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Weekly call recap, next meeting is on March 03
by Ildiko Vancsa 18 Feb '25

18 Feb '25

Hi Everyone, The working group participants are currently focusing on writing a new whitepaper. Along with that goal we spent today's call as a working session to go through content and comments that people contributed to the document so far. During our conversation today we focused on areas such as strategy to define terms like 'edge' and 'AI'. We also went into a bit of detail on our desire to cover hardware considerations, and the group gravitated towards having follow-up articles to do deep dives on certain topics that the paper doesn't have the bandwidth to cover. Our next ECG call is on Monday (March 03), 2025 at 1600 UTC: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Looking forward to seeing you on the next meeting! Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Weekly call recap, next meeting is on February 17
by Ildiko Vancsa 11 Feb '25

11 Feb '25

Hi Everyone, Thank you to all of you who were able to attend the call today. The group focused on the Edge & AI whitepaper on the weekly call today. We are still in the brainstorming and information gathering phase, which is open for one more week, and we threw out some more thoughts, ideas and preferences for the paper. We had a great discussion on the call. we touched on the following topics: - ELASTIC EU project and how to relates to edge * https://elasticproject.eu - Our preferences on providing recommendations and concrete guidance vs keeping the paper more theoretical - New EU Commission Telco + AI whitepaper * https://smart-networks.europa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/ai_ml_white-pap… - HW at the edge, including cost considerations and tradeoffs - Starting on our next call, we will focus on the whitepaper's scope, timeline and next steps For more detailed notes, please see the meeting etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/openinfra-edge-computing-group Our next ECG call is on Monday (February 17, 2025) at 1600 UTC: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Looking forward to seeing you on the next meeting! Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Weekly call recap, next meeting is on February 10
by Ildiko Vancsa 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Hi Everyone, The group focused on the Edge & AI whitepaper on the weekly call today. As we are still in the brainstorming and information gathering phase, we had a short meeting. We touched on the following topics: - Use cases * Extreme Edge * AI for O-RAN and 5G/6G networks - Performance section * The group decided to include both HW and SW performance, potentially as separate sections - Next steps * Leave the brainstorming phase open for 2 more weeks * Proceed with defining the scope and timeline for the paper as a next step For further notes, please see the meeting etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/openinfra-edge-computing-group Our next ECG call is on Monday (February 10, 2025) at 1600 UTC: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Looking forward to seeing you on the next meeting! Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Weekly call recap, next meeting is on February 3
by Ildiko Vancsa 29 Jan '25

29 Jan '25

Hi Everyone, We' had a great call this Monday where we kept focusing more deeply on the new whitepaper in the topic area of the intersection of edge computing and AI. We are still in the brainstorming and information gathering phase, which will be followed by setting a scope and timeline. We've spent most of our time this Monday on the following items: - Use cases * AI-enabled private edge clouds * Use of federated learning for automotive and aviation - Definitions to include in the paper - keep them short and for the purpose of setting context for the paper * Edge, fog, extreme edge * AI, ML definitions - We also talked about the group's preferences on how to approach security and privacy in the whitepaper * Standalone chapter * Part of the use cases For further notes, please see the meeting etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/openinfra-edge-computing-group Our next ECG call is on Monday (February 03, 2025) at 1600 UTC: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Looking forward to seeing you on the next meeting! Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Weekly call recap, next meeting is on January 27
by Ildiko Vancsa 23 Jan '25

23 Jan '25

Hi Everyone, We' had a great call this Monday where we focused more deeply on the new whitepaper in the topic area of the intersection of edge computing and AI. As we are still in the brainstorming phase, we have been collecting topic ares and have been debating the scope of the paper. We also discussed the opportunity of planning for multiple papers, as it seems like we might have enough content for that. We've made progress today with the following items: - Beth has written up an outline for the paper, which the group went through on the call - Some details we started to discuss for the paper: * Audience: People in the SW infrastructure space, Telecommunications, Academia and Research communities came to mind * Use cases: the group came up with a great list of options, some of which we might publish separately from the paper - Smart Homes - Healthcare - Drones - Aviation - Automotive - IoT - Federated ML For further notes, please see the meeting etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/openinfra-edge-computing-group Our next ECG call is on Monday (January 27), 2025 at 1600 UTC: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Looking forward to seeing you on the next meeting! Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Weekly call recap, next meeting is on January 20
by Ildiko Vancsa 14 Jan '25

14 Jan '25

Hi Everyone, We've just had the first Edge Computing Group call in 2025! Meeting attendees focused on a new goal, which is to write and publish a new whitepaper in the topic area of the intersection of edge computing and AI. We've made progress today with the following items: - Roundtable introductions, as we had a few newcomers joining the meeting today - Defined some logistical details for the whietpaper work: * Timeline to publish the paper is 3-4 months * Whitepaper length to be 15-20 pages * We will balance between utilizing the Zoom meetings and working offline * We will use Google drive and Google docs to collaborate (Please reach out to Ildiko for access) For further notes, please see the meeting etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/openinfra-edge-computing-group Our next ECG call is on Monday (January 20), 2025 at 1600 UTC: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Looking forward to seeing you on the next meeting! Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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First Working Group Call is on January 13!
by Ildiko Vancsa 07 Jan '25

07 Jan '25

Hi All, Happy New Year to those of you who are celebrating the arrival of 2025. The first working group call of the year will be on __January 13, 2025 at 1600 UTC (8am US Pacific / 17:00 CET / January 14 12am CST).__ We will spend that first call with planning out plans, priorities and activities, which will include the whitepaper we started to plan around the intersection of edge and AI. You can find dial-in information and further working group resources here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group Please let me know if you have any questions in the meantime. I'm looking forward to talking to you next Monday! Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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The Intersection of Edge and AI Whitepaper - Call for Collaborators
by Ildiko Vancsa 09 Dec '24

09 Dec '24

Hi, The OpenInfra Edge Computing Group is currently exploring to write its next whitepaper in the topic areas of Edge and AI, and how they intersect. As AI is developing quickly, the devices need to keep up with the demand of processing, moving and storing large amounts of data. In many use cases, this cannot be achieved without using Edge Computing methods and architectures. Our working group will focus on uncovering requirements towards infrastructure, the building blocks that are already available, gaps, architectures, and more. Do you have an AI use case or case study to share? Is your Edge infrastructure already utilized for AI workloads or is planned to be? We would like to have your story in the whitepaper! __The Edge Computing Group will start working on the whitepaper in January, 2025. If you are interested in participating in the conversations and contributing content, please reply to this thread or reach out to me directly.__ You canThe first two whitepapers of the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group: - Cloud Edge Computing: Beyond the Data Center - https://www.openstack.org/edge-computing/cloud-edge-computing-beyond-the-da… - Edge Computing: Next Steps in Architecture, Design and Testing - https://www.openstack.org/edge-computing/edge-computing-next-steps-in-archi… Please keep an eye out for the announcements on next steps and dates for the upcoming working group meetings. For more information on the working group, please check out our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group I’m looking forward to collaborating with you! Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Re: The Intersection of Edge and AI Whitepaper - Call for Collaborators
by Armstrong Foundjem 27 Nov '24

27 Nov '24

Hello Ildikó, Great and timely idea. Indeed, there are several open problems in Federated ML that Edge and AI could be a better match. I am interested in collaborating to the white paper. Regards, Armstrong From: edge-computing-request(a)lists.opendev.org <edge-computing-request(a)lists.opendev.org> Date: Wednesday, November 27, 2024 at 11:19 To: edge-computing(a)lists.opendev.org <edge-computing(a)lists.opendev.org> Subject: Edge-computing Digest, Vol 68, Issue 4 Send Edge-computing mailing list submissions to edge-computing(a)lists.opendev.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to edge-computing-request(a)lists.opendev.org You can reach the person managing the list at edge-computing-owner(a)lists.opendev.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Edge-computing digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: The Intersection of Edge and AI Whitepaper - Call for Collaborators (Mahadev Satyanarayanan) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 11:18:46 -0500 From: Mahadev Satyanarayanan <satya(a)cs.cmu.edu> Subject: [Edge-computing] Re: The Intersection of Edge and AI Whitepaper - Call for Collaborators To: Ildiko Vancsa <ildiko(a)openstack.org> Cc: edge-computing <edge-computing(a)lists.openstack.org>, edge-computing(a)lists.opendev.org Message-ID: <13843677.uLZWGnKmhe@rime> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="nextPart3519574.aeNJFYEL58" Hi Ildiko, This is a great idea. Edge Computing + AI will be a game changer. We have been using using edge offload to enable autonomous flights of ultralight drones at the Living Edge Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. The low latency of edge computing is crucial to this use case. Details can be found in two recent papers: 1. "Democratizing Drone Autonomy via Edge Computing" (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3583740.3626614[1<https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3583740.3626614%5b1>]) that was published in the 2023 IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC) and 2. "The OODA Loop of Cloudlet-based Autonomous Drones" which will be presented next week at the 2024 IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC) (PDF attached, since it is not yet online at IEEE) If this use case would be of interest to the white paper, we are happy to contribute material from these papers. Cheers --- Satya On Monday, November 25, 2024 11:03:40 PM EST Ildiko Vancsa wrote: > Hi, > > The OpenInfra Edge Computing Group is currently exploring to write its next > whitepaper in the topic areas of Edge and AI, and how they intersect. > As AI is developing quickly, the devices need to keep up with the demand of > processing, moving and storing large amounts of data. In many use cases, > this cannot be achieved without using Edge Computing methods and > architectures. Our working group will focus on uncovering requirements > towards infrastructure, the building blocks that are already available, > gaps, architectures, and more. > Do you have an AI use case or case study to share? Is your Edge > infrastructure already utilized for AI workloads or is planned to be? We > would like to have your story in the whitepaper! > __The Edge Computing Group will start working on the whitepaper in January, > 2025. If you are interested in participating in the conversations and > contributing content, please reply to this thread or reach out to me > directly.__ > You canThe first two whitepapers of the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group: > - Cloud Edge Computing: Beyond the Data Center - > https://www.openstack.org/edge-computing/cloud-edge-computing-beyond-the-da > ta-center?lang=en_US - Edge Computing: Next Steps in Architecture, Design > and Testing - > https://www.openstack.org/edge-computing/edge-computing-next-steps-in-archi > tecture-design-and-testing > Please keep an eye out for the announcements on next steps and dates for the > upcoming working group meetings. > For more information on the working group, please check out our wiki: > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group > I’m looking forward to collaborating with you! > > Best Regards, > Ildikó > > ——— > > Ildikó Váncsa > Director of Community > Open Infrastructure Foundation > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Edge-computing mailing list -- edge-computing(a)lists.opendev.org > To unsubscribe send an email to edge-computing-leave(a)lists.opendev.org -------- [1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3583740.3626614

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Next Edge WG call is in January, 2025!!
by Ildiko Vancsa 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

Hi All, With the upcoming holiday period the availability of our core group is very limited during December. For that reason we decided to cancel those calls and let everyone focus on the end-of-year tasks. __The next Edge WG call will be held in January, 2025.__ The first half of next year the working group will focus on creating a new whitepaper, which will target the intersection of AI and Edge Computing. As AI is developing quickly, the devices need to keep up with the demand of processing, moving and storing large amounts of data. In many use cases, this cannot be achieved without using Edge Computing methods and architectures. We will deep dive into this topic on the next working group call. For more information about the working group and upcoming meetings, please see our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group In the meantime, Happy Holidays and see you in 2025! ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Next Edge WG call is on November 25
by Ildiko Vancsa 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

