to find blockchain in 2016 since it pulled all of these disciplines together. I started contributing to Hyperledger Fabric and eventually became a Fabric maintainer and then release manager in 2017. During this time I have worked on many features that have landed in Hyperledger Fabric, often coordinating contributions and ensuring all aspects of open source delivery come together into quality releases that are both meaningful for users and maintainable by contributors. I've enjoyed being active with the Hyperledger community, from helping users on the mailing list, stackoverflow, chat, to facilitating the Fabric contributor meeting and driving open source processes such as the RFC process for new features.

Short Personal Pitch

Through the many Fabric releases and user and contributor interactions I have learned many lessons about distributed ledger technology and delivering quality software. But more importantly I've learned there is much more to open source than the code. Successful open source projects require a community of contributors and users who each provide value and push a project forward in different ways. It takes a lot of nurturing to ensure a community is pushing forward and not sideways though. A healthy community pushing forward is much greater than the sum of its parts. I've been a member of the Technical Steering Committee / Technical Oversight Committee for the last two years and I've seen that the same values that make for a healthy project also applies to Hyperledger as a whole. Each project and each community member provides diverse value and viewpoints that when taken together make Hyperledger a leading organization in the distributed ledger space. This too requires constant nurturing and I'd be honored to continue nurturing as a member of the Technical Oversight Committee for another year.

Please include:

• GitHub ID to add: sapthasurendran, alexandrosfilios
• Project to be added to: https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/fabric-smart-client and https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/fabric-token-sdk

One of:

• Role:
  • Read
  • Write

Nomination 🗳️

Nominee Name

Ziyi Zhang
[email protected]

Short Personal Bio

I nominate myself for the TOC election. I am from Huawei Cloud work as the chief architect of blockchain and I am the contactor from Hyperledger in Huawei. I have been working for more than 15 years and in the past years I have experience in cloud and security. I have been working in Oracle, Websense and etc. My email address is [[email protected]].

The contributions that I have had to the Hyperledger Foundation in the past year are summarized under following aspects.
Code:
I have contributed translations and code to fabric.
Also I lead Huawei team to be the No.1 contributor in asia in 2021.
Activities:
I give speeches on Hyperledger meetup and deliver classes of hyperledger in Beiyou university to expand the influence for the community.
I am the member of program committee in 2022 and deliver speech in Dublin and Gotc in 2021.
Project cactus:
I give propose of Cactus this year and the link is https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BKESbLTRPtUMdJkHH15TzeMY-9zr4kjzXi_m8QSjCy0/edit
Also I lead team to contribute code here to build connections between huawei cross-chain and cactus. Here is the link:
hyperledger/cacti@da7afff

Project IOT:
I am also going to lead to contribute our IOT project to lab. And it is now on-going in progress in the company for code to go out.
I have proposed and discussed with Daniela , Hart, Tracy and etc.

Short Personal Pitch

If I am selected as TSC member it will be great honor for me as a Chinese member here. As we are going to contribute to the whole IOT project and Cactus. To be the TOC member I could know what othe member thinks and discuss with them about how would the tech trend would be. It is good for us to guide the direction for the project. And I could also contribute my rich experience I may give advice for several other projects.

Thank you for your considerations and support!
Ziyi Zhang

Can I get a maintainer/contributor activity report for the besu repositories? The one that lists last active dates. From 22 Dec 2021 to present in case a time range is also needed.

