Attendees
- Rod Burns (Codeplay) Chairperson
- Vinesh Sukumar (Qualcomm)
- Andrew Wafaa (Arm)
- Dave Murray (Imagination Technologies)
- Penporn Koanakatool (Google)
- Hanwoong Jung (Samsung)
- Masahiro Doteguchi (Fujitsu)
- Ramesh Radhakrishnan (VMware)
- Alison Richards (Intel)
Agenda
- Google Summer of Code
- Foundation Goals and Metrics for 2024
- Marketing goals and metrics for 2024
Working Groups have kicked off and had their first meetings. There will be monthly meetings from now. Slack channels are now available for most groups and there is some activity on there. Working Groups will use this to coordinate outside of the meetings.
At the previous meeting we briefly discussed whether the foundation should participate in the Google Summer of Code initiative. Penporn took an action to find out more about this and whether it could be suitable.
The findings were positive, it is not only large or very established projects that are chosen and the work for participants can be small or large. The key thing is that a mentor is needed for the person who might participate on the work.
The group agreed we should apply to be part of the program, and that it would be beneficial to also reach out to existing groups such as the Centres of Excellence for oneAPI to help find suitable participants and mentors. We will also need to check the legal terms.
Action: Rod to pursue an application to Google Summer of Code. (issue #40 in operations repo)
There is a thread on the general Slack channel about the potential creation of a demonstration that uses UXL projects and SYCL with the Autosar project. There are multiple parties interested in this as a way to demonstrate an automotive use case with some of the projects alongside the DPC++ compiler. This requires someone to lead this as a project, an initial meeting will be held to explore this.
Action: Rod to set up a meeting with relevant members to explore an Autosar demonstration project. (issue #41 in operations repo)
A draft set of goals and metrics for the foundation in 2024 were presented by Rod Burns.
Increase membership Metric: # of Steering, General and Contributor members
Ensure open source projects operating effectively Metric: A health checklist for each project based on open source project best practices would be used
Expand contributions to source code and specification Metrics: # of organisations contributing, total # of contributions
Increase community engagement Metrics: # of active users on Slack channels and mailing lists, # of attendees at SIG and Working Group meetings, # of individuals engaging on project RFCs
Stand up foundation operations Metric: A health checklist for the foundation would be used
Comments from the committee:
- Would like to see something that measures the number of samples or applications available for the UXL projects.
- To measure adoption we could track mentions/articles/applications
- Would like to track individual projects mentioned and used
- Can we track the number of supercomputers and clusters using the UXL projects and DPC++?
Aim to share an updated version for offline discussion and approve at the next Steering Committee meeting for publication in full.
Alison Richards presented the marketing goals for 2024.
At a high level these focus on:
- Building awareness of the foundation projects and activities through events, papers and online activities
- Collaborating with key organisations, projects and communities to expand the UXL Foundation community
- Getting the community to advocate and tell the world about the UXL Foundation
Members of the Steering Committee were asked for their commitment to activities throughout the year including speaking and articles such as blog posts and case studies.
The Marketing Committee will define the plans for the year and share these with the Steering Committee for approval.
We were unable to discuss how we would go about the process of adding new projects to the foundation. This will be covered in the next meeting.
We also hope to approve the goals and metrics for the foundation.