Hi, It is a friendly reminder that the next Edge Computing WG call is on Monday (November 25) at 8am PT / 1600UTC. We will focus on having a retrospective of 2024 and planning for 2025. You can find dial-in information here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Next_meeting:_Monday_.… Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Next weekly call is on October 28!
by Ildiko Vancsa 01 Oct '24

01 Oct '24

Hi Everyone, Based on the availability of the core group, the next Edge Computing Group call is scheduled for October 28! You can find dial-in details here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings If you haven’t yet, please share your availability at the time of the weekly calls for the remainder of 2024 here: https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/dRwXQVOe Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Weekly call recap and availability poll - ACTION NEEDED
by Ildiko Vancsa 24 Sep '24

24 Sep '24

Hi, Thank you all for the great call this Monday! We spent the hour to discuss plans for the remainder of 2024, the attendees’ preferences included: * Edge use cases * Content creation in the areas of definitions and clarifying relevant terms and concepts * Continue going through the ‘edge strategy’ document we’ve been working on earlier this year We also talked about adjusting the call schedule to people’s availability. I created a poll to collect information about when everyone’s around to join the weekly call: https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/dRwXQVOe Please note that there is a bug in the poll, and the slot on October 21st shoes up an hour earlier than when it actually is. The edge computing group weekly calls are always scheduled to happen at __8am Pacific Time__, please fill out your availability in the poll accordingly. __The next weekly call is scheduled for Monday (September 30) at 8am Pacific Time / 1500 UTC.__ You can find more information on the Edge Computing Group wiki page: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Administrivia: Spam excised from the archive (was: Enhancing Performance with Edge Computing)
by Jeremy Stanley 07 Aug '24

07 Aug '24

Just a heads up that we removed two messages from the archive and blocked the offending subscriber. They seem to be engaging in an "organic SEO" scheme where they post seemingly on-topic questions in various online forums while embedding keyword-adjacent links to a particular company's products and services. It was not someone seeking actual information on this group's activities and so there is no reason to reply to them. We'll try to keep an eye out for any similar sorts of spam in the future. Apologies for the noise! -- Jeremy Stanley

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Next weekly call is on July 22
by Ildiko Vancsa 22 Jul '24

22 Jul '24

Hi Everyone, It is a friendly reminder that the next weekly call is scheduled to happen on Monday, July 22, 2024. Our topic is: Planning & Defining Edge DevOps & Edge strategies Cont'd The weekly call starts at 1500 UTC. You can find further meeting details and dial-in information here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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July-August weekly call schedule
by Ildiko Vancsa 01 Jul '24

01 Jul '24

Hi Everyone, As July and August are lowere attendance months, I sent out a Doodle poll a little while back to check people’s availability. Based on the poll, please find the call schedule for the upcoming 2 months below: * July 08, 2024 - Canceled * July 15, 2024 - Canceled * July 22, 2024 - Planning & Defining Edge DevOps & Edge strategies Cont'd * July 29, 2024 - Defining Edge DevOps & Edge strategies Cont'd * August 05, 2024 - Canceled * August 12, 2024 - Defining Edge DevOps & Edge strategies Cont'd * August 19, 2024 - Canceled * August 26, 2024 - Canceled * September 02, 2024 - Canceled due to Labor Day holiday in the US You can find further meeting details and dial-in information here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Weekly calls on June 17 and 24 are canceled
by Ildiko Vancsa 13 Jun '24

13 Jun '24

Hi Everyone, As majority of the core group will be unavailable for the rest of June, we are canceling the meetings on June 17 and June 24! __The next Edge Computing Group weekly call is scheduled for July 1st at 1500 UTC!__ You can find more information about the working group and weekly calls on our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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June-July-August weekly call schedule - ACTION NEEDED
by Ildiko Vancsa 05 Jun '24

05 Jun '24

Hi All, We talked about it on the weekly call yesterday that Summer months are coming, where people’s availability vary greatly. Accordingly, we would like to create a Summer schedule for the working group, based on availability. To determine which calls to keep and schedule discussion topics to, I created a Doodle poll: https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/bkO0D7Eb Please mark all the spots that you are __most likely__ to be able to make. Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Weekly call on May 27 is Canceled!
by Ildiko Vancsa 23 May '24

23 May '24

Hi, It is a friendly reminder that the weekly call on May 27th is canceled, due to Memorial Day holiday in the US. __The next call is on June 03 at 1500 UTC!__ Further information about the working group and upcoming meetings: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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ONE Summit Report
by Cohen, Beth F 20 May '24

20 May '24

Folks - Here is the report of my recent trip to the ONE Summit in San Jose. -- <http://www.verizon.com> Beth Cohen SDN Product Strategy Verizon Business Group M +17814338553 <https://www.verizon.com>

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April 22 call is canceled
by Ildiko Vancsa 22 Apr '24

22 Apr '24

Hi, It is a friendly reminder that the weekly call on April 22nd is canceled. __The next call is on April 29 at 1500 UTC!__ Further information about the working group and upcoming meetings: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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CFP IEEE/ACM Int’l Conf. on Big Data Computing, Applications, and Technologies BDCAT, 16-19 December 2024 Sharjah, UAE
by Smail NIAR 19 Apr '24

19 Apr '24

Apologies of cross-posting CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE/ACM Int’l Conf. on Big Data Computing, Applications, and Technologies BDCAT, 16-19 December 2024 Sharjah, UAE . ====================================================== The 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications, and Technologies (BDCAT 2024) 16 – 19 December 2024 Sharjah, UAE www.bdcat-conference.org <http://www.bdcat-conference.org/> ====================================================== We are pleased to inform you that the “11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications, and Technologies (BDCAT 2024)” will be held in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates between 16 and and 19 December, 2024. Recent years witnessed significant interest in the use of Machine Learning and AI-based techniques to support large data analysis, with research and implementation of systems specifically focused on supporting different phases of the data processing lifecycle. These have ranged from in-memory systems and distributed environments (e.g., MapReduce/Hadoop, Spark) to specialist environments for stream processing of data and events (e.g., Flink, Kinesis) and Serverless (e.g., OpenWhisk, AWS Lambda). On the other hand, we also realise the importance of computational systems required to process small data volumes, but which involve interdependencies and relationships that are hard to capture and derive. The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications, and Technologies (BDCAT) is a premier annual conference series aiming to provide a platform for researchers from both academia and industry to present new discoveries in the broad area of big data computing and applications. 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Manuscripts are submitted in PDF format and may not exceed ten (10) ACM-formatted *double-column* pages, including figures, tables, and references. All manuscripts undergo a double-blind peer-review process and will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Your submission is subject to a determination that you are not under any sanctions by ACM. Accepted papers will later be converted into single-column format through the ACM TAPS process and therefore need to use the new templates that are single-column by default. Switch them to double-column for authoring your paper. This is possible in both the Word and the LaTeX templates. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. The conference proceedings will be published by the ACM and made available online via the IEEE Xplore Digital Library and ACM Digital Library. IMPORTANT DATES Time zone: Anywhere in the world! Paper Submissions Due: 10 August 2024 Acceptance Notification: 7 October 2024 Camera Ready Papers Due: 20 October 2024 AWARDS AND SPECIAL ISSUES A selection commission chaired by the BDCAT 2024 technical programme committee will select and acknowledge the best paper to receive an award during the conference. Authors of highly rated papers from BDCAT 2024 will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of prestigious journals.

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April 22 meeting is CANCELED - Next call is on April 29
by Ildiko Vancsa 16 Apr '24

16 Apr '24

Hi Everyone, Due to some conflicts, __next week's call on April 22 is canceled!__ __The next call is on April 29 at 1500 UTC!__ Further information about the working group and upcoming meetings: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Edge Computing Group weekly call recap + roadmap
by Ildiko Vancsa 16 Apr '24

16 Apr '24

Hi Everyone, We had a great discussion today on the weekly meeting! Our main discussion topics were: - PTG session recap: We touched on the Edge PTG session we had last week, where the main topic was a presentation from INRIA about their Choreography project. The project is exploring the areas of automated and declarative ways to service lifecycle management, Infrastructure as Code, and distributed control functions. The session recording is already shared on the Edge Computing Group wiki page, and the group is planning to talk about that topic again on the weekly calls. - Roadmap: We discussed topics to deep dive into during upcoming meetings. A few examples to mention: * Edge Infrastructure strategies discussion ~ Networking & SmartNICs ~ Storage * WebAssembly and related topics * Centralized vs Distributed control functions You can find further notes from today’s call here: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/openinfra-edge-computing-group __The next call is on April 29 at 1500 UTC!__ Further information about the working group and upcoming meetings: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group See you in two weeks! Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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PTG session on Thursday!!
by Ildiko Vancsa 11 Apr '24

11 Apr '24

Hi Everyone, It is a friendly reminder that the edge PTG[1] session is scheduled for this Thursday (April 11) at 1400 UTC! We will start the session with a presentation from INRIA about their Choreography project. We will then continue with roadmap planning and discussing edge infrastructure challenges and solutions. You can find dial-in details and notes here: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-ptg-april-2024 Please note that the PTG is now using Meetpad to run the conference calls, which is an instance of the open source Jisti Meet tool. It does not require installing any software packages, it runs in a browser window. In my experience, it is most stable in Chrome. Last but not least, if you haven’t yet, please register to the event! See you on Thursday! Best Regards, Ildikó [1] https://openinfra.dev/ptg/ ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Weekly call starts in 30 minutes!
by Ildiko Vancsa 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

Hi All, It’s a friendly reminder that we have the weekly call starting in a bit, at 8am Pacific Time. Please find further meeting details and dial-in information here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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CFP The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2024)
by Smail NIAR 08 Mar '24

