Welcome back and we're here live in Silicon Valley at the Peer 2.0 conference, I'm John Furrier the founder of SiliconANGLE, I'm my co-host Jeff Frick, this is theCUBE, it's our flagship program, we go out to the events, we extract the students from the noise, our next guest is Albergia, CEO of IIX, a new startup that's really just got their first big round of funding series A from NEA, a new Enterprise Associates, congratulations, ten million dollars of fat financing as they say, really validation to the concept of your company and the whole movement around this Peer 2.0 which is really about the next generation networks and discussions around that. Before we get into the whole Peer 2.0, give us some insight about how you started at IIX, the team, the genesis, and obviously the validation, the funding, obviously the market opportunity, business opportunity, so where did it come from, how did you guys get here? We started at IIX a few years ago and in addition to building a company, we put together a great team, so we're very fortunate enough to get some folks together that really had some tenure in the space to come on board with IIX and take it forward to the milestones that it needed to achieve to complete the recent round, for example, that we just announced.  So IIX was first founded in 2011, pretty much been in stealth mode for some time. We initially founded the company out of Canada and then a little over a year ago moved out here to the Bay Area and at that time we started to do our next phase of hiring and really brought on board some key folks. In parallel with that, started to bring on board some very respectful customers. What was the slash point of the, you know, kind of as the plan comes together early on? Being in stealth is fun but also, you know, you're not seeing the validation but you got to look for your own internal validation with your team and the market. You guys are domain experts. What's that flash point? What happened? Was it a key hire? Was it a key dinner? Geek session? What was the one moment? Signing of a big customer contract. Now build it. Yeah. Exactly. Oops. Self-designed build, that's the ethos of startups but that's always the case, right? It's always like, you know, you're testing the market. No, that was huge for us. It was really exciting to really put pen to paper for lack of a better way to put it and not just do it once but do it a few times over and in a relatively short period of time. And I credit that to the team that we were able to put together. Really accomplish some great milestones in a short period of time to really demonstrate the opportunity we have as a company. You know, before we get out, I'm going to love to geek out on entrepreneurship because given that you're fresh financing, you still got the memories of when it was really, really tough in terms of all the hard work. I just shared an article this morning on my Silicon Valley network about from Harvard Business Review how VC funding can be bad for your startup. And really the premise of the article was not so much about VC funding, VC bashing, it's really a lot of startups take up money too soon. And I think what you guys have shown in respect to what you've done as an entrepreneur is you've done the hard stuff first.  And then the VC funding is just a result of the success, not so much a PR moment in a sense. So in a way, you're kind of doing it right. Yeah. Take us through that journey. It was a hard, it was a good day. It was definitely not easy to simply say, hey, we got an idea and then go sell that idea. We were really not having a business. And you have all the time in the world in that scenario to meet with people, meet with VCs. That's not the approach that we necessarily took. We first started off by seeding the company and really took a milestone-braced approach. We self-defined milestones that we felt were important to bring in initially some angel capital. And then ultimately get the company to a point where we felt it was a more appropriate time for us to consider doing a series A. And it was an exciting process and we made it through it. And as they say, the hard work is now. But you could have taken more money. We could have.  Well, we also wanted to do right by existing stockholders and bring in that right amount of capital to help us now take a step forward to the next milestone that we set for the company. Create value and I step up and increase the value and not take too much delusion, but it sounds like the VCs got their pound of flesh as I always say, which is good for their thesis. Let's translate that now to the marketplace. You get peer2.0 kind of happening. What this is, it's like a grassroots event of folks who have been in the industry, the gray hairs, if you will, to experience practitioners to the new blood coming in. So a bunch of young guns here, students, not students, but like PhD masters kind of level of people. It's attracting a talent base. So what is peer2.0? What is this community about? Why is this inaugural event so important? Well, first off, peer2.0 has been brought forward by the peer2.0 foundation. It's a new foundation that has been formed. And this being the inaugural event, the whole theme is on education, specific to things like peering and interconnection. Very fortunate that in a relatively short period of time, we got a great roster of speakers, content providers, network operators, and what have you, to really recognize the need for knowledge sharing, for that next generation to help increase that understanding. The other great thing is that, I think there was well over a third of students that registered. So not just existing folks in business, let's say, whether they're employed by a network operator or some other business, but students with really high registration folks from Berkeley and so on and so forth. So that was really awesome, because that really demonstrated the right mix that really the foundation was after in its event and ideally more events to come. It's interesting with the students and the younger folks, because we've had a few people on, and I know some of the talks earlier today were about kind of the history of the internet and IP protocols and how we got to where we are today, but the newbies, the young kids, never had to experience that. They probably don't have any appreciation for that. They really probably don't have much time for that and really just want everything to work down on the mobile phone. So I think it's a really interesting mix and probably a much heavier, sounds like student interest in this event than most of the events that we cover, but clearly their expectations from a consumer of these services point of view is critical to actually being able to deliver those things. Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, there's a lot of talk of the cloud and in many ways we're probably living in the clouds, right? But Jay Allison today, for example, did a nice trip through memory lane on really how there's a lot of physical aspects to how this works and that really bring us to have a cloud or clouds.  It puts things in perspective when you see how interconnection happened and how it's happening today. And I think a lot of up-and-comers, let's say, haven't had that perspective, maybe not necessarily been given that experience or knowledge while going through, say, college, for example. And how receptive are they or do they really care? I just wanted to act like Facebook or Amazon or my Google apps. Let's make it happen. Well, I think, I mean, for those that attended here, I mean, definitely a number of folks that, again, not necessarily exclusively the younger generation, but there was definitely some conversations that I had with some younger folks and that were really appreciative of some of the talks, for example, that took place yesterday afternoon. Even myself, I just found it really cool to hear perspective from guys from Pandora, LinkedIn, GoDaddy, among others, I mean, just information, for example, that I myself even hadn't been privileged to hear before. So I could just imagine how some of the younger folks were finding it just as interesting. So let's talk about the dynamic between freedom, the democratization of networks, meeting the business reality. I mean, for profit, and I'll see, you guys are not raising $10 million to be in the philanthropy business, there's NEA, they're looking for exits, right? So there's a pressure, but it's also a market growth opportunity. So you're also balancing this new model of, hey, open source, cloud, building on stuff that's good, and that neutrality hanging over everyone's head, right? How do you build better networks, more choice, more freedom at the same time, make money? So how do you look at that as an entrepreneur? You got to balance that. Well, one of the interesting things is that if we could look back at the 90s, it was a much smaller market, a lot less market participants. So one thing that's absolutely clear is this thing called the internet has gone extremely huge, and in many respects, it's only the beginning. Movement to the cloud now by the enterprise, the so-called internet of things era that we're heading towards. So from a business opportunity perspective, I think there's no shortage.  Particularly the US economy has survived many things, and I think we'll work through it. Markets forces will work through whatever dynamics may shift, but nonetheless, the growth ahead of us is so huge, bandwidth increases and so forth. I mean, it is not something from our perspective as a company, we're necessarily concerned about. So you see pretty good prospects out there, when you do your performance.  