Kick-off Meeting
17-Nov-2022
Notes by David Chassin
Call to Order at 9:35 PST
Attendees: John Mertic, David Chassin, David Pinney, Pedram Jahangiri, Allen Le, Frank Tuffner
- Agenda:
- Welcome
- Role of the TSC
- TSC Chairperson selection
- Infrastructure updates
- Meeting cadence
- Any other topics
- Welcome/Introductions
- John Mertic (LFE, host, [email protected]),
- David Chassin (SLAC, minutes, [email protected])
- Allen Le (CEC, [email protected])
- Pedram Jahangiri (Amazon AWS, [email protected])
- Frank Tuffner (PNNL, [email protected])
- David Pinney (NRECA, [email protected])
- Role of Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Kickoff and Level-Set in collaborating open-source
- TSC Role: sets the direction of the project, roadmap, features, strategic direction, support for the community of users, assess their needs and prioritize work. Provides "service leadership".
- All TSC work and meetings are open to the public, collaboration with potential competitors. Be aware of anti-trust laws regarding discussions. Participation is as an individual. What we say is public. John will provide an anti-trust statement at start of each meeting.
- Request for a briefing on the current status of the software at the next meeting (ACTION ITEM - Dave)
- Role of the chair
- leads meetings
- sets meeting agenda
- general guide to project
- drive to consensus
- serve as spokesperson for public relations
- liaison to LFE Technical Advisory Council.
- Frank nominates David Chassin, Pedram seconds.
- Consensus on one-year term for Chair starts Jan 1.
- Infrastructure
- Project name proposal: "Arras". Tentative ok, but PNNL and CEC need to do due diligence (ACTION ITEM - Frank and Allen).
- Slack channel created under the name "GridLAB-D.
- Github org created by LFE as "arras-energy". John needs github ids. (ACTION ITEM - all)
- SLAC transfer code to new github org (ACTION ITEM - SLAC team)
- Meeting cadence
- Once a month for now until further notice
- No additional topics
- Adjourn at 10:05 PST
- David Chassin: present project status at next meeting
- Frank Tuffner and Allen Le: due diligence on project name "Arras"
- All: send github ids to John Mertic to add to github "arras-energy" organization
- SLAC: transfer code and support infrastructure to "arras-energy"