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LF AI & Data Foundation TAC Overview

a) The role of the TAC is to facilitate communication and collaboration among the Technical Projects. The TAC will be responsible for: i) coordinating collaboration among Technical Projects, including development of an overall technical vision for the community; ii) making recommendations to the Budget Committee of resource priorities for Technical Projects; iii) electing annually a chairperson to preside over meetings, set the agenda for meetings, ensure meeting minutes are taken and who will also serve on the Governing Board as the TAC’s representative (the “TAC Representative”); iv) creating, maintaining and amending project lifecycle procedures and processes, subject to the approval of the Governing Board; and v) such other matters related to the technical role of the TAC as may be communicated to the TAC by the Governing Board.

b) The voting members of the TAC consist of: i) one representative appointed by each Premier Member; and ii) one representative appointed by the technical oversight body (e.g., a technical steering committee) of each TAC Project (as defined herein).

c) One representative of any Member may observe meetings of the TAC. Any committers from a TAC Project may observe meetings of the TAC. The TAC may change this at any point in time, including: (a) opening meetings to a broader community; (b) holding closed meetings; and (c) holding meetings open to the public. 

d) At the start of the Directed Fund, “TAC Projects” are those Technical Projects listed as having voting representatives on the TAC on the Directed Fund’s web site. Thereafter, any Technical Project can become a TAC Project through the approval of the Technical Project’s technical oversight body, the TAC (by a two-third’s vote), and the Governing 6 Board. The TAC and the Governing Board may approve a project lifecycle policy that will address the incubation, archival and other stages of TAC Projects. 

e) The TAC representatives will elect a chair to preside over meetings, ensure minutes are taken and drive the TAC agenda with input from the TAC representatives.

Additional information is available in the LF AI & Data Charter.

Member Representatives

--Need 8

out

of 16

required for quorum)

voting members in attendance for quorum under regular voting rule, 50% attendance requirement for voting. 

--With new attendance rule (see additional quorum notes below), the number of eligible votes varies per week. See meeting minutes for details for each meeting.

Member Company or Graduated Project	Membership Level or Project Level	Voting Eligibility	Country	TAC Representative	Designated TAC

Representative Alternates

Representative Alternates
4paradigm	Premier	Voting Member	China	Zhongyi Tan
Baidu	Premier	Voting Member	China	Jun Zhang	Daxiang Dong, Yanjun Ma
Ericsson	Premier	Voting Member	Sweden	Rani Yadav-Ranjan
Huawei	Premier	Voting Member	China	Howard (Huang Zhipeng)	Charlotte (Xiaoman Hu), Leon (Hui Wang)
Nokia	Premier	Voting Member	Finland	Michael Rooke	Jonne Soininen
OPPO	Premier	Voting Member	China	Jimmy (Hongmin Xu)
SAS	Premier	Voting Member	USA	*Nancy Rausch	JP Trawinski
ZTE	Premier	Voting Member	China	Wei Meng	Liya Yuan
Adversarial Robustness Toolbox Project	Graduated Technical Project	Voting Member	USA	Beat Buesser	Kevin

Eykholt 

Eykholt
Angel Project	Graduated Technical Project	Voting Member	China	Jun Yao
Egeria Project	Graduated Technical Project	Voting Member	UK	Mandy Chessell	Nigel Jones, David Radley, Maryna Strelchuk, Ljupcho Palashevski, Chris Grote
Flyte Project	Graduated Technical Project	Voting Member	USA	Ketan Umare
Horovod Project	Graduated Technical Project	Voting Member	USA	Travis Addair
Milvus Project	Graduated Technical Project	Voting Member	China	Xiaofan Luan	Jun Gu
ONNX Project	Graduated Technical Project	Voting Member	USA	Alexandre Eichenberger	Andreas Fehlner, Prasanth Pulavarthi, Jim Spohrer
Pyro Project	Graduated Technical Project	Voting Member	USA	Fritz Obermeyer

*Current TAC Chairperson

Voting Information

In various situations, the LF AI & Data Foundation TAC shall hold a vote. These votes can happen on the phone, email, or via a voting service, when appropriate. TAC members can either respond "agree, yes, +1", "disagree, no, -1", or "abstain". 

