The Fledge project and community plans to create a strong ecosystem around Fledge to attract more users and stimulate community growth by:

• Making It easy for everyone to use the project through documentation.
• Clearly explaining how to contribute.
• Building personal relationships, fostering communication and collaboration.
• Make people feel included. (mentoring?)
• Setting a code of conduct.

The Fledge community has been growing steadily over the years incorporating a diverse set on contributors from various organizations.

• Recently the Fledge TSC was expanded its voting members to incorporate a diverse representation of organizations.
• Growing attendance from a variety of users and contributors.
• Demonstrations of new features.

Beyond the LF Edge community, Fledge focuses on industrial use cases so one of the primary goals is to meet the industrial communities outside of LF Edge where they do.

Two main industrial communities in energy verticals have been the main focus but not limited to:

• LF Energy: is an open source foundation that focuses on power systems hosted within the Linux Foundation. 
• OSDU (Open Subsurface Data Universe): The OSDU Forum is developing an open source, standards based, technology agnostic data platform. Primarily focuses on oil and gas and renewables.

See more under Growth Plan.

Several public Use Cases cases have been documented and implemented on PoCs.

New ones include:

• Open Horizon Smart Agriculture SIG: 
  • Milestone 1: Table Garden
  • Milestone 2: Outdoor single sensor
• FledgePOWER Use Cases
  • Telecontrol network architecture example 1
  • Telecontrol network architecture example 2
• OSDU Edge
  • Final Slides
• UC Davis Winery of the future

Two main industrial communities in energy verticals have been the main focus but not limited to:

• LF Energy: is an open source foundation that focuses on power systems hosted within the Linux Foundation. 
• OSDU (Open Subsurface Data Universe): The OSDU Forum is developing an open source, standards based, technology agnostic data platform. Primarily focuses on oil and gas and renewables.

Achievements

FledgePOWER

FledgePOWER is a multi-protocol translation gateway for power systems based on the industrial IoT LF Edge project. This cross foundation collaboration between LF Edge and LF Energy ensures strong cooperative governance and technical alignment between the two communities. FledgePOWER aims to build and grow a community of end-users, developers, utilities, and other players to collaborate to solve current and future challenges in the energy space. Further information can be found on:

• Architecture
• Community
• Ongoing Work
• Roadmap
• Use Cases

OSDU Edge

OSDU has selected Fledge and EVE as the edge stack architecture for OSDU Edge. Meeting OSDU Edge requirements with LF Edge projects mitigating lock-in through vendor-neutral governance and interoperable solutions. 

The architecture was successfully demoed to OSDU members in October, 2021.

See more under Growth Plan.

The latest Fledge collaboration includes:

• Open Horizon Smart Agriculture SIG: The Smart Agricultural special interest group is optimizing agriculture with technology, and using Fledge in the following use cases:
  • Milestone 1: Table Garden
  • Milestone 2: Outdoor single sensor
• FledgePOWER Use Cases
• Telecontrol network architecture example 1
• Telecontrol network architecture example 2
• OSDU Edge
  • Final Slides

More information on past and ongoing collaboration can be found here: Cross-LF Edge Collaboration and here Fledge Roadmap 2020/2021.

The Technical Steering Committee (TSC) has expanded its voting members to 6 as follows:

• Mark Riddoch - Dianomic - Chair
• Tom Arthur - Dianomic
• Daniel Lazaro - OSIsoft now part of AVEVA
• Benoit Jeanson - RTE
• Robert Raesemann - Raesemann Enterprises
• Mike Styer - Google

Fledge is an independent open-source project and not controlled by any single company. To emphasize this Fledge is governed under the Linux Foundation Edge and has graduated through the different Project Stages: Definitions and Expectations. Fledge is currently a Stage 2 project under this framework. For more information go to the Governance section.

The following documented processes are in place:

• Repository Approval Policy
• TSC Email Votes
• Technical Steering Committee (TSC)

The latest Fledge collaboration includes:

• Open Horizon Smart Agriculture SIG: The Smart Agricultural special interest group is optimizing agriculture with technology, and using Fledge in the following use cases:
  • Milestone 1: Table Garden
  • Milestone 2: Outdoor single sensor

More information on past and ongoing collaboration can be found here: Cross-LF Edge Collaboration and here Fledge Roadmap 2020/2021.

The Fledge community has defined and documented the following Repository Approval Policy as well as the committer process here: CONTRIBUTING.md and project Governance.

The Fledge Community welcomes contributions of all types; documentation, code changes, new plugins, scripts, just simply reports of the way you use Fledge or suggestions of features you would like to see within Fledge. A public list of project adopters can be found here.