MINUTES OF TECHNICAL BOARD MEETING Date: Apr 15, 2026 MEMBERS ATTENDING - Nathan - Bruce - Thomas - Hemant - Jerin (Chair) - Aaron - Kevin - Maxime - Stephen
NOTE: The technical board meetings every second Wednesday at https://meet.jit.si/DPDK at 3 pm UTC. Meetings are public, and DPDK community members are welcome to attend. 1. SUMMIT PLANNING — BIRDS OF A FEATHER (BOF) SESSIONS A discussion was held on organizing BOF sessions for the upcoming summit. Decisions reached: - A physical whiteboard will be placed at the conference venue for attendees to suggest and vote on BOF topics. - The tech board will pre-seed the whiteboard with 2–3 initial topic ideas, with a third held as fallback. - Attendees will be split into groups by topic interest rather than attending all sessions simultaneously. - Voting on session topics will use a polling tool (e.g., Polly). Jerin will create a Slack/email thread to brainstorm and collect BOF topic candidates ahead of the summit. Open point: Whether to run single unified discussions or parallel breakout groups was raised by Thomas but not fully resolved. 2. JOINT MEETING PLANNING — MAY 11TH, STOCKHOLM - A joint meeting planning session is scheduled for April 28th at 10:00 AM US Eastern. Topics will include roadmap feasibility and project provisioning. - The actual joint meeting will be held on May 11th in Stockholm. - Remote participation will be available for non-voting silver members. - Two attendance confirmations received to date. - The May 11th tech board meeting is CANCELLED due to time constraints and travel overlap. 3. GOVERNING BOARD PRESENTATION - Hemant will represent both the tech board and governing board at the upcoming presentation. - Bruce and Nathan confirmed most updates will reflect status quo, including ongoing AI integration work. - Bruce recommended highlighting the BOF session planning as a notable development for the governing board. - Hemant is preparing slides/materials and will share with the tech board for review within 1–2 days. - Hemant to send pending Tech Board meeting Minutues if any. 4. DEVELOPMENT WISHLIST - Thomas requested the governing board allocate budget for a community development wishlist. - All board members (tech and governing) are encouraged to submit ideas for future development projects. - Jerin to follow up with Prasun to collect detailed development ideas, pending the context email from Thomas. 5. WEBSITE REBRAND PROPOSAL - Nathan announced a proposal from Ben Thomas to rebrand and revamp the project website, with the goal of increasing contributors and reviewers. - The website has not been updated in 6–7 years; the governing board provided positive feedback on the wireframe and UX design. - The proposal will be submitted to LF Creative Services by end of this week; cost estimates expected soon. - Nathan will circulate the redesign brief to the governing board by Friday or Monday for review. - A formal vote will take place at the next governing board meeting in two weeks.
