DevBoard Program Meeting, Thursday September 22, 2022

[Jeff Scheel]

All,

We will be having our next DevBoards meeting on Thursday, September 22 from 8 AM to 9 AM Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7).  If you'd like to add the meeting to your calendar, you can find it on the Technical Meeting calendar id (link) or find details about how to subscribe at the Calendars, Meetings, and Zoom wiki page.

Topics for discussion:

1. Status of the program re-launch (Jeff)
   
2. Around-the-room status discussions from attendees (All)
3. Continued discussion on how to improve, re-energize the meeting (All)
4. What's cool (All)
5. Other topics as they arise

This rough agenda has been roughed into our Meeting Minutes document.  Feel free to add comments as needed.

I look forward to an engaging discussion!

-Jeff

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Jeff Scheel (he/him/his)

Linux Foundation, RISC-V Technical Program Manager

[Jeff Scheel]

It was a sparsely attended meeting today, but good discussion occurred.

Minutes

Board Updates:

• None

Program Updates:

• Debian (Yu Bo)

• 3 Unmatched boards were donated by Sam Grove (SiFive) to Debian and   Aurelien Jarno (aurel32)

1. 2 to OSU/OSL

2. 1 to person Europe

• RISC-V (Jeff)

• Program re-launch status:

1. New community live: https://groups.google.com/a/riscv.org/g/devboards-program 

2. New web pages drafted (will preview live) and ready to launch (later this week)

3. Developer Boards Partnership form active

4. Forms created for ROMA laptop and VisionFive V2

5. Working with Thea on blog post to highlight the launch

• Seed program status

1. ROMA form opening with re-launch

2. VisionFive V2 opening with re-launch

3. Second VisionFive V1 opening with re-launch (25 boards)

4. PolarFire program on hold and won’t be added until I have more program information.

What's cool:

• VisionFive V2 kickstarter - $214,000 against a $40,000 goal (6X!!!)

• https://www.enterpriseai.news/2022/09/14/nasa-to-upgrade-computing-in-space-with-risc-v/ - RISC-V at NASA is real!!!

• https://twitter.com/OlofKindgren/status/1571622177442512897 - Olof K. uses OpenRoad EDA to build an SOC of SERV chips (smallest RISC-V CPU) at 

• https://twitter.com/risc_v/status/1566895697483517954 - A workshop (Sept. 7) on writing courses using RISC-V

• https://www.edx.org/course/building-a-risc-v-cpu-core - We need more of this!!!

• https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252524139/Alibaba-Cloud-unveils-RISC-V-chip-development-platform - Wujian 600 (TH1520) development platform announced

• https://www.techpowerup.com/298936/report-apple-to-move-a-part-of-its-embedded-cores-to-risc-v-stepping-away-from-arm-isa - The title says it all!!!

• https://ubuntu.com/download/risc-v (the number of platforms grows!!!)

Action Item list (** for new items):

1. How to simplify the “on-boarding” process?  We need a “single link”...  (Jeff, Thea) **

2. Re-visit meeting times (Jeff, Thea) **

3. Invite other OS/SW contacts (Jeff)
   

4. Offer to help StarFive meet Debian developers (Jeff) **

5. Explore Android development platform hardware (Thea, Jeff) **

6. PolarFire SOC program engagement – Kits, pricing, projects, OS and tools (KK)

For additional details, see our Meeting Minutes document.

Please keep your eyes open for a new discussion on the mailing list about meeting days and times!  That's the next thing we need to get correct.

-Jeff

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Jeff Scheel (he/him/his)

Linux Foundation, RISC-V Technical Program Manager