08 Mar '24

====================================================== The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2024) 16 – 19 December 2024 Sharjah, UAE www.ucc-conference.org <http://www.ucc-conference.org/> ====================================================== We are pleased to inform you that the “17th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2024)” will be held in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates between 16 and and 19 December, 2024. The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC) is a premier annual conference series aiming to provide a platform for researchers from both academia and industry to present new discoveries and high-quality contributions in the broad area of Cloud, Edge and Computing Continuum utility computing and applications. The conference features keynotes, posters, workshops and a student symposium. UCC 2024 will be held in conjunction with the 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2024). Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research manuscripts in all areas of Cloud-Edge Continuum for utility computing and related computing paradigms such as Serverless, Distributed Computing and Function as a Service. The theme of this year is Self-adaptive and Autonomic Cloud, Edge, and Utility Computing in the Era of Large Language Models (LLM). The theme will explore new synergies between self-* and autonomous management of cloud, edge and their computing utilities and LLM approaches and solutions. We invite novel contributions with excellent balance between sound and rigorous foundational research and experimental results that relate to this year's theme and to the general UCC topics, as below. A selection of papers of highest quality that relate to this year's theme will be invited to a special issue in ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS). UCC 2024 topics of interest include but not limited to: 1. Resource Management for Cloud-Edge Continuum: · Principles and Theoretical Foundations of Utility Computing · Architectural Models and Patterns to achieve Utility; Virtualization, Containerization, Composition and Orchestration · Formal and Qualitative Aspects · Middleware and Stacks · Networking and Network Management · Saas, Paas, Iaas and XaaS 2. Resource Management and Scalability: · Brokering, Scheduling, Capacity planning and Elasticity · Security, Trust, Privacy, Policies and Blockchains 3. Autonomic, Adaptive, Self-*, SLAs, Management and Monitoring; Designs and Deployment Models: · Private, Public, Hybrid, Federated, Aggregated, Inter-Cloud; High Performance Computing (HPC) · Performance Analysis and Modelling · Foundational self-* solutions, possibly leveraging LLM techniques (see this year theme) 4. Artificial Intelligence for Cloud-Edge Continuum and Utility Computing: · Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) · Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Scheduling · Provisioning and Deployment · Lightweight machine learning for edge learning · Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Orchestration · GPU as a Service (GPUaaS), Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS); Support for Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) or ETL Pipelines · Machine Learning Cloud Frameworks; Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure · Distributed, Federated, Collaborative Learning, and Large Language Models (LLM). 5. Applications, Systems and new Computing Paradigms for Cloud-Edge Continuum: · Native Application Design, Programming Models and Engineering · Serverless and Function-Based Applications (FaaS) · Microservices Architectures, Quantum Computing · Interfacing to Internet of Things, (IoT) Applications · Utility-Driven Models and Mechanisms in All Domains (e.g., Smart Cities, Mobility, Healthcare, Industry 4.0) · Micro Data Centers · Interfacing to Mobile Devices: Management, Hierarchy Models and Business Models · Energy-Efficiency and Sustainability; Development; Operations (DevOps) · Economic and Business Models · Business and Legal Implications Beyond Technology · Digital Twins solutions. >> PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit papers electronically through the following link: www.ucc-conference.org <http://www.ucc-conference.org/> Submitted manuscripts must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Manuscripts are submitted in PDF format and may not exceed ten (10) ACM-formatted *double-column* pages, including figures, tables, and references. All manuscripts undergo a double-blind peer-review process and will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Your submission is subject to a determination that you are not under any sanctions by ACM. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. The conference proceedings will be published by the ACM and made available online via the IEEE Xplore Digital Library and ACM Digital Library. >> IMPORTANT DATES Timezone: Anywhere in the world! Paper Submissions Due: 10 August 2024 Acceptance Notification: 7 October 2024 Camera Ready Papers Due: 20 October 2024 >> AWARDS AND SPECIAL ISSUES A selection commission chaired by the UCC 2024 technical programme committee will select and acknowledge the best paper to receive an award during the conference. Authors of highly rated papers from UCC 2024 will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of prestigious journals. ************************* Professor Smaïl NIAR Head of Computer Science dept. LAMIH/CNRS Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France INSA Hauts-de-France Adress: Batiment JONAS Campus Mont Houy - 59313 Valenciennes Cedex 9, France Office: +33 327511948 Mobile: +33688496057

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CFP IEEE Edge 2024, Shenzhen, China.
by Nitin Auluck 01 Mar '24

01 Mar '24

IEEE EDGE 2024 - CALL FOR PAPERS https://conferences.computer.org/edge/2024/ Edge computing, as the convergence of computing and communications executed close to data collection and places of storage and application, provides a paradigm that offers several research and application opportunities across a wide range of domains. At the same time, it raises many fundamental and unprecedented research and development problems and challenges. The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (IEEE EDGE 2024) aims to continue to be recognized a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in state of the art and practice of edge computing, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of edge computing. IEEE EDGE is affiliated with IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES). IEEE EDGE 2024 will feature a comprehensive high-quality technical program including research track, tutorial and demonstration. IEEE EDGE 2024 will also include an attractive industry program aimed at practitioners, with keynotes and panels from prominent research, industry leaders, and technological exhibits. IEEE EDGE 2024 invites original papers addressing all aspects related to edge computing theories, technologies and applications. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: · Edge Computing Architectures · Edge Computing and Communications Theories · Edge Computing and Network Functions Virtualization · Edge Computing in Multi-cloud environments · Edge Centric Convergence of IoT & Cloud Computing · Collaborative Edge & Cloud Computing · Storage and Caching at the Edge · Edge Access Networks & Systems · Services for Edge Computing · CPU/GPU and Hardware for Edge Computing · Benchmarks and Workloads for Performance of Edge Systems · AI Enabled Edge Computing · Generative AI Continuum - from Edge to Cloud · Artificial Intelligence and ML at the Edge · QoS & QoE at the Edge · Signal Processing in Edge Computing · Edge Computing for Vehicular System & Network · Edge Computing for 5G/6G Network & Systems IMPORTANT DATES (ANYWHERE ON EARTH) * December 1, 2023: EasyChair open for DRAFT submissions * March 17, 2024: EasyChair closes for NEW submissions * March 24, 2024: EasyChair closes for revisions and uploads * May 6, 2024: Acceptance notification * July 7-13, 2024: SERVICES Congress in Shenzhen, China ORGANISING TEAM IEEE EDGE 2024 GENERAL CHAIRS Shuiguang Deng, Zhejiang University Nirmit Desai, IBM Research Gopal Pingali, Accenture IEEE EDGE 2024 PROGRAM CHAIRS Javid Taheri, Karlstad University Shiqiang Wang, IBM Research K. V. Subramaniam, AMD IEEE EDGE 2024 PUBLICITY CHAIRS Nitin Auluck, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil Antonino Galletta, University of Messina, Italy Honghao Gao, Shanghai University, China Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada (TBC) -- Dr. Nitin Auluck / डॉ. नितिन औलक | Associate Professor / सह - प्राध्यापक Room #114, S. Ramanujan Block / कमरा #११४, एस. रामानुजम ब्लॉक Department of Computer Science & Engineering / कंप्यूटर विज्ञान और अभियांत्रिकी विभाग Indian Institute of Technology Ropar / भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान रोपड़ | Rupnagar, Punjab, India, 140001 / रूपनगर, पंजाब, भारत, १४०००१ nitin(a)iitrpr.ac.in | nauluck(a)ieee.org | http://www.iitrpr.ac.in/cse/nitin -- **CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The contents of this email message and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged information and may be legally protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message or their agent, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply email and then delete this message and any attachments. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, copying, or storage of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited.* *

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Edge Hardware discussion recording
by Ildiko Vancsa 07 Feb '24

07 Feb '24

Hi, The topic of this week’s meeting was edge hardware. If you missed the conversation or would like to listen back to it, you can find the session recording here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Edge_Strategies_Discus… Next week we will continue discussing the edge hardware topic. You can find the meeting details here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Edge strategies discussion on today's call - Hardware
by Ildiko Vancsa 05 Feb '24

05 Feb '24

Hi, On today’s (February 5) weekly call we will continue the discussions about edge infrastructure strategies! The main topic area for today is hardware, the conversation will be lead by Rob Hirschfeld. You can find the pervious session's recording here, if you would like to catch up on earlier conversations: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Edge_Strategies_Presen… You can find meeting details here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Edge strategies discussion recording
by Ildiko Vancsa 30 Jan '24

30 Jan '24

Hi, We had a great weekly call yesterday, where we continued our edge strategies discussion. Among other topics, we clarified some edge related terms that people are currently using, and talked about end-to-end edge architectures and functions you need throughout your deployment. You can find the session recording here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Edge_Strategies_Presen… On next week’s call (February 5), we will continue the conversation and deep dive into the topic area of Edge Hardware. The conversation will be lead by Rob Hirschfeld. You can find meeting details here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Pick a day for the vPTG session - ACTION NEEDED
by Ildiko Vancsa 30 Jan '24

30 Jan '24

Hi, We agreed on the weekly call yesterday that our working group will participate in the upcoming virtual Project Teams Gathering (PTG). The event is happening online on April 8 - 12. We agreed to book a time interval that overlaps with the time slot we have for the weekly meetings. However, it was raised yesterday, that April 8 might not be the best day that week to hold our session. I created a poll to see which day would be the most preferred for the group: https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/aKA9vyld Please fill out the above poll __by February 18.__ We will start the virtual PTG session at 1400 UTC (7am Pacific / 10am Eastern / 4pm CEST) with a presentation from INRIA about the Choreography project. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Edge Strategies and Edge DevOps Discussion today
by Ildiko Vancsa 29 Jan '24

29 Jan '24

Hi, It is a friendly reminder that we are continuing the edge strategies and DevOps discussions on our weekly call today. You can find the recording of last week’s edge strategies overview here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Edge_Strategies_Presen… The call is happening today (January 29) at 1600 UTC. You can find dial-in information here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings See you later today! Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Edge strategies discussion on this week's call
by Ildiko Vancsa 23 Jan '24

23 Jan '24

Hi Everyone, It is a friendly reminder that the next weekly call is happening today (January 22) at 1600 UTC! We will be talking about edge infrastructure strategies. The conversation will be led by Rob Hirschfeld from RackN, who will share his research on the topic and will then open up the floor for group discussion. We will explore this topic area from the perspective of the working group, as well as organizations who have an edge computing use case that they are currently implementing. You can find the _dial-in details on the wiki__: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Call_details We will take meeting notes on our new etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/openinfra-edge-computing-group See you on the call! Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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CFP IEEE Edge 2024, Shenzhen, China.
by Nitin Auluck 19 Jan '24

19 Jan '24

IEEE EDGE 2024 - CALL FOR PAPERS https://conferences.computer.org/edge/2024/ Edge computing, as the convergence of computing and communications executed close to data collection and places of storage and application, provides a paradigm that offers several research and application opportunities across a wide range of domains. At the same time, it raises many fundamental and unprecedented research and development problems and challenges. The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (IEEE EDGE 2024) aims to continue to be recognized a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in state of the art and practice of edge computing, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of edge computing. IEEE EDGE is affiliated with IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES). IEEE EDGE 2024 will feature a comprehensive high-quality technical program including research track, tutorial and demonstration. IEEE EDGE 2024 will also include an attractive industry program aimed at practitioners, with keynotes and panels from prominent research, industry leaders, and technological exhibits. IEEE EDGE 2024 invites original papers addressing all aspects related to edge computing theories, technologies and applications. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: · Edge Computing Architectures · Edge Computing and Communications Theories · Edge Computing and Network Functions Virtualization · Edge Computing in Multi-cloud environments · Edge Centric Convergence of IoT & Cloud Computing · Collaborative Edge & Cloud Computing · Storage and Caching at the Edge · Edge Access Networks & Systems · Services for Edge Computing · CPU/GPU and Hardware for Edge Computing · Benchmarks and Workloads for Performance of Edge Systems · AI Enabled Edge Computing · Generative AI Continuum - from Edge to Cloud · Artificial Intelligence and ML at the Edge · QoS & QoE at the Edge · Signal Processing in Edge Computing · Edge Computing for Vehicular System & Network · Edge Computing for 5G/6G Network & Systems IMPORTANT DATES (ANYWHERE ON EARTH) * December 1, 2023: EasyChair open for DRAFT submissions * March 17, 2024: EasyChair closes for NEW submissions * March 24, 2024: EasyChair closes for revisions and uploads * May 6, 2024: Acceptance notification * July 7-13, 2024: SERVICES Congress in Shenzhen, China ORGANISING TEAM IEEE EDGE 2024 GENERAL CHAIRS Shuiguang Deng, Zhejiang University Nirmit Desai, IBM Research Gopal Pingali, Accenture IEEE EDGE 2024 PROGRAM CHAIRS Javid Taheri, Karlstad University Shiqiang Wang, IBM Research K. V. Subramaniam, AMD IEEE EDGE 2024 PUBLICITY CHAIRS Nitin Auluck, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil Antonino Galletta, University of Messina, Italy Honghao Gao, Shanghai University, China Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada (TBC) -- Dr. Nitin Auluck / डॉ. नितिन औलक | Associate Professor / सह - प्राध्यापक Room #114, S. Ramanujan Block / कमरा #११४, एस. रामानुजम ब्लॉक Department of Computer Science & Engineering / कंप्यूटर विज्ञान और अभियांत्रिकी विभाग Indian Institute of Technology Ropar / भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान रोपड़ | Rupnagar, Punjab, India, 140001 / रूपनगर, पंजाब, भारत, १४०००१ nitin(a)iitrpr.ac.in | nauluck(a)ieee.org | http://www.iitrpr.ac.in/cse/nitin -- **CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The contents of this email message and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged information and may be legally protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message or their agent, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply email and then delete this message and any attachments. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, copying, or storage of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited.* *

