Palau Planning Meeting (Tuesday 15th April - Thursday 17th April, 2025)

This was an open conference with the public welcome to attend.

Final Outcomes, Decisions and Actions

Main meeting summary notes:

See the Palau Roadmap Page here: Palau Release 

PDF and PPT of all slides including notes as taken during the meeting:

General Info

Dates and Locations:   15 Apr 2025 to 17 Apr 2025

The conference will be held as ½ day sessions (3 hours) over the week using Zoom. Technical discussions will likely conclude by the end of day 2, with business and marketing topics being the focus of day 3.

The daily schedule is below.  Meetings start at 6am Pacific Time / 8am Central Time / 2pm BST / 3pm CEST etc

Day 1 - Kickoff and Main Architecture Discussions (April 15th)

• 6:00am - Introductions & Meeting Logistics
• 6:15am - Palau Aims and Objectives release – high level agreement
  • Confirming version number (likely 4.1) and release timeframe
• 6:30am - Palau Architecture Discussions - items listed as “In Scope” during prewire
  • Performance enhancement to reduce payload size
  • Device SDKs – Alignment and New Features
    • Device Discovery Enhancements
    • Device Names Aliases
    • Optimizing Auto Events
  • Scheduler Service Enhancements
  • Adding Delete/Reset APIs
  • Security Enhancements
    • API Input Validation
    • Audit Logging
    • Backup and Recovery
    • Threat Model
• 9:00am - Day 1 adjourn

Day 2 - Complete Palau Scoping, Project Improvements and Administration (April 16th)

• 6:00am - Palau Architecture Discussions Continued – plus items listed as “Under Consideration” or “On Fence” during prewire including:
  • Device Hierarchy Modelling
  • Security – Denial Of Service Considerations
  • Security – Password Strategies
  • Further EdgeX Docs Enhancements
• 7:00am - Palau Scoping by Technical Working Group
  • More general items including Device Service, App Service and DevOps updates
• 8:00am - Project Process Improvements
• 8:30am - TSC Roles for 2025-2026
• 9:00am - Day 2 adjourn

Day 3 - EdgeX Business and Marketing Topics (April 17th)

• 6:00am - Summary of Palau Planning Outcomes
• 6:15am - EdgeX User Group Plans
  • Face to Face meet up
• 7:00am EdgeX Marketing Strategy and Developer Evangelism
  • Messaging and Content Needed
  • Marketing Performance Data and Analytics
• 7:30am - Day 3 adjourn