a) Quorum for Governing Board and Committee meetings will require fifty percent of the voting representatives. If advance notice of the meeting has been given per normal means and timing, the Governing Board may continue to meet even if quorum is not met, but will be prevented from making any decisions at the meeting.

b) Ideally decisions will be made based on consensus. If, however, any decision requires a vote to move forward, the representatives of the Governing Board or Committee, as applicable, will vote on a one vote per voting representative basis.

c) Except as provided in Section 16.a., decisions by vote at a meeting will require a simple majority vote, provided quorum is met. Except as provided in Section 16.a., decisions by electronic vote without a meeting will require a majority of all voting representatives.

d) In the event of a tied vote with respect to an action that cannot be resolved by the Governing Board, the Chair may refer the matter to the LF for assistance in reaching a decision. If there is a tied vote in any Committee that cannot be resolved, the matter may be referred to the Governing Board.

e) Voting members are expected to attend TAC members to vote on important council decisions, participate in planning, and provide input on future strategies. Voting members are encouraged to provide designated alternate attendees who will assume voting privileges for the individual meeting they attend, and to send said alternates in their absence to maintain quorum. Voting members (or their alternates) who do not attend two consecutive TAC meetings will lose their voting privileges. Privileges will be reinstated upon the successful attendance of two consecutive meetings by the voting member or designated alternate. Effective: Dec 1, 2022.

Additional information is available in the LF AI & Data Charter.

Proposing Projects 

Visit LF AI & Data GitHub to review the LF AI & Data Project Proposal Process and Project Lifecycle documentation.

Current Projects

For a list of all projects, visit the LF AI & Data Wiki home page home page.

Election Results 

For information on TAC Chairperson election results history, visit the LF AI & Data Election Results History page. 

Meeting Details 

TAC meetings are open to the public and held every other Thursday from 6am-7am PT. Meeting invites are managed from the https://lists.lfaidata.foundation/g/tac-general sub-group (mail list) within the LF AI & Data Foundation Groups.io account.

Visit the Community Meetings & Calendar page for instructions on how to subscribe to the meetings.

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Meeting Agendas 

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Meeting Recordings and Minutes

Past meeting content (decks/minutes) is also available in the tac-general@lists.lfaidata.foundation mail list message archive in Groups.io. 

• March 9, 2023 recording/deck/minutes
  • Egeria Annual Review
  • Foundation Projects update
• February 23, 2023 recording/deck/minutes
  • NNStreamer Annual Review
  • Outreach Committee update
• February 9, 2023 recording/deck/minutes
  • Marquez Annual Review
  • OpenDS4All Annual review 
• January 26, 2022 recording/deck/minutes
  • OpenFL new sandbox proposal
• January 12, 2022 recording/deck/minutes
  • TonY Annual Review
  • Angel Annual Review
• December 15, 2022 recording/deck/minutes
  • OpenLineage review and graduation proposal
• December 1, 2022 recording/deck/minutes
  • xtreme1 new sandbox proposal
• November 17, 2022 recording/deck/minutes
  • CLAIMED new sandbox proposal
    
  • Updated member attendance here
• November 3, 2022 recording/deck/minutes
  • Docarray new sandbox proposal
    
