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IronCore Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Meeting - 2025-06-16

Meeting Location

Meeting link: Teams Session.

Meeting Slides

Attendees

Premier Sponsor Representatives

  • Matus Taraba — SAP

Technical Steering Committee Representatives

  • Malte Janduda @MalteJ - TSC Member - SAP
  • Andre Russ @gehoern - TSC Member - SAP
  • Andreas Fritzler @afritzler - TSC Member - SAP
  • Lukas Frank @lukasfrank - TSC Member - SAP
  • Guevenc Guelce @guvenc - TSC Member - SAP
  • Benjamin Alpert @balpert89 - TSC Member - T-Systems
  • Florin Peter @FlorinPeter - TSC Member - T-Systems
  • Filipp Akinfiev - TSC Member - Clyso
  • Christian Schupfner - TSC Member - Clyso

Non-Voting Representatives or Observing Participants

  • Tristan Scheidemann - SAP
  • Priyanka Sakundarwar - SAP
  • Marian Schwarz - SAP
  • Niklas Voss @trevex - BWI

Agenda

  • Review the public steering repo ironcore-dev/steering
  • Adoption of the project charter given by NeoNephos and OSPO team
  • Clarify that every TSC Voting Member is also Code Owner
  • Vote on:
    • Acceptance of the Project Charter
    • Publishing of the charter on the git as Markdown
    • Public meetings act (transparency and public access to meetings and meeting notes)
    • TSC Chair Lead
  • Q&A

Notes

General Notes

  • Introduction of the members.
  • Walktrouhg throuhg the charter.
  • Hosting of the meeting and voting will be done via LFX portal in future.
  • Meeting will be held monthly as there are individual meetings on frequent cadence for individual areas development.
  • Voting via MS Teams for individual items below see outcome under each voting.

Votes

✅ Quorum was met.

Not participating member (not on call):

  • Filipp Akinfiev - TSC Member - Clyso

Voting on acceptance of the Project Charter.

  • Matus Taraba
  • Malte Janduda @MalteJ
  • Andre Russ @gehoern
  • Andreas Fritzler @afritzler
  • Lukas Frank @lukasfrank
  • Guevenc Guelce @guvenc
  • Benjamin Alpert @balpert89
  • Florin Peter @FlorinPeter
  • Christian Schupfner

Voting on Publishing of the charter on the git as Markdown

  • Matus Taraba
  • Malte Janduda @MalteJ
  • Andre Russ @gehoern
  • Andreas Fritzler @afritzler
  • Lukas Frank @lukasfrank
  • Guevenc Guelce @guvenc
  • Benjamin Alpert @balpert89
  • Florin Peter @FlorinPeter
  • Christian Schupfner

Votin on Public meetings act (transparency and public access to meetings and meeting notes)

  • Matus Taraba
  • Malte Janduda @MalteJ
  • Andre Russ @gehoern
  • Andreas Fritzler @afritzler
  • Lukas Frank @lukasfrank
  • Guevenc Guelce @guvenc
  • Benjamin Alpert @balpert89
  • Florin Peter @FlorinPeter
  • Christian Schupfner

IMPORTANT

Project Charter has been accepted with one voice on 16.06.2025. No objections made to the charter. No objections has been made agaings publishing of the charter Public meeting act has been accepted. All meetings will be public.

TSC Chair Lead Vote

Nominated:

  • Lukas Frank -> ok with nomination (1 person nominated)
  • Andreas Fritzler -> ok with nomination (2 people nominated)
  • Malte Janduda -> rejects nomination (1 person nominated)
  • Andre Russ -> accpets nomination (1 person nominated)
  • Benjamin Alpert -> accepts nomination (3 people nominated)

Voting Round 1:

Lukas Frank (3 votes)

  • Andreas Fritzler @afritzler
  • Malte Janduda @MalteJ
  • Andre Russ @gehoern

Andreas Fritzler (3 votes)

  • Christian Schupfner
  • Guevenc Guelce @guvenc
  • Matus Taraba

Benjamin Alpert (3 votes)

  • Lukas Frank @lukasfrank
  • Benjamin Alpert @balpert89
  • Florin Peter @FlorinPeter

Voting Round 2:

Lukas Frank (4 votes)

  • Malte Janduda @MalteJ
  • Andreas Fritzler @afritzler
  • Lukas Frank @lukasfrank
  • Christian Schupfner

Andreas Fritzler (5 votes)

  • Guevenc Guelce @guvenc
  • Benjamin Alpert @balpert89
  • Florin Peter @FlorinPeter
  • Andre Russ @gehoern
  • Matus Taraba

Benjamin Alpert (0 votes)

IMPORTANT

Chairman has been elected: Andreas Fritzler

Vote on duration of the TSC Chair person position:

  • 6months vs. 12months

Voting for 6 months duration of Chairman mandate:

  • Matus Taraba — SAP
  • Malte Janduda @MalteJ - TSC Member - SAP
  • Andre Russ @gehoern - TSC Member - SAP
  • Andreas Fritzler @afritzler - TSC Member - SAP
  • Lukas Frank @lukasfrank - TSC Member - SAP
  • Guevenc Guelce @guvenc - TSC Member - SAP
  • Benjamin Alpert @balpert89 - TSC Member - T-Systems
  • Florin Peter @FlorinPeter - TSC Member - T-Systems
  • Christian Schupfner - TSC Member - Clyso

IMPORTANT

Chairman is elected for 6 months

Next Meeting Agenda

  • Present LF tools, e.g. for voting
  • Voting on the domain list and subsequent transfer of the domain to NeoNephos:

ironcore.wtf
ironcore.dev
onmetal.io
onmetal.de
onmetal.eu
onmetal.cloud

  • Discuss further project onboarding

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