This board meeting featured: a UNH Community Lab update from Patrick Robb of the University of New Hampshire, a 2024 Events update from Events Coordinator Evi Harmon of The Linux Foundation, a marketing update from Marketing Coordinator Ben Thomas of The Linux Foundation, an outreach update from Sr. Project Coordinator Nathan Southern of the Linux…
The chief emphases of this meeting were primarily twofold: 1) To discuss deliverables for Marketing Coordinator Ben Thomas’s 2024 agenda; 2) To begin event planning for two 2024 events, one in Asia and one in Europe or North America. Marketing Discussion: The board previously doubled the number of hours to which Mr. Thomas has committed…
The DPDK Governing Board met for a special session on December 7, 2023, to review and vote on two key elective items for 2024, atop a basic table stakes budget that was unanimously approved in a November 2023 session. These items are as follows. -Doubling Linux Foundation Marketing Coordinator Ben Thomas's monthly commitment to roughly…
Tech Board UpdatesThe 23.07 release of DPDK is in the works, and stabilization work is underway to prep for a July release. Release notes link up has occurred. The API freeze happened along with the C1 on the week of June 5th, and the PMD feature freeze is anticipated for June 21. Extensive work is…
Introduction of New Participants: Two new participants in the project were introduced to the board: tech writer David Thomas, who begins his contract on the project on June 12th, and marketing coordinator Benjamin Thomas of the Linux Foundation. Community Lab Updates A winter storm temporarily deprived the Community Lab of power in January. More recently,…
Marketing Evaluation: A discussion took place regarding a pending choice between a proposed customization of the current Linux Foundation Tier 3 marketing package and a proposed outsourcing to Open Infra, a small marketing agency in Frisco, Texas. Hilary Carter, SVP of Research and Communications for Linux Foundation, joined the meeting and led board members through a…
A new major release, DPDK 22.11, is now available: https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-22.11.tar.xz It was a comfortable release cycle, with: 1387 commits from 193 authors 1902 files changed, 137224 insertions(+), 61256 deletions(-) The branch 22.11 should be supported for at least two years, maybe more, making it recommended for system integration and deployment. The new major ABI version…
Brief Summary of Governing Board Minutes from 10/11/22 Introduction: Two new arrivals on the project, Robin Giller of intel (replacing St. Leger) and Evi Harmon of LF Marketing (replacing Emily Ruf) introduced themselves and discussed their professional backgrounds. Changes in Representation: A discussion took place on the pending replacement of the Governing Board Chair. The group also discussed the prospective addition…
Brief Summary of Governing Board Minutes from 8/23/22 We did have a quorum present for this meeting, with 8 governing board representatives present. Introduction: As chair, Jim St. Leger called the meeting to order and welcomed Daniel Havey of Microsoft as Doug Stamper's interim replacement. Changes in Representation: Jim St. Leger announced that he will be departing DPDK as…
