Re: [ANN] netdev foundation

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2025 10:31:49 -0700 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>  https://github.com/linux-netdev/foundation
>
> The README page provides more information about the scope, and
> the process. We don't want to repeat all that information - please
> refer to the README and feel free to comment or ask any questions here.
> 
> And please feel free to suggest projects!

I see a number of people opened the link (or maybe like most Internet
traffic these days it's just AI scraping bots? :D) but no project
proposals were added, yet.

I'd like to sincerely encourage proposing whatever you think would
benefit the project, the community or simply make your life contributing
easier. I spent some time last year trying to convince LF to create 
a "participatory budget", to make sure that the foundation acts on real
community needs. That went nowhere. Perhaps "the community" doesn't
have any coherent needs. IOW we don't usually have a way to pitch ideas
to $foundations because there are no ideas to pitch, not the other way
around. I'm hoping netdev foundation will disprove that.

Once again, please feel free to suggest things we can buy, sponsor,
contract someone to build for us, etc. And perhaps less obviously -
please comment / like the GH issues if you'd like to be involved in
overseeing one of the projects. Unfortunately I don't think we can
CC a public ML when we discuss the proposals with suppliers and such.