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Participating in the virtual PTG in April - FEEDBACK NEEDED
by Ildiko Vancsa 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

Hi All, I’m reaching out to you about the next virtual Project Teams Gathering (PTG)[1] event, which will take place April 8-12, 2024. The PTG is a contributor-focused event, where project teams and working groups get together to discuss topics that are relevant for them. Topics include roadmap planning and priorities, long outstanding feature or enhancements discussions, release planning, and more. The Edge Computing Group has been participating in these events for a while now, it is a great opportunity to extend our meeting time and go deeper into topics that are important for us. We can also use this to facilitate cross-community collaboration with OpenInfra and adjacent communities. __The team sign-up deadline is February 18 at 700UTC.__ Are y’all interested in participating in the event this round again? Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó [1] PTG Site: https://openinfra.dev/ptg/ ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Automotive use case presentation on January 15
by Ildiko Vancsa 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

Hi, It is a friendly reminder that the next weekly call is __on January 15 at 1600UTC.__ On the upcoming call we will be having a presentation by Zentrix Lab and Telefonica to talk about an automotive edge use case. If time allows, we will also be continuing our conversation to define Edge DevOps. Please find the meeting details and dial-in information here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings See you on the call! Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Weekly call recap
by Ildiko Vancsa 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

Hi, Below please find a brief summary of our conversation on the call on December 4: - We kept the focus on the working group’s scope and activities - Priorities + Edge DevOps + Reference Architectures/Blueprints + Industry segments beyond telecommunications - We touched on the state of edge in the industry + Doesn’t seem to be in the center of conversations anymore + AI is the new hot topic - Edge solutions + Outpost, Wavelength, etc - Upcoming calls: we are still discussing the schedule and topics for upcoming calls till the end of the year + You can find details on the wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Upcoming_Topics You can find the detailed meeting notes on our new etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/openinfra-edge-computing-group Our __next call will be on December 11 at 8am PT / 1600 UTC / 17:00 CET.__ If you have any questions or comments, please reply to this thread. Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Weekly call recap
by Ildiko Vancsa 21 Nov '23

21 Nov '23

Hi, We had a great call today, thank you all who got the chance to attend. Below please find a brief summary of our conversation: - We spent a big chunk of our time to talk about what topics we would like to keep exploring as part of the working group’s scope. - Top-level items that we agreed to keep in scope are: + Edge DevOps, including Automation + Hardware + Security + Networking + Edge-Cloud Continuum + IoT Gateways - Topics that we consider out of scope for now: + Application and Hardware design + Platform design - Plans till the end of 2023 + We will be focusing on setting priorities for early 2024 + Our next steps will include defining new terms, such as Edge DevOps + We will identify topic areas to have presentations about, and invite industry experts on - Upcoming calls: we talked about the schedule and topics for upcoming calls till the end of the year + You can find details on the wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Upcoming_Topics You can find the detailed meeting notes on our new etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/openinfra-edge-computing-group __Please note that the call on November 27 is canceled!__ Our __next call will be on December 4.__ If you have any questions or comments, please reply to this thread. Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Weekly call reminder
by Ildiko Vancsa 20 Nov '23

20 Nov '23

Hi All, It is a friendly reminder that our next weekly call starts in 20 minutes! The calls are now running in the __new time slot on Mondays at 8am PDT / 1600 UTC / 17:00 CET.__ Due to the new time slot I also had to switch Zoom accounts to use. The __new Zoom information is already added to the wiki__: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Call_details See you in a bit! Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Meeting recap and new Etherpad
by Ildiko Vancsa 14 Nov '23

14 Nov '23

Hi, Thank you everyone who was able to make it to the Edge Computing Group weekly call in the new time slot today. We had a bigger group of people participating in the call and we had a great conversation about the below topics: - Roundtable introductions - to learn about people’s backgrounds and interests - Working Group’s scope * Participants of the group have been revisiting the working group’s scope and activities recently * On this call we listed further topic areas that people are interested in exploring as part of the working groups activities - Working group activities * People on the call brought up activities and work items that they would like the working group to carry out and perform I took the action item to create a new etherpad for the group to capture meeting notes and work on tasks. You can find the new etherpad, with more detailed meeting notes here: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/openinfra-edge-computing-group The next meeting is on Monday (November 20) at 8am US Pacific Time/ 1600 UTC. You can find further meeting details here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Please share any questions or comments on this thread. Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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NEW TIME SLOT and ZOOM INFO for the Weekly Calls
by Ildiko Vancsa 13 Nov '23

13 Nov '23

Hi, Thank you all who got the chance to participate in the Doodle poll to find a new slot for the weekly calls. I’m reaching out to share the results. The most favored and __new weekly call time slot is Mondays at 8am PDT / 1600 UTC / 17:00 CET.__ Due to the new time slot I also had to switch Zoom accounts to use. The __new Zoom information is already added to the wiki__: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Call_details Please let me know if you have any questions. See you at the new time next Monday (November 13)! Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Weekly call recap
by Ildiko Vancsa 01 Nov '23

01 Nov '23

Hi, We had a great weekly call this Monday (October 30). Below please find the highlights of what we talked about. Our main discussion topic formulated around the working group’s goals and activities: * Goals: Help people and organizations to create and operate an IT Edge environment. * Artifacts to create include guide books and knowledge base, including: - Ops Guide for Edge Infrastructures - DevOps Guide for Edge Infrastructures We would like to increase the number of participants in the working group, and therefore we need to appeal more to our target audience, which includes both developers and operators: * Challenges: - Operators are hard to reach, and it is even harder to get them participate - DevOps is a very loosely defined area, especially in the context of edge —> We need to define Edge DevOps * Target audience: People working on infrastructure and automation. And, eventually, people working in DevOps. We will spend the remaining calls this year to refine the goals and build a plan including next steps that we will be executing starting in January, 2024. We are also looking for information about what time would work best for people to keep running the weekly calls. If you would like to participate, please fill out this Doodle poll: https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/dRLKDqEa __Please disregard the dates and only focus on the time slots that work for you in the above poll.__ Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Finding a new time slot for the weekly calls - INPUT NEEDED
by Ildiko Vancsa 31 Oct '23

31 Oct '23

Hi, The current time slot for the weekly calls seems to not work well for the majority of the group anymore. I created a Doodle poll to try to find a new, better fitting slot. The poll contains options that work for both North America and Europe, since that’s where most of the people are who are actively participating: https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/e39J8GQb __Please fill out the poll by the end of day on November 2.__ Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Edge PTG session recap
by Ildiko Vancsa 28 Oct '23

28 Oct '23

Hi, Thank you all who made it to the Edge Computing Group's PTG session, which was held at the time of the weekly call on October 23. Below please find a quick recap of our conversation at the event: - Main discussion topic: Revisiting the scope and activities of the working group, with the goal of adjusting them to what the participants and target audience of the group need and want today - Scope * Feedback ~ The group’s current scope felt too broad to the session attendees ~ People’s focus and activities shifted since the WG was started, and therefore they feel less aligned with the group’s current scope ~ Infrastructure is treated differently, and is often invisible. But, this should not mean that we completely shift the focus off of it - Brainstorming * DevOps is currently very popular and affects how infrastructure is viewed and treated. —> What is DevOps in the edge and distributed infrastructure context? * IT vs OT, and having more focus on operations * App developers do not have knowledge about the underlying network and infrastructure, but the apps currently still need to be network aware. —> How to help with bridging the gap? - New scope and goals * The attendees agreed to stay in the infrastructure space -> edge as general-purpose infrastructure. And look into the DevOps space. * Actions - Define Edge DevOps - Produce educational materials and operator tips in the above areas - Next steps * The group needs to define scope and plans to attract a new audience. Use cases and industries in mind include: ~ Banks ~ Retail with digital displays ~ Quick service restaurants * People and roles ~ Infrastructure operators ~ People writing code and creating automation tools for infrastructure We also touched on looking into moving the weekly call into a time slot that works for more people. I will be sending out a Doodle poll to find a new slot in a separate email, please keep an eye out for that. Please feel free to add and correct anything I might’ve missed in the above summary. Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Weekly call will as part of the PTG next week (October 23)
by Ildiko Vancsa 23 Oct '23

23 Oct '23

Hi, It is a friendly reminder that the virtual OpenInfra Project Teams Gathering (PTG) event is happening next week! __The OpenInfra Edge Computing Group is meeting at the event on Monday (October 23), starting at 6am PST / 1300 UTC, at the time of our usual weekly call.__ We will be using the Cactus room at the PTG. You can find more details on our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings You can find our agenda and notes etherpad for the event here: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-ptg-october-2023 See you at the PTG on Monday! Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Will not be attending today -- out sick
by Cohen, Beth F 09 Oct '23

09 Oct '23

Folks - I am feeling off after getting all three shots at once. See you next week. -- <http://www.verizon.com> Beth Cohen SDN Product Strategy Verizon Business Group M +17814338553 <https://www.verizon.com>

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Topics for the edge session at the upcoming PTG
by Ildiko Vancsa 27 Sep '23

27 Sep '23

Hi Everyone, The Project Teams Gathering (PTG)[1] event is only a few weeks away! I booked 2 hours at the event on Monday (October 23) at 1300 UTC - 1500UTC. What topics are you all interested in talking about during the time we have available? I created an etherpad where we can collect topics and take notes during our session at the event: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-ptg-october-2023 For reference, here are the topics from the last PTG: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-ptg-march-2023 As well as the Forum session we had at the OpenInfra Summit this year: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/openinfra_ecg_forum_2023 Please let me know if you have any questions. Best Regards, Ildikó [1] https://openinfra.dev/ptg/ ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Next weekly call is on August 14
by Ildiko Vancsa 14 Aug '23

14 Aug '23

Hi All, It is a friendly reminder that our next call is scheduled for August 14 at 6am PST / 1300 UTC. We will be continuing our discussion to plan the working groups roadmap and will talk about plans for the upcoming online OpenInfra PTG as well. Dial-in information and further information about the meetings are here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Next weekly call is on August 7
by Ildiko Vancsa 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

Hi, Vacation season kicked in and a couple of you let me know that they will not be around in the next two weeks. To accommodate to people’s availability, I went ahead and canceled the next two calls (July 24 and July 31). __The next weekly call will be on August 7 at 6am PST / 1300 UTC.__ We will be talking about the working group’s roadmap and plans. For more information, please see the working group's wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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What's next for the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group?! - INPUT NEEDED
by Ildiko Vancsa 13 Jul '23