Critical Repos -

• https://github.com/hyperledger/besu
• https://github.com/hyperledger/besu-docs
• https://github.com/hyperledger/besu-native
• https://github.com/hyperledger/homebrew-besu

Please include:

• GitHub ID to add: astrokov7
• Project to be added to: Iroha 2

One of:

• Team to be added to:
• Role:
  • Read
  • Triage
  • Write
  • Manage
  • Admin

Nomination 🗳️

Nominee Name

Kamlesh Nagware(knagware9)

Short Personal Bio

Kamlesh Nagware is a CTO at Snapper Future Tech. He has 12 years of experience in Software Development, IT Consulting & Blockchain Solutions. He is among the top 30 Influencers of Blockchain in India(2021/2022) and TEDx Speaker who talk about Enterprise Blockchain. He is Hyperledger India Co-Chair and a member of the Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee(TSC). He plays an active role across the Hyperledger community, contributing to the Climate Action & Accounting SIG, Trade Finance SIG, and Hyperledger Global Forum Committee member.Hyperledger mentor for Hyperledger fabric and Aries integration mentorship project and 3 other mentorship projects in Climate action & Accounting SIG, Hyperledger Cactus last year and currently mentoring 4 mentorship projects in interoperability , automation and carbon accounting working group in climate SIG. He is also a Co-chair of the IEEE Blockchain initiative at the IEEE Global level and Mentor to Blockchain start-ups incubated by Apiary a Ministry of IT India (STPI) India initiative.

Short Personal Pitch

I would like to nominate myself - Kamlesh Nagware- to serve on the Hyperledger Technical Oversight Committee. I am a CTO at Snapper Future Tech, where I focus on architecting and implementing blockchain and Fintech products/projects using Hyperledger Technologies and Public Blockchains.

My role as CTO in a Blockchain startup and 7 years of Blockchain experience(Total 13 yrs experience of software design & development) would be helpful for the Hyperledger Technical Oversight committee. In the last 7 years, I have worked with diverse sets of use cases at different stages Proof of Concept to large-scale production deployment. Working with so many use cases and the different sizes of project implementation experience is helpful for making a decision and roadmap for Hyperledger technologies. . As Hyperledger India chapter lead I have organized "blockchain success stories 2020 & 2021 and community events. Active in Tech conferences, on social media, and advocate Blockchain & specially Hyperledger Technologies. I am speak in various technical & management universities to talk about Hyperledger technologies.Actively joined Hyperledger Asia monthly marketing meeting to present my Company Snapper Future Tech & Hyperledger India chapter. Recently released Hyperledger India e-book from Hyperledger foundation covered my efforts to build the community stronger in India(https://project.linuxfoundation.org/hyperledger-in-action-india).

I was one of the co-proposers of Hyperledger Labs, and I actively serve as a Hyperledger Labs Steward. I am part of the Hyperledger Speakers Bureau, and 2021 & 2022 Hyperledger Global Forum program committee Member.

My goal as a TOC member includes:

• Help Hyperledger projects with my industry experience and working with various business use cases.
• Help companies learn and adopt hyperledger blockchain technologies.
• Bridge industry, academia, and open-source community.
• Bring user pain points & expectations from an Industry perspective so TOC could take the right decision of Hyperledger projects roadmap.
• Blockchain interoperability - cross Hyperledger projects and other blockchains ( I am working with one mentee to integrate Hyperleger Cactus and Bevel project. Proposed 2 new labs 1. Aries [Hyperledger Fabric - Hyperledger Aries Integration to support Fabric as Blockchain ledger(https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/aries-fabric-wrapper) 2. BDLS is an innovative BFT consensus algorithm Hyperledger Fabric(https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/bdls).
• Bridge the gap between what industry needs and Open source development. Much needed Improvement in Hyperledger technologies as per Industry

I would be honored to continue serving on the Hyperledger Technical Oversight Committee and will strive to make the community even stronger.

Thank you for your consideration.

Nomination 🗳️

Nominee Name

Timo Glastra (@TimoGlastra)

Short Personal Bio

Timo Glastra is dedicated software developer, and an ardent believer in open source work. As a maintainer and contributor for several Hyperledger Aries repositories, he has built up an extensive expertise on the implementation of open standards in the field of self-sovereign identity.

