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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 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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