The second meeting of the DPDK Governing Board for 2025 took place on February 13, with 9 of 11 board members present.
Three major items were covered in this session:
1) The appointment of new leadership for the project in 2025/the outcome of the recent leadership election
2) The arrival of a new NXP representative on the DPDK board
3) Status updates on the 2025 Bay Area Summit
New Project Leadership
The 2025 DPDK Leadership Election recently concluded with three unopposed nominees for the board – one for each available role. Tim O’Driscoll of Intel is our new Chair, Ian Jolliffe of Red Hat is our new vice chair, and Keesang Song of AMD is our new treasurer.
The board acknowledged the longstanding contributions of former chair Rashid Khan (Red Hat) and vice chair/treasurer Robin Giller (Intel) for over two years of strong project leadership.
New NXP Representative
Suchit Lepcha recently replaced Rajan Gupta as the Governing Board representative of Silver member NXP. Suchit introduced himself to the board and touched on his background and qualifications.
2025 Bay Summit Update
Following the Governing Board’s January 23rd approval of requisite funds for a September 2025 Bay Area event, Senior Project Coordinator Nathan Southern began to work with summit host Intel to facilitate this conference. It will take place from September 17-18, 2025 on Intel’s Santa Clara campus.
Registration is being set up on RegFox and is tentatively slated to open, along with a Call for Papers, around May 1. Internal planning meetings have been set up with the Intel team; these will begin on a monthly basis, in March, and will increase in frequency starting in May.
The Bay Area Summit will be a community-run, member hosted event. unlike the DPDK Prague Summit in May, it is not being organized or launched the Linux Foundation Events Management Services team. Publicity will begin later in the year to avoid interference with marketing of the Prague Summit.
As in the case of prior project summits, the DPDK Governing Board has voted to approve the reimbursement of select expenses, including food, travel and lodging, for DPDK Tech Board and Governing Board members.