Welcome to Hiero, the Open Source Distributed Ledger Technology of the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust. Hiero is an open-source, vendor-neutral distributed ledger technology. Hiero is used to build the Hedera public ledger. You can find more information at our website.

The following documents will help you to understand our vision, workflows and community. More documents will be added in the near future.

• Our Code of Conduct.
• Our CONTRIBUTING.md is a good starting point if you want to contribute to Hiero.
• All global maintainers of the GitHub can be found at GLOBAL-MAINTAINERS.md.
• For security related issues, please refer to our SECURITY Policy. Do not post security related content, issues or discussions publicly in any repository.
• All our projects are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.
• Our technical charter gives an overview about our official workflows, processes and the work of the technical steering committee (TSC).
• Our project roles and groups gives an overview of responsibilities and roles within any given project.
• We provide a transfer document that shows the current state of the transition of Hedera projects to Hiero.
• We track a transfer document for community driven projects that shows the current state of the transition of community projects to Hiero.
• Our public calendar contains the open TSC and community meetings.

Discord is a popular, free communication platform used by many communities, including open-source projects.

Follow these essential steps:

1. Join the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT) Server:

   • Click the official invite link: LFDT Discord
   • If you're new to Discord, create a free account when prompted.
   • Follow Discord's instructions to enter the server.

2. Agree to Server Rules:

   • Upon joining, you will likely land in a #welcome or #rules channel.
   • Read the server rules carefully. You must agree to these rules (usually via a button or emoji reaction ✅ at the bottom) to gain full access to the server channels.
   • Once you agree, other channels should become visible.

3. Access any of our available channels:

   Channel Name / Join Link	Channel Purpose
   #hiero-general	General questions, conversations and discussions not necesarily related to a specific component.
   #hiero-announcements	Announcements on agenda, meetings happening, blog posts, events and participation opportunities.
   #hiero-did-sdk-python	Conversations/questions/issues/updates in https://github.com/hiero-ledger/hiero-did-sdk-python.
   #hiero-did-sdk-js	Conversations/questions/issues/updates in https://github.com/hiero-ledger/hiero-did-sdk-js.
   #hiero-enterprise-java	Conversations on future transfer of hiero-enterprise-java.
   #hiero-hips	Conversations/questions/issues/updates in hiero-improvement-proposals.
   #hiero-maintainers	Conversations, taskforce events, issues and related topic for maintainers
   #hiero-consensus-node	Conversations/questions/issues/updates in hiero-consensus-node.
   #hiero-mirror-node	Conversations/questions/issues/updates in hiero-mirror-node.
   #hiero-sdk-cpp	Conversations/questions/issues/updates in hiero-sdk-cpp.
   #hiero-sdk-go	Conversations/questions/issues/updates in hiero-sdk-go.
   #hiero-sdk-java	Conversations/questions/issues/updates in hiero-sdk-java.
   #hiero-sdk-js	Conversations/questions/issues/updates in hiero-sdk-js.
   #hiero-sdk-python	Conversations/questions/issues/updates in hiero-sdk-python.
   #hiero-sdk-rust	Conversations/questions/issues/updates in hiero-sdk-rust.
   #hiero-sdk-swift	Conversations/questions/issues/updates in hiero-sdk-swift.
   #hiero-sdk-tck	Conversations/questions/issues/updates in hiero-sdk-tck.
   #hiero-solo-action	Conversations/questions/issues/updates in hiero-solo-action.
   #solo	Conversations/questions/issues/updates in solo.

You can also select specific channels under the "hiero" category so these channels will appear in your left navigation panel

There are two ways to access past meeting recordings:

1. Via LFX Individual Dashboard - Create and complete your profile. Look for past meeting recordings under My Meetings section. Recordings of meetings you are registered to will appear in the list. If you need to be registered to a specific meeting series, register using the button above or let LF Staff know via Discord.
2. Via Hiero Calendar - Browse meeting recordings in the calendar. Recordings appear aprox an hour after the meeting has ended.

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