  • Updated member attendance here
• October 20, 2022 recording/deck/minutes
  • ONNX Project review
  • Adlik Project Review
  • Updated member attendance here
• October 6, 2022 - cancelled
• September 22, 2022 recording/deck/minutes
  • Elrya sandbox proposal
  • Updated member attendance here
• September 8, 2022 cancelled
• August 25, 2022 recording/deck/minutes
  • Feathr sandbox proposal
  • Updated member attendance here
• August 11, 2022 recording/deck/minutes
  • OSS Update from Mandy Chessell
  • OpenDataology sandbox proposal
  • Updated member attendance here
• July 28, 2022 recording/deck/minutes
  • FATE sandbox project proposal
  • Using LFX Insights by Jen Shelby
  • Updated member attendance here
• June 30, 2022 recording/deck/minutes
  • FlagAI sandbox proposal
  • MLOps Committee proposal update
  • Outreach committee update
  • Updated member attendance here
• June 16, 2022 recording/deck/minutes
  • Beyond ML – new sandbox project proposal 
  • Retiring the Acumos Project – proposal 
  • Updated member attendance here
• June 2, 2022 recording/deck/minutes
  • ML Ops new committee proposal
  • Updated member attendance here
• May 05, 2022 recording/deck/minutes
  • Synthetic Biology Open Computing Foundation Presentation
  • Machine Learning Security
  • Updated member attendance here
• April 21, 2022 recording/deck/minutes
  • DataOps committee update
  • BI&AI committee update
  • Outreach committee update
  • Updated member attendance here
• April 7, 2022 recording/deck/minutes
  • RosaeNLG annual review
  • 1chipML new project 
  • Updated member attendance here
• March 24, 2022 recording/deck/minutes
  • Interpretable Deep Learning
  • Datashim annual review
  • Outreach Committee update
  • Updated member attendance here
• March 10, 2022 recording/deck/minutes
  • THOTH overview
  • MlWorkflow & Interop Committee: progress update presentation
    on the dataset license compliance initiative
  • Updated member attendance here
• February 24, 2022 - no meeting
• February 10, 2022 recording/deck/minutes
  • Kompute sandbox graduation proposal
  • Overview of the Collaboration of Egeria, OpenLineage, and Marquez
  • Updated member attendance here
• January 27, 2022 recording/deck/minutes
  • Artigraph Incubation project 
  • Updated member attendance here
• January 13, 2022 recording/deck/minutes
  • Ethics in AI for Healthcare
  • Google Summer of Code Mentor proposal update
  • ART project graduation 
  • Updated member attendance here
• December 30, 2021 - no meeting, cancelled for holiday
• December 16, 2021 recording/deck/minutes
  • Datapractices.org annual project review
  • ML Workflow Committee: Challenges and proposed solutions for dataset license compliance
• December 02, 2021 recording/deck/minutes
  • Flyte Graduation proposal
  • Janusgraph annual review

  • Update from Outreach Committee 

• November 18, 2021 recording/deck/minutes

  • KServe new project incubation proposal

• November 4, 2021 recording/deck/minutes
  • FEAST annual review
  • Update from the Outreach Committee
• October 21, 2021 recording/deck/minutes
  • OpenBytes new sandbox project 
• October 7, 2021 recording/deck/minutes
  • Update on new DataOps Committee
  • Amundsen Annual Project Review 
  • Ludwig Annual Project Review
  • Update from Outreach Committee
• September 23, 2021 recording/deck/minutes
  • Milvus update on integration with Triton and Feast
  • NNStreamer Annual Project Review 
• September 9, 2021 recording/deck/minutes
  • Acumos Annual Project Review
  • Marquez Annual Project Review
  • Update from Outreach Committee
• August 26, 2021 recording/deck/minutes
  • Kedro - new project in incubation
  • Annual project review schedule
• August 12, 2021  recording/deck/minutes
  • Sparklyr Annual Review
  • Milvus Annual Review
  • Annual Project Review Schedule
• July 29, 2021  recording/ deck / minutes 
  • Adlik Annual Review
  • Angel Annual review
  • Discussion of new MLOps Committee
  • Associate Members Monthly Call
  • Annual Project Review schedule
• July 15, 2021  recording/ deck / minutes  
  • TonY presentation Incubation project 
    
  • EDL Annual Project Review 
  • Annual Project Review schedule
• June 17, 2021 recording / deck / minutes
  • Invited Presentation - GSI Technologies
    
  • MLOps Committee Proposal (updated deck)
  • TAC Chair election, Annual Project Review schedule
• June 3, 2021 recording/ deck / minutes
  • Milvus graduation proposal
  • KOSA.AI invited presentation
  • TAC Chair election, Badging for Projects, Annual Project Review schedule
• May 20, 2021 recording / deck / minutes
  • Open Lineage sandbox proposal
    
  • ONNX - annual project review
    
  • TAC Chairperson Election - Call for Nominations
  • Annual Project Review Schedule
• May 6, 2021 recording / deck / minutes
  • ML eXchange (MLX) sandbox proposal
    
  • Vulcan Kompute sandbox proposal
    
• April 22, 2021 recording / deck / minutes
  • Egeria - annual project review
    
  • OpenDS4All - annual project review
  • CI WG - update on survey and next steps
• April 8, 2021 recording / deck / minutes
  • Jina AI - invited presentation
    