13 Jul '23

Hi, I’m reaching out to you as a follow up to our weekly call this Monday. During the meeting we had a brief recap of the recent OpenInfra Summit and then we started to look into what’s next for the working group. We started the latter topic with questions, such as: * Is the “edge” still a relevant topic? - Is it a specific enough topic for a working group like ours? * What challenges people are facing that are in scope for our group? * How can we make the working group more relevant to people in the industry today and onwards? We then continued with taking a deeper dive into finding answers, and asking more questions. We touched on the following topics: * Topic areas that have been interesting and in scope for the WG - Automation - Orchestration - Distributed Infrastructure ~ Does not include IoT, which was acceptable to people on the call * Challenges we had in the past with setting up PoCs - Setting up proof-of-concept environments is very challenging in itself - We didn’t always have the resources, or expertise or either - Could this be something to tackle in another way? * Idea - Talk about relevant projects in the space in a more practical way, including ~ Demos ~ Pros and cons ~ Challenges it addresses or that it still has - Provide information that a PoC would give, without setting them up ourselves As a next step __we also need YOUR input!__ What do you think about the above questions and idea? What would you be interested in hearing and talking about? What are your challenges that you need solutions for, that this group could help you with? I’m looking forward to hearing from you! Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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OpenInfra Summit session recordings and follow ups
by Ildiko Vancsa 13 Jul '23

13 Jul '23

Hi, I’m reaching out to you with further resources from the recent OpenInfra Summit. The conference session recordings are now available! You can find the videos from the event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOmoFOLaR7A&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqsxQDbLj4LVpKi… I also collected session recordings that are more relevant in the edge computing context: * vGPUs with OpenStack Nova - https://youtu.be/--LNpNLSpss * Pushing OpenStack Workloads to the Edge! - https://youtu.be/HfuagLN5pKc * Living on the Edge, Kubernetes as Software Delivery Mechanism for the Far Edge - https://youtu.be/I3A48Xz8V8A * An OpenStack Powered Edge Service, IoT, Smart Cities - https://youtu.be/jTTzDzbnfyE * StarlingX presentations: - A private 5G campus network enabled and powered by OpenStack and StarlingX - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnnw_9UIoS0&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqsxQDbLj4LVpKi… - StarlingX: Next generation security with Zero Trust architecture - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVqjxQ-Q9nc&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqsxQDbLj4LVpKi… - StarlingX at scale – Infrastructure management of 10s of 1000s of geographically distributed clouds - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bJ1Oq75ER4&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqsxQDbLj4LVpKi… - StarlingX: Next generation infrastructure for cloud native - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOmoFOLaR7A&t=1980s - Enabling the Intelligent Edge with StarlingX - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y33zGI6m0G0&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqsxQDbLj4LVpKi… - StarlingX Evolution - New Deployment Architectures - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFVLnZASIIw&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqsxQDbLj4LVpKi… - Power Efficiency in vRAN and Open RAN Deployments: Arm and StarlingX Collaboration - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf6V5M1URzg&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqsxQDbLj4LVpKi… - StarlingX: Using OSTree Atomic Updates to Drastically Reduce Outage Times for Upgrades of Remote Single-Server Edge Clouds - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXCz6vDzM8U&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqsxQDbLj4LVpKi… - From Legacy to Agility: Why stx-openstack and Containers are the Key to Modernizing your IT Infrastructure - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PhQbGQd8Vs&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqsxQDbLj4LVpKi… - Using enclave technology to help secure secrets in a distributed world - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN7sfkzfl68&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqsxQDbLj4LVpKi… - Full Featured PTP in the Cloud for Telcos - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsJHbWRPW4Y&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqsxQDbLj4LVpKi… I hope you find this information useful. Do you have a favorite session from the above list or the overall OpenInfra Summit schedule? Are there any sessions that you would be interested in following up on? For instance, inviting the speakers to one of the upcoming weekly calls and discuss their presentation topics further? Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Next call is on July 10
by Ildiko Vancsa 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

Hi, The meeting next Monday (July 3) will be canceled, as many people take time off for the 4th of July celebrations on Tuesday. The next meeting will be on July 10 at 6am PST/ 1300 UTC: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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OpenInfra Summit Edge Forum session
by Ildiko Vancsa 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

Hi, I’m reaching out to you with a brief summary of the Edge Forum session we had at the recent OpenInfra Summit. We had a Forum session that was focusing on edge use cases, challenges and practices that people are currently using. Our main discussion topics included: * Use cases - IoT + There was a talk at the event about IoTronic, the recording will be available shortly - Smart Cities - Private Mobility and Wireless - Machine in the machine, DPU, etc * Hardware management - 5G use case with RUs and DUs, where it can get challenging to manage accelerators + Use of Cyborg and/or Ironic? - Evolution of Smart NICs - How to handle lifecycle management? - Ironic + Activities around managing “child” devices + Virtual-media-based deployment to manage remote sites and devices For further notes, please the session etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/r.037d1bd4a6e4f376527f17f48810bb07 We will keep discussing the above and further topics on our weekly calls. The next call is scheduled for July 10 at 6am PST / 1300 UTC: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Will not be able to attend todays meeting
by Cohen, Beth F 19 Jun '23

19 Jun '23

See you next week -- <http://www.verizon.com> Beth Cohen SDN Product Strategy Verizon Business Group M +17814338553 <https://www.verizon.com>

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Link to article about ChatGPT taking people's jobs
by Cohen, Beth F 05 Jun '23

05 Jun '23

As mentioned on our call this AM. This is a gift link, so it does not require a subscription or login. https://wapo.st/3Chdm3i ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners. Technology used to automate dirty and repetitive jobs. Now, artificial intelligence chatbots are coming after high-paid ones. By Pranshu Verma <https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/pranshu-verma/?itid=ai_top_vermap> and Gerrit De Vynck <https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/gerrit-de-vynck/?itid=ai_top_devynckg> June 2, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT -- <http://www.verizon.com> Beth Cohen SDN Product Strategy Verizon Business Group M +17814338553 <https://www.verizon.com>

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Updated PTG Blog
by Cohen, Beth F 21 Apr '23

21 Apr '23

Folks - Here is my take on the Blog post. Did some edits and consolidation. Feel free to add to what I did if you wish. https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-ptg-march-2023-blog Connecting the Pieces - Edge Infrastructures and Landscape The OpenInfra Edge Computing Group met online at the recent Project Teams Gathering (PTG) event to grab the opportunity to dissect the edge computing space even further. During this PTG, we explored activities both in Europe as well as globally. This time the focus was on what connects multiple edges together, both from infrastructure and social perspective. Our session started with a series of presentations, delivered by Andreas Florath (Deutsche Telekom), to introduce the EU Cloud Alliance (European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud) and the current work to build a federation of edge systems in Europe. The EU Commission supports this effort and many other projects, such as Gaia-X and Horizon Europe. These projects typically have a focus on different, but connected areas, such as data, automotive or the cloud-to-edge continuum. The EU Cloud Alliance assists the EU Commission by supporting the creation and deployment of next generation cloud capacities for the public and private sector. Their objective is to specify the requirements for next-generation of secure, low-carbon and interoperable cloud and edge services and infrastructure, based on the three pillars of cloud, compute, networking and storage. The EU Cloud Alliance has an Edge/Cloud Working Group, that organized its activities into task forces. The scope that these groups cover ranges from the cloud and edge landscape in Europe, through cybersecurity up to application and data services. The Alliance executes its mission through activities such as: - Giving recommendations in the form of use cases, technology roadmaps and more - Determining challenges for requirements and standards of cloud services - Keeping a focus on data requirements, especially in how to best host sensitive data, which comes with high security requirements Open source plays a key role in the activities and projects of the EU Commission, which is often reflected in the projects’ requirements. Some even set it as a goal to open source everything. Funding levels also vary based on the the amount of open source components used and produced as part of the projects' artifacts. After the overview of the EU Cloud Alliance, there was a review of the ongoing work defining and building a federation of edge-cloud continuum in Europe. By 2030, 10000 climate-neutral, highly-secure edge nodes are planned to be deployed throughout Europe. The scope of the federation covers the end-to-end infrastructure. The scale of infrastructure reflects on the edge-cloud continuum, as these nodes need to be connected and managed without any artificial separation within the elements. Federation is used to create the connection and provide access to the components. While these components are not managed by one singe provider but rather many of them, the aim is to have access to them through a single platform. If the implementation is successful, the cloud federation layer will hide the underlying infrastructure providers. It will also provide a consistent platform, as well as a consistent experience for all application providers and users. While that might seem like a worthy goal, can one platform rule them all? There are a few obstacles to overcome first: - SD-WAN limitations: if the number of nodes grows too big, it will prompt the need for a hierarchical system. - The EU-wide scope also posts a complication as there are multiple infrastructure and application providers that may or may not span across country borders. The layers of the stack consist of the ‘infrastructure provider’ layer, the ‘edge-cloud federation’ layer, the ‘application provider’ layer, and a ‘marketplace’ layer, with the ‘users’ being displayed on top. The layers demonstrate the complexity of the underlying systems, while also showing the intention to make it user friendly. The requirements include of course security, similarly to other edge related discussions, on the top of the list and hardware independence. The biggest challenge that needs to be addressed is how to achieve fault tolerance throughout the system. While in Europe the intent is to build an agnostic solution that uses different open source building blocks. there are other efforts in the open source ecosystem to address federation-related functionality. Ongoing work in the global community, includes the Anuket project, as well as MEF, where the focus is on defining APIs to provide standard access points that can be used to connect the elements. There are also parallels efforts, like grid computing, that was in fashion a bit over a decade ago, or Wireguard, which is a de-facto overlay standard for networking. Other groups are also working on this effort -- somewhat independently at this point, include GSMA, which is proposing a federation API, which is already partially implemented. The GSMA has a strong telecom focus and a private membership, which is not always seen as desireable with the wider Open Source community. Beyond GSMA, the CAMARA project and TMForum are groups that are working on API-slicing proposals. It has been true for a while, but the Edge is a very fragmented and overly complex ecosystem. Just looking at the projects within OpenInfra there are many that can and are used to support Edge architectures and use cases. Some, like OpenStack and StarlingX, are already utilized in edge computing use cases. For instance, OpenStack was utilized for a uCPE use case before the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group was even created. StarlingX is powering large, distributed vRAN deployments around the globe. For containerized edge applications, Kata Containers, which is a container runtime that delivers security and speed in one package through creating a fusion between virtual machines and containers, is a valid choice. It provides increased security, compared to traditional containers, and the ability to use a different kernel than what is running on the host machine, it can be a very appealing solution for the edge space. The Kata Containers community also collaborates with the Confidential Computing group in the CNCF ecosystem, which has been gaining increased community interest recently. One member of the discussion shared a document that documents over 150 open source projects and libraries that are relevant for the edge. How many of these projects are primarily relevant for edge? A consolidation of projects in this space is long overdue. Last, but not least, it has become increasingly clear that today’s systems with their massive scale and distributed nature create a level of complexity that is hard to manage. While simplicity is always a goal, it is not something that can be accomplished for an end-to-end infrastructure, with out much more community will and support than what currently exists. However while systems can remain complex, managing them doesn’t have to be as long as there is a focus on increasing the tools to support automation, then operating and maintaining a distributed edge infrastructure could become a relatively easy task. EDGE COMPUTING GROUP CTA AND REFERENCES + ADD LINKS THROUGHOUT -- <http://www.verizon.com> Beth Cohen SDN Product Strategy Verizon Business Group M +17814338553 <https://www.verizon.com>

