The role of the Technical Advisory Council is to facilitate communication and collaboration among the Technical Projects in the LFN.
TAC Representative Responsibilities
- Coordinating collaboration across technical projects
- Making recommendations to the Finance Committee of resource priorities for Technical Projects
- Electing TAC representative to the governing board
- Setting processes/procedures for the election of "committer representative" to the LFN Governing Board
- Other matters related to the technical role of the TAC that may be communicated to the TAC by the LFN Governing Board
Find more information about the TAC here: https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/x/5AAF
Election Dates
Nomination period: to and close by b 5pm PT.
The voting period will last 2 weeks from the close of the nomination period.
Candidates
All OpenDaylight Committers are eligible to run and will be approved by the TSC. If you are interested in self-nominating, please indicate so below.
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Abhijit was the TSC Chair for OpenDaylight for the last three terms (2018, 2019 and 2020). He has also been the OpenDaylight representative to the LFN TAC and the LFN SPC in 2019 & 2020. As a member of the TAC, Abhijit worked with Frank Brockners of Cisco to formalize the process to elect a committer representative to the LFN Board. This process was voted upon and approved by the LFN TAC. He was also involved in the development of the LFN's Technical White Paper.
As the OpenDaylight TSC Chair, he has presented OpenDaylight at various conferences including ONS, North America, ONS Europe and Linux Foundation's OSN Networking Day in the Bay Area. He was the project lead for the OpenDaylight OpenFlow plugin project since its inception till the start of the Oxygen release as well as a committer on the TTP project. He has been elected to the OpenDaylight TSC in all the committer-at-large TSC elections since the 2016 term. During the 2017 TSC term - he came up with and evangelized the idea of calendar based ODL release schedules which is now being implemented in Oxygen and beyond. He is technical lead for Ericsson OpenDaylight efforts and works in the Technology department for Ericsson's SDN unit. In the past he had been an active member of the Forwarding Abstractions Workgroup (FAWG) at the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and has contributed to and evangelized the main example table type pattern at the FAWG meetings/ONF member workdays. He has around 20 years of experience in networking software development as well as leading teams toward successful outcomes. Prior to joining Ericsson he led a 100+ person software development team as the Director, Software R&D at Blade Network Technologies into a successful integration into IBM via acquisition. He is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur.
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Abhijit plans to continue being among the vocal members of the LFN TAC to ensure that OpenDaylight's interests are taken care of by the LFN. While not continuing as the TSC Chair, Abhijit thinks he has sufficient bandwidth to work as ODL representative to the LFN TAC assuming the current TSC Chair does not have bandwidth.
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Robert has been involved in OpenDaylight from its start, having co-authored the MD-SAL architecture and designing major portions of its implementation.
He is the overall top contributor on OpenDaylight and has contributed ~16% of all patches merged, touching majority of projects. He is a committer of a wide range of projects — odlparent, yangtools, mdsal, bgpcep, controller, aaa, netconf, vbd, infrautils and coretutorials.
His contributions tend to center around maven build system, overall architecture and high-level design (BGP, PCEP, OpenFlow Boron design, Virtual Bridge Domain), performance/stability-critical pieces of infrastructure and high availability.
His current focus is platform core use cases and related development.
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