2026‐01‐21 - elisa-tech/tsc GitHub Wiki
Roll call
- indicates TSC voting members
Host
- *Philipp Ahmann
Attended this meeting
- *Kate Stewart
- *Matt Weber
- *Alessandro Carminati
- Henrik Brandle
- *Igor Stoppa
- *Paul Albertella
- *Luigi Pellecchia
- Michael Mahoney
- Pierre Brangier
- Simone Weiss
- *Nicole Pappler
- *Olivier Charrier
- Jielin Yu
Regrets
- *Gabriele Paoloni
TSC members
- *Alessandro Carminati
- *Gabriele Paoloni
- *Igor Stoppa
- *Kate Stewart
- *Luigi Pellecchia
- *Matthew Weber
- *Nicole Pappler
- *Olivier Charrier
- *Paul Albertella
- *Sudip Mukherjee
See: https://elisa.tech/about/tsc/
Community members attended recently in the past
- Christopher Temple
- Henrik Brandle
- Jaylin Yu
- Justin Stanley
- Lukas Bulwahn
- Michael Mahoney
- Patrick Uven
- Pete Brink
- Pierre Brangier
- Sebastian Hetze
- Simone Weiss
- Stephen Oresanya
- Victor Lu
Topics & Notes
Check past action items
- Action items in github issues
- AI: TSC repo cleanup needed including issues
- Ongoing
- AI: TSC wiki sidebar needs rework
- There may be an option to use Javascript to ease work on updating sidebar. Need to be checked further.
- AI: Survey/Research about Quality of Open Source
- Get a good understanding on what we want to achieve with such a survey.
- Check with Hillary to give her an introduction.
TSC chair vote
- Completed: Old and new TSC chair is Philipp Ahmann
Allow Apache 2.0 for some Aerospace WG work
- OGMA - https://github.com/nasa/ogma (Apache-2.0)
- Takes configuration input and generates C code (Assuming output is Apache-2.0)
- AeroWG only checks in some templates that come from OGMA that would be Apache-2.0 into ELISA repo
- Sample apps from NASA cFS - https://github.com/nasa/sample_app/tree/46279d0eeadf7cfa605888acc4db6c64193e4e88 - (Apache-2.0)
- AeroWG builts on this code and checks into ELISA repo
- Using those inputs, Aero WG pulls the combination of OGMA output, cFS examples and additional content into a demo under an ELISA repo.
- Apache gives a patent grant. When you commit your patents are granted. Very transparent to know where you are, when it comes to IP claims.
- The reuse workflow may be a good solution to collect the licenses and copyrights.
- From the charter:
- “The TSC may approve the use of an alternative license or licenses for inbound or outbound contributions on an exception basis. To request an exception:
- please describe the contribution,
- the alternative open source license(s),
- and the justification for using an alternative open source license for the Project.
- License exceptions must be approved by a two-thirds vote of the entire TSC.”
- “The TSC may approve the use of an alternative license or licenses for inbound or outbound contributions on an exception basis. To request an exception:
- Add this into a CONTRIBUTING.md file to make aware the license demands from the project charter.
- https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/copyright-notices-in-open-source-software-projects
- Motion to approve Apache 2.0 for use in ELISA projects
- Kate raised the motion
- Philipp seconded the motion
- 9 out of 9 attending TSC members agreed. (=9/11 total TSC voting members)
- Motion carries.
SGL [cont.]
- SGL related that there was a slight concern by NASA to get update to the latest status with some good feedback: https://lists.elisa.tech/g/space-grade-linux/message/142
- See also the article triggering the mail: https://thenewstack.io/papermoon-a-space-grade-linux-for-the-newspace-era/
- Note: "Papermoon" was never mentioned and is not the name for the project.
- Ramon and Matt working on annual update to see which concerns from Scott will be addressed.
- The written list is very useful for the progression of the SIG.
