Topic Leader(s)
Topic Overview
Short Description: How LFN EUAG serves as the "voice of the customer" within the LFN community
Detailed Description: There has been some community thinking about where and how innovation feeds into the community. Traditionally, the operators have relied on Vendors to drive innovation, but that is changing as more operators prefer to contribute directly to projects. The process for pulling in requirements appropriately into a community that expects code as requirements needs to accommodate both approaches. The EUAG can fill that role.
I think this would be a good place to get information about the telecom community and how it consumes Open Source and how it needs to provide the requirements to drive innovation in intelligent networking, 5G, edge and a bunch of other things that the Telecom community is interested in, but unless Telecom drives it, isn’t going to get the attention that it needs in the Open Source community. I think that this is particularly an issue with Containers and Kupernates. As we discovered, there are many gaps in Kupernates that make it less than Telecom friendly. So here are topics I think we should bring up:
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