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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 READMEUpdated LF Edge project page to reference (thanks, Brett!)
>= 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
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

 Chart from https://tinyurl.com/yykvcfg5 showing commits over the last year.  Notice that the diversity of organizations making commits increased quite a bit beginning in the July timeframe, two months after we officially became an LF Edge project.

Growth planGrowth plan for 2021:
  • Add non-IBM voting members to the TSC (at least 30%)
Community participation meets growth plan goals

Growth plan for 2020:

  • Regular, scheduled TSC and Working Group meetings with active public community participation in Working Groups
    Met
  • Three active SIGs meeting and supporting users and solutions
    Met-ish: Created two SIGs (Manufacturing and Smart Agriculture), and the Open Retail Reference Architecture (ORRA) sub-project
  • Active effort underway with three or more partner organizations to define Open Deployment standards
    Ongoing
    Arnaud Le Hors has volunteered to help lead this effort, will begin with standards around ORRA
  • At least twenty new active (volunteer) contributors
    Missed: 8 new contributors, not 20
  • At least two Partner companies contributing value to the project
    Met: Foxconn Industrial Internet and SoftServe
  • Apply for Stage Two maturity project
    In Progress
  • Investigate opportunities for collaboration with universities
    Ongoing
Evidence of interoperability, compatibility with other LF Edge projects
  1. Open Horizon and SDO hosted a joint demo at ONES-NA last September.  Open Horizon integrates SDO redezvous services into our management hub and CLI since SDO 1.8, and is continually upgrading that support as new SDO releases come out.  We're now supporting SDO 1.10.  Open Horizon also has a technical and project liaisons to the SDO project.
  2. Open Horizon is almost complete with integration into EdgeX Foundry's Sensor Fusion demo, which also updates Open Horizon's EXF integration work.  We're participating in their Kubernetes Support sub-project.  And we just announced our participation in the Open Retail Reference Architecture, an EXF Vertical Solutions WG sub-project, which you're all invited to participate in as well.  We plan to create an Akraino blueprint from this effort.
  3. Open Horizon has worked with SOTE by providing project information, updating landscape information, submitting postcards from the edge, and providing a project liaison that regularly attends their meetings.
  4. Open Horizon is about to begin collaborating with Fledge on specific deliverables.  We're now in the process of creating a sub-group under the Open Horizon TSC for those efforts.
  5. We have plans and ideas about collaborations with EVE and Home Edge, and hope to make further progress on those in 2021.
>= 2/3 approval vote of TAC & majority of Governing Board