Virtual Working Group Updates
- Registration open: https://elisa.tech/event/wg-sig-annual-updates-2026/2026-02-11/
- WG & SIG leads should have the invitation on their calendar. Please double check. Leads do not have to register.
- WG and SIG leads prepare your material. Min sent the slide template.
- Please also spread the word.
Survey/Research about Quality of Open Source
- Kate is currently checking with LF Research on possibilities and if there is overall benefit seen in such a survey.
- Continue the discussion also in person during OSS EU in Amsterdam (potentially with the LF Research people like Hillary) and also during TSC meeting.
- Follow up as Action Item and not as concrete agenda item.
- Check with Hillary to come to a TSC meeting and explain, what they need as input to conduct a survey.
- Would be good if Lighthouse and OSEP participants also join the TSC meeting when the meeting with Hillary is confirmed.
Short status from WGs
Up to 3 bullet points
- Aerospace/Space (Matt Weber)
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center shared "RISC-V in space" opportunities
- "Nix env/build system" PR as a concept for reproducible reference builds
- Space artifacts email (NASA) - a "old vs new space" talk (thoughts should drive "NASA" product profiles)
- SGL - Presentation on Radiation Protection and QEMU approaches to simulating radiation events - https://github.com/elisa-tech/sig-sgl/pull/13/files#diff-815e83ba7960305da5c6b4fba417dc2240d856e2e802c84e160a4dd8f0c63225R149
- Meeting Minutes
- Automotive (looking for new lead)
- Topics covered within Systems WG
- Medical (paused)
- Linux Features (Alessandro Carminati)
- Architecture (Gabriele Paoloni)
- Following the Linux Plumbers feedback on the SW Requirements Definition initiative:
- The WG is working on submitting RFCv3 for drivers/char/mem.c (https://github.com/elisa-tech/linux/tree/char_mem.c_v3_upstream))
- Although some objections have been raised by a couple of maintainers during Plumbers, Steven Rostedt decided to accept our patches so we'll address his feedbacks and work on the next revision (see https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/))
- ** Meeting Minutes**
- Following the Linux Plumbers feedback on the SW Requirements Definition initiative:
- OSEP (Paul Albertella)
- Meeting Minutes
- Tools (looking for new lead)
- paused due to capacity issue of host
- discussion continues on Discord: [https://discord.gg/hhSMQsjx](https://discord.gg/hhSMQsjx))
- Systems (Philipp Ahmann)
- Prepared achievements 2025 and topics for 2026
- Submitted Railways BOF for FOSDEM
- OpenRail asked for a online meeting to share our idea with them.
- Meeting Minutes
- Systems WG: https://github.com/elisa-tech/wg-systems/wiki
- Lighthouse-SIG: https://github.com/elisa-tech/lighthouse-oss/wiki/
AoB
- OpenChain and Friends event planned for end of March. Registration now possible.
- CfP for OSS NA is now open as well as AGL AMM in Japan
- Arm64 Host systems for CI, e.g. Env for Yocto build in CI on ARM64 producing xyz target arch images + toolchain for the target that runs on ARM64 to cross build apps for the target. Users requesting were in a Windows 11 WSL on ARM64.
- Matt will follow up with Sudip via mailing list.
- This is a topic not only for Aerospace, but also for Automotive, which is requesting more and more arm64 server environment
- Consider to also check with arm as member company, if there is support from their side on providing server resources.
- The free credits from Gitlab may expire very soon, maybe after a single build, so this is not scalable
Announcements
Topics for seminar series
- Past webinars on website: https://elisa.tech/seminar-series/
- BASIL seminar after the virtual working group update
Upcoming events
- 31 Jan - 01 Feb: FOSDEM
- 10-12 Mar: Embedded World
- 29-30 Apr: Safe.tech TÜV
- 18-20 May: OSS NA
Remarks
Collaborative editing: https://semestriel.framapad.org/p/elisa-tsc-minutes