<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 24 Nov 2021, at 08:51, Fabiano Fidêncio <<a href="mailto:fabiano@fidencio.org" class="">fabiano@fidencio.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Christophe,<br class=""><br class="">On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 8:45 AM Christophe de Dinechin<br class=""><<a href="mailto:cdupontd@redhat.com" class="">cdupontd@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Team,<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">There is a Gaia-X hackaton on Dec 2-3, with a confidential computing track on Thursday.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Thanks for the head's up.<br class="">For those who are not familiar with Gaia-X, would you mind to explain<br class="">what's this about, how the community can take advantage of that,<br class="">what's their schedule, and so on and so forth?<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Gaia-X seems to be a project backed by the European Union and mostly driven</div><div>by France and Germany to create a decentralized, open infrastructure.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://www.data-infrastructure.eu/GAIAX/Navigation/EN/Home/home.html" class="">https://www.data-infrastructure.eu/GAIAX/Navigation/EN/Home/home.html</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>It's frankly relatively vague to me. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>To me, the possible benefits are some funding for various projects. At this</div><div>stage, I'd think that it's mostly bringing awareness of confidential computing</div><div>efforts, and making sure that a) we are on the map, and b) they understand</div><div>what are the benefits and trade-offs.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>So I think there is some value in some of us being there to answer questions,</div><div>but that's about it.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Unfortunately, it conflicts with our own Confidential Containers meeting.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Is this just a note or a suggestion to, maybe, change the time of the<br class="">Confidential Containers meeting? If the latter, having the details I<br class="">mentioned above can help the folks leading the meeting to have a<br class="">better understanding of the Gaia-X impact and then make a better<br class="">decision on what's the priority.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>It's just an observation. If a large enough number of people interested</div><div>in confidential containers believe that this is important, then we could</div><div>simply defer the agenda for that week and use the time to listen to</div><div>the Gaia-X presentation and answer questions. Or we can decide that</div><div>it's good enough to be aware of their interest in the topic, maybe have</div><div>only a couple of people attending who could take notes and report.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>If we make the second choice, I volunteer to attend (I've been asked to),</div><div>as long as you don't forget to record the confidential containers meeting ;-)</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Christophe</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">Best Regards,<br class="">-- <br class="">Fabiano Fidêncio<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">kata-dev mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:kata-dev@lists.katacontainers.io" class="">kata-dev@lists.katacontainers.io</a><br class="">http://lists.katacontainers.io/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kata-dev<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>