In attendance

Name

Org

Hanen GarciaRed Hat
Mehran HadipourRakuten Symphony
Daniel HaveyeBPF, L3AF (Microsoft)
Keesang SongAMD
Jeff GowanWindriver
Brandon WickAarna
Heather KirkseyLFN
Jill LovatoLFN
Kenny PaulLFN
Sandeep PanesarLFN Chair
Pano XinosLFN

Materials

MAC Meeting recording is available at: https://zoom.us/rec/share/AQ-pqYV4pCSTSsssLiXxrlbo6UR9lOClpDen6blWgUMAKvGdxt8V-M6-EyqsqMUB.5F9YLCx1RwU6hUkv

MAC Meeting deck presented:

Agenda & Action Items

Today's agenda

  • MAC Member outreach
  • Activity & content
  • Website review
  • Events
  • Project Ops

Action Items

Task  –  /@  –  due date

  •  MAC outreach – Sandeep, Jill, Pano – ongoing

Meeting minutes

Agenda review

MAC Member outreach

  • Soft MAC restart
  • Outreach emails sent to MAC Member representatives
    • Are they the right person? If not, who is?
    • This effort is ongoing
  • Benefits of LFN MAC and Marketing support reviewed
    • Co-marketing, co-branding support
    • Amplify messaging
      • SoMe
      • Marketing planning for projects and PoCs
  • Synopsys stats == 96% of code bases contain open source code; 76% of the code in those code bases is open source code
  • This helps us increase reach and engagement of our combined marketing efforts

Activity & content

  • Link to Ranny Haiby's blog post on ETSI NFV2.0
  • Board objectives 2022-2023 and H2 high level activities review by Jill
    • Identify & tackle consumption barriers celebrate successes
    • Enable cloud, telecom and enterprise ecosystems collaboration
    • Maintain and grow community
    • H2 activities revolve around
      • 5G SBP white paper
      • Analyst white paper w/ Avid Think
      • Developer & Testing Forum live in Budapest
      • ONE Summit Regional Day Bangalore hosted at Infosys
      • Develop content around security, 5G, and AI in networking
  • -->Q from Mehran re. cross marketing w/ other projects e.g. Sylva
    • A: LFN works in parallel to many other projects and we try to cross promote and collaborate with these communities where possible. E.g.: 
      • LF Edge, LF Connectivity → sibling foundations to LFN
      • Anuket x Sylva → fireside chat @ ONE Summit Regional Day EU
      • ORAN → involved in 5G SBP
      • CNCF → Presence @ Kubecon/OSS China
      • CAMARA → white paper w. GSMA, TMForum on open network APIs
  • -->Q from Brandon re. Nephio induction into LFN
    • A: Per Kenny, the TAC voted to recommend indction into LFN. The GB will vote on whether Nephio will be inducted into LFN (at the time of this meeting)
  • Recap YTD
    • OSRDs held: 1 == 600 in-person and virtual attendees registered
    • OSRDs planned: 2
      • Spain
      • Bangalore
    • Blogs published == 24
    • User stories published == 2 (this number ought to be higher - we are seeking other potential user stories from our membership)
      • 2 pager showcasing Problem, Solution, Benefit to the end user
    • White papers published
      • Network APIs w/ Camara, GSMA, TM Forum
      • 5G SBP (internal, pending)
      • Analyst white paper by Avid Think (pending)
    • Most visited content == 5G SBP (behind / and /join)
  • Outreach activities
    • Social media
      • 1:1 activity on LinkedIn and Twitter – LinkedIn is a better platform for reaching our audience as engagement is much higher
      • Selective boosting and advertising primarily around events and registrations
      • 13k+ views of our YouTube videos in 2023 thus far – this appears to be a strong channel to reach our audience
    • Collaborative amplification is multiplicative so being able to share and reshare each others' SoMe posts is very important
  • New content initiatives
    • Community voices filmed on site at events to get perspectives from various attendees about their relationship to open source and what/how/why they contribute
    • AI mini campaign pending
      • LFN GB survey to be used to educate and inform about the perspectives about AI in open source networking
    • ONE Summit 2024 SoMe promos
      • Series of save the dates – 2 months out, 1 month out, 2 weeks out, 5 days out, tomorrow, today, thanks for coming

Website review

  • Metrics affected by bugs due to migration to GA4 – awaiting fixes
  • Audit ongoing to update and streamline navigation, pathing and pull downs

Events

  • Past
    • D&TF (virtual, Feb.)
    • OSRD Vancouver (May)
    • D&TF (virtual, June)
  • Upcoming
    • OSRD Bilbao (Sept.)
    • OSRD Shanghai (Sept.)
    • D&TF (in-person, Nov.)
    • OSRD Bangalore (Nov.)
    • OSRD APAC (Dec. TBC) – NOTE: this event is cancelled
    • ONE Summit (April, 2024)
    • D&TF (in-person, May 2024)

Project ops

  • ONAP is now a proper name and carries the tagline, "Next Generation Network Automation"
  • ODL site refresh almost complete – awaiting imagery
  • Project pitch: "Why should a project join LFN?" → Kenny
    • We need to pull together some sort of content that will explain how projects join LFN
    • Projects are evaluated according to a set of criteria to determine what level of maturity they are at and how they should be inducted

AOB

  • None

Next meeting(s)

Next meeting set for January 17, 2024 or sooner if necessary.

  • Interim meeting will be held Nov. 15, 2023 to cover ongoing activities
  • MAC Slack channel is live and everyone on the call will receive invitations shortly
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