TSC Meeting

May 2, 2018

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Meeting Logistics

Time: May 2, 2018 7am PDT – 8am PDT

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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

Analog Devices Doug Gardner doug.gardner@analog.com

Mainflux Janko Isidorovic janko@mainflux.com

Dell Jason Shepherd Jason.A.Shepherd@dell.com

The Linux Foundation Jeremy Phelps jphelps@linuxfoundation.org

Dell Jim White james.white2@dell.com

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

Samsung Moonki Hong moonki1.hong@samsung.com

Samsung MyeongGi Jeong myeong.jeong@samsung.com

VMware Salim AbiEzzi salim@vmware.com

Canonical Tony Espy espy@canonical.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.

Current quorum = 8 members

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Today’s Agenda

• New Members
• Working Group Updates
• Next TSC F2F Meetings
• EdgeX Test Beds
• IIC Liaison Updates & Opportunities
• EdgeX Developer Advocate & Project Evangelist
• Use Case Campaign
• Upcoming Events
• AOB

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New Members

Brett Preston

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New Members

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Working Group Updates

Keith Steele

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Working Group Updates

• Technical Debt identification/submissions > completed - reference TSC email
• In preparation of June F2F (Delhi planning)
• Provide your inputs to Jim W.�

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Other Working Group Chair Updates

• Around the horn
• Applications - Janko
• Device Services - Tony
• Test/QA - Andy: Kicked off next set of creation of black box tests; Had first meeting of Security Testing Subgroup.
• DevOps - Jeremy: Have brought in the core config seed Go contribution; Setting up CI for that.
• Security - Doug
• System Management - Salim: Developer will be onboard later this week. Will not be running for System Mgmt. WG Chair moving forward.
• Vertical Solutions - Moonki
• Others

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Next TSC F2F Meetings

Keith Steele

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EdgeX TSC F2F Meeting(s)

• Tuesday & Wednesday 5th/6th June -- Location VMWare Palo Alto, California
• RSVP at https://goo.gl/forms/fzunofabMiliT5Ht1
• Current registration count: 5 in-person; 0 dial-in
• Hotel Options: https://wiki.edgexfoundry.org/download/attachments/12124391/vmw-pa-hotels.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1522861814000&api=v2
• Tuesday & Wednesday 23rd/24th October -- Location Edinburgh, UK
• Rather than booth, target CFP submissions (CFP closes July 1)
• RSVP at https://goo.gl/forms/QR3WgP4ybB5KUT3w2
• Current registration count: 0 in-person; 0 dial-in
• Hotel/Travel: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/elc-openiot-europe-2018/attend/venue-travel/
• AI - BP: Invites will be sent to full TSC meeting invite list following this TSC call
• Following meeting would be in Asia at Samsung Facilities?

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EdgeX Test Beds

Keith Steele

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EdgeX Test Beds

• Discussion on EdgeX Test Beds
• Test Bed Collaboration
• Update from Moonki

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IIC Updates & Opportunities

James Clardy

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IIC Liaison Updates and Opportunities

• Chicago F2F - September 12, 2018
• Latest update (March 21): Kickoff meeting between both teams proposed - who’s on point at EdgeX?
• Hosted by IIC Security WG (Email sven.schrecker@intel.com, wael.william.diab@huawei.com)
• EdgeX Liaison: James Clardy
• If you’d like to contribute, please email info@edgexfoundry.org to be added to EdgeX-IIC liaison mail list
• Need to propose Agenda Topics/Speakers
• Example: http://www.iiconsortium.org/liaison-workshop.htm
• Primary goal: Educate people about EdgeX, alignm to IIC Member goals / needs
• Potential Agenda Items:
• 1. Introductory presentation EdgeX (including architecture overview)
• 2. IIC Reference Architecture
• 3. System Management, Security - How does this align to IISF and IIC Endpoint Security Best Practices?
• 4. Overview of Vertical Activities - alignment to IIC testbeds?
• 5. Presentations from IIC - what’s desired by EdgeX Members?
• 6. Representatives from member companies to present use cases; how they fit in, what they are contributing (examples: Samsung, RSA)
• 7. Map EdgeX to IIC
• Session length? TBD - (IIC/oneM2M workshop was 3.15 hours)
• Indicated interest in participating (as of May 3): Keith Steele, Doug Gardner, Riaz Zolfonoon, Salim AbiEzzi
• Email info@edgexfoundry.org to register interest

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Seeking: EdgeX Developer Advocate & Project Evangelist

Brett Preston

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EdgeX Developer Advocate & Project Evangelist

• The EdgeX Foundry Project (EdgeX) is seeking a project evangelist and developer advocate to help grow and support the global EdgeX community
• Technical skills include: You are hands-on with EdgeX and Embedded technologies
• If you know of anyone, send them our way (link below)
• Full information available at https://www.edgexfoundry.org/jobs/

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Use Case Campaign

Brett Preston

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EdgeX Use Case Campaign

1. Draft site is available for review:

• https://www.edgexfoundry.org/use-cases/
• all passwords set to UseCase!

