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Date

09 Aug 2019

Attendees

Agenda

Review action items from 2019-08-02 Marketing Meeting notes
Any interest in participating in a possible Data Plane event next year? DPDK is looking to expand it's summit and include other data plane projects, including TF (also FD.io, OVS).
Web update mockups?
Positioning update
LFN MAC update
Events:
- Intel Developer Day, Oregon, 9/5. (Intel Innovator https://devmesh.intel.com/projects/multi-vendor-sdn-controller-based-on-tungsten-fabric)
- Invitation to https://devopsstage.com, Ukraine, 10/18-19.

Minutes

DPDK event?
- VMB: is this a dev event or a marketing event?
- LC: This tends to be both, but marketing side is mostly to inform vendors
- VMB: Prabhjot has been doing a lot of dpdk work; pretty sure they'll be +1 on this but need more info
Web update mockups?
- Does LF need more info from us to get this started? If not, what's the ETA?
- No Jill, so will have to ask about this
Positioning update
- Darien has added his info to the positioning document
- LC has had a conversation w/Sukhdev
- Next week LC will try to integrate Randy, Darien, & Sukhdev's input
LFN MAC update
- Kicked off planning for next budget cycle
- What does TF want to do from a marketing perspective for 2020?
  - Funding for DDFs?
  - Contractor to help with tech marketing?
- VMB: Timing on this discussion?
  - LC: Need to finalise by November
  - Will need to coordinate with the TSC as well, naturally
- Process
  - Projects send over asks
  - LFN then reconciles the asks
  - Get budgets by November
- Last year board wanted digital marketing prioritsed
  - Devs didn't like this; wanted events instead
- This year, board stressed that less money be spent on events
  - So there'll be more focus on digital marketing
  - Expected funded events:
    - ONS, Kubecon, that's it
    - Booth, sure, but also could be joint working sessions, etc.
- VMB: where to start with this process? Wiki page to gather ideas, or…?
  - LC: Start discussing strategic goals for the project for the next year
  - VMB: List exists: 2019 TSC Priorities
    - Little progress for 2019, so most will probably roll over for 2020
- VMB: Next step?
  - Add this to the tsc@ agenda (VMB will do)
- RC: If given list of projects to compare against, can audit & discover what stuff converts best
  - LC: Yes, this would be awesome, +1
Events
- Sept 5: Intel developer day
  - ET working on a project for this
  - Want to write something about it?
    - VMB: Yes, please
  - ET: OK, working on demo this week, will report back next Friday & figure out what to do with it
- Oct 18-19: Event in Ukraine
  - Invite from Ivan
  - Have little information besides link above
  - 500 participants, 45 speakers, 2 days, 4 streams
  - Want us to give a presentation
  - VMB: Toss this to dev@ to see whether anyone's able to participate

Test

Action items

Lisa CaywoodFollow up with Jill to get more info about the DPDK event (if Jill isn't able to join the call)
Edward Ting Follow up next week about Intel dev day
Edward Ting Toss the Ukraine event to dev@ to see whether anyone's able to participate