Dear DPDK Community Members,
In Dublin, I gave a short talk that I'd like to re-summarize as follows:
The DPDK project has a healthy budget and room to make additional financial investments in 2024. We want to invest our budget in ways that grow adoption of the Data Plane Development Kit software - expanding DPDK geographically and across new industries. Such investments should also financially strengthen the project. As community members, you’re encouraged to bring our Governing Board proposals for investment opportunities, within the sphere of network packet processing.
Our areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
· Adding switching
· Adding encryption
· Adding more user space compatibility
· Protocol stacks
· Optical Burst Switching
· Enterprise Security
- Lab Testing of NICs
If you have an idea for an investment along these lines that might interest us, the process is as follows:
For those of you not familiar with this program here is a link to its wiki page as well as a youtube excerpt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_Tank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYeUHvoLfg4
Any questions, please let us know.
Thanks,
Nathan
Nathan C. Southern, Project Coordinator
Data Plane Development Kit
The Linux Foundation
248.835.4812 (mobile)