TSC Meeting

December 19, 2018

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Meeting Logistics

Time: December 19, 2018 7am PST – 8am PST

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** TSC calls are recorded and added to Wiki post-call

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TSC – Members Present Today

Company Name Email

IOTech Andy Foster andy@iotechsys.com

ForgeRock David Ferriera david.ferriera@forgerock.com

Analog Devices Doug Gardner doug.gardner@analog.com

Mainflux Drasko Draskovic drasko@mainflux.com

Mainflux Janko Isidorovic janko@mainflux.com

The Linux Foundation Jeremy Phelps jphelps@linuxfoundation.org

Dell Jim White (TSC Vice Chair) james.white2@dell.com

IOTech Keith Steele (TSC Chair) keith@iotechsys.com

Samsung Moonki Hong moonki1.hong@samsung.com

IOTech Steve Osselton steve@iotechsys.com

Canonical Tony Espy espy@canonical.com

Dell Trevor Conn Trevor.Conn@dell.com

Note: TSC meetings shall require a quorum of two-thirds of the TSC total members to take a vote or make a decision. If a TSC meeting fails to meet the quorum requirement, discussions may proceed, however there shall be no voting or decisions. Decisions by vote at a meeting require a majority vote, provided quorum is met.

Current quorum = 8 members

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Today’s Agenda

• WG Updates
• Process Misc
• Release Tsar role (vote needed)
• Attribution policy (vote needed)
• Work ongoing
• EdgeX Long/Short Term Support
• Release, version, patches policy
• Next TSC F2F
• Upcoming Events
• AOB

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Delhi Dot Release

Jim

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Delhi Dot Release (0.7.1)

• Released Monday
• docker-compose files available (see developer-scripts repo)
• Feature: Core, Metadata, Logging, Export Client Redis-based services
• Work towards making EdgeX more database independent
• Work towards making EdgeX more 32bit available
• Also include some new device services (from the new SDKs)
• device-random
• device-mqtt
• device-modbus
• Work will include some bug fixes not captured in Delhi

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Work Group Updates

Chairs

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Working Group Chair Updates

• Around the horn
• Core/Supporting - Trevor
• Applications - Janko
• Device Services - Steve
• Test/QA - Andy
• DevOps - Jeremy
• Security - David
• System Management - Jim
• Vertical Solutions - Moonki
• Developer Outreach - Michael

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Core Working Group (12-Dec-19)

• Mongo DB driver replacement
• Confirming that we did merge PR #915 and are now using the GlobalSign driver
• Need to catch up on PRs
• Vacation last two days
• Blackbox testing methodology changes last Friday
• Tomorrow’s Core WG call
• Primary topics
• Vault integration with core services
• Service Registry abstraction

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Applications WG Update (19-Dec-18)

• Performance comparison of:
• Nuclio
• OpenFaaS
• Looks like the performance is similar if go is used
• Footprint is good for the edge
• Features are very good
• CPU usage might be the problem
• Demo was done on server with 64Gb of RAM and CPU with 16 Cores (if I’m not mistaken) and the CPU usage was 7-8%
• Need to test on a lower end machine to understand if it is usable for Edge.
• Application WG face to face meeting is scheduled for January 24 and 25 in Boston. More details will be in wiki.

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Device Services WG Update (19-12-18)

• Go SDK
• Modify ValueDescriptor Id as a string #136
• Replace mgo.v2/bson with globalsign/mgo/bson #140
• Replace Replace ErrNotFound to NewErrServiceClient #145
• Update put command to accept JSON parameter map #144
• General
• Raised work packages for new Device addressable format
• Discussing device profile changes in shared requirements doc

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Test/QA WG Update (12-19-18)

• Improving black box test script to use general API to initialize and cleanup database in PR #116
• Removed DataDumps folder and make every initial test data import by “$service-importer” collection via Postman/Newman
• Moved test data clean up logic to “$service-cleaner” collection via Postman/Newman
• Updated document in https://github.com/edgexfoundry/blackbox-testing/tree/master/docs
• Created draft performance test architecture and will discuss on next QA/Test WG meeting
• Have started implementing initial performance test cases

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DevOps WG Update (12-12-18)

Delhi patch is out. WG leads make sure to adjust your versions appropriately.

