From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D77152D372B; Wed, 2 Jul 2025 15:07:33 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1751468853; cv=none; b=bCapz6cTytotWpwEihCoOGKDX3+TCaXt6RpgbkCEC7N/JGkHc9114/JViIUeTtVi9ez4tGpwS1dNEWqAZvbAky3MR3PTJcWoKCnUWrxTINTI/9FGHjVx3Z5aqA/LrlEgVRjCk07JBGGErGzHn97qqosHqsMxh9Wz4pfZrtqGetk= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1751468853; c=relaxed/simple; bh=ZVVmzRk+1uOfLjydmfiRI2snJfafTc16nhWtrTKfZgU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=nGzwIBXcs9UqJsJC4DnbT0WJ6vew9B85y0aRFXjjJx7PYxKq/IxsTlXP+u5rmNELYWQ6Jyzc3Xwdo7+uNtaTOyG1RzZ9ir7LVpKiOqt+b2u8GcqZYVW93KsCvsoCpYBEPECU8J9nOJXR+M8ThAuuKzeyE/7MDthAxQumqVuq4Ws= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=fR6NjkkA; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="fR6NjkkA" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 02E42C4CEE7; Wed, 2 Jul 2025 15:07:32 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1751468853; bh=ZVVmzRk+1uOfLjydmfiRI2snJfafTc16nhWtrTKfZgU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=fR6NjkkAjXfB0N+UnXSI80T5LjwCE96dO7k64gM3+szFP+lkPU/CSPOuVIcTwKqh8 B6VZ31fRovRkgqE+OwCh6avShasGTqpq5a+NJC9XZFmhJe3OhaueF+QBfuf8ig+IZJ 5s4cAw0JLdIfhTgZifyIsiok5l/zO0KvkWipJc0QevJXl/YA9HishA6pAT6lLWhQXl S0b3Vc6sXeY64yTLneQrAFI7kdmf3+F9AKgAX9lN46KqbAf1FeLamS3HanUKZxL/Ir VvZoKqmmIkju3t9+5hHmU5OZI27j6wCJaFzoOyQuNnDP981IDDEqcG+aXOd+i1pn8W JCh/bt5qPtJVA== Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2025 08:07:32 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, netdev-driver-reviewers@vger.kernel.org Cc: andrew@lunn.ch, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net, kuni1840@gmail.com, willemb@google.com Subject: Re: [ANN] netdev foundation Message-ID: <20250702080732.23442b9e@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20250701103149.4fe7aff3@kernel.org> References: <20250701103149.4fe7aff3@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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.