The Fledge project and community plan to create a robust ecosystem around Fledge to attract more users and stimulate community growth by:
- Making It easy for everyone to use the project through documentation.
- Clearly explaining how to contribute.
- Building personal relationships, fostering communication and collaboration.
- Make people feel included. (mentoring?)
- Setting a code of conduct.
- Providing detailed documentation, videos, and other materials to ease the learning curve for new users.
The Fledge community has been growing steadily over the years, incorporating a diverse set of contributors from various organizations.
- Recently the Fledge TSC was expanded its voting members to incorporate a diverse representation of organizations.
- Growing attendance from a variety of users and contributors.
- Demonstrations of new features.
- Creating a new LinkedIn page and a new Twitter feed to promote the project through social media
- Working with the LF Edge Outreach committee to promote the project
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- LF Energy: is an open-source foundation focusing on power systems hosted within the Linux Foundation.
- OSDU (Open Subsurface Data Universe): The OSDU Forum is developing an open-source, standards-based, technology-agnostic data platform. Primarily focuses on oil and gas and renewables.
- CESMII: Radically accelerate the development and adoption of advanced sensors, controls, platforms, and models to enable Smart Manufacturing (SM) to become the driving sustainable engine that delivers real-time business improvements in U.S. manufacturing.
- Eclipse Foundation: The Eclipse Foundation provides our global community of individuals and organizations with a mature, scalable, and business-friendly environment for open-source software collaboration and innovation.
- Timelords: Community of experts focused on Industrial IoT and time-series data to transform their business focused on collecting, maintaining, and using time-series data.
Achievements
FledgePOWER
FledgePOWER is a multi-protocol translation gateway for power systems based on the industrial IoT LF Edge project. This cross-foundation collaboration between LF Edge and LF Energy ensures strong cooperative governance and technical alignment between the two communities. FledgePOWER aims to build and grow a community of end-users, developers, utilities, and other players to collaborate to solve current and future challenges in the energy space. Further information can be found on:
OSDU Edge
OSDU has selected Fledge and EVE as the edge stack architecture for OSDU Edge. Meeting OSDU Edge requirements with LF Edge projects mitigating lock-in through vendor-neutral governance and interoperable solutions.
The architecture was successfully demoed to OSDU members in October, 2021.