Montreal Summit – Rashid Khan and Evi Harmon
This meeting began with a high-level overview of the DPDK North American Summit in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which will be held from September 23-25 at the William Gray Hotel.
The Summit will be preceded by two private working meetings/dinners – one with the Tech Board and one with the Governing Board – that prioritize agenda-setting for 2025. Everyone who has not yet registered is encouraged to do so, and can do so here, while venue information for The William Gray Hotel (site of the conference) can be found here. The room block rate for the Gray Hotel ends September 3rd.
The Summit will also include a reception on the evening of September 24th that is open to the public, details to be announced.
Ms. Harmon noted that there are 23 speaker sessions scheduled, plus a Q&A with the Governing Board and Technical board, plus workshops with topics to be announced. The agenda can be accessed here. A reception will take place following the first day of the summit.
The event will be both live streamed on youtube and edited/reposted after the event.
Membership – Rashid Khan
DPDK has had 100% corporate member retention for the third straight year in a row and the focus will soon shift to renewals for 2025 memberships and related/supporting outreach.
UNH Community Lab Update – Patrick Robb
The following recent developments were highlighted, involving the University of New Hampshire Community Lab:
1. The new x86 servers have been received, and are set up and provisioned. A while back Mr. Robb emailed the Governing Board and Tech Board to let them know which PCI cards would be moved over to the new servers. They have moved over some cards from the older servers and are running performance tests and sharing feedback with vendor reps. So far the performance results have been positive and aligns closely with what vendors have been posting on DPDK.org and the performance reports.
2. The lab is continuing to develop DTS test suites at a rate which should result in broad eth_dev coverage this year – and may go beyond the requests of the initial SOW.
3. Based on community feedback, the lab has made various Quality of Life improvements for the CI lab and their results reporting, including querying/caching updates for the lab.dpdk.org dashboard (speeding it up the dashboard), updates for their test report reporting policies to make this more reliable, to start using the ‘pending’ label on patchwork.
4. The functionality has been added where patchwork can actually track the dependencies between patches – something Thomas has encouraged as lead maintainer. This work is ongoing – spearheaded by Adam over at the Team Gerrit UNH – and is close to being finished; it should be present in the next patchwork release.
Marketing Update – Ben Thomas
Mr. Thomas will be doing live video spots with Governing and Tech Board members at the Montreal Summit. In addition to this, he is doing the following content schedule in connection with the summit:
1. Photos on the ground at event
2. UNH Lab in-person visit photos and interviews for board members and supporting staff
3. Video showreel creation from interviews for website and Golden deck
4. Post event highlights and videos – built around the actual speaker presentations.