Yeah, so among others, yes, definitely it includes the enterprise. I think now topics of interconnection, for example, will more and more continue to include the enterprise where what's called generating one internet, it was less enterprise. More like ISPs and content providers. So definitely we have a big focus on the enterprise, I'm really, really excited about that. It's interesting, everyone talks about the world is flat, flattening of networks. However you want to look at is always this abstraction layer that creates, extracts away complexity and you're seeing this fabric of dynamic policy-based, QOS, SLA-driven, workload-specific, all these buzzwords are pushing down to the network layer where they've got to be adaptive. Adaptive networking is just being available to be programmed. DevOps is really the shining trend that we see. That's really the poster child for the future. The DevOps revolution's been saying, hey I'm a developer, I'm not a network guy, but I want to program the network as infrastructure as code. Explain that trend to the folks out there who aren't up on the speeds of DevOps what does that mean for the networks? What needs to get done and where is the sea change happening? Well I think first and foremost we're definitely, I think in many, many early stage companies call them software plays, content plays that would have you. I think the focus on network was always secondary. It was more on their applications and software that they were creating. It's going to become more and more important, I think in the lock step where network will equally be important and as a result of that put more pressures on the network and virtualization of network, things of that sort. To be able to allow the turn up of even internal services within an organization to really now move at the speed of business and when you start to talk like that or think like that you now need simpler solutions and so this is where software and network, there's that convergence that's absolutely needed to really introduce that simplicity for organizations such as the enterprise. For the people that weren't here, I want to shift gears a little bit and talk about the talk that you just had here at the event. I guess first of all, will the talks, do you know if they're going to make the stuff available? We make, CUBE interviews are always available but do you know if people will be able to come back after the faculty to the presentation? I believe so. I'll put you on this spot. I'm actually not totally sure. So send in a request to the peer.o foundation telling me you'd like to start. But let's talk about your talk. We talk a lot about Moore's Law and Moore's Law really being applied now kind of across the stack and we're getting this kind of perfect storm of all these great things really gearing up in terms of capacity and ability to deliver a vast amount of resources out our hand. You talked a little bit about Metcalfe's Law and networking. I wonder if you could kind of expand on that a little bit and really what was the focus of your presentation? Well, I mean we've obviously heard the term network effect and Metcalfe's Law basically surmises it into a formula and that network effect, for example social media be it the Facebooks, LinkedIn's of the world they're always measured on the size of their ecosystem and ultimately the market attributes a value to that. Similarly, networks obviously, I guess it makes sense that network effect in essence attribute a value to a network and ultimately the talk wasn't necessarily specific to any one organization but to provide a different perspective on that network effect is not necessarily a generic, it can't necessarily be thought of the same in all types of networks, types of network services and so forth. So it was really meant to demonstrate that if you move a couple things around how Metcalfe's Law can ultimately translate differently, produce a different value that's exponentially different. It was really the thrust of the talk I gave was to just- What are some of those levers that really amplify the effect? Well, interconnection's evolving. We have things like cloud exchange now and in the early days there was internet exchanges and they still very much exist still today as well. In many cases they were thought of to even still to this day in a localized basis and there's various local exchanges be it internet, cloud or what have you that exist and all things being equal the purpose of it was to just introduce that dynamic. Again, putting technological analysis aside and opinions on that for a moment. How 20 here and 20 there of let's say, of unique networks let's say, when you apply Metcalfe's Law in looking at them as separate and distinct versus as if they were unified the network value is not necessarily one plus one equals two. It's exponentially different when you apply that formula and so it's value not necessarily from a finance perspective but for your customers, the potential users of a particular service or application and so that was really the thrust of it to really give people perspective that don't necessarily take things at face value. How you do things can really impact your business, your service or what have you to create a much more dynamic value ultimately for whoever you're targeting. And it would seem then that the fact that we have kind of an API economy, the fact that a large number of both consumer as well as enterprise applications are moving into a cloud infrastructure so they're no longer in that isolated sub network if you will, that clearly there's business value being released all across the network both for the applications as well as the network providers as well as the consumers of those services. Yeah, I would agree, I agree with that. So talk about what's next for you guys, obviously you got some build out to do. You guys are big players in the peer 2.0 and you know it's not your conference, you're part of the sponsors here, you're part of the community, which is great because it's great for recruiting, great for evangelism, but it's also good for the openness of the web and the internet. So great there, but on the business front, what is your key build out mode right now?  Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, no, I mean that actually in all seriousness, we're definitely focused equally on expansion, business development activities and expansion both from a geographical perspective in terms of rolling out our solution to more markets now, as well as expanding our organizational headcount, bringing on board more individuals onto our team. So it's, we're firing on all cylinders to take our company to the next phase. It's been great to get to know you at a great time last night, having some beers at the event party last night, obviously no build for years, great team, you have congratulations on your success, Al, 10 million dollars, NEA funding, fresh financing in the bank, watch for IIX in the marketplace, again, a lot of stuff happening, great market opportunity, congratulations. This is theCUBE, I'm attracting the signal from the noise here live in Silicon Valley in Palo Alto at Peer 2.0. I'm John Furrier with Jeff Frick, we'll be right back after this short break. Thank you.


Hello everybody, welcome to my channel. It's Eva from Bohemiancrafting and I'm coming with another decorating pocket. So I've got here, I think all of them are dyes, so I'm gonna choose one I'm not sure which one and we will work with that. So today It's off. So today we will work with this beautiful snowflake So today we will use this dye. It's again a new dye, but I already used that and I hope new owner will don't mind. It is dye from again, Studio Light and the name of that dye is here stencil WT-103 I need new glasses. I can't see that So I already took it off of the camera this time because last time I was so scared and it does make, I have to say this dye is amazing. I'm gonna show you my plate. I'm waiting for a new plate because look, these are my cutting plates. So the way this dye cut, it's amazing actually. I was expecting to have huge problems to, you know, to dye cut right now because my plates are really destroyed but it did cut really well. I do have a little bit here. I forgot to take it off and if you will have good cutting plates, you will have also inside flake snowflake and all those small pieces those small pieces you can use like decoration, but my plates are a little bit destroyed but even that it did made a good job. So I'm very happy with that dye. I hope new owner will be happy too. So I do have prepared my large snowflake and I already cleaned up those edges on that small one. I've got here my the back where the dye was placed and I love to use those paper dolls from Tim Holtz. They are amazing. They are already cut out beautiful cardstock. So I was thinking this girl, it's kind of in the size of that snowflake. So maybe that will be good. And as a helper today I'm gonna choose one of these beautiful winter papers. This is Gilded Winter from first edition. I'm not sure if it's still on the market because I've got this paper maybe for three years already and I'm thinking this one. Look at that beauty. These are gorgeous papers, really good quality papers. So first edition Gilded Winter. I think this would sparkle. So I'm gonna cut the piece which will fit into my space here. So the pocket is six and one quarter by four and a half and I cut my paper six by four and one quarter. And I'm gonna use my sewing machine and make some zig-zag stitching all around just, you know, to give the paper some kind of texture to that. So I do have my zig-zag stitching all around and before I will start to use these I would like to make them kind of more snowy and fluffy. For making snowy effect on my snowflake, I'm gonna use this bindex as a glue and my homemade, not handmade, homemade mixture of craft sand and glitter. I will link the products I mixed here down below also that bindex. So first I'm gonna try this mini snowflake. I'm gonna cover it with the bindex to make sure that bindex is on all those pieces. But not too much.  