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Weekly call meeting minutes
by Ildiko Vancsa 19 Apr '23

19 Apr '23

Hi, We had a great call this Monday, please find the highlights of our conversation below. * Scope of the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group - As the group and the industry are evolving, it is always good to revisit our scope and activities - Items that came up include: + End-to-end edge and distributed systems challenges and solutions + Working with the ecosystem of open source projects and groups to identify and fill gaps + Defining reference architectures * We elaborated on ecosystem a little further - The landscape and perceptions are constantly changing - Is IoT also edge? - Missing tools + How to improve developer experience?! + Developers don’t always have the tools and resources to test their applications that will be deployed at the edge + Hard to find vendors to provide the tooling * Application challenges - Developers are not very aware of how the network affects their applications, and they don’t always care - Are we still looking for the “killer application” that will drive the infrastructure needs and development? - Users want to have more insights into the network, but don’t always know what to do with the data + We briefly touched on the CAMARA project, which is a project to define APIs that provide access to network capabilities + https://camaraproject.org As a friendly reminder, next week we will continue our conversation about Private Mobility! Our next call is on __Monday (April 24) at 6am PST / 1300 UTC__. For dial-in details and more information about the meeting, please check out our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Private Mobility presentation and discussion on April 10
by Ildiko Vancsa 05 Apr '23

05 Apr '23

Hi, I’m reaching out to you to draw your attention to our upcoming weekly meeting. We will be having a session about Private Mobility, presented by David Paterson, Senior Principal Software Engineer at Dell. He will introduce the topic and will also talk about Dell’s activities in the area. As usual, the meeting will be an interactive session where the attendees will dive deeper into the topic after the presentation. The session will happen __on Monday (April 10) at 6am PST / 1300 UTC__. For information about the meeting and dial-in details please check out our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings See you on Monday (April 10)! Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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OpenInfra PTG edge session recording
by Ildiko Vancsa 28 Mar '23

28 Mar '23

Hi All, Thank you all who were able to join the edge session at the OpenInfra Project Teams Gathering event today. If you missed the session or would like to refresh your memories on the conversations, you can access the session recording here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Virtual_PTG_Recording.… We also took some notes on the etherpad for this session: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/r.99b08675546303bd5f2e97db63c32d36 As a reminder, we will have the Private Mobility presentation by David Paterson on next Monday’s (April 03) call. You can find more details about the meeting here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Weekly call will as part of the PTG next week (March 27)
by Ildiko Vancsa 27 Mar '23

27 Mar '23

Hi, It is a friendly reminder that the virtual OpenInfra Project Teams Gathering (PTG) event is happening next week! __The OpenInfra Edge Computing Group is meeting at the event on Monday (March 27), starting at 6am PST / 1300 UTC, at the time of our usual weekly call.__ We will be using the Bexar room at the PTG. You can find more details on our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings You can find our notes etherpad for the event here: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-ptg-march-2023 See you at the PTG on Monday! Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Weekly meeting is running!
by Ildiko Vancsa 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

Hi Everyone, We are having our weekly call running. This week’s topic is to prepare for the PTG! If you cannot join the call, but would like to discuss edge topics next Monday, please throw your topics into this thread or on our planning etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-ptg-march-2023 ! Meeting details are here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Topics for the upcoming online OpenInfra PTG
by Ildiko Vancsa 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

Hi All, I’m reaching out to you with a friendly reminder that the next OpenInfra Project Teams Gathering[1] event is scheduled to happen online on March 27-31. As our group agreed, I booked a few hours for the first day of the event, __Monday (March 27) at 1300 UTC - 1600 UTC__. I also created an etherpad to collect topics to discuss: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-ptg-march-2023 Please add your topic ideas to the above etherpad, or reply to this thread. We will also discuss potential topics during the upcoming weekly calls till the event. If you haven’t done it yet, please register for the event! Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó [1] https://openinfra.dev/ptg/ ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Private Mobility session has just started
by Ildiko Vancsa 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

Hi All, We are having a presentation today about Private Mobility, followed by a discussion. The session has already started, you can find the dial-in information on our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Meeting recap and upcoming calls
by Ildiko Vancsa 15 Feb '23

15 Feb '23

Hi All, We had a few great calls in the past few weeks. Below please find some of the highlights of our discussions. * Events - OpenInfra Summit & PTG in Vancouver + The group submitted a Forum session for the event to talk about orchestration, automation and further relevant challenges for edge. = The group is also looking forward to find new members and hear about new use cases + Event details: https://openinfra.dev/summit/vancouver-2023 * Digital transformation - The term is somewhat overused - The focus is shifting towards re-inventing customer experience - Retail is a good example of how digital transformation is changing shopping experience * Does edge actually need a core?! - The group brought up automotive and credit card transactions as related examples - We also discussed to re-phrasing the question to differentiate between a central cloud and a centralized vs distributed control plane - We also had a detour to cover air-gapping * Access - How do you access the edge? + Private vs public networks + Developers have no control or often even insight to how their apps will access and use the network * Data security - There’s a growing motivation to keep as much data local as possible - Only transfer aggregated and processed data —> makes the edge “fatter” * Distributed systems vs Edge - We had a short conversation about how these terms refer to similar things, but they are not the same! There might an article coming about this topic — Volunteers? * Use cases - We mentioned some new ones, like managing grain silos or transportation - There are also a few use cases where raw data gets thrown away after being processed —> Is that “normal”? + We had an extended conversation about metadata in this context; what it is, how it is treated, etc Our upcoming schedule is the following: * February 20, 2023 - Developer support - how can developers build a lab and test environment to mimic edge-like circumstances? * February 27, 2023 - Canceled: due to Mobile World Congress * March 06, 2023 - Private Mobility - The session will be lead by David Paterson For information about upcoming meetings and dial-in details please check out our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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OpenInfra Summit Edge Forum session proposal for review
by Ildiko Vancsa 19 Jan '23

19 Jan '23

Hi All, We’ve discussed to submit a session proposal into the OpenInfra Summit Forum CFP with the intent to utilize the Forum to reconnect with the OpenInfra projects and ecosystem in person. And talk about edge! I wrote up a session proposal using what we discussed on our weekly meetings this year. Please let me know what you think! Also, please let me know if you would be interested in moderating the session! Thanks, Ildikó Title: So we talked a lot about edge computing… What’s next?! Abstract: The OpenInfra Edge Computing Group spent the past few years to dive into defining and untangling the edge infrastructure space. Taking a closer look at the edge and the road that takes there, we identified orchestration and automation as crucial components of any end-to-end edge deployment that seeks success and longevity. We’ve also started to explore application design challenges through the lens of the requirements set towards infrastructure services. The group is looking to (re)connect with users as well as developers in this space to understand challenges and solutions that users or developers face. We would like to learn about new use cases, production deployments and projects in various areas from private mobility to industrial automation, with the goal of finding and filling gaps in the open source solutions to fulfill the users’ requirements. ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Meeting recap
by Ildiko Vancsa 17 Jan '23

17 Jan '23

Hi All, We had a great call today. Below please find some of the highlights of our discussion. * Events - The group decided to participate in the upcoming virtual Project Teams Gathering + The group is currently planning to have an extended session on Monday morning at the same time as the weekly meeting! + Event details: https://openinfra.dev/ptg/ + If you are planning to attend, please register, it’s FREE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/project-teams-gathering-march-2023-tickets-483… - OpenInfra Summit & PTG in Vancouver + The group is currently aiming for grabbing a Forum session and find opportunities at the in-person PTG to have discussions with project teams + Event details: https://openinfra.dev/summit/vancouver-2023 * Services and applications running at the edge - We discussed challenges of application design in edge environments - Baptiste from INRIA showed a few slides to share information about their research in this space - We also started to compare how the challenges relate or change if we switch from the application space to the control plane and configuration data - We also explored already existing solutions to handle distributed data over intermittent networks * We will keep exploring the application-design space next week! For information about upcoming meetings and dial-in details please check out our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Edge Forum session at the upcoming OpenInfra Summit
by Ildiko Vancsa 13 Jan '23

13 Jan '23

Hi, The next OpenInfra Summit will be in Vancouver, BC on June 13-15. Similarly to previous Summits, we will have the Forum again! The Forum is an interactive part of the main event with working sessions to discuss specific topics and challenges. The sessions also provide a great opportunity to connect the contributors of OpenInfra projects with users to ensure a feedback loop and good communication between those who create and those who use the software. The Forum proposal process is still open. Grabbing a session would be a great opportunity to learn the latest challenges and discuss solution ideas in the edge computing space. We can also reach out to a wider audience and can find new contributors to our group. Would you all be interested in proposing a Forum session? If so, do you have preferred topics to discuss with the attendees? Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Edge sessions at the virtual PTG in March
by Ildiko Vancsa 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

Hi, I’m reaching out about the upcoming virtual Project Teams gathering event, which will be held March 27-31. We had one session during the last PTG with great conversations about topics in areas such as orchestration, automation or environmental sustainability. It would be great to utilize some time during the upcoming event and discuss some of our topics further as well as to talk about plans and roadmap with regards to what our working group is set to achieve this year. What do you all think? What topics would you like to discuss at the PTG? I created a planning etherpad to collect ideas: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-ptg-march-2023 Please add your thoughts to the etherpad so we can better plan the time to book for the event. __The team signup deadline is February 19__. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Have a conflict at the usual time
by Cohen, Beth F 09 Jan '23

09 Jan '23

Just this week I have a conflict with the LFN SPC meeting -- <http://www.verizon.com> Beth Cohen SDN Product Strategy Verizon Business Group M +17814338553 <https://www.verizon.com>

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Call for papers for IEEE EDGE 2023
by Nitin Auluck 23 Nov '22

