pq-code-package · mkannwischer · Sep 30, 2025
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+# 2025-08-07: TSC Minutes
+
+## Attendees
+TSC members: 
+* [ ] Manuel Barbosa
+* [ ] Hanno Becker
+* [X] Matthias J. Kannwischer
+* [X] Franziskus Kiefer
+* [ ] Jake Massimo
+* [X] Markku-Juhani Saarinen
+* [ ] Tiago Oliveira
+* [ ] Pravek Sharma
+
+Quorum is not met. Meeting postponed due to lack of attendance.
+
+* Next meeting: 2025-09-04 13:00 UTC
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+# 2025-09-04: TSC Minutes
+
+## Attendees
+TSC members: 
+* [X] Manuel Barbosa
+* [ ] Hanno Becker
+* [X] Matthias J. Kannwischer
+* [ ] Franziskus Kiefer
+* [ ] Jake Massimo
+* [ ] Markku-Juhani Saarinen
+* [X] Tiago Oliveira
+* [ ] Pravek Sharma
+
+Quorum is not met. Meeting postponed due to lack of attendance.
+
+* Next meeting: 2025-10-02 13:00 UTC
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+# 2025-10-02: TSC Minutes
+
+## Agenda
+
+* Welcome
+* PQCP Growth Plan
+* Updates from related communities (PQCA, OQS)
+* Review status of sub projects
+  * [mlkem-native](https://github.com/pq-code-package/mlkem-native)
+  * [mldsa-native](https://github.com/pq-code-package/mldsa-native)
+  * [mlkem-libjade](https://github.com/pq-code-package/mlkem-libjade)
+  * [mlkem-rust-libcrux](https://github.com/pq-code-package/mlkem-rust-libcrux)
+  * [slhdsa-c](https://github.com/pq-code-package/slhdsa-c)
+* Discussion items
+  * [Rust libcrux repository re-org](https://github.com/pq-code-package/tsc/issues/181) - Vote on renaming proposal
+  * [Project Documentation Standards](https://github.com/pq-code-package/tsc/issues/151)
+  * Review of remaining open issues:
+    - [Determine any cross-implementation API requirements](https://github.com/pq-code-package/tsc/issues/4)
+    - [Adopt a definition of assurance levels](https://github.com/pq-code-package/tsc/issues/3)
+* Any other business
+* Next meeting: 2025-11-06 13:00 UTC
+
+## Attendees
+TSC members:
+* [ ] Manuel Barbosa
+* [X] Hanno Becker
+* [X] Matthias J. Kannwischer
+* [X] Franziskus Kiefer
+* [ ] Jake Massimo
+* [X] Tiago Oliveira
+* [ ] Pravek Sharma
+* [ ] Markku-Juhani Saarinen
+
+Other attendees:
+* Hart Montgomery (Linux Foundation, PQCA)
+
+## Action Items
+- All projects: Consider growth strategies from Hart's presentation and discuss on GitHub or in next meeting
+- Matthias: Create growth plan document for TAC presentation
+- Matthias: Open issues in all project repositories with documentation standards requirements
+- Hanno & Tiago: Review and agree on documentation standards list
+- Hart: Check on PQCA blog post reach/effectiveness metrics
+
+## Minutes
+
+* **PQCP Growth Plan**:
+  - **LFDT Playbook**: Hart shared [LFDT Growth Playbook](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r4wljummNbfwRHxH4zYAenSvNIx2EcpChmMgpa5lazM/edit?usp=sharing)
+  - **Focus**: Primary goal for PQCP is awareness and user base growth (not necessarily contributors at this stage)
+  - **Growth Strategies Ideas** (presented by Hard, primarily from LFDT playbook):
+    - **Blog Posts & Media**:
+      - Currently posting on PQCA blog
+      - Also consider LFDT, OpenSSF, and CNCF blogs
+    - **Meetups**:
+      - LFDT offers virtual and in-person meetups (45-min presentations, recordable)
+      - How-to guides particularly effective
+      - Recommended having beginner-friendly sessions
+    - **Public Calls**:
+      - Already have public TSC calls on calendar
+      - Less intimidating than GitHub for newcomers
+    - **Communication Channels**:
+      - Discord active with good response times (critical for attracting users)
+      - PQCA has LinkedIn and Twitter accounts available
+    - **Good First Issues**:
+      - Challenging for PQCP due to technical nature of cryptography
+    - **Workshops**:
+      - Virtual and in-person how-to workshops, recorded for online consumption
+      - Consider 6-month cadence with new versions
+    - **Mentorships**:
+      - PQCP had strong applicant pool
+      - Budget available for more mentorships (flexible timing, not just summer)
+      - Available globally
+    - **Case Studies**:
+      - Multiple case studies create critical mass and drive adoption
+      - AWS Crypto Library (AWSLC) using mlkem-native - opportunity for case study
+    - **Newsletter**:
+      - LFDT has newsletter capability
+      - Would feature releases, milestones, conferences, workshops
+      - PQCP is considering a newsletter
+    - **Ecosystem Mapping**:
+      - Who is using PQCP already?