• March 25, 2021 recording/ deck / minutes
  • Substra Framework - incubation proposal
• March 11, 2021 recording/ deck / minutes
  • RosaeNLG - sandbox project proposal
    
  • Elyra/AI - invited presentation
  • Annual project review initial discuss template
• February 25, 2021 recording / deck / minutes
  • Flyte - incubation project proposal
    
• February 11, 2021 recording / deck / minutes
  • Invited Talk: Egeria CI - Build and Release
    
  • Invited Talk: Mentorships
• January 28, 2021 recording / deck / minutes
  • Projects Lifecycle Stages - vote - proposal document
    
  • Invited Talk: Sedna - KubeEdge SIG AI
  • Invited Talk: Cloud Information Model
  • Welcome new members: General - VMWare, Associate - Galgothia U (India)
    
• January 14, 2021 recording / deck / minutes
  • Datashim (formerly Data Lifecycle Management) - incubation project proposal
  • Project Lifecycle Stages proposal document
  • Welcome new associate member - U Washington Tacoma
• December 17, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
  • Pyro - graduation project proposal
  • XPrize - invited presentation
  • IT Update on new security services - invited presentation
• December 3, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
  • JanusGraph - incubation project proposal - approved
    
  • RosaeNLG - invited project presentations
  • Also reviewed 2021 pipeline, and 2020 progress
• November 19, 2020 recording / deck /minutes
  • Invited courseware related projects/activities
    
    • OpenDS4All
    • DataPractices.org
    • edX Ethics AI Video
• November 5, 2020 recording/ deck / minutes
  
  • DataPractices.org - Incubation Project Proposal
  • Kubeflow-on-Premise - Invited Presentation
• October 22, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
  • Invited Presentations
    • Open Lineage - Julien Le Dem (Datakins)
    • IDA Open Source Effort - Param Singh (Salesforce), Maryia Rakina (IBM)
• October 8, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
  • Invited Trusted AI Presentations
    • Adversarial Robustness Toolbox
    • AI Fairness 360
    • AI Explainability 360
• September 24, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
  • FEAST Project -  Incubation Project Proposals
  • ODPi Presentations
    • Egeria Project - Graduation Proposal
    • OpenDS4All Project - Incubation Proposal
    • BI & AI Committee - Presentation
• September 10, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
  • Delta Incubation Proposal
  • SOAJS Incubation Proposal
  • LF AI Updates
• August 27, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
  • ModelDB
  • OPDi
  • LF AI Updates
• August 13, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
  • Horovod Graduation Proposal + TAC Vote
  • Guest Presentation: Didi Delta
    
  • LF AI Updates
• July 30, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
  • Amundsen incubation Proposal + TAC Vote
  • LF AI Updates
• July 16, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
  • Guest Presentation: Mindspore  
  • LF AI Updates
• June 18, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
  • IBM Trusted AI: Incubation Projects (AIF360 / ART / AIX360) Proposal + TAC Vote
  • Invited Talk: Montreal AI Ethics Institute 
  • LF AI Updates
• June 4, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
  • Guest Presentations
    • AI for People
    • Ambianic.ai
    • LF AI Updates
• May 21, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
  • Snap ML Presentation
  • LF AI Updates
• May 7, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
  • TAC Chair Election Results
  • Ludwig: Incubation Project Proposal + TAC Vote
    • Separate presentation deck
  • LF AI Updates
• April 23, 2020 recording / minutes / deck
  • TAC Chair Nominations Extension
  • TAC Sponsor Discussion
  • ODH Introduction 
  • Open Data Initiative
  • LF AI Updates
• April 9, 2020 recording / minutes / deck
  • Interop Committee Proposal
  • TAC Chairperson Election Kickoff
  • Trusted AI Committee Update
  • LF AI Updates
• March 26, 2020 recording / minutes / deck
  • Upcoming TAC Chairperson Election 
  • ForestFlow: Incubation Project Proposal + TAC Vote 
  • LF AI Updates
• March 12, 2020 recording / minutes / deck
  • Upcoming TAC Chairperson Election 
  • NNStreamer: Incubation Project Proposal + TAC Vote 
  • LF AI Updates
• February 27, 2020 recording / minutes / deck

