2020-07-01 TAC Minutes

Attendees & Representation (default sort: member first name)

TAC Members and Project representatives should mark their attendance below 
Non-TAC project reps do not count towards meeting quorum

X = Present | P = Proxy  (Indicate in the table with @name for @name

LF Staff:

• David McBride
• Jim Baker
• Brandon Wick
• Trishan de Lanerolle

Others:

• Timo Perala

Agenda

• Start the Recording
• Show the Antitrust Policy
• Roll Call
• Action Items Review
• Agenda Bashing
• General Topics
  • TAC Vice-Chair Election
  • LFN Developer Recruitment Initiative
    • https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/x/kwNRAg
  • LFN Cross-Community Integration, Demos, etc.
    • https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/x/jwNRAg
• Any Other Topics

Minutes

Vice-Chair Election

• Ranny Haiby won the election! Congratulations Ranny and thanks for stepping up.

Developer Recruitment  Initiative

• From discussions at the virtual event
• 3 segments
  • Casual developer
  • Building a pipeline in academia 
  • Encouraging more corporate contributions
• Group formed to focus on this challenge
• Key focus: Awareness, Recognition, Tooling
• Badging through Acclaim:
  • Digital badges perhaps for committers and mentorship program participants
  • Mike Woster to explore this at the LF level
  • John Mertic has worked with LF training team to create a badge hierarchy
  • FREEMAN, BRIAN D College students/young developers may find this useful for substantiating their skills.
    • Univ Arizona has a professor lead program
  • Ranny Haiby  a repo check-in is a clear indicator of contribution and is publicly viewable - no need to over do badging
  • djhunt Use LF Insights to trigger a contributor badge?
  • What is "significant contributor mean"?
  • Abhijit K How can outside people interpret these badges?
  • ISM has a series of badges that lead to a architect level (eg. public speaking, code development...)
  • cl664y@att.com Bottleneck is the committers in the process - perhaps a certificate on Linkedin that would be a differentiator in the recruiting process
  • FREEMAN, BRIAN D F2f meeting used to have awards for top contrib, etc. - seemed to have dropped off 
  • Abhijit K What is the cost of these badges? No cost for the badges - staff costs are the real cost
  • Getting the right criteria uniformly across the projects 
  • Volunteers: Abhijit K djhunt cl664y@att.com

LFN Cross-Community Integration, Demos, etc

• Ranny Haiby How can we have more examples of real LFN cross-project collaboration?
• Brandon Wick ONS events include demo ideas from the community - cross project proposals are ranked higher for inclusion
  • 10 demos in the pipeline for virtual demo formats of upcoming ONES
• How can we institutionalize sharing across communities?
  • Without to much over head - K8s SIGs are an example - eg. Security is a common interest area
    
    • cl664y@att.com Yes - security spans all software and potentially have best practices to share across projects
    • Al Morton  CNTT RA-1 (Baldy) requirements have 70 unique line items around security
• cl664y@att.com What about the release cadence topic across LFN? This is a tricky topic.
• Morgan Richomme  Running and managing the testing process in ONAP are leveraging OPNFV framework - so perhaps this is another area for collaboration
  • Also includes the process of building the CI toolchains
  • Dependency management is another area that might be a fruitful area for sharing best practices 

Action items

• Brandon Wick  to send a link on the outstanding demos to the TAC mailing list - in a few weeks
• Ranny Haiby to create a wiki page under the TAC wiki to track the cross-project collaboration ideas and solicit ideas on TAC email
• djhunt to schedule working meetings over July and August for Developer Recruitment Initiative