S1E13 Blockchain Open Source Ecosystems with Marta Piekarska from Hyperledger Foundation

Getting the inside track on the Open Source movement and some of the Hyperledger Projects you may never have heard of... Marta is an Ecosystem Director for Hyperledger and is responsible for growing the community, progressing projects from ideas to Labs to Projects, and has worked with developers, enterprises and consortia worldwide. She also supports technical governance for Sovrin, and shares her views about the intersections between Sovrin, Hyperledger and Indy. In this episode we talk about:

- The importance of open source technology for developers, enterprises and governments

- The mission and goals of the Hyperledger Foundation

- The process and governance for starting and progressing Hyperledger Projects 

- The origins of Cactus, the latest project in the Hyperledger 'greenhouse'

- A comparison between Sovrin and Hyperledger, and where they intersect with Hyperledger Indy

- Encouraging diversity, growing a Blockchain community and how to keep the peace

- Key learnings from Marta's past projects, including Caliper ('A Working Group that did real work'), Iroha ('Hyperledger's Greatest Hidden Secret') and Ursa ('Don't Implement Your Own Crypto')

- What's Next: Why interoperability and on-chain governance are needed, but the importance of defining 'how' and 'where'

Links to content discussed on the show:

Marta's LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/martapiekarska

Hyperledger YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_X0WkMtkWzaVUKF-PRBNQ

Hyperledger Website (for Developers): https://wiki.hyperledger.org

Hyperledger Website (for non-Developers): www.hyperledger.org

Marta's New Book: https://www.manning.com/books/permissioned-blockchains-in-action