So it have to be fully coated but not with bulky. I hopefully like this. And I'm gonna put my snowflake into my mix. And press it, press, press, press, press, press, press. Stay. Stay beautiful. And here we are. I hope you, you are able to see that glittery effect on that. I'm gonna place it on my tray here and I'm gonna work on this large one exactly same way. To coat it with the bindex totally but not make their like a bulky, bulky coating of that bindex. And I'm gonna press it to my sand. So this is my snowflake. So I placed my snowflakes on old envelope and I'm gonna use a heating tool to make the drying process much more faster. And it will also kind of secure that sand with that glitter on my snowflake. I think I'm done. Good. It's holding really nicely. Yeah, I've got just some glitter but the most of it it's holding on my snowflake really beautiful way. So I do have, oh I wanted to cut it half. Oh, okay. I'm not gonna mess up with my scissors now and I'm gonna cut the snowflake half. It's good to know that I can cut it. So I do have that base and I've got my little gill here and I'm missing Christmas tree. So I'm gonna create Christmas tree. I pre-cut just like triangle and I'm a big saver of all kind of things and I do have here these plastic strips, which us, which is nice size. This one. This one. So this is I think one centimeter wide and I'm gonna use it to cover my Christmas tree. I've got here just a string I'm using for my tux. So I'm gonna take that string and wrap it around my acetate piece and I will try to make nice, nice coating like one thread next to each, another one. Nicely coated part. So I think I do have piece big enough. It will cover that bottom part of my tree, hopefully. Hopefully it will be enough. I'm gonna add there a little bit more just in case. Yeah, it should go well. So I'm gonna take my hot glue. I'm gonna put a coat of hot glue here and I'm gonna take my string and place it on that hot glue and press. Now I'm gonna take scissors and with my scissors I'm gonna cut not exactly on the edge. But about I would say one-eighth of inch from the edge. I hope I didn't get glued with my acetate piece too much. I'm gonna put a little bit of that glue here and put this, this thread down. Like this. Yeah, they are not exactly. But I think no tree, it's exactly. So where the next piece will be a strip of this beautiful trim. So I'm gonna take my hot glue. Put hot glue here. Take my trim and place it there. Cut it here on the side. And again, I'm gonna take my acetate piece. So wrap the string around. I'm gonna take my hot glue. Put a strip of hot glue on my tree. Place my thread on the acetate piece on it. The way I can see, you know, the lace. And again with my scissors I'm gonna cut about one-eighth of inch from the edge of that acetate. Come here. Put a little bit of glue here and fold the thread on the top here. You have to be careful because that hot glue it's really hot. So be careful. Do not get boon. And I'm gonna take this kind of like Swarovski and place it there. So this is done. And again, strip of strip of string on acetate. Here I do have that edge. Hopefully it's holding well.  Beautiful trim. And once we are on the last layer, I placed here a little bit more of that wrap. Of that wrap string. I'm gonna put glue here and kind of try to press it all together. Here I'm gonna fold it down. Put a glue on the top. Take my snowflake and the Christmas tree is nearly done. Then go with your finger of fluffy the string. Anything that will fell down just doesn't belong there. Then take your scissors and with your scissors cut anything what you don't like there, but it's not serving to your needs. And my fluffy Christmas tree is done. So I do have my parts and I think I'm gonna start to do some kind of layout because if I will if I will use it this way with this color scheme, it will be kind of I'm not sure how to describe it. It will missing the life in it. Something you know something something. So I choose this is from 12 Christmas cards. I've got their strips with different things. I've got there also stars in those 12 Christmas cards. And this one I had just on my table it's believe in the magic and it's clipped to piece of fabric. So because it has a red color, I'm gonna somehow mix it together and I've got here these Christmas adverts. I have them on Buy Me a Coffee. I will put link down below if you would like to have a look and I think I'm gonna use this store ours. And I'm gonna use it just like my color in the background. So I've got here this and I'm gonna glue it probably somewhere here. Just gonna make small layout if I will like it. This special holiday I will place kind of like in the background. And now my snowflakes. One I would like to have here. Okey-dokey. So I'm gonna glue my parts. First it will be this special holiday here on the bottom. So first special holiday here. On the bottom I'm gonna try to keep there a little bit of that sewing visible. Now this I think somewhere here a little bit of the edge. Over the edge I mean. And one snowflake will be here and I'm gonna move my santa. Yeah, this way. It's straight. It's not. It is not. So I'm making straight and I'm gonna put the glue on my snowflake and place the snowflake. And now the other one. Okey. So I'm gonna take those stars and do a background from those stars to make sure that the snowflake will have kind of like bright bright background and will be more visible. Yes. So the second snowflake. Right here. And I think I'm gonna use hot glue for the tree. And place it. Right here. Get fluffy. Second star. Third one. So I've got here this hanging thingy and I'm gonna add the glue on the fabric and hope for the best. I think I'm gonna add there a little bit of hot glue.  So I'm gonna use the foam double-sided tape like this. So the kill will have a little bit of dimension and I'm gonna place it right here. And I need to create something with this special moment. So I have a glue to the special moments just on a white cardstock and I'm gonna use the bind decks and create like snowy effect. Here and maybe a little bit here in the corner. Dip it into my snow or sand. Not snow. Just like this. And I'm gonna use the heating tool to make sure it will hold nicely. So it's nice and dry and I really like that effect and because it's a little bit dimensional I'm gonna use the hot glue gun. Place a glue there and which side. I think I'm gonna just slide it here. Into my tree. Special moment. So that's my base and it will be somewhere here.   Four and a half. This one is four by four and a half. I'm gonna fold it half. Here I'm gonna use my envelope punch board and I'm gonna make kind of like decorative corners, a little bit decorative corners. So I do have decorative corners where the fold is and because I would like to give this a little bit of texture I'm gonna have a look to my embossing folders. So I found this beautiful with stars embossing folder. I think it's from Daris. If I'm not mistaken, I will try to have a look to find the link. Hopefully I will find it. So I'm gonna fold it again. Look at that beauty. I like this one. It's so gorgeous. So I'm gonna put the glue on the one side and I'm gonna take my back and place it on my topre. So my topre it's about three-quarter of inch on that back. I'm gonna take this VR memory Keeper Scropodile and I'm gonna punch two holes. I'm gonna fold it opposite way and I'm gonna make marks, I think here and here and I'm gonna punch those holes. So now I have two holes for to tight the ribbon. So I do have the closure prepared. I've got my back here. So now I can place my decoration on that back and I think I'm gonna use again double-sided tape. So this will take a time. So I think it's time to announce the winner of the last or previous video. So I do have here copied the address of that last video and I already got YouTube comments. There is a hundred and sixty comments. So I'm gonna click the start and it will choose the winner. Nancy Kosier. It's the name of my winner.  I used in that video, in the previous video and my secret. It's not that secret. The totally first comment was made by Rina Peltoma. I hope I'm not making a mistake with my pronunciation. I'm so sorry if I made a mistake. But the second winner with the totally first comment on that video is Rina. So girls, I will leave my email address in that description below. Please contact me through the email and I will send you your gift. Here is for Nancy and here is something for Rina. So congratulations once again Nancy Kosier and Rina Peltoma. Hopefully I'm saying that right. Please girls, don't forget to contact me on my email. The email address is in the description box below and we will sort it out. I hope you will like what I'm gonna send to you and we're gonna finish this one for those who didn't win this time. Please don't be upset.  You saw at the start of this video that there is plenty more and for those who will be upset and will want to give me thumbs down. Please don't. This is not promoting video everything what I am giving away. It's what I purchased for my money. So it's my good will to share with all of you the happy craft, that happiness which we can receive when we receive something nice. So please don't give me thumbs down because you didn't win this time. Just enjoy me next time and maybe you will win because there is really plenty of more. Once I will end the box with dice I'm gonna start to do box with stamps and there are beautiful items. I'm gonna give you preview stamps like this but all those box you saw they are full of dice and everything what I'm offering it's what I paid for. So it's not something what somebody gave me for free. So please be nice to me. Okay and if you didn't win this time don't worry you can win next time. Just join me and enjoy it. Enjoy craft. So I think I'm nearly done. I need some kind of closure and I don't like exactly this one. So because this is missing something so I'm gonna take my zutra machine and I'm gonna just punch the holes here on the bottom or on that one end that's much much better and first I thought I'm gonna use a ribbon but because it's Christmas you've got so many of broken jewelry so here you've got very long chain I'm gonna slide it here it's folded on half I'm gonna put it through the here here I will try to you know like with tux with string to go through to that end and I need something what will hold it here. So what I've got here is this is kind of like a magnet for fridge, fridge magnet, Christmas fridge magnet I created them I think two three years ago and the truth is that I'm not using them much. On my fridge I wanted to put here the faces of my family that never happened but I do have a few of these so and because it has magnet here and if I do remember the right this chain kind of is magnetic oh yeah see it's holding magnet here so I'm gonna place it over it just like decoration so that chain will don't slide out so this is my is it holding yes it's holding nicely this is just like decoration it doesn't have any any purpose so I and I forgot to put that die right I'm gonna take it one more time and another magnet over it so this is my creation today I hope you did enjoy it I hope you found some inspiration maybe how to create your fluffy Christmas tree you can create it even bigger with some you know stronger or bigger bigger threat or you know yarn maybe so it can be a really huge Christmas tree made from yarn or string it's easy to do and it's so enjoyable so this is my sharing for today again if you want to win this one leave the comment and in some next video with similar craft I'm gonna choose the winner thank you so much for visiting me today I hope you enjoyed this video I hope you spent the time with me nicely have a beautiful day thank take care about yourself and I will see you soon bye