Timo is co-founder of Animo Solutions, a self-sovereign identity development and consultancy company from the Netherlands with open source Hyperledger Aries based projects all over the world. His passion project is Aries Framework JavaScript, which aims to make building self- sovereign identity based solutions as easy and accessible as possible.

Short Personal Pitch

Working in the Hyperledger ecosystem over the last few years has been a great experience. Through the work in the community I learned a lot about open source development, and grew my passion for open source development. So much that around 80% of the work the company I founded is on open source Hyperledger repositories (several Hyperledger Aries projects concerning self-sovereign identity). We’re maintainers of Aries Framework JavaScript, and have contributed to Aries Cloud Agent Python, Aries Agent Test Harness and have been active in the Aries standardization efforts (Aries RFCs)

As a member of the Hyperledger Technical Oversight Committee, I want to focus on encouraging developers to step up in the open source community (as I shared in the blog on the Pathway to becoming a Hyperledger maintainer). I strongly believe that maintainers and contributors form the backbone of technical innovation, and we should foster a strong community environment in which it is as easy and attractive to contribute as possible. Being part of the Hyperledger TOC will allow me to share my experience as a maintainer and contributor to Hyperledger projects, and learn from the experience of the other TOC members. I’m already involved in discussions about the direction of some Hyperledger projects, and I’m eager to get more involved in the general direction of the Hyperledger community.

As an EU citizen, I’d also like to bring an added perspective to the global developments surrounding self-sovereign identity. A large part of this is interoperability and support between different ecosystems. Interoperability is crucial, especially to promote the use of open source software, and I intend to focus on this topic as well.

I would be thrilled to serve as a new member of the Hyperledger TOC next year and work together on building developer communities that see the importance of open source collaboration.

Please include:

• GitHub ID to add: liran-funaro
• Project to be added to: No project, just to the Github org please.

One of:

• Team to be added to: Fabric contributors

Nomination 🗳️

Nominee Name

yeasy

Short Personal Bio

As the principal blockchain architecture in Oracle now, I have been linked into the architecture, design, algorithm and system optimization areas for over 10 years, with leading the design and implementation of enterprise solutions and solving fundamental technological challenges. Meanwhile, I have published 10s of articles in top-quality international conference and journals (e.g., IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE Transactions on Computers), with technical books (One book introducing Hyperledger and blockchain was published in Aug 2017) and patents. These rich background and skills in distributed system, networking and blockchain technologies, with open-source contributions and community experience, make me an appropriate candidate for the Hyperleger TOC.

Short Personal Pitch

I am very glad to have been contributing into Hyperledger project and community since its beginning in early 2016. As one of the earliest designers and contributors of the Hyperleger Fabric project, now I'm also leading the Hyperledger Cello and Hyperledger fabric-sdk-py projects as maintainer. Besides the technical contributions, I've also served as the Hyperledger ambassador and Community internship mentor in past three years. Besides Hyperledger, I have contributed in other open-source projects including OpenStack and OpenDaylight previously. All these experiences make me a real open-source enthusiast in both technologies and culture. I believe that open source will become increasingly important for humanity's future, hence I wish to contribute more as a TOC member.

My main goals to serve as a TOC member are:

• To help Hyperledger become more mature technically and more widely adopted;
• To help bridge the advantage blockchain technologies in open-source community with real industrial requirements;
• To help build an active and diverse ecosystem of open-mind collaboration among blockchain community, industry and academia.

I believe open-source technologies will make the world better!

Thanks very much for your consideration!

Nomination 🗳️

Nominee Name

Tracy Kuhrt (tkuhrt)

Short Personal Bio

Tracy Kuhrt is a Technology Architect within Accenture’s Metaverse Continuum business group with 25+ years of experience covering the entire software development lifecycle. Tracy has been involved in the blockchain space since 2015, with a primary focus on Hyperledger. Tracy also currently serves as the chair of the Hyperledger Technical Oversight (formerly Steering) Committee.