2. Seeking volunteers to help work in EdgeX connection

• EdgeX specific use cases
• examples of how EdgeX helps with a use case; which can include how a third party applies their commercial value add
• email usecases@edgexfoundry.org to sign up

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Upcoming Events

Brett Preston

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Upcoming Events - Confirmed

• Internet of Things World, May 14-17, 2018, Santa Clara
• Save 25% with discount code EDGEX
• Connectivity Expo, May 21-24, 2018, Charlotte, North Carolina
• Galeal Zino, NetFoundry
• LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen China, June 25 - 27, 2018, Beijing
• Community Partner: Save 15% on Attendee Registration with discount code LC318COM15
• Open Source Summit North America, August 29 - 31, 2018, Vancouver, Canada
• Community Partner: Save 15% on Attendee Registration with discount code OSSNA18COM15
• EdgeX / IIC Workshop, September 12, 2018, Chicago, IL
• Hosted jointly by:
• IIC Security (Chair: Sven Schrecker, Intel)
• Liaison Working Group (Chair: Wael William Diab, Huawei)
• EdgeX Liaisons: James Clardy, NetFoundry, Riaz, Salim AbiEzzi VMware

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

Upcoming Events - Confirmed (continued)

• Open Networking Summit Europe, September 25 - 27, 2018, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Community Partner: Save 15% on Attendee Registration with discount code ONSEU18COM15
• CFP open through June 24 / Submit your EdgeX talk here
• Open Source Summit Europe, October 22 - 24, 2018, Edinburgh, UK
• Community Partner: Save 15% on Attendee Registration with discount code OSSEU18COM15
• CFP open through July 1 / Submit your EdgeX talk here
• ELC / OpenIoT Summit Europe, October 22 - 24, 2018, Edinburgh, UK
• CFP open through July 1 / Submit your EdgeX talk here

Event Participation Opportunities

IOT Solutions World Congress

• http://www.iotsworldcongress.com/
• October 16-18, 2018
• Barcelona
• Call For Papers (CFP closed April 30)
• EdgeX Submitted:
• Security issues and practices in the IoT Edge Computing Era
• How to build open source IoT ecosystems
• Jim White submitted a response
• Call For Testbeds (Call for Testbeds closes June 11)
• Submitted: ---
• Email info@edgexfoundry.org if you submit for CFP or Testbeds so that we can track

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AOB / Reminders

Brett Preston

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Upcoming WG Chair/TSC Elections

• Start thinking about nominations. Rules:
• There shall be a nomination and election period for electing Contributors or Maintainers to the TSC.
• Voting Members of the TSC must be Contributors or Maintainers in the Project.
• The Contributors and Maintainers of each Working Group shall elect a Working Group Chair for their Working Group. Each Working Group Chair will serve as a voting member of the TSC.
• All Contributors and Maintainers in the Project shall elect three TSC at-large representatives to serve as voting members of the TSC.
• Additionally, Platinum members of the Project when not otherwise represented as a voting member of the TSC, may appoint one representative to serve as a voting member of the TSC.
• No member or group of Related Companies shall have more than 3 votes on the TSC.

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TSC Elections

• Election Process In summary:
• Current TSC terms run through 6/24/2018, will initiate elections at next TSC meet.
• The Contributors and Maintainers of each Working Group shall elect a Working Group Chair for their Working Group. Each Working Group Chair will serve as a voting member of the TSC.
• All Contributors and Maintainers in the Project shall elect three TSC at-large representatives to serve as voting members of the TSC.
• The voting members of the TSC will elect a TSC Chair annually, who will serve as a voting member of the Governing Board, and will liaise between the Governing Board and technical leadership of the EdgeX Foundry Project. The TSC Chair... must be representative of a member company.

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TSC Elections

Definitions

• i. Contributors: anyone in the technical community that contributes code, documentation or other technical artifacts to the EdgeX Foundry Project codebase.
• ii. Maintainers: Contributors who have the ability to commit code and contributions to a project’s main branch on the EdgeX Foundry Project. A Contributor may become a Maintainer by a majority approval of the existing Maintainers.

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Process

• Typically managed over email.
• Working Groups manage their own elections. LF can support if needed.
• Once the TSC has been put in place, the new TSC will take nominations for Chair. If there is more than one nomination, there will be a vote.
• One week for a nomination period, and one week for voting (if needed).

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TSC Elections: Proposed Timing

• Friday, June 1 - Friday, June 8: TSC Nominations
• Tuesday, June 5 - Wednesday, June 6: TSC F2F Meeting (Palo Alto)
• Friday, June 8 - Friday, June 15: TSC Elections
• Monday, June 18 - Friday, June 22: Transition; TSC Chair Nominations
• Sunday, June 24: End of current TSC term
• Monday, June 25: 1st day new TSC
• Monday, June 25 - Friday, June 29: TSC Chair Voting

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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 by Jim White, Dell (james_white2@dell.com)

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

Call recordings are available on the Wiki

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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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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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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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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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Hackathon Events

• Jim White and Tyler Cox putting together hackathon starter kit.
• More coming

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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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EdgeX Project Organization

Chair

Doug Gardner

ADI

Working Groups

Projects

Chair

Moonki Hong

Samsung

Chair

Jeremy Phelps

Linux F

Chair

Andrew

Foster

IOTech

Maintainer: MJ

Samsung

Maintainer:

Alberto,NOV

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Marketing

• CTA: If your company will be demoing technologies that utilize the EdgeX framework, please email events@edgexfoundry.org so that we can add to https://www.edgexfoundry.org/events/

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• 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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AOB/Cadence

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

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• Next Meeting: May 9, 2018

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Thank You

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