I’ll not be attending the DevOps/QA WG meeting tomorrow.

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Security WG Update (12-12-18)

• Documentation work ongoing - should have API gateway doc this week
• Completed Delhi demo last week
• Finish presenting HW based secure storage document in today’s WG meeting.

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System Management WG Update (12-18-18)

• No big updates - work still in progress
• Start/Stop redesign
• Go C SDK API work to be done
• Add CPU usage metrics (in addition to memory usage metrics)
• Add health/status check of the services to the SMA
• Stretch goal – provide a translation layer (with abstraction) to offer SMA API via other protocol (like LWM2M, SNMP, etc.)

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Vertical Solutions WG Update (12-12-18)

• WG calls to resume in the new year

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Developer Outreach (12-19-18)

• Done
• DevKits pages
• New forum from Discourse
• Updated LF CII project profile (41% coverage)
• In Progress
• Tech writer onboarding
• Understanding Device Profiles

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Project Metrics (12-19-18)

• Dockerhub:
• 158,000 total downloads (all images)
• ~ 2,400 new EdgeX deployments since August
• From ~1000 users in Getting Started documentation
• GitHub:
• 4 new Authors this month
• 33,000 lines of code* changed
• Website:
• 3,496 users (2,712 new)
• 22,226 pageviews
• 12,050 docs pageviews
• No significant change from November

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EdgeX Process & Misc Items

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EdgeX Process & Misc Items

• Committers & maintainers policy approved - awaiting board approval of definitions but otherwise done
• 2 votes needed
• Release Tsar (aka manager) role: https://wiki.edgexfoundry.org/display/FA/Release+Tsar
• Vote: Raised (Keith); Seconded (Jim); All voted in favor
• License and Attribution policy: https://wiki.edgexfoundry.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=21823866
• Vote: Raised (Jim); Seconded (Tony); All voted in favor
• Work still on going (see Wiki for current drafts)
• Releases, versions, patches definitions & policies
• LTS/STS still being reviewed & worked

EdgeX TSC F2F Meetings

Brett Preston

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EdgeX TSC F2F Meeting(s)

• 22 - 25 April, 2019 -- Location Seoul, South Korea -- Wiki page
• Technical Business Discussions + EdgeX 101 on Monday, April 22
• Architect’s Day / WG Breakout Sessions + Social Event on Tuesday, April 23
• Technical F2F - Day 1 + Dinner Reception on Wednesday, April 24
• Technical F2F - Day 2 on Thursday, April 25
• RSVP at https://goo.gl/forms/oMptkNU90RRxhK5g1
• RSVP by EOD April 5
• Current registration count: 4 in-person; 0 dial-in
• Hotel/Travel: Information coming soon

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• October, 2019 -- Location Chandler, Arizona (USA) @ hosted by Intel

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Upcoming Events

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Upcoming Events

• Emerging Computing Technology Conference, January 29-30, 2019, Houston
• Akram Ahmad (Dell) - January 29 at 4:15 pm

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• IoT Evolution Expo, January 29 - February 1, Fort Lauderdale
• Jim White (Dell) - TBD - Edge Computing: Remotely acting on mission-critical decisions in the field

Full list of LF events available at https://events.linuxfoundation.org/upcoming-events/

Additional EdgeX events available at https://www.edgexfoundry.org/events/

Upcoming CFPs

CFP Upcoming Deadlines:

• Open Source Leadership Summit , March 12-14, 2019, Half Moon Bay, CA
• CFP Status: Closes January 28, 2019
• https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-source-leadership-summit-2019/program/cfp/

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• Open Source Summit China, June 24-25, 2019 | Shanghai, China
• CFP Status: Opens December 1, 2018 – March 10, 2019

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• Members interested in joining the EdgeX Speakers Bureau, please email pr@edgexfoundry.org

Full list of LF events available at https://events.linuxfoundation.org/upcoming-events/

