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Enarx
  • Austin
  • Jarkko
  • Harald
  • Mike
  • Nathaniel
  • Nick
  • Paul

Agenda

Community 2022-Q1 OKRs​

  • Reach 500 GitHub stars (currently approaching 400);
  • Reach 250 Twitter followers (currently > 200);
  • Reach 150 LinkedIn followers (currently > 100);
  • Publish 12 demos + 12 tutorials (4 videos);
  • Weekly blog posts;
  • Presence at 3 conferences;
  • Receive 8 fellowship guests;

Community Metrics​

CCC​

  • TAC Tech Talk about Confidential Computing Fellowship (LFX leadership invited);
  • Involved in publishing quarterly newsletter;
  • Get involved in the Confidential Computing Developer Summit;
  • Get involved with the Website revamp.

Wasm Builders​

  • Enarx interns playing major role publishing tutorials;
  • Welcome post approved (getting quotes);
  • Co-participation at events (Wasm Days, WebAssembly Live, WebAssembly Summit).

Fellowship​

Events​

  • FOSDEM (2 talks approved)
  • OC3 (awaiting results)
  • SCALE (awaiting results)
  • RightsCon (CFP deadline: 20 January)
  • CN Wasm Days (CFP deadline: 28 February)
  • CN SecurityCon (CFP deadline: 14 February)

Mike Bursell

Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud delivers an insightful and practical new take on what it means to trust in the context of computer and network security and the impact on the emerging field of Confidential Computing. Author Mike Bursell’s experience, ranging from Chief Security Architect at Red Hat to CEO at a Confidential Computing start-up grounds the reader in fundamental concepts of trust and related ideas before discussing the more sophisticated applications of these concepts to various areas in computing.

The book demonstrates in the importance of understanding and quantifying risk and draws on the social and computer sciences to explain hardware and software security, complex systems, and open source communities. It takes a detailed look at the impact of Confidential Computing on security, trust and risk and also describes the emerging concept of trust domains, which provide an alternative to standard layered security.

Source: Wiley

Link: https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Trust+in+Computer+Systems+and+the+Cloud-p-9781119692324

Nick Vidal

Metrics are important to understand and grow a healthy open source community. These metrics may be related to the code base (number of issues, pull requests, etc), documentation (number of tutorials, accessibility, etc), discussions (engagement in chat, mailing lists, forums, etc), social media (followers and impressions in Twitter, LinkedIn, etc), or events (number of participants, demographics, etc).

Source: Enarx's Blog

Link: https://blog.enarx.dev/lfx-tools/

Mike Bursell

Title: Dr CloudLove, or how I learned to trust my CSP (not)
Author: Mike Bursell
Date: Tuesday, December 7, 2021, 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

The Cloud is just somebody else’s computer. So when you run a workload on a cloud host, anyone who owns (or pwns) that system can look into it or change the data or event the application itself. You have no confidentiality or integrity protection from your Cloud Service Provider, rogue sysadmins or just anyone who compromises their machines. Confidential computing uses hardware-based trusted execution environment (e.g. Intel SGX, AMD SEV or Arm 9 Realms) to provide these protections, but it’s difficult to use and complex to understand.

This session will introduce the problem at a technical level, explain some of the solutions, and discuss why confidential computing is on its way – but not an easy fix (yet). Come and be amused, horrified, and excited; all in one presentation.

Source: SecurityWeekly Unlocked 2021

Link: https://events.securityweekly.com/unlocked2021

Enarx
  • Ben
  • Nick
  • Shaun

Agenda

General discussion​

Outreachy​

Nick provided Ben and Shaun with a status of the Outreachy program and asked if they would be interested in getting involved. Ben suggested inviting current and past members of the Enarx project to be a guest speaker each week, sharing important insights with the Outreachy interns. Given the different timezones between guest speakers and interns, we'll likely have to create an asynchronous activity.

Enarx
  • Ajay
  • Jennifer
  • Nick
  • Shraddha

Agenda

General discussion​

Outreachy​

This was the first meeting where the Outreachy interns Ajay, Jennifer, and Shraddha got to meet each other after the announcement of the results:

https://blog.enarx.dev/welcome-outreachy-interns/

They were able to introduce themselves to the other colleagues and share their excitement of being selected as an intern of the Exarx project as part of the Outreachy program.

Nick Vidal

In a previous blog post, we outlined our vision for creating a Confidential Computing Fellowship. Today, we announce the first steps towards this vision, as we welcome three new interns to the Enarx project.

Last month, we received 10 Outreachy applicants. Of these, 9 were able to complete the first task successfully, which consisted of learning about WebAssembly, developing some small demos, and publishing one or more tutorials on GitHub. WebAssembly is key to the Enarx project, as this is how we deploy applications to the Cloud.

Source: Enarx's Blog

Link: https://blog.enarx.dev/welcome-outreachy-interns/

Enarx
  • Ajay
  • Mandeep
  • Morgan
  • Nick
  • Paul
  • Shraddha

Agenda

General discussion​

Outreachy​

The Outreachy applicants had the opportunity to share with others their experience so far with the Enarx project: what they learned and what challenges they faced.

Results for the Outreachy program will be published next Monday (22nd), but Nick reassured everyone that, independent of the results, he would like to continue working with them.

A new group of WebAssembly enthusiasts is being formed at wasm.builders and Nick suggested for each one to publish their WebAssembly tutorials there for visibility. This will help them to build their portfolio and will open new opportunities.