2020-06-03 TAC Minutes

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LF Staff: @Kenny Paul@Casey Cain@Brandon Wick@Heather Kirksey

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Agenda

• Start the Recording

• Show the Antitrust Policy

• Roll Call

• Action Items Review

• Agenda Bashing

• General Topics

  • TAC Chair Election

  • Virtual Developer & Testing Forum Topics

  • Brainstorming on helping Projects with new Developer Contributions

  • Special SPC Meeting - June 8th

• Any Other Topics

Minutes

Chair Election

• Nomination period ends today

VF2F

• Submission deadline is today

• Used Qiqochat last time but did not see a great deal of value - committee decided against pursuing it again

• Will be trying out https://www.teamup.com/ for scheduling for this event

• Have used Sched a couple times in the past, but it is better suited for large "static schedule" events - carries too much administrative overhead for the dynamic way Developer events function

Brainstorming on helping Projects with new Developer Contributions

• Cross-project security team has been discussed on a couple of occasions

• Looking for feedback from the TAC on attracting new developers to Project "core" pieces

• Maybe we could create a status page where projects can list their more critical pieces and if they need help with them.

  • Something like a "Job Board".

  • We could list the requirements and why it is important to the project

  • HK: We could look at doing something like this at the LFN level and promote it through blocks or other messaging.

• @cl664y@att.com  We tried several approaches in ONAP.  However, because sometimes the non-functional needs are not sexy or they lack the relevant experience, it has been difficult to find the right people.

  • Use of interns

  • Implementing a "tax" for the Guilin release that any companies wanting to add new use case or new feature; they must also provide resources to address a couple of ONAP's non-functional or security requirements in addition to the feature development. 

• @Ranny Haiby we have been working with some unofficial mentoring to help with some non-functional community efforts.

• @Abhijit K There are some components that require a lot of tribal knowledge that may not be suitable for Interns.

• @Al Morton OPNFV uses a student volunteer program that is an independent program.  We only promise a letter at the end of their project but we do get some help from students to help support the community.  It has been very successful so far.

  • @Morgan Richomme suggested a prize of some kind like a T-shirt for Student Volunteers for completing X number of merge requests.

• @djhunt Will add a plenary session to the VF2F to discuss. Requesting that @Abhijit K ,  @Al Morton, @cl664y@att.com ,  @Morgan Richomme  & @Ranny Haiby contribute a slide.

• @Abhijit K digital certificates / badging can provide value.  

  • @djhunt mentioned IBM badging program: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/ibm-training/do-digital-badges-really-provide-value-to-businesses/ which uses the Open Badges program: https://openbadges.org/

  • @Abhijit K mentioned digital certification from https://www.youracclaim.com/ that LF events already uses which may be used.

• @cl664y@att.com "Memory book" model that students are required to do in Belgium - helps to build a CV

  • need to work with universities to build the model

• @Morgan Richomme may need to move from gerrit to github to attract new developers. Use of the tools that students will be most familiar with will ease ramp-up

Action items