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Stage Two: Growth Stage

Definition

The Growth Stage is for projects that are interested in reaching the Impact Stage, and have identified a growth plan for doing so. Growth Stage projects will receive mentorship from the TAC and are expected to actively develop their community of contributors, governance, project documentation, and other variables identified in the growth plan that factor in to broad success and adoption.

In order to support their active development, projects in the Growth stage have a higher level of access to marketing and other resources, which will be agreed upon and reviewed on a yearly basis by the TAC and then the Governing Board. A project's progress toward its growth plan goals will be reviewed on a yearly basis, and the TAC may ask the project to move to the At Large stage if progress on the plan drops off or stalls.

Acceptance Criteria

At Large requirements:

Growth requirements:

Compliance with Requirements

At Large

RequirementEvidence
Two TAC sponsors

Joe Pearson (IBM), Jim St. Leger (Intel), Anil Vishnoi (Red Hat), others pending updated confirmation

Presentation to the TACOriginal presentation deck and recording from March 11, 2020
IP Policy: licenses for code and documentation, DCO for contributions
List project (Stage One) status on web site or READMETBD, update LF Edge project page and Open Horizon documentation page
>= 2/3 approval vote of TAC & majority of Governing Board SPC
  • TAC two-thirds vote approval reached on March 30, 2020.
  • Governing Board Strategic Planning Committee approval reached on April 9, 2020.
    link to page

Growth

RequirementEvidence
Growth plan
Used in PoCs
  1. DLR in Germany has created two pieces of hardware (GeoBox, HofBox) for farmers, and is proposing to work across the country in a public/private partnership program.  This technical project uses Open Horizon as a key component for their offline-first approach to edge computing.
    video link: https://www.dlr.rlp.de/Internet/global/inetcntr.nsf/dlr_web_full.xsp?src=625C012T2W&p1=KID9U06DI1&p3=34F13QLQT4&p4=6WH9QAA7AZ
  2. Foxconn Industrial Internet has ported the Open Horizon agent to work on their 5G AI Box and is using it as an integral piece of their vertical farming solution in conjunction with Nordic Harvest and YesHealth!
    video link: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/glen-darling-2100132_hk0103hdmp4-activity-6752339393660502016-z2Pw
  3. I could list a few other PoCs, but they use a commercial downstream distribution, so I'm not sure if they're valid examples.  For instance, the Port of Barcelona is using it to detect and identify boats (and their bow and stern) approaching the harbor, and is using deployed inferencing algorithms to derive the location/position of those boats, all being inferred on the edge.
    link: https://es.newsroom.ibm.com/announcements?item=122614
Substantial ongoing commits and contributions
Community participation meets growth plan goals
Evidence of interoperability, compatibility with other LF Edge projects
>= 2/3 approval vote of TAC & majority of Governing Board