SPC - Strategic Planning Committee

The SPC has the dual role of helping to craft the strategy for LFN's entire portfolio as a whole and to also provide LFN Project leaders some direct insight into the directions of the LFN Governing Board (GB).  The SPC provides recommendations and guidance to the GB, TAC and MAC. Unlike the other groups below, the SPC is considered a formal committee of the GB and sometimes includes discussions of privileged material. As such, the meetings are only open to actual committee members. There is one SPC voting representative permitted for each "Graduated" tier LFN Project. This is typically the Chair or Vice Chair of the community, however a different delegate can be assigned instead.   Meeting cadence varies throughout the year depending on the activity, but meetings are on Monday mornings at 7am pacific time.

Volunteers please add your name here: Timo Perala Raj Panchapakesan Ciaran Johnston 

2024 Nephio Representative: Raj Panchapakesan Timo Perala 

TAC - Technical Advisory Council

The TAC coordinates collaboration among Technical Projects, including developer needs of and overall technical vision for the community. They make recommendations to the communities on processes and tools to the Finance Committee for Project resources.  The TAC also handles matters related to the technical community as assigned to the TAC by the Governing Board and SPC such a Security and AI direction. There is one TAC voting representative permitted for each "Graduated" tier LFN Project. Meetings are open to all community members.  Meetings are bi-weekly on Wednesdays at 7 am pacific time.

Volunteers please add your name here: Timo Perala  Ciaran Johnston 

2024 Nephio Representative: Timo Perala Kandan Kathirvel 

MAC - Marketing Advisory Council

The MAC develops LFN’s marketing and outreach plan. It engages with the Projects to identify their respective and collective marketing needs, works with the Governing Board with respect to umbrella and Project marketing goals and supervises communications and community engagements (digital, content, PR, events, etc.) There is one voting MAC representative permitted for each LFN Project. Meetings are open to LFN Members. Meetings are quarterly on Wednesdays. 

Volunteers please add your name here: Raj Panchapakesan 

2024 Nephio Representative: Raj Panchapakesan 

Event Program Committee

The Program Committee helps plan out LFN's Developer & Testing Forums (D&TF), and coordinates the session scheduling for their community. They are also the point of contact during the event for any real-time schedule changes that may need to be made.  Depending on the size of the community, are often more than one person on the Program committee and they change from event to event.  Meetings are on Fridays at 8 am usually beginning 8-10 weeks prior to an event. 

Volunteers please add your name here: Raj Panchapakesan 

Representative: Timo Perala