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LF Staff: @Casey Cain @Sunny Cai

• Release R4 Planning and Status

• Release dates and LFN logistics

  • Release date: Feb 14 ?

  • TSC Chairs Blog

  • LFN marketing @Casey Cain

SI

• See .2025-01-29 SIG-2 Agenda & Minutes

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• Nephio and GenAI - Hackathon discussion [10 mins]

  • Volunteers to support

  • Identification of use-cases

  • Funding and logistics

Minutes

R4 Status and release plans

• SIG Release:

  • On track for Feb 14

  • Confident on the following stories:

    • IMS part of the O-RAN contribution

    • FLuxCD story

    • platform improvements

  • Need to follow up on the workload identities (security) story to see if this will get in on time

  • UI improvements are awaiting review

  • Release notes under development

• SIG Auto:

  • On track for Feb 14

  • some issues with the PackageRevision have been triaged and resolved which were blocking the O-RAN IMS contribution

  • Workload identity story has some failing tests which will hopefully be fixed soon

  • Platform improvements complete

  • UI improvements are awaiting review

  • FluxCD is complete

• LFN would like to move the release date forward to help with the planning around it

  • We can release on Feb 14, but we should move the announcement date to Feb 18 to ensure better engagement

• Continue to aim for Feb 14 date

• WG6 has been working on a “Nephio and GenAI whitepaper” which can be released at the same time as the R4 release

  • document is under review with a few comments to clean up - Sunny will review

SIG Updates

SIG Architecture:

• Discussion on the O-RAN story has been progressing

• Presentation on the WG activities around assurance with a discussion on MVP activities

• Discussion on GenAI (later topic)

• R5 planning discussions are ongoing, which will be finalized in end of February

Sig Automation:

• See .2025-01-29 SIG-2 Agenda & Minutes

• Increasing contributions and participation in the SIG automation community

• Still no vice chair - volunteers from the community needed

  • Can we have more than one “vice-chair”?

  • Document clearly the roles and responsibilities so that it is clear what the “ask” is - time commitment etc.

SIG release:

• Preparing release machinery for R4 - including automated build for the O-RAN O2IMS operator

• If we end up having the end-to-end tests ready we will incorporate that into the release process

SIG Security:

• workload identity is the highest priority

• Preparing a demo environment to help with pull request analysis

• Security scanning - how can we operationalise this?

• Security blueprint - towards specific stacks (OAI, Free5gc etc)

  • creating requirements

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Nephio and GenAI - Hackathon discussion

There is an opportunity to hold a hackathon in the Bay area to leverage the enthusiasm in that area with universities etc

• looking for a group of volunteers to generate ideas on this - proposed weekly meeting to analyze ideas for user stories to drive at the hackathon

• Need to engage with university students, startups etc on this to bring people onboard

• Idea is to have some output into nephio-experimental for future release input

• Define a date for the activity

  • Would be good to do this in the Spring, while university students are active - potentially in March / April / May

• Volunteers: @Phil Porras , @balaji varadaraju , @Avinash Bhat @Raj Panchapakesan

• Options for logistics (in-person, virtual, etc) need to be proposed

  • Need to ensure @Casey Cain is engaged to line up with other LFN event plans

LFN Events

LFN proposal is for virtual events per project in 2025 - no in-person developer events are being planned

No options to colocate with another conference this year

• ONE summit is co-located with Kubecon / CloudNativeCon

Communities who want to do “in-person” events need to:

• have a venue for the event

• have a plan for remote attendance

Discussions on these topics (hackathons etc) take place in the TAC - next one is on Feb 5th 7am PT

TSC chair / vice-chair position is that a well-planned and scoped in-place event would be desirable in 2025 to continue the momentum from previous events

@Sana Tariq and @Ciaran Johnston will sync with @Casey Cain on potential virtual / hybrid events