As the ONOS community continues to grow it brings a challenge of how to coordinate a large group to make sure we’re all working toward a shared goal. One way to address this is to communicate clearly about our vision for ONOS and invite people to work together on completing specific parts of that vision.

This is where the brigade model comes in — the idea is to create small teams around specific features that we want to ship in upcoming versions of ONOS. This can help us connect with other people in the community who are excited about that feature and it gives that group a framework for working together.

Code for America has been successfully using brigades to build new tools that help with local civic issues all across the country. There are many best practices we can take from that experience to help us get moving quickly with this model in our community. If you’ve been involved in a Code for America brigade, we’d be very interested to hear your thoughts.

Active Brigades

We’re currently starting to get brigades formed around a few key ONOS areas.  We're considering this to be a pilot of this model and if it is successful we will look at how to scale up this effort going forward.

• Dynamic configuration
• New intent framework
• SDN-IP and VPLS
• Virtualization
• GUI
  

Getting Involved with a Brigade

If you're interested in the work of any of these brigades, please take a look at that brigade's wiki page to learn more about what is happening, what help is needed and how to get in touch with the team.