So, hi guys once again, and yeah, so welcome to the first inaugural meeting of Hyperledger Interchapter Student Society. So as Aninam has had stated, this is a society, basically a student wing of the Interchapter. We want this community to be a community by students, of students, for the students, right? So, as part of our inaugural meeting, we have this agenda. So right now we'll be calling the meeting to order. And yeah, then we will have to take an attendance just to know how many people are here. We have a couple of guests for this inaugural meeting. So our guests are Arun and Kamlesh from Hyperledger Interchapter. They are the co-leads of the Hyperledger Interchapter. And this was one of their ideas to start this student society. So yeah, it's awesome to have them here, awesome to be there for this amazing event. Without further ado, I pass it on to Arun to give the inaugural speech for the Hyperledger Interchapter Student Society. Awesome. Thanks so much, Aninam. So it's been my pleasure to represent the Hyperledger India chapter here in the school. And it's been our dream since the inception of Hyperledger India chapter to grow the community and reach out to students. And we couldn't be more happier than to have a student society, which is represented by students and faculties or professors from different universities within India, and represent them. And in terms of coordination, it makes us much more easier to reach out to different students. And it also builds us platform so that we can share across anything which we have. So let's say there are internship opportunities at Hyperledger. Then it becomes much easier for us to pass it on through this channel. And let's say there are additional information, which could be along with mentorship, there are contribution opportunities. Whatever the new happenings are at Hyperledger, we could create this platform. And along with that, the other important area of what I see benefit of this Hyperledger India chapter student society is that we all know that everybody wants to be job-ready when they graduate from colleges. And it's sure that we don't expect everyone to know everything. But we look for opportunities, available opportunities. So Hyperledger India chapter does organize multiple events throughout the year. Could be in form of hackathon. It could be in form of learning sessions. It could be in form of, let's say, bringing together industry experts and then having them to speak at our forums. So having a forum like this, a student society where it's completely controlled and managed by students and, of course, overlooked by professors and faculties from different universities. It allows them to grow much more faster. It allows them to have the feedback being taken from the student side. So we are very happy to do whatever is possible from our end to build and grow this community. And then we are expecting students to come together, join us and take it to next step. So it all depends on how you take it from here. And we are really excited to have this forum. And with that, I would pass it on to next judge in the item. And thank you again for all of you to get this thing done. And I really want to also appreciate the effort. St. Gates College especially has taken in getting together this thing. And we are really great to have you in the community. Yes, thank you for that wonderful speech. So yeah, it's wonderful to have you here. And yeah. So next item on the agenda is introduction of the co-lead of the HyperLegendary Chapter of Student Society. So we have Gokul Nath serve from St. Gates group of institutions who will be acting as our co-lead. And he will be representing the faculty side, monitoring the activities, reporting back to HyperLegendary Chapter, all of that stuff. So Gokul sir, could you speak a few words? Sure. Thank you Robin. And hello everyone. Good evening. Nice to have Gokul. I'm a faculty and also a research scholar in the Department of Science at St. Gates College of Engineering. And it gives me a great privilege and responsibility for being a co-lead of this prestigious community. And this is the first of a kind of society started for the students and also for the academy professors, faculty members. To get a closer look at the HyperLegendary activities and also thereby promoting your skill set and enhancing your knowledge in the area of blockchain technology. The primary aim of the society, which I feel is to bring awareness and active blockchain technology through the projects of HyperLegendary and also for the academy community, especially for the students to get more student-centric activities like study circle, internship opportunities, project competitions, type of presentations, hackathons. And only with the mutual cooperation and participation, all the members, faculty, as well as students, we could achieve all this. And first of a kind activity which is going to happen soon is the HyperHack 21. It's a two-week hackathon, starting from March 21st to April 5th, organized by HyperRoger India Chapter and its group of institutions sponsored by Jamestack, Snapper Future Tech, and HyperRoger so shouldn't buy SIG. This perhaps is the second edition of the HyperHack conducted by India Chapter. And this introduces a special track for the student projects and a separate evaluation for the student projects as well. And I urge all of you to participate and register in this particular event and get benefited by the most of this event. And finally, to be a part of this society is to collaborate with the students across the country, those who are interested in the area of blockchain, contact and also participate in events. And I hope you all will come forward to take up responsibilities. We will be sharing those responsibilities. And we could together make this society move forward in its own unique way. And we expect to have event organizers, event promoters, speakers, presenters, and also critics with constructive feedbacks, and also volunteers, participants to take up initiatives and to bring this society forward ahead. This is only a starting and we expect to have more meetings, get together, and so on. So it could be happen and let's all collaborate and make the society a bigger success. Thank you. Awesome. Yeah, so thank you, Google, sir, for those wonderful words. So the Hyperledger Student Society, India Chapter Student Society, we have a code of conduct which is taken from Hyperledger itself. So basically, you can just read through this. It's basically a mainstream. Don't do stuff that would hurt others. Don't do anything abusive or that engage anyone's personal privacy or anything. We have a couple of social channels in order to stay updated on whatever we do. So we have a LinkedIn page for the Student Society where we'll be posting a lot of our updates, our events, announcements, and all that stuff. But if you want to have a more personal connection with peers and students all over the country, I recommend you to join the Discord server that we have. So this is where we have a lot of, we're planning to have a lot of discussions. If you have doubts, if you've got projects or if you've got ideas, you want to talk to us like on the spot, the Discord is the best place to reach us, to reach everyone. We're trying to build a community. So we feel that communication should be really important and that's why we have this Discord server. And yeah. But that said, we have rules in order not to invade people's privacy. So please take care of that as well. Okay, and then we, as Gokul said, we need you to grow this community. And that means we need volunteers and contributors for these roles. So like we need an activities coordinator, someone who can pitch an idea and organize these events such as this. We need social media coordinators, someone who can take charge of the LinkedIn pages, maybe someone who can probably be active in Discord, try and engage the community. And if you're into that, just in the meeting attendance you have an option to indicate which you're interested in and then we'll reach out to you regarding that. And this is just an initial set of roles and responsibilities to get started. Moving forward, we could have potential other roles as per situation arises. And the selection criteria and all is just, there's no specific criteria. It's just like your self-interest, how much you want to contribute. There's no fixed timing and everything. So yeah, it's just voluntary, just to improve your connections, network with people. You can meet people from high-pleasure, high-pleasure in the chapter. You can meet industry professionals. You can talk to them, work with them and all of that stuff. Okay, and yeah, now we have Kamlish to give an introductory lecture on blockchain and high-pleasure technologies. Kamlish, I invite you on the stage. Yeah, thank you, Robin. So can you let me share the screen? Yep, one sec. Okay, so you can see my screen, right? Yep, yes, yes. Yeah, so this is all about the high-pleasure. So code is just not the high-pleasure. We have different working groups, community and different meet-up groups telling certification. So last year, we celebrated the fifth year, but the high-pleasure and till that, we have 16 projects. Four projects are production-ready, fabric-indie, Sartooth and Iroha. And then Fabric is 2.0 release. And then there are 16 different working groups. So in the high-pleasure, created some different working groups in supply chain, trade finance or the, yeah. So trade finance and specific domains like telecom, identity management, trade finance. And this is the overall high-pleasure momentum in the last five years. So