User:SLewis

Scott Lewis
Modelado Foundation
Email: slewis at modelado.org

Modelado Foundation Value Proposition

See Target Communities for an initial list of stakeholder target communities

Areas for MF Value-Add

Inter-Project Collaboration

• xstackwiki
• mailing lists
• architecture, planning...e.g. via PMC/Councils
• multi-project release coordination and engineering (build/test/deploy)

Project Infrastructure

Development Team Collaboration

• git repos (public and private)
• gerrit
• bug tracking
• distro creation and deployment
• integration (e.g. single sign on, gerrit+git, tooling/IDE, etc)

Development Services and Tools

• git/gerrit
• bug tracking
• Compilers, IDE, new tooling...
• web server (distros, repos)
• automated build/test/CI

Open Source Development Process

• How does/can/should 'open development' work in the large? (many projects, many developers, many years, many consumers)
  • Example: Eclipse Development Process
• Maintain quality (over teams, releases, etc)
• Continuous Innovation
• Rules of Project Engagement. Based upon technical contribution.

Conferences and Hackathons

• Setup, run, regular conferences
• Setup, run, regular hackathons

Provisioning - Build/Test/Deploy/Install/Update

• apt, rpm, osgi install/update/uninstall technology development
• Customized distro creation...for specific consumers
  • Promotion/Marketing of Distros for Community Awareness

Maintenance and Support

• No HeartBleed. Avoid Tragedy of the Commons Problem
• Support Contracts with Enterprises, Developers, Users

IP Management

• Licensing for commercial and non-commercial distribution models
• consistent, clear policies wrt copyright, licensing, patents

Project Mentoring

• Project Education: Rhythm of Open Development
  • Releng 'in the large' (100 projects, 1000 developers, > 1 million consumers)
• Developer Education: How to use exascale APIs, sw abstractions, tooling (debuggers, etc)

Integration Services

• Exascale Computing for Data Analytics
• Simulation for Scientific Computing...i.e. Research and Education

Pooling Cloud Computing Vendor Negotiations

See Magellan Project Real Future of Cloud Computing