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.

Achievements

FledgePOWER

FledgePOWER is a cross foundation collaboration between LF Edge and LF Energy that 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

Meeting OSDU Edge requirements with LF Edge projects mitigating lock-in through vendor-neutral governance and interoperable solutions. 

Phase 1 of this PoC includes EVE-OS and the Fledge Industrial IoT application stack from LF Edge. EVE-OS provides a universal foundation for hardware and application management and security and Fledge enables interoperability between devices, systems and applications in addition to enabling edge analytics with tools such as TensorFlow.  Combined, EVE-OS and Fledge provide a solid framework for scaling edge computing deployments. Background on each of these open source projects is provided in the Appendix.