Akraino Forum's purpose is to facilitate the on-going flow of Information to TSC and BPs' PTLs in terms of seminars, that take place each Tuesday at the Akraino TSC meetings. The presentations are conducted either by Akraino TSC member or a guest invited by Akraino TSC member.
Akraino TSC has undertaken the step to institutionalise the process of flow of Information in form of presentations to be streamlined and target to directly address issues that currently Akraino PTL's and/or Akraino TSC members face to resolve on the way to achieve the set Akraino Project objectives.
The issues might be related to SW execution or SoC Capacity e.g. GPUs built to serve Metaverse UCs or UCs related to 5G, IoT, K8, ICN, IEC, ML, DT (Digital Twins) etc.
Akraino TSC intents to utilize Akraino Forum for generating and evolving innovative ideas as a place where the Akraino BPs' PTLs and Community members indicate the various issues the face and need to resolve and the specific specific information they seek in order to be able to resolve these issues and consequesnly, used by the Akraino TSC members as a guideline to set and determine the Content of Information in the Presentation scheduled to be presented each Tuesday.
The model behind that process aiming to facilitate outlining the Issues, that stands on the way and hinder to achive the Goals is denoted as G.A. I. N. (what is Needed to resolve the Issue(s) that hinders/stands on the way to Achieve the Goal(s)) (please see attached below Ref. Ericsson PtW).
Related to "Governance and Process" to be set and followed, Akraino TSC is well aware about research outcomes related to "Brainstorming", as a "good" source for providing variety of ideas, but, a "bad" source and activity for providing "innovative ideas". There is also awareness on the distinction made in the "Theory of Innovation" (The Innovator's Dilema. When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, 1997), by Prof. Clayton Christensen between "Sustaining Innovation" and "Disruptive Innovation".
On the study and its outcomes on Brainstorming negative effect on finding Innovative ideas, please see in the attached bellow two (2) sources, namely:
- Surprisingly, Brainstorming Activities Don't Generate a Lot of Unique Ideas, March 2020
2. Jim Whitehurst, CEO, Red Hat, Keynote speech 5 (at MWC 2018) between 19:00min to 21:40min of his presentation with the link below attached:
Akraino TSC closely follows the results published in Red Hat's annual reports for 2021 and 2022 titled, "The State of Enterprise Open Source indicating assigned top priority and importance to "Quality of Software (SW), including latest Innovations, and better Security (see attached infographic from the two (2) report, namely 2021 and 2022 findings below).
It is also worthwhile mentioning that the indicated in the reports diminishing importance and preference to use of Open Source SW as a mean to lower TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), being on top place in 2019, had fallen to place nr. 6 in 2021 report and further down to place nr 9 in 2022 report results. Whether the shift of lowering the importance of the use of Open Source SW to lower the Enterprise TCO will have an impact on the widely used URL Model (Ubiquity Now, Revenue Later), remains to see (please see below, ref. G. Moore, Chasm, Appndx 2).
Please see below in the attached catalogues for each year identified issues and needs that can be used as "guideline" for determining the Content of the Presentations to be made at the Akraino TSC meetings scheduled for each Tuesday.