Organizational Meeting - 2025-02-25

Meeting Welcome / Opening Statement

• All LF Energy Meetings are subject to the Linux Foundation anti-trust policy

Technical Steering Committee Agenda

• Items to Note:

  • Upcoming Webinar

  • Next Organization Meeting (2025-03-25) will be CANCELED due to DistribuTECH

• GEISA Promotion Event @ DistribuTECH (Face to Face Opportunity)

  • Date: Wednesday - March 26th 2-5 PM (Central Time)

  • Location: Room D223 within the Convention Center

  • Considering Promotional Material

    • “Ask me about GEISA” shirts?

    • Door marker

    • GEISA friendly booths

  • Content to be Shared

    • D-Tech tends to have utility participants and sales/marketing folks from vendors, rather than engineers

    • Do we want similar content to the webinar? Should we have utility focused sessions and vendor focused sessions?

    • How many sessions?

    • How long that should they last?

    • Should we have a open session?

• Technical Progress

  • Moving slow, but picking up speed

  • Do we need another face-to-face or extend bi-weekly session?

  • Thoughts on MVP for Q1 date https://lf-energy.atlassian.net/wiki/x/A4A2D

  • Current Roadmap Indicates Q1 for MVP, but we want a polished release quality specification by Q2 2025

    • See Project Margo for example: https://specification.margo.org/

• TSC Areas of Responsibility

  • Do we need to define areas of responsibility within the TSC?

  • If so, who wants to do what?

  • Do we need to meet more frequently?

• Creation of a Utility Advisory Board (UAB)

  • Should we have a UAB?

  • Possible Roles of the UAB

    • Inputs

    • Outputs

    • Relationship with technical working groups & TSC.

  • Structure of the UAB

    • Does it need a chair or organizer?

  • One member has agreed to sign up:

    • DLC (Mitch Davda)