  • Upcoming TAC Chairperson Election 

  • Invited Talk: Collective Knowledge (CK) and CodeReef

  • LF AI Updates

• February 13, 2020 recording / minutes / deck

  • ITU Global Challenge on AI/ML in 5G Networks 

  • Invited Talk: CD.Foundation on MLOps Work

  • LF AI Updates
• January 30, 2020
  • Meeting Cancelled - Chinese New Year
• January 16, 2020 recording / minutes / deck
  • Milvus: Incubation Project Proposal + TAC Vote 
  • LF AI Updates
• December 19, 2019 recording / minutes
  • Marquez: Incubation Project Proposal + TAC Vote
  • LF AI Updates
• December 5, 2019 recording / minutes
  • Sparklyr: Incubation Project Proposal + TAC Vote 
  • LF AI Updates
• November 21, 2019 recording / minutes
  • Angel: Graduation Project Proposal + TAC Vote
  • LF AI Updates
• October 24, 2019 recording / minutes
  • ONNX: Graduation Project Proposal + TAC Vote
  • LF AI Updates
• October 10, 2019 recording / minutes
  • Invited Presentation: TRAINS by allegro.ai
• September 26, 2019 recording / chat  / minutes
  • Incubation Project Proposal + TAC Vote: Adlik from ZTE
  • Outreach Committee Updates
  • Updates on Ongoing Efforts by Other Committees 
• September 12, 2019 
  • Meeting Cancelled
• August 29, 2019 recording / minutes 
  • NOTE: There was a Zoom recording error, only first 7 min are available, please reference slide decks shared via mail list and minutes for reference

  • General Updates

  • ML Workflow Collaboration

  • Update on Trusted AI

  • Invited Presentation - FATE Project from WeBank

• August 15, 2019 recording / minutes
  • Approval of the Project Proposal and Lifecycle Document
  • Invited Presentations: ZTE - Machine Learning on 5G: Use Cases & Architecture & Adlik: A Tool for AI Model Optimizer
• August 1, 2019
  • Meeting Cancelled
• July 18, 2019
  • Meeting Cancelled
• July 4, 2019
  • Meeting Cancelled
• June 20, 2019 recording / minutes 
  • Working Group Updates
  • ML Workflow
  • Proposal and Lifecycle Document Refresh
  • LF AI Events
  • AI Ethics Committee
  • Trapezium Project
• June 6, 2019 
  • Meeting Cancelled
• May 23, 2019 recording / minutes 
  • Invited Presentation: Trapezium from Verizon Media
• May 9, 2019 
  • Meeting Cancelled
• April 25, 2019 recording / minutes
  • LF DL Updates
  • ML Workflow
  • Alignment with External Initiatives
  • Project Proposal Template and Lifecycle Document Refresh
• April 11, 2019 recording / minutes
  • Invited Presentation: Petastorm
• March 28, 2019
  • Meeting Cancelled
• March 14, 2019 recording / minutes
  • Invited Presentation: Argoproj
• February 28, 2019 
  • Meeting Cancelled
• February 14, 2019 recording / minutes
  • Invited Presentation: TransmogrifAI
• January 31, 2019 recording / minutes 
  • TAC / LF DL General Updates
  • GB F2F Meeting
  • Collaboration Among LF DL Projects
• January 17, 2019 recording / minutes
  • Pyro project presentation, proposal, and TAC vote
• January 3, 2019 recording / minutes
  • Project Updates: Acumos AI and Angel
  • LF DL Mission Statement & Goals
  • LFDL Interactive Landscape 
• December 6, 2018 recording / minutes
  • Horovod project presentation, proposal, and TAC vote
• November 8, 2018 recording / minutes
• October 25, 2018 recording / minutes
• October 11, 2018 recording / minutes
• September 13, 2018 recording / minutes
• August 16, 2018 recording / minutes
• August 2, 2018 recording / minutes
• July 19, 2018 recording / minutes
• July 5, 2018 recording / minutes
• June 21, 2018 recording / minutes
• June 7, 2018 recording / minutes
• May 22, 2018 recording / minutes
• May 8, 2018 minutes
• April 24, 2018 minutes
• April 10, 2018 minutes