#lfn-meeting: LFN TAC

Meeting summary

1. 1. Wenjing (Wenjing, 15:00:27)
   2. Tim Irnich (timirnich, 15:00:42)
   3. Andre Fredette (afredette, 15:02:28)
   4. Daniel Farrell (dfarrell07, 15:02:39)
   5. Ray Kinsella joining for Ed W (mortderire, 15:03:11)
   
   
2. agenda bashing (rpaik, 15:04:48)
   1. Anders Rosengren (arogarog, 15:05:09)
   2. Tapio Tallgren (ttallgren, 15:05:22)
   3. suggestion on TAC's role on any sub-committees for cross project collaboration and TAC's input on the budgeting process (rpaik, 15:05:38)
   
   
3. meeting tools (rpaik, 15:06:00)
   1. Rossella Sblendido (rossella_s, 15:06:23)
   2. mazin gilbert (Onap - ATT) (gilbert, 15:06:25)
   3. Ray Kinsella for Ed Warnicke (mortderire, 15:06:31)
   4. we now have wiki, IRC channel, and mailing list (rpaik, 15:06:32)
   5. Randy Bias (randybias, 15:06:36)
   
   
4. GB representative vs. TAC Chair (rpaik, 15:06:58)
   1. Tina Tsou (tinatsou, 15:07:54)
   2. phrobb notes that it'd be ideal to have a GB representative identified prior to the March GB meeting on March 26th (rpaik, 15:08:13)
   3. https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/display/LN/Technical+Advisory+Council wiki page (rpaik, 15:09:03)
   4. gilbert suggests another option of having a Chair & a Vice-Chair for the TAC (rpaik, 15:10:22)
   5. suggestion to follow-up via email on roles between chair & vice chair and election timeline (rpaik, 15:13:38)
   
   
5. technical communities' goals (rpaik, 15:13:56)
   1. there will be an opportunity to provide input into budget needs via discussion on 2018 goals and priorities (rpaik, 15:17:14)
   2. On March 14th, TAC can help review/prioritize large budget items (rpaik, 15:18:10)
   
   
6. OpenContrail entry into LFN (rpaik, 15:19:29)
   1. randybias noted that there's been discussion on new governance model for the OpenContrail community over the past year and decision was to join the LF (rpaik, 15:21:41)
   2. there has also been a renaming to Tungsten Fabric (rpaik, 15:21:58)
   3. gelkinbard discussed vision, use case, features, architecture, etc. (rpaik, 15:29:59)
   4. randybias notes that one of the key reasons for joining LFN is to broaden the contributor base (and go beyond one company) and collaborate with other networking open source projects (rpaik, 15:36:32)
   5. randybias adds that difference between open source and commercial offerings were mainly around licensing and support (rpaik, 15:41:56)
   6. https://github.com/Juniper/contrail-controller (rpaik, 15:44:45)
   7. phrobb shared his list of candidate project review items (rpaik, 15:49:05)
   8. rpaik/phrobb will share information received from the OpenContrail team to the TAC mailing list (rpaik, 15:49:45)
   9. dfarrell07 suggests adding metrics for contributions from each member companies (rpaik, 15:52:49)
   10. timirnich notes that we need to also review financial impact to the LFN on new project joining (e.g. for infra, marketing, etc.) (rpaik, 15:54:28)

Action items

1. (none)

People present (lines said)

1. rpaik (28)
2. dfarrell07 (5)
3. collabot` (3)
4. randybias (3)
5. mortderire (2)
6. timirnich (1)
7. arogarog (1)
8. tinatsou (1)
9. ttallgren (1)
10. afredette (1)
11. zxiiro (1)
12. rossella_s (1)
13. gilbert (1)
14. Wenjing (1)