Technical Steering Committee (TSC)
- James Butcher
- jimastata
EdgeX Foundry Technical Steering Committee
The Technical Steering Committee (TSC) is a committee composed of technical leaders from the open source project responsible for oversight of the technical codebase, the technical community and release process.
The TSC is responsible for:
coordinating the technical direction of the EdgeX Foundry Project, including the architecture and projects to achieve the Mission and Scope of the EdgeX Foundry Project;
approving project proposals (including, but not limited to, incubation, deprecation and changes to a project’s charter or scope) in accordance with a project lifecycle document to be developed, approved and maintained by the TSC;
designating top level projects, Umbrella Projects and facilitating synergy, collaboration and technical coordination (API, data Models etc.) across all projects;
creating sub-committees or working groups to focus on cross-project technical issues or opportunities;
coordinate technical community engagement with the End User (as defined in Section 6 of Project Charter) community with respect to requirements, high level architecture, implementation experiences, use cases, etc.;
communicating with external and industry organizations concerning Project technical matters;
appointing representatives to work with other open source or standards communities;
establishing community norms, workflows or policies for releases;
discussing, seeking consensus, and where necessary, voting on technical matters relating to the code base that affect multiple projects; and
establishing election processes for Maintainers or other leadership roles in the technical community that are not within the scope of any single project.
Voting TSC Members
- James Butcher, IOTech
- Cloud Tsai, IOTech
- Melvin Sun, Intel
- Brad Corrion, IOTech
- Corey Mutter, Eaton
- Jieke Choo, Yiqisoft
- Chirantan Ghosh, Schneider Electric
- Johannes Kern, Danfoss
A worldwide team as shown below:
Project Roles (including non-voting TSC members)
- TSC Chair – James
- Product Manager and Technical WG Chair – Cloud
- Technical WG co-chairs - Melody Liu and Felix Ting (both IOTech)
- Release Czar – Cherry Wang (IOTech)
- LF TAC Rep – Brad
- EdgeX China Rep – Melvin
- EdgeX Evangelist – Jackie Lee (Intel)
Term end date: 23rd July 2025
TSC Structure and Working Groups
Per 2/22/24 TSC vote, the TSC agreed to restructure the committee so it would have up to 10 TSC voting members and a single technical working group chaired by one of those voting member
- Technical Working Group chaired by Cloud Tsai, IOTech
Mailing List
edgex-tsc@lists.edgexfoundry.org
Subscribe at: https://lists.edgexfoundry.org/g/EdgeX-TSC
Voting on Issues
In various situations the EdgeX TSC shall hold a vote. These votes can happen on the phone, email, or via a voting service, when appropriate. TSC members can either respond "agree, yes, +1", "disagree, no, -1", or "abstain". Decisions by vote at a meeting require a majority vote, provided quorum is met, based on the charter (see 5(c)). An abstain vote equals not voting at all.
Meeting Time
TSC meetings are open to the public. TSC meetings are bi-weekly at 7am PT on Wednesdays.
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