2020-02-27 TSC Minutes

Attendees & Representation

TSC Members and Project representatives should mark their attendance below

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

Proxies:

LF Staff: Casey Cain, Daniel Pono Takamori

Others: VM (Vicky) Brasseur (she/her), Syed Ahmed, 

Agenda

• Start the Recording
• Show the Antitrust Policy
• Agenda Bashing, Roll Call, Action Items (all, 9:00-9:05 am)
• General Topics
  
  • Tungsten Fabric Release
  • Elections Update
  • Mentorship Program
  • Community Awards at ONES
  • Project Health Review Submission (Due 11 Mar 2020)
  • Events / COVID-19 Update
• Any Other Topics

Minutes

Action Item Followup

• Recording on Security - Focused on Contrail.  Needs to be updated for Tungsten Fabric.

TF Release

• Release timeline not defined.
  • We have never finalized the release process in the community.  This was due to several reasons, but the primary one being the repository migration
    • Casey/Ed suggested that we build the baseline in advance of the repository migration
  • A proposal is being drafted for Community Review.  Will be posted in the Proposal section of the wiki.

Election

• Today is the last day to self-nominate.  Please do so before 5pm PT
• Technical Representative Seats: 5
  • Current Election Mechanics limits the number of each Represented Group to 1 per Organization. 
• Self-Nominated Eligible Candidates: 5
• Eligible Winners from Candidate pool: 4
• Community Representative Seats: 3
  • Maximum number of seats is 3
• Self-Nominated Eligible Candidates: 4
• Eligible Winners from Candidate Pool 3
• If we do no get more technical representative self-nominations a resolution will be presented to the TSC to reduce the number of technical seats for the 2020 Election period to 4.
  • Once a new TSC is elected, Casey will work with them to develop a proposal to further refine the governance policies of the Project.

Mentorship Program

• Mentor project submissions due by 28 Feb 2020 
  • There is a bit of leeway, but the TSC must approve Mentorship submissions by 13 Mar 2020 

Community Awards

• Community and Technical Awards will be presented at ONES.
• Casey asked what metrics we should use to identify who should receive an award. 
  • Code Contributions
  • Community Presentations
  • Infrastructure recognition 
  • Documentation Award
  • Marketing
• Who has helped the community and in what way?

Project Health Review

• Casey/Randy to work on the presentation
  • Casey asked if there were any other community members who wanted to participate.

Events / COVID-19 Update

• A detailed look at the LF Safety measures may be found here: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/2020/02/27/novel-coronavirus-update/

  • Ultimately some of the largest concerns right now are around fear and misinformation...we urge you to stay informed directly from the WHO and CDC.

    • Recommended Resources:

    • World Health Organization (WHO) Novel Coronavirus Daily Situation Reports:

      • https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports

    • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Situation Summary:

      • https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

    • Real-Time Data Dashboard from Johns Hopkins University:

      • https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

    • US Dept of State Travel Advisories:

      • https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories.html/

Action items

• Casey Cain to send an email asking for feedback on Community Awards 27 Feb 2020 
• Casey Cain to send an email asking for volunteers to help with the Project Health Review.  27 Feb 2020 
• Casey Cain to send an email to remind the Community that tomorrow is the last day for submitting a Project to the LFN Mentorship Program 27 Feb 2020