Additional EdgeX events available at https://www.edgexfoundry.org/events/

AOB / Reminders

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AOB/Cadence

• Meeting Cadence Reminder
• Currently held weekly at 7am PST on Wednesday’s
• Calls without TSC quorum will still be used to review issues

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• Next Meeting: January 9, 2018

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Calls December 26 and January 2 canceled - Holidays

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EdgeX Project Organization

Chair

David Ferriera

ForgeRock

Working Groups

Projects

Chair

Moonki Hong

Samsung

Chair

Jeremy Phelps

Linux

Foundation

Chair

Andrew

Foster

IOTech

Maintainer: MJ

Samsung

Maintainer:

Alberto

NOV

Tony Espy

Canonical

Drasko

Draskovic

Mainflux

Maintainer: TBA

Intel

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Marketing

• CTA: If your company will be presenting EdgeX at an upcoming event/webinar/other, please email pr@edgexfoundry.org so that we can help promote

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EdgeX in Market

• Page showcases momentum in the project, including solutions already available
• https://www.edgexfoundry.org/edgex-in-market/
• Email info@edgexfoundry.org if you have any additions

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Project Contributions Welcome!

• Our objective is to make EdgeX use & deployment pervasive!
• EdgeX success is 100% dependent on the vibrancy of a proactive community
• Getting Involved
• Project membership growing - want to join contact Brett Preston at LF (bpreston@linuxfoundation.org)
• First Priority is the MVP - potential contributors please contact keith@iotechsys.com (people, equipment, technology)
• If interested in adding new projects please contact the relevant working group chair

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Project Resources

Quick links to most commonly used Community Resources

• Code: https://github.com/edgexfoundry
• Documentation: https://wiki.edgexfoundry.org/
• Discussion: https://chat.edgexfoundry.org/
• Mail Lists: https://lists.edgexfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/EdgeXFoundry
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/22298339/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/EdgeXFoundry

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EdgeX - Where to learn more

•EdgeX Foundry Wiki

https://wiki.edgexfoundry.org/display/FA/EdgeX+Foundry+Project+Wiki

•EdgeX Foundry Rocket Chat

https://chat.edgexfoundry.org/home

•Weekly EXF Technical Spin up calls

30 minute deep-dive topics followed by 30 minute open Q&A

Call recordings are available on the Wiki

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What is the Device Exchange?

• A great way to put your products in the hands of other members so they can help build a better EdgeX!
• https://wiki.edgexfoundry.org/display/FA/Device+Exchange

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Special thanks to Dave Bohlman and KMC Controls for making this awesome kit and how-to guide available to members!!

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Meetups

• Help us grow awareness!
• Present, and Tag, EdgeX in your local IoT Meetups
• https://www.meetup.com/topics/edgex/
• Email info@edgexfoundry.org for assistance

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Meetups: Reimbursement Program

• https://wiki.edgexfoundry.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7602724
• Wiki page built for the community to leverage
• Encourage community to begin introducing EdgeX in your local Meetup groups
• EdgeX Foundry will fund/sponsor the talk in which EdgeX is scheduled to be presented
• Up to $250 for F&B, once per Meetup group, per quarter
• Let us help drive traffic to your event! Email pr@edgexfoundry.org once Meetup has been scheduled
• Post-event, please consider doing a blog about the event

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Hackathons: How can you help?

• https://wiki.edgexfoundry.org/display/FA/Hackathons
• Provide any local volunteers onsite to help with technical work, potentially help judge, etc. (see list below of known hackathons coming up and locations)
• Sponsor breakfast/lunch/dinner for the participants (usually things like donuts/coffee, pizza lunch or cater sandwiches)
• Sponsor $ rewards (incentives) for teams that successfully implement projects (these could even be projects that particular sponsors want to see accomplished - we just need them scoped appropriately so as to be something that can be accomplished in a 2 day period)
• Help provide or resource hackathon winner prizes
• Sponsor or provide any swag (t-shirts, mugs, etc.)
• Provide marketing assistance

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Thank You

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