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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 30 Oct '23

30 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 26 Sep '23

26 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 17 Jul '23

17 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 18 Apr '23

18 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 04 Apr '23

04 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 27 Mar '23

27 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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