high-pleasure, so when high-pleasure founded, one that time the Ethereum and the cryptocurrency and that smart contract, public blockchain, people are talking about. So high-pleasure when founded to the more focus on the modular architecture and not to focus on the cryptocurrency. So in the high-pleasure, there is no cryptocurrency, there is no crypto. There's a purely for the enterprise application, the enterprise systems. And this is a high-pleasure greenhouse when you're talking about the high-pleasure. So this is complete high-pleasure projects. So in the high-pleasure greenhouse, there are some DLTs, some libraries, some tools and some domain-specific codes and some labs. So above five, these are the five different DLTs. So Fabric, everyone knows. Indies knows, Iroha, Satut, Guru, Bezu. So Bezu is an Ethereum client, Java-based client, which is recently contributed by the consensus. And on that time also, Ethereum and triple alliance become the high-pleasure member. So all these five are different DLTs. So it comes with the complete blockchain features as a smart contract, database, consensus, all this comes in the picture. And there are some libraries. So libraries are some kind of add-on to this protocols, how you build the system very effectively, like suppose, high-pleasure areas. So if you are building the identity management platform using the Indie, so how you can do the peer-to-peer communication, DID communication. So there's a, areas have some kind of SDKs in libraries to work with the Indie blockchain. Similarly, there are different, like quilt is an interleger protocol, how to bring the communication and kind of interleger protocol communication. Then transit, so transit is a set of libraries to bring the interoperability at the smart contract layer. So when you are writing the smart contract for the fabric, the same code could be written to the, could be used in the different blockchain frameworks. Then URSA is a set of different cryptographic libraries and algorithms. Similarly, some tools to make the development and deployment easy, like there is a, Saylo is there, Explorer is there, Kelly Perk, Kector's, and then some high-pleasure labs. So every blockchain, every project in the high-pleasure start from the high-pleasure labs is a starting point. So if you have an idea, you want to contribute something, you could start your project in the labs, then it will in the, then it will mature to the incubation stage in the high-pleasure main project and then it will go to the active status. So all this other project has an active high-pleasure project. And recently the Ares also is a graduated to the active status in yesterday only. In the PSC, people decided it to be active. So in the contribution opportunities. So everywhere is a contributing opportunity, whether you are on to contribute the fabric, so there are lots of new models. For example, BFT consensus is also in development. So you can contribute the BFT code here, you can, there is a implementation of the different features, they're help wanted, you can contribute there. There is a, Kector's is a lots of opportunities to be, because it's a project to bring the interoperative between the different blockchain projects. So in the Kector's, they are trying to integrate with the fabric and quota. So there's a lots of contribution availability here. And then there's a one blockchain automation framework is under the high-pleasure labs, where it making the, any blockchain deployment easy with the NCBI, Jenkins and different kinds of automation tools. So here you can contribute. And as a developer, as you are a student, so you should definitely subscribe this in development weekly postcard. So it will do the, what's happening in the high-pleasure code and projects and communities. And you will, every week you deliver this on your mail ID. This is good to be start, you can understand the projects, what is happening there. And this is the last year's update. So high-pleasure fabric, recent it is a fabric 2.2, there are LTS and basically is also released the different version with 20.10. So the contribution, there are opportunities to contribute in the, and there's no worry about the programming language you concern with, there is to be understand only go in the, in the SARTOO, you can contribute in the rest, go in the job, in the fabric, there's multiple languages, go Java, script Java, you know, type script and Beisoo, they are using the go, Solidarity is a main language and Java, there is a Java SDK actually, Java client. So language is no bar and this is a research and development work, lots of new features are being added. So this is all you can do in the high-pleasure. And so let me just, I wanted to show you this one. So as a developer, you can contribute, but as a domain expert, as an industry expert, you can also contribute something, whether you suppose you enter in the healthcare, you can join the high-pleasure healthcare working group, there's social impact group, there is a capital market, get finance, public sector, you could involve there and you could contribute something there. So that's all from my side, we start the in the high-pleasure journey. So I would like to add something more to that, if you can reach here, that's like that. So the point which we want to make over here and especially for student community is, so when you hear about the term high-pleasure, it's not that typical group which you hear in your colleges or in your university. So imagine high-pleasure to be a project. High-pleasure itself is a project. In fact, it's a project under Linux Foundation. So this project hosts multiple blockchain solutions within itself. So anything within high-pleasure you see, it's all implementation, it's all to deal with blockchain. So whenever you think about open-source blockchain, you can blindly say, okay, high-pleasure, all the projects under high-pleasure are all open-source, are all towards blockchain initiatives. And this is the greenhouse umbrella. Maybe this will refactor a bit the way this is currently represented. But the real point what we wanted to make over here is each of these projects are connected to high blockchain some way or the other way. Either it is possible that they themselves are blockchain implementations or they are either like SDKs or some kind of code which will then connect to the main blockchain network for you to write your applications. And each of them have contribution opportunities. When I say contribution opportunity, it's really add-on for your skills at colleges, right? So if you say, hey, I have open-source contribution experience on blockchain, that really adds up to your value, the final year resume or whatever it could be, there if it is for a job or for your further studies in your education. So that's a real add-on for, that's a real benefit what students can gain. And it's not like they are so difficult that nobody can understand. Besu is completely in Java which you already learn in your colleges, right? And some of those projects are in Python language. Some of them are in C++ for example. So it's all up to you. Even if you just understand what each project does, I mean, we are happy to organize learning sessions in the coming weeks. It's not possible for us to cover each of them in one session. We want to give socializing time in this call. But assuming that each of them have, I mean, we will talk over each of them, possible opportunities. It's all community-driven, right? So if you have a requirement, you just reach out to one of those modes, either LinkedIn or Discord channel and say, hey, I want to learn more about this specific project. Or just say that, hey, I'm interested in Java language. I want to see contribution opportunities in Java. We are happy to organize all possible learning sessions and we are even happy to connect you with any industry experts who you want us to connect you with. So that's what the real point which we wanted to make out here, right? And in addition to that, it's like, so there are a few steps being taken within Hyperledger which will make it more further, much easier going forward. So there will be a page which says, this is first issue, which means anybody who understands simple programming, they will be able to contribute to those kind of issues. So that's how easy we want to build it. So as you build the community stronger, so we are building this community so that we can reach out to people, more people through common modes of communication. We want to make, let's say an announcement and we want that to reach out to a larger people. And then if you would like to coordinate for these events and spread this information within your community, in your locality, maybe in your city, in your state, in your university, do feel free to reach out to us. So that is what the coordinator thing which we were talking about initially. So over there, I will stop and then we can move to next agenda item. Yeah, thanks. Okay, awesome. Thank you both for that wonderful explanation on Hyperledger technologies. Let me show my screen once again. Okay, awesome. Okay, let me show my screen. Yeah, so basically now, if you guys have any questions to commissioners regarding this session that we just took right now, please just... Yeah, you can ask questions to anyone. Arun is there to answer so much technical. Yeah, so if anyone has any doubts, regarding what it's just told you. I don't see any questions in the chat. So yeah, I see someone is unmuted. Hi, Harsh here. So can there be some technical questions also, right? Yes. Yes. We are more than happy to answer. Yes, so just when you were giving a brief on Hyperledger technologies. So I remember you said something for Hyperledger transact. Like we can deploy our smart contracts in any kind of blockchain platforms, right? So like what is it? Like, is it a, like I've worked in Damel earlier. So it does the same thing for fabric and so forth. So what is transactor language or a tool library? So transact, you imagine it to be a library, right? Transact is a library which you can use to build your own blockchain. So transact is actually multi-fold. What it allows you to do is you can attach, let's say you gave an example of Damel. So Damel is abstracting smart contract language from the underlying