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Materials

MAC Meeting recording is available at: https://zoom.us/rec/share/AQ-pqYV4pCSTSsssLiXxrlbo6UR9lOClpDen6blWgUMAKvGdxt8V-M6-EyqsqMUB.5F9YLCx1RwU6hUkv

MAC Meeting deck presented:

Agenda & Action Items

Today's agenda

• MAC Member outreach

• Activity & content

• Website review

• Events

• Project Ops

Action Items

Meeting minutes

Agenda review

MAC Member outreach

• Soft MAC restart

• Outreach emails sent to MAC Member representatives

  • Are they the right person? If not, who is?

  • This effort is ongoing

• Benefits of LFN MAC and Marketing support reviewed

  • Co-marketing, co-branding support

  • Amplify messaging

    • SoMe

    • Marketing planning for projects and PoCs

• Synopsys stats == 96% of code bases contain open source code; 76% of the code in those code bases is open source code

• This helps us increase reach and engagement of our combined marketing efforts

Activity & content

• Link to Ranny Haiby's blog post on ETSI NFV2.0

• Board objectives 2022-2023 and H2 high level activities review by Jill

  • Identify & tackle consumption barriers celebrate successes

  • Enable cloud, telecom and enterprise ecosystems collaboration

  • Maintain and grow community

  • H2 activities revolve around

    • 5G SBP white paper

    • Analyst white paper w/ Avid Think

    • Developer & Testing Forum live in Budapest

    • ONE Summit Regional Day Bangalore hosted at Infosys

    • Develop content around security, 5G, and AI in networking

• -->Q from Mehran re. cross marketing w/ other projects e.g. Sylva

  • A: LFN works in parallel to many other projects and we try to cross promote and collaborate with these communities where possible. E.g.: 

    • LF Edge, LF Connectivity → sibling foundations to LFN

    • Anuket x Sylva → fireside chat @ ONE Summit Regional Day EU

    • ORAN → involved in 5G SBP

    • CNCF → Presence @ Kubecon/OSS China

    • CAMARA → white paper w. GSMA, TMForum on open network APIs

• -->Q from Brandon re. Nephio induction into LFN

  • A: Per Kenny, the TAC voted to recommend indction into LFN. The GB will vote on whether Nephio will be inducted into LFN (at the time of this meeting)

• Recap YTD

  • OSRDs held: 1 == 600 in-person and virtual attendees registered

  • OSRDs planned: 2

    • Spain

    • Bangalore

  • Blogs published == 24

  • User stories published == 2 (this number ought to be higher - we are seeking other potential user stories from our membership)

    • 2 pager showcasing Problem, Solution, Benefit to the end user

  • White papers published

    • Network APIs w/ Camara, GSMA, TM Forum

    • 5G SBP (internal, pending)

    • Analyst white paper by Avid Think (pending)

  • Most visited content == 5G SBP (behind / and /join)

• Outreach activities

  • Social media

    • 1:1 activity on LinkedIn and Twitter – LinkedIn is a better platform for reaching our audience as engagement is much higher

    • Selective boosting and advertising primarily around events and registrations

    • 13k+ views of our YouTube videos in 2023 thus far – this appears to be a strong channel to reach our audience

  • Collaborative amplification is multiplicative so being able to share and reshare each others' SoMe posts is very important

• New content initiatives

  • Community voices filmed on site at events to get perspectives from various attendees about their relationship to open source and what/how/why they contribute

  • AI mini campaign pending

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    • LFN GB survey to be used to educate and inform about the perspectives about AI in open source networking

  • ONE Summit 2024 SoMe promos

    • Series of save the dates – 2 months out, 1 month out, 2 weeks out, 5 days out, tomorrow, today, thanks for coming

Website review

• Metrics affected by bugs due to migration to GA4 – awaiting fixes

• Audit ongoing to update and streamline navigation, pathing and pull downs

Events

• Past

  • D&TF (virtual, Feb.)

  • OSRD Vancouver (May)

  • D&TF (virtual, June)

• Upcoming

  • OSRD Bilbao (Sept.)

  • OSRD Shanghai (Sept.)

  • D&TF (in-person, Nov.)

  • OSRD Bangalore (Nov.)

  • OSRD APAC (Dec. TBC) – NOTE: this event is cancelled

  • ONE Summit (April, 2024)

  • D&TF (in-person, May 2024)

Project ops

• ONAP is now a proper name and carries the tagline, "Next Generation Network Automation"

• ODL site refresh almost complete – awaiting imagery

• Project pitch: "Why should a project join LFN?" → Kenny

  • We need to pull together some sort of content that will explain how projects join LFN

  • Projects are evaluated according to a set of criteria to determine what level of maturity they are at and how they should be inducted

AOB

• None

Next meeting(s)

Next meeting set for January 17, 2024 or sooner if necessary.

• Interim meeting will be held Nov. 15, 2023 to cover ongoing activities

• MAC Slack channel is live and everyone on the call will receive invitations shortly