5:16 p.m.
Happy new year everyone! I've been bad at creating meeting notes for our
meetings, but with this email I'm hoping to make a change in that area :D
Today we had our first status meeting of the year, and we used the 30
minutes to focus on where things are in the organization and what our focus
should be for the catalog team. Here are some highlights:
- The broader Monday meeting will be shifting focus to generating
webinars for the upcoming events around the UN
- In December, Dinesh and Anindita created a deck that described the
next architecture of our catalog. This makes use of Github on the backend,
and primarily a CLI for the user. Dinesh will send along this deck shortly.
- We've been meeting regularly with other teams who are interested in
ENS, primarily the "bee" and "satellite" folks. Our purpose is to
see how
our catalog (or generally similar tool) could be of use within their use
case. The issue with this process seems to be that the catalog doesn't
seamlessly fit. The investigation to find product-"project"-fit (rather
than product-market-fit) is ongoing, but we realize this may be an
inefficient use of time.
- We discussed more broadly where the catalog could fit within the
broader market. We agreed that there is too much competition in the
training area, and that we likely need to remain simple and provide a
service that doesn't yet exist if we want to be more successful at
marketing the tool to a broader range of customers.
- Defining standards around inference training and that service's
communication with the catalog and the broader system could be a viable way
to approach creating the catalog. Our catalog could be the initial
implementation of a standard that we define. We discussed our previous work
in other industries around this and agree there were similarities between
that work and possibilities here.
Thanks to all who attended, and the next time we meet will likely be in the
Monday call (let us know if you need an invite).
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Josh Purcell
Senior Solution Architect, Redpanda