2020-06-03 TAC Minutes

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LF Staff: Kenny PaulCasey CainBrandon WickHeather Kirksey

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Agenda

• Start the Recording
• Show the Antitrust Policy
• Roll Call
• Action Items Review
• Agenda Bashing
• General Topics
  • TAC Chair Election
  • Virtual Developer & Testing Forum Topics
  • Brainstorming on helping Projects with new Developer Contributions
  • Special SPC Meeting - June 8th
• Any Other Topics

Minutes

Chair Election

• Nomination period ends today

VF2F

• Submission deadline is today
• Used Qiqochat last time but did not see a great deal of value - committee decided against pursuing it again
• Will be trying out https://www.teamup.com/ for scheduling for this event
• Have used Sched a couple times in the past, but it is better suited for large "static schedule" events - carries too much administrative overhead for the dynamic way Developer events function

Brainstorming on helping Projects with new Developer Contributions

• Cross-project security team has been discussed on a couple of occasions
• Looking for feedback from the TAC on attracting new developers to Project "core" pieces
• Maybe we could create a status page where projects can list their more critical pieces and if they need help with them.
  • Something like a "Job Board".
  • We could list the requirements and why it is important to the project
  • HK: We could look at doing something like this at the LFN level and promote it through blocks or other messaging.
• Catherine Lefevre  We tried several approaches in ONAP.  However, because sometimes the non-functional needs are not sexy or they lack the relevant experience, it has been difficult to find the right people.
  • Use of interns
  • Implementing a "tax" for the Guilin release that any companies wanting to add new use case or new feature; they must also provide resources to address a couple of ONAP's non-functional or security requirements in addition to the feature development. 
• Ranny Haiby we have been working with some unofficial mentoring to help with some non-functional community efforts.
• Abhijit Kumbhare There are some components that require a lot of tribal knowledge that may not be suitable for Interns.
• Al Morton OPNFV uses a student volunteer program that is an independent program.  We only promise a letter at the end of their project but we do get some help from students to help support the community.  It has been very successful so far.
  • Morgan Richomme suggested a prize of some kind like a T-shirt for Student Volunteers for completing X number of merge requests.
• Jason Hunt Will add a plenary session to the VF2F to discuss. Requesting that Abhijit Kumbhare ,  Al Morton, Catherine Lefevre ,  Morgan Richomme  & Ranny Haiby contribute a slide.
• Abhijit Kumbhare digital certificates / badging can provide value.  
  • Jason Hunt mentioned IBM badging program: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/ibm-training/do-digital-badges-really-provide-value-to-businesses/ which uses the Open Badges program: https://openbadges.org/
  • Abhijit Kumbhare mentioned digital certification from https://www.youracclaim.com/ that LF events already uses which may be used.
• Catherine Lefevre "Memory book" model that students are required to do in Belgium - helps to build a CV
  • need to work with universities to build the model
• Morgan Richomme may need to move from gerrit to github to attract new developers. Use of the tools that students will be most familiar with will ease ramp-up

Action items

• Jason Hunt will create a Plenary session for the vDTF on attracting new developer contributions to projects 03 Jun 2020