+      - Already documenting consumers in README files
+    - **Collaboration Opportunities**:
+      - OpenSSF - post-quantum conversation upcoming
+      - Post-quantum Kubernetes
+      - CNCF could be interesting partner
+  - **Action**: Each project to think about growth strategies, discuss on GitHub or next meeting, create document for TAC
+
+* **Updates from related communities**:
+  - **PQCA**:
+    - LinkedIn and Twitter accounts active
+    - Blog posts being published
+    - Planning paper repository
+    - Mentorship programs available
+  - **OQS**: No representative attended
+
+* **Sub-project updates**:
+  - **mlkem-native** (Hanno Becker):
+    - Starting AVX2 HOL-Light proof development (progress expected over next month)
+    - Two new backend contributions:
+      - RISC-V 64 backend from Markku (under review, expected to merge this month)
+      - ppc64 backend from IBM (first review done, needs work, confident it will merge)
+    - Total backend count will reach 4
+  - **mldsa-native** (Matthias Kannwischer):
+    - Exceeded performance of AArch64 MLDSA implementation in PQClean (met alpha release performance bar)
+    - AVX2 work ongoing - small gap vs Dilithium team implementation for signing, expect to close in 2 weeks
+    - First integration into LibOQS completed (not merged yet but works, identified all needed changes)
+    - **Alpha release expected in 4-6 weeks**
+  - **mlkem-libjade** (Tiago Oliveira):
+    - Full-time engineer working on project until December, focused on CI
+    - Focusing on ML-KEM 1024 completeness
+    - CI checks include: safety, performance, and proofs
+    - **Target: Release by end of December**
+    - Planning blog post about accomplishments
+    - Implementation correctness proofs take 2.5 hours with 8 cores (goal: optimize to <10 minutes)
+    - Matthias offered CI assistance based on his experience
+  - **mlkem-rust-libcrux** (Franziskus Kiefer):
+    - Common PQCP APIs merged into ML-KEM
+    - **Release planned within next 1-2 weeks** with common APIs
+    - Feature flag enables C APIs for easy drop-in replacement
+    - Once renaming complete, will add MLDSA to repository
+    - MLDSA code exists, most proofs done, some cleanup remaining
+  - **slhdsa-c**: No updates
+
+* **Technical discussions**:
+  - **Rust libcrux repository re-org** (https://github.com/pq-code-package/tsc/issues/181):
+    - Resolved
+  - **Project Documentation Standards** (https://github.com/pq-code-package/tsc/issues/151):
+    - Existing list of agreed-upon documentation standards shared
+    - Action plan:
+      1. Hanno and Tiago to review standards list
+      2. All agree to standards
+      3. Matthias opens issues in all project repositories
+      4. Projects implement standards and close issues
+      5. Finally close old documentation standards issue
+  - **Cross-implementation API requirements** (https://github.com/pq-code-package/tsc/issues/4):
+  - **Assurance levels** (https://github.com/pq-code-package/tsc/issues/3):
+
+* **Other business**:
+  - Meeting time discussion: Tiago and Manuel have teaching duties on Thursdays going forward
+  - May need to discuss new meeting time in future
+
+* **Next meeting: 2025-11-06 13:00 UTC**
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 # Minutes and agenda
-
+* 2025-10-02 : [agenda/minutes](2025-10-02/minutes.md)
+* 2025-09-04 : [agenda/minutes](2025-09-04/minutes.md)
+* 2025-08-07 : [agenda/minutes](2025-08-07/minutes.md)
 * 2025-07-03 : [agenda/minutes](2025-07-03/minutes.md)
 * 2025-06-05 : [agenda/minutes](2025-06-05/minutes.md)
 * 2025-05-22 : [agenda/minutes](2025-05-22/minutes.md) (combined minutes/agenda)