blockchain. You can write one single smart contract and you can deploy it for fabric. You can deploy it for Ethereum. You can deploy it for sawtooth. So transact also allows you to do that. Transact does it a little differently from what Damel does. What transact allows you to do is you have to write your engine, smart contract execution engine. So that execution engine understands your smart contract and that execution engine attaches to transact. Imagine it to be like a Lego bricks, right? You all know how Lego works. You attach different pieces together and then you get the final thing working with you. So transact takes like that. You attach a smart contract engine, which can compile, let's say, chain code language, which is specifically for fabric. So you attach that on one side, on the other side, you attach another distributed ledger. It could be sawtooth base or anything. Unless, so right now the currently supported ledgers are sawtooth and splinters, but as more and more ledgers are supported on transact, so you can imagine transact to be like that, a Lego kind of project, which allows you to plug and play different components at different layers. So advantage of this is you can take advantages of execution engines on one side. On the other side, you can take advantages of your inputs. So different blockchains have different ways of giving input. Some of them are better than others, right? So it allows you to parallelize your request, submit transactions and run them in parallel. So with this plug and play concept within transact, it allows you to like use them as a Lego pieces and then get what you want to achieve. That's how you can visualize transact to be. It is currently completely written in Rust language. So hyper ledgers, this splinter you were talking about, this is also a hyper ledger blocked in platform. Splinter, no, splinter is outside hyper ledger, it's hosted outside. So like you, this transact gives us a three layer kind of thing, one layer is the main blocking platform, then the second layer is the engine and the third layer is where you would write your code. That's right. So transact, I cannot categorize them in three layers, but you can imagine transact to be, as I said, a plug and play kind of module. You can remove on one side ledger, let's say you currently attach sawtooth, right? And then in future, maybe when fabric support has come, you can remove sawtooth and you can attach fabric over there and your smart contract engine will still remain same because transact takes care of converting your turn inputs transactions to fabric ledgers. So it uses fabric ledgers to store your data, execution is your sawtooth smart contract. Okay. You can, so whatever bigger components you can imagine, okay, let's say when we say talk about a blockchain, right? We need a storage place where I need to store actual blocks, where I need to store my transactions, the data. So that's the storage part. Second thing which I need is consensus part. I need a way in which blockchain can, blockchain nodes can agree to each other. Correct. So endorsement is a way of agreeing for a transaction, right? So we have storage, we have consensus module. Then what else?  So you can, if you can imagine and fourth lead, the way in which the ledger is getting to consensus and creating the blocks. So if you can imagine each of these building blocks of any blockchain as a separate entity or a separate module, transact allows you to plug and play these individual components from different projects. Okay. So like in future, if you want to change your ledger, you can do that very easily. That's right. That's the futuristic goal of transact. Okay. Thank you. And I also saw a question. So it's not a paid membership or it's not, everybody is welcome at Hyperledger. In fact, we should have put up on the slide deck. So Hyperledger follows the code of conduct from Linux Foundation. And we all, we believe all are welcome, right? So at Hyperledger, there is no discrimination. There is nothing, anything of any sort. It's all open community. Everything is available in open. So whatever information you want about Hyperledger, it's all there somewhere. And either in website or wiki, it's only that you need to search that and find it out. That's how open it is. So there's another question like, as a beginner, which tools should I go with? So if I say about myself, so I started with fabric. So it could be anything you're interested in, whether you're interested in the identity, so then you can start with Andy, you can start with Sartout, like maybe I think Arun started with Sartout, right? Right, Arun? I started with fabric and then switched to Sartout, that's right. So any project is fine. You can start with anything. Sir, what would be the best resources to learn about these projects, like from scratch and building all the projects to the way up? Hyperledger fabric documentation, everything is documented properly, how to get started. So if you search like Hyperledger fabric, you'll get that document properly hosted on the, read the docs. So let me say the one, see similarly you can find for the other projects too. Yeah, yeah. Right, so this is where we can help you as well, right? So we understand that as students, it is not that you're used to reading documentation of a project and getting started on that, but that's how we generally have history. So when we start with a new project, we generally read documentation about that project. We try to understand what the project does. We redesign documents and all. So this is where we can bridge you. So if you, let's say, if all of you want to start on specific project fabric, then we can come and join in and then say we can take sessions for you or we can even ask industry experts, so Kamlesh in fact runs, I mean, one of the organization Kamlesh, which is part of it, they also do Indian Blockchain Institute. They run blockchain training courses. So maybe Kamlesh can bridge you with experts who can come and train you. They will start you, start over from beginning, right? They will teach you from basics, from what you know to where you want to be. And it's all on your side.  You ask in some form, either in Discord channel or rocket chart or mailing list or LinkedIn, whichever form you feel is preferable for you. Just ask question. Hey, I want to learn this specific framework. We will organize learning sessions for you. In fact, I would like to take part and give Anima a chance because I know she was speaking about conducting learning sessions. Yeah, thanks Arun. So what we basically aim us, because I'm basically from Academy, and I know personally a lot of students who are struggling to build their projects in Fabric Institute. So what we thought of doing is to arrange a kind of study circle or something to help students to bridge that gap. So we are actually planning to get experts from the industry and take sessions for them in order to bridge that gap. That's what we are actually planning. And one more thing I want to point out here is, so yes, different frameworks do support different languages. So one thing which you need to be aware is that it's, I mean, there are different layers, right? So for example, if you are using Fabric for application development, then you just need to know how Fabric works or how Fabric, how to write application on Fabric. You don't need to know how Fabric does create a block in internals of Fabric. You don't need to know how Fabric itself is written, right? All you need to know is how Fabric works for you to write an application. So that's where most of us are required to be. So you generally don't find people asking, hey, how can I, how to learn internals of Fabric? That's very rare. Unless you want to start contributing to Fabric itself, you wouldn't generally do that. So if you are interested in application development, that should not take you more time. And in fact, most of these projects, they do come with SDKs or software development toolkits. It allows you to write your code so that by making, let's say, you all know interface concept in Java. So what does interface do? It allows you to create multiple classes which can implement that one specific interface, right? So imagine SDK to be placed, which has interface. I mean, your actual code has interface, Fabric. And for you to connect to that Fabric, you want another code which implements the networking aspects where you don't worry about how to connect to Fabric. All you worry about is how to write your application. And whenever it is required for you to send data to Fabric or receive data from Fabric, which is your application part, you make use of that SDK. SDK does implement all your networking aspects for you. You really don't need to worry about it. So that's what the concept of SDK is in very simple terms. Anyone SDK itself is a project. If you are interested in digging through it, understanding how SDK works, then that is one of the opportunity in which you can contribute back to Hyperledger. Or if you are interested in application development, then use one of the available SDK in any language and develop your application. So there are multiple possibilities. Even apart from these, there are opportunities to contribute in documentation as well. I think I can again switch over to Anima to talk about the effort which is currently going. Yeah, as an effort to contribute to the community, we, of course, we from saying it's actually started this documentation effort, but it's open for all, especially for the people who are in Kerala because we are currently doing a translation of Hyperledger fabric documentation through Malayalam. So as a first step to contribute to the community, we started with translation efforts in Malayalam. And soon after completing the Malayalam translation, we are focusing to switch to Hindi translation. And of course, it's open for all to join. So I was really interested in the SIGs that have been going on, especially the capital market ones. So can you tell us more about what's going on in that? Kamlesh, do you want to take it? Sorry, what was the question? Sir, I wanted to know about the SIG that has been going on about the capital market one. Okay. So in the capital market one, for example, there's a CBDCs in our trending buzzword, kind of what is the currency