[dpdk-moving] Minutes from "Moving DPDK to Linux Foundation" call, February 28th

[O'Driscoll, Tim]

> From: Dave Neary [mailto:dneary at redhat.com]
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> May I propose that we schedule a board meeting and silver member board
> seat election either to happen at ONS, or (ideally) to happen before
> ONS, after March 27th? The first item of the agenda would be
> introductions, the second would be budget priorities, given available
> resources (which by then will be known).

Yes, that sounds good to me. I think we should do that.

> 
> Thanks,
> Dave.
> 
> On 03/01/2017 09:12 AM, O'Driscoll, Tim wrote:
> > Here are my notes from yesterday's call. Please feel free to correct
> any errors or to add additional details.
> >
> > Attendees: Dave Neary (Red Hat), Ed Warnicke (Cisco), Erez Scop
> (Mellanox), George Zhao (Huawei), Jan Blunck (Brocade), John Bromhead
> (Cavium), John McNamara (Intel), Keith Wiles (Intel), Kevin Traynor (Red
> Hat), Olga Shern (Mellanox), Thomas Monjalon (6WIND), Tim O'Driscoll
> (Intel)
> >
> > Firstly, here are some links to help keep track of things:
> > Project Charter: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x43ycfW3arJNX-
> e6NQt3OVzAuNXtD7dppIhrY48FoGs
> > Budget estimate: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-
> 3686Xb_jf4FtxdX8Mus9UwIxUb2vI_ppmJV5GnXcLg/edit#gid=302618256
> > Reference Lab Proposal: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/moving/2017-
> February/000177.html
> > Technical governance, including info on Maintainers and sub-trees:
> http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/index.html &
> http://dpdk.org/dev.
> > Summary of discussion at Userspace event in Dublin:
> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-October/049259.html
> > Minutes of January 10th call: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/moving/2017-
> January/000136.html
> > Minutes of January 17th call: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/moving/2017-
> January/000157.html
> > Minutes of January 24th call: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/moving/2017-
> January/000162.html
> > Minutes of January 31st call: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/moving/2017-
> February/000176.html
> > Minutes of February 7th call: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/moving/2017-
> February/000179.html
> > Minutes of February 14th call:
> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/moving/2017-February/000180.html
> >
> >
> > Membership status:
> > - Based on discussions with potential members, $50k seems a good level
> for those considering gold level membership. Agreed $50k membership fee
> for gold members.
> > - LF proposed a $5-20k sliding scale for silver members. That seems
> reasonable, but we need some details on what that sliding scale is.
> Presumably there's a model from other LF projects that we can reuse.
> I'll follow up with Mike to get more details on this.
> > - Agreed to target a project launch at ONS (April 3-6). This is very
> tight though so we'll need to move quickly.
> > - Ed pointed out that even things that seem simple like agreeing
> quotes for a press release can take a long time.
> > - We need to finalise the charter. Can those who are considering
> becoming members review one last time and we can aim to finalise it at
> next week's meeting. We do need to be careful not to raise issues that
> we've discussed and resolved previously.
> > - We discussed whether we need to add the next level of detail on
> membership benefits to the charter. This might include things like
> specifying how gold and silver members are identified/promoted at DPDK
> events, further details on lab access/rates for gold and silver members
> etc. The disadvantages are that firstly these details may take a long
> time to agree, and secondly that putting this info into the charter
> constrains what the governing board can and cannot do in future. The
> consensus was to keep the charter at the current level of detail and
> leave these details for the governing board to define once it's in
> place.
> > - Agreed that we do need a summary of membership levels, rates and
> benefits that people can use to explain this to their management when
> requesting approval. I'll work on a draft before next week's meeting.
> >
> > Summary:
> > - Target launch date is ONS (April 3-6).
> > - Companies will need to sign up 1 week before then (Monday March
> 27th).
> > - We'll aim to finalise the charter at next week's meeting, and have a
> draft of the membership agreement from the LF.
> >
> > DNS Transfer:
> > - Thomas is working on DNS transfer for dpdk.org to the LF. Nobody had
> any objections to this.
> >
> >
> > Next Meeting:
> > Tuesday March 7th at 3pm GMT, 4pm CET, 10am EST, 7am PST (I'll send an
> update to extend the meeting series). Access numbers for the call are:
> >   Skype meeting: https://meet.intel.com/tim.odriscoll/97F0Q1HF
> >   France: +33 1588 77298
> >   UK: +44 179340 2663
> >   USA: +1 916 356 2663
> >   Bridge Number: 5
> >   Conference ID: 120705852
> > The goal for the next meeting is to finalise the charter and
> membership agreement.
> >
> 
> --
> Dave Neary - NFV/SDN Community Strategy
> Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com
> Ph: +1-978-399-2182 / Cell: +1-978-799-3338