Short Personal Pitch

I would like to nominate myself - Tracy Kuhrt - to serve on the Hyperledger Technical Oversight Committee. I am a Technology Architect at Accenture, where I focus on architecting and implementing blockchain and metaverse solutions. I have also worked closely with our teams at Accenture to contribute some of our internal assets to Hyperledger – Hyperledger Cacti (formerly Cactus) and Hyperledger Bevel.

Prior to joining Accenture, I spent not quite 2 years as a Hyperledger Community Architect evangelizing the organization and all of its projects at both meetups and conferences around the world, supporting the community, and improving the collaboration tools. This experience allowed me to build relationships with many in the community and gain a deep understanding of the challenges that the technical community faces on a daily basis.

In addition to my role as a Hyperledger Community Architect, I was one of the co-proposers of Hyperledger Labs, and I actively serve as a Hyperledger Labs Steward. I have contributed to many of the Hyperledger projects and labs. I am a maintainer of the Hyperledger Community Management Tools lab. I am part of the Hyperledger Speakers Bureau, and I served as a co-chair for the 2020 Hyperledger Global Forum program committee. I have served on the Hyperledger TSC for the past three years, serving as the vice chair in the 2020-2021 term and the chair in the 2021-2022 term.

I would be honored to continue serving on the Hyperledger Technical Oversight Committee and will strive to make the community even stronger. Thank you for your consideration.

Communities are stronger when

• everyone is welcome and people feel like they belong.
• there is a diverse set of opinions.
• we push each other out of our comfort zones.
• we listen and learn from others (be those others in the community or outside of the community).
• we have shared goals.

Please include:

• GitHub ID to add: https://github.com/gmulhearn
• Project to be added to: aries-vcx

One of:

• Team to be added to: aries-vcx-contributors
• Role:
  • Write

Nomination 🗳️

Nominee Name

Stephen Curran
swcurran

Short Personal Bio

Working closely with the Government of British Columbia, I've been involved in the Hyperledger Aries, Indy, AnonCreds and Ursa communities since 2017. I've helped in building those Hyperledger Identity projects by moving forward open specifications and open source code to enable important, privacy-protecting identity solutions. I actively participated in the creation of both the Hyperledger Aries and AnonCreds projects, and lead several of the key Working Groups that are instrumental in building and evolving those efforts. Professionally, I walk the line between business and technology, communicating effectively and contributing on both sides of that line, giving me a good perspective on what is both needed and practical in building an open source community.

Short Personal Pitch

Having been involved in Hyperledger since 2017, I've learned a lot about what it takes to build an open source community, and have been pretty successful at applying those learnings in the Hyperledger Identity family of projects. Open source is a lot more than marking a repository as public and pushing code. You have to be constantly making clear the benefits of contributing, and helping to shape new contributions so that they best benefit the larger community. In participating in the family of Hyperledger Identity projects (Aries, AnonCreds, Indy and Ursa), and in the larger self sovereign identity ecosystem, I've become accustomed to thinking about the larger goals, and making sure decisions are made not just in a limited context (one contributor, one issue, one project) but in that larger context of the entire community. I believe my efforts in the Hyperledger Identity projects has provided me with the open source experience to benefit the entire Hyperledger portfolio of projects as a member of the Technical Oversight Committee.

Please include:

• GitHub repo to transfer: https://github.com/AnonCreds-WG/anoncreds-spec and https://github.com/AnonCreds-WG/anoncreds-methods-registry
• Project to be added to: AnonCreds
• Teams with which access: (examples on GitHub team list)
  • Team name: anoncreds-spec-editors (they will be maintainers)
  • Role:
    • Read
    • Triage
    • Write
    • Manage
    • Admin

Please include:

• GitHub ID to add: https://github.com/left-arm
• Project to be added to: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-vcx

One of: Absa

• Team to be added to: https://github.com/orgs/hyperledger/teams/aries-vcx-maintainers
• Role:
  • Read
  • Triage
  • Write
  • Manage