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LF Staff: Casey CainKenny Paul Brandon Wick , Trevor Bramwell, Jim Baker

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Agenda

• Start the Recording
• Show the Antitrust Policy
• Roll Call
• Action Items Review
• Agenda Bashing
• General Topics
  • Virtual Technical Event Planning for ONES, Technical Meetings, and 2021 Planning
  • LFN Scaleability
• Any Other Topics

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Topic 1

• Comments

Topic 2

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LFN Scaleability

• djhunt talked about the inbound project pipeline for LFN and how Linux Foundation Networking would scale to support those projects.
  
  • How do we grow the LFN to make it a multi-project umbrella and what does it mean to be a member of the umbrella?
  • How do we manage expectations of resources and funding? 
• FREEMAN, BRIAN D Does the board recognize that if we add more projects, we have less funding for the other projects?
  • Do we have our membership fees go up by 5% if we add a new project?
  • Membership is not necessarily growing for new projects who join
  • Ranny Haiby suggested that there may be an expectation from LF leadership that the number of projects may grow but not necessarily the overall budget.
    • There may be a scenario where projects mature they would require less resources.
    • FREEMAN, BRIAN D How would that work?  I don't think that scales for all projects.
      • We should be making sure that the projects are not just shifting from one project to another and that there is a sufficient amount of development resources assigned to each project.  There has been a trend of as new projects come online we lose developers on another project.
  • djhunt In general, we need to find a way to be more efficient, and clear about where and how we will apply resources. 
• Kenny Paul As a point of reference in general the LFN provides a more high-touch availability of resources (both infrastructure and project management support) than other projects in the LF spectrum.   Also this is highly likely be a topic of discussion at the 19 Aug 2020 Governing Board meeting.
• Jim Baker shared a WIP document on the service level proposal for Project membership tiers
  • each tier provides additional level of services
  • one school of thought that projects should receive more staff support up front and have that tail off as the projects move up the tree versus getting more support.
• Lifecycle doc will ultimately need to be updated to reflect not only Project maturity, but also service levels
• Ranny Haiby believes that projects can step up and reduce the high-touch requirements of staff.
• Jim Baker provided the example of LFAI which has more that a dozen highly active capital "P" Projects and only a single LF staff project manager serving all of them because the projects are far more self-staffed, versus LFN which has 5 project managers plus a release manager supporting 6 highly active Projects.

Jason noted that he and Ranny were on vacation next week and ask for a volunteer to represent the TAC on the SPC call 

Virtual Technical Event Planning for ONES, Technical Meetings, and 2021 Planning

• Casey Cain talked about the need to start planning for ONES, and the 2020 Technical Meetings.  We also need to take a look at what 2021 will look like.
  
  • It's likely that events will remain virtual for the first half of 2021.
  • Asks that if you have interest in participating in coordinating and planning committee, please join the mailing list.
• Brandon Wick We are changing our technical events from a 2-day event to a 3-day event and making it a bit shorter.  We are also shifting to an EST time zone to capture a broader audience. 
• For ONES we will be using a tool called INXPO for hosting the event.
  • All talks will be recorded 
  • We are not going to include an unconference track.  We found that they were not really used in a virtual space.
• Technical Events
  •  Normally a 2-day event following ONES.  We decided to make this event a bit shorter and make it 3 days instead.  This eased the burden of participation. 
  • We do not plan to hold the technical events during the same week as ONES because it could be a bit draining to attend ONES and the Technical Events.
  • Right now we are looking at 13 Oct 2020 & 14 Oct 2020 

Action items