via the central governments, central banks. So there is one project kind of E-Tailer. So there are lots of different projects and what the work being in the capital market space is a financial services business. So all the projects, all the tasks, kind of details is being circulated there. Or every bi-week, every bi-week there's a presentation about the specific projects happening with the hyper-leisure fabric implementations. So if you want to join that, you can subscribe to that capital market SIG calendar. Thank you, sir. Thanks. I see a question from our project of foundation. She says that she's faculty from Tripoli department from which MESRA, I believe. And she says she has gone through training and then she's looking for a project which can be developed on the new ability sharing. That's awesome. So yeah, please do let us know how we can help you over there. I mean, we can organize peer-to-peer programming model where we can bring in people who are experts on specific platform, get them working together. And we are even happy to organize special calls for you to speak about or ask for contributions. We can even try to host this in hyper-leisure labs. So even if you need any kind of domain expertise currently, I am working with a similar project from our other plan in the renewable energy space in the fabric only. So I also can guide you. Okay, so immediate opportunities, I believe if there are more questions, please do ask. I mean, I want to reiterate the immediate opportunities available for all the students, right? So at present, there is mentorship opportunities at hyper-leisure, which is internship opportunity, in fact, which you can apply, which is open for everyone, available for everyone. And the second opportunity, which is very immediate, is on Hyperhack. It's conducted by Hyperleisure India Chapter and co-organized by St. Gates and Hyperleisure's SIC, Social Impact Special Interest Group. And these are immediately available opportunities. And apart from this, we do have other options, which is Hyperleisure Global Forum, which is a conference, where which you can present your ideas, you can submit. So call for proposal on that, conference is going to end on March 11th. There's so much happening within hyper-leisure space that there's so much to do at any point in time. Sir, are there any guidelines for teams in Hyperhack 2021, like how many members can we have, or there's a limit, like we have to have four members or more like that? I think even as an individual, you can also be part of it in the reggaeton. The max is four, right? Yeah, there's no restriction on number of people. I mean, the max restriction is of course four, but you can participate as an individual as well. So there's a question, any documentation for SOAR2 plus IoT project? So there is, I'm not sure specifically about IoT plus SOAR2 project, but there is SOAR2 supply chain example, which you can refer to. So you're asking about example project, right? So hyper-leisure does example projects, but they're not like production ready. They're just for example, for references, right? If you want to productionize them, you may need to take it from there and build your further stack. So search for SOAR2 simple supply example. It's there as an education material as well. You will get a course, edX course on that, I believe. That closely matches to SOAR2 plus IoT project. And again, we are happy to organize this. In fact, last week there was a session, not last week, this week there was a session from one of the professor from QUT, Queensland University of Technology, who presented use of blockchain with IoT. And we are happy to organize more sessions like that. I see another question which asks any mentor on that. I didn't get the question, Sonali. Talking about the SOAR2 plus IoT project, I think. A mentor for that project or what? Hello? Yes. Yeah, so I was just wondering, I'm trying to implement the similar project where we can connect the sensors data to. So sample project, yes, but if we want to take it further and if anyone can guide from the industry, that would be a great help. Excellent. Maybe. So I was on RocketChart or Discord channels. Happy to help you further on that. Okay, great, yeah, sure. Thank you, thank you so much. Yep, also we've also posted the HyperHack registration form in case anyone wants to participate. It's also put into the Discord. So if anyone wants to participate or register a team right now, you can do that. Yeah. So is there any other questions? Yes, sir. Like I've been interested in researchers and patents. Like I have also filed a patent in networking. So if you want to do something like that, so can, like you all are working on these projects for a very long time. So can you mentor us in that projects if there's something going on? Always happy to help on mentors. So I don't know from perspective of patent, but sure, on understanding the concept, but definitely yes. Is there any feature or any, what was it? Sir, can you repeat the question please? You asked something about the patent filing for the any blockchain thing or what? Yes, sir. I wondered what I wanted to ask was like if we go through the college proposals and all, then sir, there are many restrictions to us. Like I'm in second year, so sometimes the teachers are not willing to go out and all. And there was one time that teacher was not willing to publish only that paper. So I wanted to ask if you can help out in that perspective. Yeah, obviously. So I think there are many opportunities whether you can submit your paper to IEEE on different publications, media, even the Hyperledger also you can submit some kind of blog and some kind of your paper and it will be published. And even you can, so nowadays in the different SIGs, like recently the Telecom SIG written some white paper in the IoT plus blockchain integration. So it could write anything and you can submit to the respective SIG. Right, Deepvansh, I would like to, I mean re-ask the question because I believe you're asking specifically about if Hyperledger can help in publishing it in some places. Is that what your question is? Yes, sir. Okay, so that's an avenue which is not directly available but if you do have a good concept and if we identified, I mean if you think that that is something worth publishing then definitely do reach out to us. What we can help you from Hyperledger India chapter is connect you with special interest groups or maybe connect you with staff at Hyperledger depending on the quality of the paper which you're submitting. And then there is an avenue from SIGs to publish it as a white paper as Hyperledger. So that won't be, that would be published as a white paper through Hyperledger. Thank you, sir. So if you have any further questions feel free to post the queries on Discord or LinkedIn where the community members will be happy to help. So maybe we can move on to our next agenda. Yep. So basically our next agenda agenda is the networking session. So basically we want you to introduce yourselves. We want to know you better. So the stage is all yours.  So yeah, the stage is all yours right now. You can unmute and talk. I think maybe we could start with you Robin so that everyone can get an idea of how it will be done. Yeah, okay. So now to introduce myself, I am a student from St. Louis College of Engineering from Kerala. I have been in the blockchain space, I've been actively following it for about more than a year. So almost reaching two years. I rediscovered blockchain in 2019 through a workshop of the Kerala Blockchain Academy which introduced me to blockchain. And yeah, and then I've been part of these and gets blockchain club where we've been doing a lot of awesome stuff. I've also helped out, I'm also acting as deputy to Vice Chair to IEEE's Blockchain Governance Standards and also content writer for IT Impersonalification Service. So yeah, I'm totally excited about blockchain, the different opportunities and capabilities it has and it brings two people. And I'm totally thrilled to be a part of the student society and I expect the society to grow 10-fold, create more opportunities, bring new opportunities, be able to communicate with different people all over the country, work on projects together because blockchain is a very collaborative technology. We can't be siloed to like one college where you can't be siloed to one state, one place, right? If we want the blockchain to be as big as it is, we need to be collaborative and this is an effort to collaborate with people all over the nation. Anyone else wants to take the stage? Yeah. Anyone? You have continued. Oh yeah. So I'm Anuja. I'm a third year engineering student. I'm based out of Mumbai. So I actually discovered blockchain last year. I did a few courses on Coursera and that's what actually got me interested in this field. So then I started learning about solidity and coding on Ethereum and just recently I discovered Hyperledger also. So I've been trying to get myself started in that field. So through this society, I just want to meet new people and collaborate on projects because my college as such does not have an active blockchain community. So through this society, I want to meet people. I want to work on interesting projects and discover new applications that can be applied using blockchain. Thank you. Awesome, awesome. That's a wonderful... Anyone else wants to take the stage? Hey, everyone. Hello. Yes, Gautam. Hi, yes. I'm Gautam B. I'm a third year BC student from Kerala. I came to know about Hyperledger like beginning of the last year, 2020. Like there was a workshop in TKM College column. So I attended that workshop. Like at that workshop, I got a more clear knowledge about Hyperledger project, Ethereum and smart contracts, all of that. And then the person who took the workshop, that is Adil Gafoor, he got a startup called Python Technologies in Kochi. He's the one who guided me through all the Hyperledger projects and I am also planning to do my last year project in Hyperledger fabric. I hope someone of you could help me in completing that. That's it. That's awesome. Yeah, as I think Arunan Kamli told you, probably get a lot of mentorship and help from here. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. So let's just, before anyone else, can we just take a group photo? I'll just stop sharing my screen. I'm just, since it's our first meeting, can we all just take a group photo, turn on your cameras if you are willing to so that we can smile and wave, click a few pics before we just give me a sec. I'm not able to take the screenshot. Anil and Miss, can we take a screenshot? I'm not able to take it. Yeah, sure. Okay, so if everyone's okay with it, you can just turn on your cameras and when Anil and Miss says three, two, one, you can just smile and wave or something. Okay, so waiting for everyone to turn on their camera if they are willing. So I will count down and you can smile and wave. Okay, so it's three, two, one, and go. Awesome, did you take it, yeah? Yeah. Okay, awesome, awesome. So yeah, once again, let's just go back to the networking. So if anyone wants to introduce themselves to the community, that would be awesome. Sir, my name's Divyaan Chulak. I'm from Dehradun, studying in Graphica second year. I was working in cybersecurity from like three, four years, preparing for OSCP. I got into blockchain from the perspective of security. Then I got interested into financial market for blockchain as it's booming and it's the future. So I was expecting from this community to we can do projects, collaborate. And I personally wanted to expand the blockchain, expand the knowledge of blockchain in my college as many students are not aware and those who are aware are not interested in, they are like scared of blockchain. So I just wanted to expand it. So that would be, that's awesome Divyaan. So it's glad to see people joining in from different parts of India. And in fact, trade finance is one of the area and which we need to focus on. And when it comes to security, right? So there are, so I mean, if you identify there are some vulnerabilities within Hyperledger project there is way for you to report them which you can find or we are happy to search that and send it out to you. And of course, so I would suggest you to get involved in projects like URSA. Since you are coming from that background, you may find it very interesting. So that literally has your mathematics implementation or cryptographic implementation, the pure mathematics part of it, right? So you can play around with your algorithms or all your security things which you are interested in.  Thank you, sir. Anyone else who wants to introduce themselves? Hello. Yes, this is Rohit from Anah University, Chennai. And I came to know about blockchain two months back. I learned blockchain through Udemy, learned solidity to documentation, but when it comes to project, I'm not able to implement it on my own. So I guess I came to know about Hyperledger two days back. So I think it should be helpful for me. And I have so many mentors here, I'm happy for that. So that I can develop my own project. I'm happy to work with others too. Awesome. Welcome Rohit. Welcome. Anyone else? Come on. It's an open space. Yeah. Hello everyone. I'm from, this is Preetam from IRT Patna, a third year student. And I have been playing with blockchain, Hyperledger Ethereum and Bitcoin for from past three years. And yeah, I have joined this chapter just to make sure that this chapter get expanded. And recently I have cleared my fabric certification exam. So that's it. Yeah, thank you Preetam. I think I know you. And I think you are kind of role model for the student community. Because certifying the fabric certification, even you are not graduate yet. So you can guide and I will help the other but to be reached at your level. Yeah. So I would also request you to, yeah Pratik, go ahead. Sorry. No, I was just asking. So I checked out the fabric certification and it was like very costly for students. I was just wondering if there's a way we can get a scholarship on that. Yeah. I got my examination from the certificate scholarship only because Linux Foundation each year gives handouts of five to 600 scholarship. Oh, you're talking about lip scholarship I guess. Yeah. Oh, got it. Yeah, thanks. Yeah. Right. And Preetam, it would be also nice. So Gokul Natsar has agreed upon to co-lead this initiative, right? So, I mean, we need more hands to join with him and expand the vision which we have, right? So it will help if we have more people joining hands. So do feel free to reach out to your professors in your colleges and then get them in touch. Yeah, definitely. Yes. Are there any other faculty members? I heard some questions from faculty. Can they join or something like that? So it's open to all faculty members can also join. Yeah, I had work under one professor and I think he would be excited for this. I'll talk to him. Sure, thank you. So should I go? Yes, yes. So, hi, I'm Pratik. I'm also a third year undergraduate student from IIT, Delhi. So my journey in Boston started back in November 2018 and from them as like I began, I started off with Bitcoin and Ethereum that quickly shifted to Hyperledge of Fabric as suggested by one of my professors and then I attended various sessions and trainings also. I once attended like one session by Kamal Dev Sir at Snapper Future Tech in Pune and currently I'm working as a research assistant at Carnegie Mellon University in a blockchain project and previously I've done internship at Tech Mahendra and I've also worked under Ishan Roy Sir at Tamil Nadu Egoernan's agency. And so I'm looking forward to be an active member of this club and interact with like-minded people as students. Thank you. Yeah, thank you, Pratik. I remember we have news and learning data. Yeah, thank you. So one thing I can clearly feel here because when I was a student 10 years before there was no such kind of platform like here in the student talking about the Hyperledge blockchain and even doing the certification. So I think it's very good. I think it's a very good platform to be creative or good career in the future. Yes, definitely. Anyone else? Okay, I'll take that as everyone is okay with the networking session. All right, so yeah, it's been awesome. You know, we've met a lot of new people. It looks like a good start to this community and I'm like hopeful and enthusiastic about where it's going. And yeah, so the frequency, another thing I want to discuss which is on the agenda is the frequency of meetings. So like, I'm currently leaning towards probably we'll have some kind of a session bi-weekly or monthly or something like that. So I just want to do, you know, get some feedback on that. So what's comfortable for everyone?  Okay, it looks like. I think we have weekly meetings of India chapter, right? So we can have the students meeting after that, I guess. Then the colludes of Hyperledge or India chapter can also join and they can make time like back-to-back meeting like Hyperledge India chapter and I have Indian chapter of the students community back-to-back meeting, I guess that will work. Okay, that's one where we can go. So you're suggesting weekly meetings, right? Yeah, we can see that. So we'll have to see if we can get, you know, industry people to come and speak at every meeting. But other than that, we can probably, you know, talk about what other events we can organize, how to keep things moving and how to improve and expand our reach. So that's also one thing that we need to keep in mind. So yeah, we can do that. Arun, when is the Hyperledge India chapter meetings? Yeah, so Hyperledge India chapter weekly meetings happen on Thursdays at 3 p.m. So I am not sure if that would be proper time for students. So you people can decide on best available time. And from meeting link or Zoom link, we can work on those aspects once you identify meeting time and when to meet aspects. Yeah, even I, probably 3 p.m. will be too early for like some universities or colleges. The classes won't be done by then. I'm thinking we can have something on the weekends which would be much more comfortable for everyone to join even for industry people. If they want to come and talk, we can hold some sessions. So I'm leading towards some kind of a weekend type of thing, if that's okay with everyone. We can discuss this on the Discord as well if there's anyone else has any other idea. But just wanted to put that down there. Yeah, I think everyone can plan for that and maybe it's to become the discussion. We are running three minutes late. I don't know about the conversation that we can see people. And so we can. Yeah, so without any further ado, I would like to announce that this meeting has been adjourned. And yeah, so thank you everyone for coming. It was awesome to be there, to have you all of you here. I think we have one last question. Will there be hands-on sessions for different high-plated frameworks? I believe so, Arun, right? So I'll turn this back to Arun on the learning sessions or the weekly, I don't know what do you call it? Weekly meetings sessions or anything? No, I mean the learning sessions, studies. Yeah, studies. Right. So yes, as part of study circle, we could have hands-on as well. Yeah, sure. We'll plan for and also during the final session. Yep, and whatever are the requirements from the students, you can post on the Discord channel for that, we will get to know that and we'll make all those things. That is part of the naming of the session. Yeah, so like if you have any ideas, like what do you want us to do? Like if you want any events to be done, like hands-on sessions, if you want some kind of paper presentation type of thing, where you want to present your papers to the rest of the community over here, we can arrange that. I think that's also a wonderful space we can do over here. If you have any project ideas, if you're working on a project, you can present that over here in front of everyone. So that's pretty cool. So yeah. So if you have any idea and you need a place to host your project and Hyperledger Labs is a really good place where you can start working on, right? If you want to contribute back. So do feel free to reach out. And I mean, since you are the community, you can form a group of yourself, contribute or develop things in collaboration and contribute it back. We are happy to help you in all possible ways in whichever form it can be. Awesome. So yeah, with that, I would say that this meeting has been adjourned. Thank you everyone for joining. It was fun to have you here. We can meet next time.