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Name of Project

OpenEdge

Project Description (what it does, why it is valuable, origin and history)

What does OpenEdge do?

OpenEdge's goal is to provide a general-purpose operating system for edge computing, abstracting different types of hardware facilities and device capabilities into a standardized container runtime environment and API, enabling efficient management of application, service, and data flow through a remote console both on cloud and on prem.

OpenEdge will also equip the edge operating system with the appropriate toolchain support, reduce the difficulty of developing edge calculations with a set of built-in services and APIs, and provide a graphical IDE in the future.

Why it is valuable?

With modern container and serverless design concepts and engineering tools optimized for stand-alone and small multi-machines, OpenEdge enables a variety of edge hardwares and cloud native applications to work better together.

The OpenEdge framework itself provides an edge computing platform on most common chips and operating systems, while also going to provide a lighter and more secure edge operating system directly, which will significantly reduce the cost of ownership.

OpenEdge also includes several built-in services like MQTT server and client, Function-as-a-Service, as well as planned streaming and edge storage and databases. Durning this year, OpenEdge will provide SDK in both C/C++ and Golang interface with a series of features such as image acquisition, ML inference, speech recognition/synthesis and geographic location. These will help developers to innovate better.

The OpenEdge team will also work with the Global Platform organization to provide standardized security mechanisms to secure device information through dynamic activation, device certificates, TEE and end-to-end security, while providing secure commercial authorization mechanisms and rusted intellectual property protection technology for a variety of potential enterprise/commercial applications.

Origin and History

OpenEdge is splited as an open source project from Baidu's edge computing solution called Baidu IntelliEdge/BIE in Dec. 2018.

The former BIE is launched in Sept. 2017 as an On-prem IoT solution with Cloud remote management. With the deepening of the application scenario, we believe that the market needs a more foundamental and versatile computing platform to carry more different types of applications, so we decided to open source and donate the core functions of BIE to the community.

Statement on alignment with Foundation Mission Statement

OpenEdge is just aiming to "Building an Open Source Framework for the Edge":

• Abstract different forms of hardware to a unified container environment, from IOT devices to distributed clusters, even embedded devices;
• Support open application models, including plain OCI container and serverless modes such as FaaS and Streaming;
• Provides a standardized remote management model with compatbility to K8S primitives.

EdgeX and OpenEdge seems to have overlaps on some runtime features but we are likely to target different market opportunities. OpenEdge will focus more on data processing capabilities and would like to be the computing infrastructure in as many scenarios as possible. EdgeX has a wealth of industrial device control capabilities that may play a more important role in data acquisition and device control scenarios.

We believe that OpenEdge and Akraino will have good cooperation opportunities in the 5G and MEC fields.

Link to current Code of Conduct

https://github.com/baidu/openedge/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md

Sponsors from TAC, if identified (a sponsor helps mentor projects)

Leding LI, Baidu + Vikram Siwach, MobiledgeX

Project license

Apache-2.0

Source control (GitHub by default)

https://github.com/baidu/openedge, going to switch to openedgetech/openedge

Issue tracker (GitHub by default)

https://github.com/baidu/openedge, going to switch to openedgetech/openedge

External dependencies (including licenses)

Release methodology and mechanics

Agile, monthly release

Names of initial committers, if different from those submitting proposal

Leding LI, Baidu

Danfeng LU, Baidu

Youjun YUAN, Baidu

Mengtao WANG, Baidu

Xiaochen WANG, Baidu

Jian ZHU, Baidu

Leding LI, Chief architect of Baidu Cloud IoT

OpenEdge's original code and feature design is derived from Baidu's BIE project.

OpenEdge's current roadmap will continue to move toward the goal of "providing a cloud-native experience on edge hardware." Specific features and priorities are tailored to the needs of users, developers, partners, and application customers. Some of the features come from the cooperation with Baidu's edge computing business, which have relatively clear application scenarios and higher priority.

Growth stage requirements:

• Development of a growth plan, to be done in conjunction with their project mentor(s) at the TAC.
  • Roadmap: https://github.com/baidu/openedge/blob/master/roadmap.md
  • We are building joint labs with several universities in China to foster long-term development in the OpenEdge community.
• Document that it is being used in POCs.
  • Intelligent crop protection and real-time monitoring with OpenEdge
  • Intelligent detection of construction dregs and throwing alarm with OpenEdge
• Demonstrate a substantial ongoing flow of commits and merged contributions.
  • https://github.com/baidu/openedge/commits/master
• Demonstrate that the current level of community participation is sufficient to meet the goals outlined in the growth plan.
  • We have 11 fulltime contributors hired by Baidu focusing on OpenEdge project.
• Demonstrate evidence of, or a plan for, interoperability, compatibility or extension to other LF Edge Projects.
  • We have a clear plan to run OpenEdge on 5G/MEC cluster constructed by Akraino.
• Since these metrics can vary significantly depending on the type, scope and size of a project, the TAC has final judgement over the level of activity that is adequate to meet these criteria.
  • Ok
• Receive a two-thirds supermajority vote of the TAC and a majority vote of the Governing Board to move to Growth Stage.
  • Ok

mailto:contact@openedge.tech, going to switch to mailing list soon

Links to social media accounts

Wechat: OpenEdge开发交流群1, OpenEdge开发交流群2, OpenEdge开发交流群3

Planning to create Facebook, Twitter & Slack account

OpenEdge has already got over 900 stars on github within 6 month, which is 2nd in the same class.

A series of PoC have been published on 2019 CES show.