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Intention for the upcoming year (Remain at current stage OR advance towards the next Stage)

Remain Impact Project, plan to release our 4th major release and potentially a third LTS version by end of year

Include a link to your project’s LFX Insights page. We will be looking for signs of consistent or increasing contribution activity. Please feel free to add commentary to add color to the numbers and graphs we will see on Insights.

https://insights.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/foundation/lfedge/overview/github?project=edgex&routedFrom=Github&bestPractice=false&repository=all&dateFilters=Last%203%20Years&dateRange=2021-01-01%20to%202023-12-31&compare=PP&granularity=month&hideBots=true

How many maintainers do you have, and which organizations are they from? (Feel free to link to an existing MAINTAINERS file if appropriate.)

• As a microservice architecture and multiple repository project, maintainers can be distributed across different aspects of EdgeX

• The main service repository has 18 maintainers/committers (see https://github.com/orgs/edgexfoundry/teams/edgex-go-committers/members ).  A small effort/repository may only have a few maintainers.
  

What do you know about adoption, and how has this changed since your last review / since you joined the current Stage? If you can list companies that are end users of your project, please do so. (Feel free to link to an existing ADOPTERS file if appropriate.)

EdgeX users are now most often at the deployment stage. Reference Keith Steele’s EdgeX talk in Vienna “From Promise to Production –The Maturity of EdgeX and Large-Scale Industrial Edge Deployments”

But we are learning about new adopters all the time.   In addition to the companies that are participating in the construction of EdgeX (IOTech, Intel, Eaton, Schneider Electric, Danfoss, Yiqisoft), the following companies have announced (and presented) on EdgeX adoption:

• Canonical, IOTech, HP, Thundersoft, Jiangxing Intelligence, Tibco, Accenture, HCL Tech, BSI, Advantech

Many organizations have adopted, adopting or are considering the adoption of EdgeX and related products including:

• Advantech Corportation, TP-Link Corporation, NEC Corporation, State Grid Corporation of China, Acuvate, large bearings manufacturer, NetEase Technology, Fanmi Technology, Acuvate, large bearings manufacturer

Others who have adopted EdgeX and related products:

• Large energy/oil company, large power supply companies, large building automation companies, large mining company, modern AgTech company, etc

• The public EdgeX forum is a good indicator of users and evaluators of the technology: https://github.com/orgs/edgexfoundry/discussions

• Statistics from the EdgeX websites (English language, Chinese language and EdgeX documentation tell positive story of consumption):

How has the project performed against its goals since the last review? (We won't penalize you if your goals changed for good reasons.)

Met or exceeded goals.  Over 9 million container downloads. 13 releases since 2017. Currently planning V4 and another LTS version, all indicating the stability of EdgeX to the marketplace.

What are the current goals of the project? For example, are you working on major new features? Or are you concentrating on adoption or documentation?

• The main aim right now is to focus on enabling EdgeX deployments and massive scale out. Challenges relating to third party OS license changes is one of the current activities. Also enhancement/replacement of the incumbent database technology with PostgreSQL. So working on a new major release targeted for Dec 2024 / Early 2025

• Looking to continue to grow the user base with more publicly referenced adopters.

How can LF Edge help you achieve your upcoming goals?

More events such as the LF Edge Day at LF OSS in Vienna this month which was an excellent forum for EdgeX awareness etc.

Do you think that your project meets the criteria for the next Stage?

N/A. We are at stage 3

Please summarize Outreach Activities in which the Project has participated in (e.g. Participation in conferences, seminars, speaking engagements, meetups, etc.)

• Planning EdgeX talks/demos at Embedded World in Germany, March 2025

• China continue to enjoy excellent EdgeX participation relating to edge, AI and LLM technology events. More to come there.

• Continual stream of social media from the project

• Previous EdgeX-related outreach

• events include:

  • Intel sponsored student Hackathon in 2023

  • EdgeX presented sessions at ONES 2022 in Seattle, One Summit China in Sept 2023

  • EdgeX representation at Hybrid AI Meetup in Hanzhou, March 2024

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