Meeting Minutes - Mar. 19, 2025

Attendees:
- Aaron Conole
- Bruce Richardson
- Honnappa Nagarahalli
- Maxime Coquelin
- Morten Brørup
- Thomas Monjalon

1. Board initiatives follow up
- Cloud, AI, security initiatives
- No discussion on this topic.

2. Gov board
- any proposals for following up (meeting on Mar. 20, Q1 sync)
- Requested an update on DTS developer progress (Morten provided)
- Maxime still has outstanding request to Gov Board about linux header file inclusion for UAPI (Nathan to share with Maxime)
- Anyone else reach out to Nathan if there are initiatives

3. Code challenge
- Thomas created a google sheet as a starting point for discussions, tech board
- Approval from Gov Board / Mkt for $$ to be associated with this as some kind of prize/reward/incentive?
- Prizes of some kind are needed to generate interest
- How to determine prize? Dates? Can travel be part of it?
- Tech board to vote on preferences for projects
- Tech board then will need to pick / propose / prioritize topics based on the preferences
- Reach out to universities about topics
- Mentorship sign up for topics and for general mentorship
- Format is fine, but concern is about mentorship and who will be able to volunteer
- Bring up to Governing board
1. Explain the current status
2. Explain the topics and what we are proposing
3. Ask for assistance with getting mentors

4. Contribution policy
- Feedback
- Mailing list being write-only may not change even with this proposal
- Patch mailing list is really just a CI mailing list at this point
- Waiting before re-posting as PATCH
- Concern about how the CI usage will be affected, may not accomplish goals (circular feedback loop)
- Maybe need to post with ominous name

5. Grout testing at UNH
- Ask Patrick to discuss in email on tech board on the current status
- Aaron to send
- To be discussed next meeting

6. Prague Update
- Swag, restaurant arrangements for joint sessions
- Tech board to send in reimbursement requests now
- Schedule being online? DPDK events page and prague pages are giving Error 404

Next meeting: 02 April, 2025
Chair: Bruce Richardson