2022-01-27 LDCG SC Meeting Agenda/Minutes

 Agenda

• Practicalities

• Expectations from the SC representatives and the people on the call

• Review of the current focus areas

• AOB

Documents

• CSIS: A Case for a Trustworthy BMC

• Project Updates

  • STOR Project Update (Kevin Zhao)

  • Ecosystem Dashboard (Tom Gall)

  • Optimize AI for Datacenter and Edge (Tom Gall)

  • LDCG Project Considerations

Open

Action Items

Minutes

• Recording of the meeting

  • These meetings are public and open and are therefore recorded and shared by default.

  • Link to today’s recording is here (Passcode: z1jJ^VP+)

• Practicalities

  • Where to find information?

    • linaro.org/process

    • linaro.org/projects

    • Email lists:

      • ldcg-sc-members@linaro.org (who?)

      • ldcg-sc-internal@linaro.org (who?)

      • ldcg-sc-interest@linaro.org (who?)

    • Meeting notes

  • Recordings of meetings.

    • SC feedback: No objections and meetings are open. Suggested to have it as a standing point. At every meeting mention that the meeting is being recorded.

  • Staffing.

    • Leonardo da Garcia - Feb 1st.

• Expectations from the SC representatives and the people on the call

  • Expectations and responsibilities

    • Joakim:

      • Goals: Ideally tackle problems that are beneficial to more than a single member and at the same time beneficial to the Arm ecosystem.

      • Expectations: SC members actively drive the agenda together. We identify and prioritize items within our bandwidth. We keep a good tone and let everyone speak. We come well prepared to meetings.

      • Responsibilities: Act as bridge between the SC and our own company. Invite and involve the correct people when needed. Make decisions.

    • SC feedback: General agreement on what Joakim started to say, but we have to realize that reaching consensus is hard.

• Review of the current focus areas

  • SC feedback: It’s a bit complicated to find out what LDCG cover. Some kind of dashboard or something similar would be good to have.

  • OpenBMC.

    • Security issues in OpenBMC, summary from Cloud Security Industry Summit (CSIS), link above under "Documents".

    • SC feedback: An area where the interest varies. Some see the need for Linaro to be present, others don’t think it’s necessary.

    • Next step: Start a thread in the new open email list (discussed today) that will be created and once we’ve gather enough feedback there, we will bring it up on the LDCG SC meeting again for a discussion.

  • SVE2, SME.

    • No need to discuss today, since we covered it in the last SC call.

  • BigTop (BDDS project)

    • Release matrix, Linaro provides most (all?) Arm binaries for that.

    • Move this into some kind of CI project instead?

  • Storage project (STOR) - https://www.linaro.org/projects#cloud-computing-and-servers_STOR

  • Cloud project (CLOUD)

    • @Anmar Oueja Linaro propose to close this down.

    • Late spring / early summer it was discussed in the SC.

    • Cloud Infrastructure wiki space

    • SC feedback: Now and in the future it would be good to have more clarity around what a project really is about. A question raised for example was: “Will Linaro not care or do any work with Cloud in the future”?

    • Next steps: Send an official vote to get it closed.

  • Arm server architecture (ASA) - https://www.linaro.org/projects#cloud-computing-and-servers_ASA

  • Ecosystem Dashboard (LED) - https://www.linaro.org/projects#cloud-computing-and-servers_LED

    • Current dashboard: https://ecosystemdashboard.linaro.org/

    • Usefulness?

    • Risk of getting stale quickly? How to deal with that?

    • Staffing?

  • Optimize AI for Arm Data Center and Edge (AIA)

• AOB

  • LDCG open ML is created. All LDCG-SC members will be invited and a welcome email will be sent out.