23 Nov '22

IEEE EDGE 2023 - CALL FOR PAPERS Edge computing, as the convergence of computing and communications executed close to data collection and places of storage and application, provides a paradigm that offers several research and application opportunities across a wide range of domains. At the same time, it raises many fundamental and unprecedented research and development problems and challenges. The 2023 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (IEEE EDGE 2023) aims to continue to be recognized a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in state of the art and practice of edge computing, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of edge computing. IEEE EDGE is affiliated with IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES). IEEE EDGE 2023 will feature a comprehensive high-quality technical program including research track, tutorial and demonstration. IEEE EDGE 2023 will also include an attractive industry program aimed at practitioners, with keynotes and panels from prominent research, industry leaders, and technological exhibits. IEEE EDGE 2023 invites original papers addressing all aspects related to edge computing theories, technologies and applications. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: · Edge Computing Architectures · Edge Computing and Communications Theories · Edge Computing and Network Functions Virtualization · Edge Computing in Multi-cloud environments · Signal Processing in Edge Computing · Edge Access Networks & Systems · Services for Edge Computing · CPU/GPU and Hardware for Edge Computing · AI Enabled Edge Computing · Edge Centric Convergence of IoT & Cloud Computing · Collaborative Edge & Cloud Computing · Storage and Caching at the Edge · QoS & QoE at the Edge · Artificial Intelligence and ML at the Edge · Edge Computing for Vehicular System & Network · Edge Computing for 5G/6G Network & Systems IMPORTANT DATES (ANYWHERE ON EARTH) * December 1, 2022: Easy Chair open for DRAFT submissions * February 12, 2023: Easy Chair closes for submissions (e.g., HARD submission deadline) * April 2, 2023: Acceptance notification * July 2-8, 2023: SERVICES Congress in Chicago ORGANISING TEAM IEEE EDGE 2023 GENERAL CHAIRS Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University Omer Rana, Cardiff University IEEE EDGE 2023 PROGRAM CHAIRS Flavia Delicato, Fluminense Federal University Nirmit Desai, IBM TJ Watson Research Center IEEE EDGE 2023 PUBLICITY CHAIRS Nitin Auluck, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil Antonino Galletta, University of Messina, Italy Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada -- Dr. Nitin Auluck / डॉ. नितिन औलक Associate Professor / सह - प्राध्यापक Room #114, S. Ramanujan Block / कमरा #११४, एस. रामानुजम ब्लॉक Department of Computer Science & Engineering / कंप्यूटर विज्ञान और अभियांत्रिकी विभाग Indian Institute of Technology Ropar / भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान रोपड़ Rupnagar, Punjab, India, 140001 / रूपनगर, पंजाब, भारत, १४०००१ Email / ईमेल: nitin(a)iitrpr.ac.in Web / वेब: http://www.iitrpr.ac.in/cse/nitin -- **CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The contents of this email message and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged information and may be legally protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message or their agent, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply email and then delete this message and any attachments. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, copying, or storage of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited.* *

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PTG session recording is now available
by Ildiko Vancsa 12 Nov '22

12 Nov '22

Hi All, Please find the recording of the recent OpenInfra Edge Computing Group PTG session on our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Virtual_PTG_Recording.… The next weekly call of the group is scheduled for next Monday (November 14) at 6am PST! You can find more information about our meetings and resources here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Re: [Edge-computing] Edge Computing Group sessions at the PTG - ON NOW
by Ildiko Vancsa 17 Oct '22

17 Oct '22

Hi, It is a friendly reminder that we’re having the Edge PTG session running now. We’re in the Girzzly room, you can find the dial-in link here: https://ptg.opendev.org/ptg.html For further information please see our etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-ptg-october-2022 Thanks, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation > On Oct 12, 2022, at 21:21, Ildiko Vancsa <ildiko.vancsa(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I’m reaching out with a quick update regarding the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group sessions at the upcoming PTG next week. > > The group settled on booking a Monday time slot that overlaps with our usual meeting hour: __Monday (October 17) at 1300 UTC - 1600 UTC__. > > Our main discussion topics will include: > * Edge use cases in production > * Day 0 - prepare your edge deployment > * Roadmap for the working group > > Beth Cohen from Verizon will also give a presentation during our scheduled time. > > For further information please see our etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-ptg-october-2022 > > Looking forward to seeing you at the event! > > Best Regards, > Ildikó > > ——— > > Ildikó Váncsa > Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem > Open Infrastructure Foundation > > >

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Edge sessions at the upcoming OpenInfra Project Teams Gathering
by Ildiko Vancsa 13 Oct '22

13 Oct '22

Hi All, I’m reaching out with a quick update regarding the edge sessions at the upcoming OpenInfra Project Teams Gathering (PTG) event[1]. Based on earlier discussions the group settled on booking a Monday time slot that overlaps with our usual meeting hour: __Monday (October 17) at 1300 UTC - 1600 UTC__. Our main discussion topics will include: * Edge use cases in production * Day 0 - prepare your edge deployment * Roadmap for the working group Beth Cohen from Verizon will also give a presentation during our scheduled time slot. For further information please see our etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-ptg-october-2022 Looking forward to seeing you at the event! Best Regards, Ildikó [1] openinfra.dev/ptg ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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PTG Preparation - RESPONSE NEEDED
by Ildiko Vancsa 04 Oct '22

04 Oct '22

Hi All, The next OpenInfra PTG is approaching fast, the event will be held in a fully online format on October 17-21. We already have an etherpad to collect discussion topics for the event: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-ptg-october-2022 If you have further topics, please add them to the above etherpad, so we can include that in the planning. Please also add your name to your topic, so we know who to reach out to for further details. An important detail, that we haven’t yet decided on, is how much time and what time slots we would like to grab at the event for edge related discussions. What would you all prefer? Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Edge Infrastructure Orchestration on the next weekly call
by Ildiko Vancsa 18 Sep '22

18 Sep '22

Hi, It is a friendly reminder that we will continue the Edge Infrastructure Orchestration discussion on our next weekly call on __Monday (September 19) at 6am PDT__. Rob Hirschfeld will talk about the approach they are taking with RackN and we will then go into an open discussion about the topic. Join us for the lively discussion if you would like to learn about solutions in this space or have experience and stories to share about your use case and existing or planned deployments. You can find more information about the call including the dial-in details on our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings See you on Monday! Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Edge compute requirements
by Eva Mishra 02 Sep '22

02 Sep '22

Dear All, What are the compute requirements (processor,memory etc) to run 5G on an edge server ? Regards, Eva M ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ C-DAC is on Social-Media too. Kindly follow us at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CDACINDIA & Twitter: @cdacindia ] This e-mail is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies and the original message. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this email is strictly prohibited and appropriate legal action will be taken. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Plans and upcoming sessions
by Ildiko Vancsa 26 Aug '22

26 Aug '22

Hi, I’m reaching out to you with a small update about upcoming Edge Computing Group sessions. As Fall is approaching we are getting back into deeper level discussions about today’s edge infrastructure challenges and solutions. Automation and orchestration will remain in the spotlight as key components of successful and sustainable edge deployments. On the upcoming call we will start planning for the upcoming OpenInfra Project Teams Gathering (PTG)[1] event to ensure good and diverse discussions in the area of edge computing. We will also look into the last quarter of 2022 and build out our agenda for the remainder of the year. Join use if you have any topics that you would like to discuss with us! I would also like to draw your attention to our call on the 19th of September, where will dig deeper into the solutions space. We will touch on Infrastructure as Code, GitOps and Rob Hirschfeld will guide us through the approach that RackN is taking in this area. For further details about the working group and our upcoming meetings please visit our wiki page[2]! Best Regards, Ildikó [1] https://openinfra.dev/ptg/ [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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edge requirements
by Eva Mishra 23 Aug '22

23 Aug '22

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Orchestration, Day-2 Operations and StarlingX session recording
by Ildiko Vancsa 21 Jul '22

21 Jul '22

Hi, We had a great call this week where discussed the challenges of maintaining edge infrastructures and workloads. During the call we also touched on solutions and went into details about how the StarlingX open source cloud platform is solving the needs of users and operators. You can find the recording here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Orchestration.2C_Day-2… For more information about StarlingX, please see the project website: https://www.starlingx.io On our next call (Monday, July 25 at 6am PDT) we will continue this conversation and will look into further projects and solutions. For further details about the weekly calls, please see our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group See you next Monday! Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Weekly Call Meeting Minutes
by Ildiko Vancsa 12 Jul '22

12 Jul '22

Hi, We had a slow paced call today where we were mainly looking into plans for the second half of the year. The working group will keep focusing on production use cases and requirements. There are challenges and gaps in the infrastructure space in the area of operations, automation and remote maintenance that the industry needs to work on to address. The working group is seeking feedback and input from production edge environments to share that with communities who are working on open source solutions in this space. We also talked about upcoming events that are in the interest of the working group: * OpenInfra Project Teams Gathering ** The event is schedule for October 17-20 in Columbus, OH ** Registration is already open: https://openinfra.dev/ptg ** Team sign up deadline is August 12 *** I create a poll to see who’s around to attend the event to see if we can organize dedicated edge sessions **** Please fill out the poll by __July 31__: https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/epgqMxpd * Open Networking and Edge (ONE) Summit ** The event is schedule for November 15-16 in Seattle, WA ** CFP is closing on July 29 ** Working group members are looking into submitting proposals for the conference For further details about the weekly calls, please see our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group On the next call we will continue discussing the infrastructure operations related challenges and solutions, including the StarlingX project!! See you on the call next Monday (July 18)! Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Edge infrastructure orchestration discussion on July 18
by Ildiko Vancsa 08 Jul '22

08 Jul '22

Hi, I’m reaching out to draw your attention to the working group’s upcoming call on July 18. We are planning to discuss infrastructure orchestration and its challenges in large-scale, geographically distributed edge environments. We will touch on challenges as well as solutions, such as the StarlingX project. If you have any questions or specific topics within the main area of the discussion please share it on this thread so we can add it to the agenda! You can find further information about the group and our calls on this wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Edge sessions at the upcoming OpenInfra Project Teams Gathering
by Ildiko Vancsa 05 Jul '22

05 Jul '22

Hi, I’m reaching out to you about the next Project Teams Gathering (PTG) event. The PTG is returning in person and will be held in Columbus, Ohio on October 17-20. For more information about the event, please see https://openinfra.dev/ptg/ This event is a great opportunity to bring back the edge discussions in person and to have a closer collaboration with the OpenInfra projects in the area of edge computing. I created a poll to see how many people are available to travel to attend the event: https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/epgqMxpd Please mark all the days in the poll when you would be available in person to attend and participate in edge sessions at the PTG! Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Help with the OpenInfra presentation on Edge
by Cohen, Beth F 23 May '22

23 May '22

Folks - For many reasons, all very valid, Rob will not ba able to attend the Summit in June. I am willing to do the presentation on Edge complexity myself, but if anyone on this list will be attending the conference and would like to share the responsibilities, I welcome the opportunity. Here is the topic: Wed, June 8, 4:00pm - 4:30pm | Berlin Congress Center - B - B09 Complexity at the Edge – A knotty problem 5G, NFV & Edge Edge computing has been part of the emerging technology landscape for over five years now, yet somehow, it remains somewhat of a mystery (or possibly just a Byzantine maze) to many users. Like Cloud computing before, Edge was touted as being able to simplify complex use cases. In reality, Edge has only magnified the essential complexity of the cloud by highlighting the need for better security, development, deployment and management tools that work over a highly distributed network environment. Using real world examples and painful lessons learned -- what do mean we will have to take the system, which is serving as the sole network connection for hundreds of branch offices, down for 2 hours to upgrade the hypervisor? -- We will explore how the principles of simplicity and ease of management collide with the inherent complexity of managing Edge architectures, with some possible ways that Open Source tools and techniques can address these issues. -- -- *Beth Cohen* SDN Network Product Strategy Verizon Business Group M 781.434.8553

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Canceling the meeting on Monday (May 16)
by Ildiko Vancsa 13 May '22

13 May '22

Hi, I got a last minute conflict for Monday at the time of the meeting call. As it is also the week of KubeCon EU I couldn’t find anyone who would facilitate the call and therefore I need to cancel it. __Our next call is on May 23!__ For further details about the weekly calls, please see our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Weekly Call Meeting Minutes
by Ildiko Vancsa 10 May '22

10 May '22

Hi All, Thank you for the great call earlier today. We started our discussion today with revisiting the container orchestration topic that a few of the working group members brought up last week. With listing the various groups in the CNCF ecosystem, just as a starting point, we quickly stumbled over to talk about the edge computing landscape. The attendees on today’s weekly call shared the desire to have a central place where you can discover what projects exist in the open source and standards space to address edge needs and challenges. While the group understands the challenges of keeping the information up to date, we still prefer to maintain a list so we can always look up information as a starting point, even if it turns out to be in need of an update! The group decided to use our already existing wiki page where we started to collect the adjacent groups and communities that we work with, and just extend that list to serve multiple purposes at the same time: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group/Adjacent_Edge_Projects The most recent Project Teams Gathering (PTG) event concluded just over a month ago. If you would like to catch up on the edge discussions you can now read the first article of a 3-piece series that got published today. The series will guide you through the conversations about the journey to take and run your edge use case in production: https://superuser.openstack.org/articles/what-does-it-take-to-bring-and-ope… For further details about the weekly calls, please see our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group See you next Monday (May 16)! Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Weekly Call Meeting Minutes
by Ildiko Vancsa 18 Apr '22

18 Apr '22

Hi, We had a short call today, but we still made some progress. We identified areas to untangle for the next few weekly calls: * April 25: We will be discussing license management at the edge: requirements and solutions * Onwards: The PTG uncovered quite a few interesting topics with regards to Day 2/n operations that have been overlooked in the past. * It is important to look into how the infrastructure as well as the applications will be operated as that creates new requirements to take into account at the design and rollout phases. We will discuss this at the upcoming weekly calls to understand the requirements better. For further details about the group and our weekly calls, please visit our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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PTG recordings are now available!
by Ildiko Vancsa 08 Apr '22

08 Apr '22

Hi, The OpenInfra Edge Computing Group participated recent Project Teams Gathering (PTG) event with very lively sessions on three consecutive days earlier this week. Our theme for the discussions was the journey of taking your edge use case into production. In addition, our conversations also covered the challenges of operating edge infrastructures in production, where we touched on the solution space as well. The recordings along with the link to the etherpad with our notes are now accessible on the working group’s wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Virtual_PTG_Recordings… Please let me know if you have any questions or have issues with accessing any of the recordings. Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Finalized agenda for the PTG next week
by Ildiko Vancsa 06 Apr '22

06 Apr '22

Hi, We went through the PTG etherpad on the weekly call this Monday to ensure that we have all the topics identified that we would like to have a conversation about at the PTG, that starts on April 4! The main theme for the sessions is the steps and challenges to set up and operate end-to-end edge infrastructures in production! You can find the final agenda on this etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-ptg-april-2022 You can also read some further details about the topics and terms in this article: https://superuser.openstack.org/articles/edge-in-production-at-the-upcoming… We will be looking for answers to the questions that are listed in the agenda and will ask new ones, based on how the discussions go. If you went through this process already or just about to deploy your infrastructure in production, join us starting next Monday for some lively discussions! If you haven’t yet, please also register to the event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/project-teams-gathering-april-2022-tickets-246… Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Weekly Call Meeting Minutes
by Ildiko Vancsa 24 Mar '22

24 Mar '22

Hi, We had a great call this Monday (March 21) where Adrien Lebre from Inria was presenting to give updates about their project, called Cheops. We also had some additional conversation on the topic of solutions to the challenges of operations and automation in edge environments. Please find below the highlights of our meeting: * Cheops is an academic project that focuses on the operations challenge for edge environments * Control plane functions are distributed out to the edge to be able to cope with challenges such as * Connection loss * Intermittent connection * Keeping the sites in sync becomes the new challenge * Local-first * Collaborative-then * The approach builds on service-mesh concepts * Next steps * Generalizing the solution * Resource and dependency models and patterns * Modeling relationships: required, depends on, composed of * Scalability is tackled by using the concept of “scope" * Relevant papers (without the relationship models) * https://hal.inria.fr/hal-03212421 * https://hal.inria.fr/hal-03282425 * Blog post that describes the sessions at the upcoming Project Teams Gathering Event is now published: https://superuser.openstack.org/articles/edge-in-production-at-the-upcoming… To listen back to the whole conversation, please check the recording of the call here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Cheops_project_update_… For further details about the weekly calls, please see our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Upcoming_Topics Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Cheops presentation and discussion on March 21
by Ildiko Vancsa 21 Mar '22

21 Mar '22

Hi, I would like to draw your attention to our call next Monday (March 21)! We will be having the team from Inria coming in and giving an update about their project called Cheops. The presentation will be followed by a discussion to take the topics and questions raised during the presentation even further! As a reminder, the call will happen __next Monday (March 21) at 6am Pacific Time / 1300 UTC__. The details of the meeting and dial-in information are on our wiki page: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings For upcoming topics, please check our lineup here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Upcoming_Topics See you next Monday! Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Meeting time during the DST switch period
by Ildiko Vancsa 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Hi, It is a friendly reminder that daylight savings time in the United States started yesterday (March 14). As we did in the past few years we are still using the US Pacific Time as a baseline for the Edge Computing Group weekly calls. Accordingly, the __new UTC meeting time is 1300 UTC__. The details of the meeting and dial-in information are on our wiki page: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings For upcoming topics, please check our lineup here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Upcoming_Topics See you next Monday! Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Edge sessions at the PTG
by Ildiko Vancsa 08 Mar '22

08 Mar '22

Hi, I’m reaching out to draw your attention to the sessions that we have been scheduling for the upcoming, online Project Teams Gathering (PTG)[1]. Beth and I took the opportunity and typed up a short blog post to describe the agenda we plan for the event: https://superuser.openstack.org/articles/edge-in-production-at-the-upcoming… If you are interested in participating in the discussions about how to move edge from discussion to production, please register[2] for the event and join us on April 4, 5 and 6! Best Regards, Ildikó [1] https://www.openstack.org/ptg/ [2] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/project-teams-gathering-april-2022-tickets-246… ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Cheops presentation next week!
by Ildiko Vancsa 07 Mar '22

07 Mar '22

Hi, It is a friendly reminder that we are having a great session coming up next Monday (March 14) at 6am Pacific / 1300 UTC! We will have the Inria team with us to give an update about their Cheops project and have a discussion about topics such as the challenges and solutions of edge deployments, and more. The details of the meeting and dial-in information are on our wiki page: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings For upcoming topics, please check our lineup here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Upcoming_Topics See you next Monday! Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Weekly call meeting minutes
by Ildiko Vancsa 24 Feb '22

24 Feb '22

Hi, We had a great call this Monday that we spent mostly with planning for the upcoming Project Teams Gathering (PTG) event[1] on April 4-8, 2022. The OpenInfra Edge Computing Group has booked 7 hours of session time in total which we will be filling with hot and current topics that concern infrastructure challenges and solutions from core to edge! We are planning the topics and agenda on an etherpad[2] that we dedicated to this upcoming PTG. Topics that we’ve been considering so far: * Complexity * Edge infrastructures are highly complex environments by definition * How to mitigate complexity? * How to keep management and operation functions under control? * Automation * What is covered? * What is missing? * Day-2 operations * Clarify what the term means * Infrastructure lifecycle management * How to get from deployment to production? * Infrastructure as Code (IaC) * Version Control * Distributed state * Multi-component automation * Immutability * New use cases * Keep the scope on infrastructure software * Look at what the hardware layer can offer and understand what infrastructure software has to support * Applications have expectations and requirements towards infrastructure Do you have topics to discuss at the PTG about edge? Add them to the etherpad[2] along with your name, share them on this thread or come to one of our weekly calls[3] before the event and bring them with the group! Se you next Monday (February 28) at 6am PT / 3pm CET / 1400 UTC! Best Regards, Ildikó [1] https://www.openstack.org/ptg [2] https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-ptg-april-2022 [3] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Meeting minutes of the February 07 meeting
by Ildiko Vancsa 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

Hi, We had a great call today (February 07) where we spent valuable to time to prepare for upcoming events and had some additional discussions. Please find below the highlights of our meeting: * Events * OpenInfra Summit * CFP is open till February 09 - https://cfp.openinfra.dev/app/berlin-2022 * Submissions are on track from WG members * Forum session proposal process opens later * Need to prepare for the Forum as we can utilize the space and time to continue some of the discussions we are having on the weekly call with a broader audience * Look into opportunities to invite industry experts to the event to participate in our conversations * PTG preparation * Event is online, scheduled for April 04 - 08, 2022 * We decided to book the time slots that same way as we did in the past * 2 x 2 hours * 1 x 3 hours * We will be starting to brainstorm about discussion topics starting on our next call (February 14) * event etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-ptg-april-2022 * Untangling the edge discussions * We started to dig deeper into the complexity topic * Attendees of the call also also raised discussion topics such as service-mesh and distribution of both infrastructure services as well as applications * This topic is also interesting from GDPR perspective and how regulations are shaping in Europe for instance * We agreed to continue the conversation about complexity on next week’s call * On February 21 we will have people from Inria joining to give updates about their project called Cheops and dig deeper into the service-mesh topic For further notes please see our meeting etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/oif-edge-computing-group For further details about the weekly calls, please see our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Upcoming_Topics Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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New Edge Computing Group blog post!!
by Ildiko Vancsa 03 Feb '22

03 Feb '22

Hi, I’m reaching out to you to draw your attention to the latest blog post from the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group! The blog post summarizes all the great discussions we had towards the end of 2021. You can also find the links to the recording of the sessions in case you would like to listen back to the whole conversation. You can find the blog post here: https://superuser.openstack.org/articles/so-what-has-the-openinfra-edge-com… You can find more information about the working group and our weekly calls here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Meeting minutes of the January 24 meeting
by Ildiko Vancsa 25 Jan '22

25 Jan '22

Hi, We had a great call on Monday (January 24) this week. Please find below the highlights of our discussions: * We spent a good amount of time to discuss topics that we would like to dive deeper during 2022 * The main theme that people on the call were interested in was complexity * Complexity brings in a few more topics such as automation, orchestration and just in general manageability of infrastructure and workloads * We touched on the management and orchestration (MANO) space as well as standardization related efforts * ONAP * ETSI MANO * ETSI MEC * We will be reaching out to the relevant groups and communities to gather some updates about their activities and foster some cross-community collaboration efforts * More fine grained topics of interest for the year would be * IPv4 vs IPv6 * DNS, DHCP * Middleware, application management * Accounting, monitoring, analytics * Telco-grade vs enterprise-grade needs * Open Infrastructure Summit CFP is now open! * Summit is scheduled for June 7-9, 2022 in Berlin, Germany * CFP is open until February 09 - https://cfp.openinfra.dev/app/berlin-2022 * The working group is looking into submitting one or more sessions to share our learnings and findings from last year and discuss challenges and forecasts for 2022 * An idea is to organize a cross-community panel with adjacent edge groups and communities * If you would like to participate or have an idea for a session please respond to this thread or reach out to me directly!! For further notes please see our meeting etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/oif-edge-computing-group For further details about the weekly calls, please see our wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Upcoming_Topics Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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by Cohen, Beth F 25 Jan '22

25 Jan '22

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Next Edge Computing Group call is on January 24
by Ildiko Vancsa 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Hi, We cut today’s call short as we had low attendance due to the holiday in the US as well as others taking time off this week as well. We will be back next Monday (January 24) with full steam to discuss and detail out our plans further for 2022. We also have upcoming events to keep in mind, including the Open Infrastructure Summit with the CFP open, where we should consider to submit at least one proposal from the group: https://cfp.openinfra.dev/app/berlin-2022 For details about the group and our meetings please check out our wiki page: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group Please let me know if you have any questions. See you next Monday! Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Senior Manager, Community & Ecosystem Open Infrastructure Foundation

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