General introduction

In order to growth the open source community around LF energy CoMPAS. Multiple thinks things can be done. This page should provide a plan to growth the CoMPAS community.

LF energy CoMPAS community growth can help us to bring:

• Secure funding
• Increase demand
• Influence the market
• Develop faster
• Validate faster
• Divide risk

The plan will be split in several parts; improvements are always welcome.

Release plans for the next 18 months

The project tries to release every 2 weeks. Some work requires more time (e.g. refactoring).

See CoMPAS Roadmap for more details on the features.

Target end-Users

CoMPAS is ment for all parties that deal with 61850 SCL configurations including:

Utilities (TSO, DSO) => E.g RTE and Alliander

Vendors => E.g Omicron, GE

Integrators => E.g. TBI, SPIE, etc

Identification of any regulatory or standards body requirements for deployment, and plans for implementation

CoMPAS is highly focused on implementing the configurations parts of IEC61850

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. IEC 61850 is maintand by WG10 of the IEC.

Getting the word out to IEC WG10 will help to promote the project.

CoMPAS promotion aspects

Aspect in favor of the promotion of the project and in order to reach target end-users

Get the project into production

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Expected due Date : At the end of 2022.

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CoMPAS promotion

Attend conferences/events an give talks about CoMPAS and their features

Possible events to be present to LF energy CoMPAS

• 61850 country/area specific 61850 usergroups 
• IEC / 61850  week
• PAC world conferences
• LF energy summit

• PowerCon

• 61850 IOP
• https://events.tdworld.com/2023/speak

A good list of relevent events: Upcoming Events – PAC World

Events and/or conferences already identified

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• SGtech 2023 (Sander Jansen )
• LF energy summit Paris (workshop; CoMPAS/Seapath; RTE; Frédéric FOUSSERET will arrange something)
Cigre in Paris in August 2022. Presentation of CoMPAS on RTE Stand.
• 61850 week in
Cardiff in october 2022. Participation of Alliander as speaker.

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• Amsterdam 2023
• Cigre in Paris 2024
• 61850 Omicron user meeting Germany (Christian Dinkel)

Social media:

•  Create a linkedin CoMPAS account  => To create

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• •  Promote the page within the organizations (RTE, Alliander, Omicron)
  •  Promote new releases on Linkedin => To do after first put into production

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• •  Example: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ocp-tap
•  Use LF energy media channels

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• •  slack
  •  Linkedin
•  Dedicated CoMPAS website (example: Power System Blocks (powsybl.org)) / Website make-over/update
•  Newsletter
•  List of contributors / spotlight new contributors

Bilateral meetingsBilateral meeting

 Try to speak of Compas CoMPAS as much as possible where applicable with the target audience (one to one).

 Define how to communicate to the project if someone has encountered a potential target to structure our communication.

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Writen promotion

PACworld article- Which topics should be written about?

The Cathedral and the Bazaar - Wikipedia Energy edition

White papers (e.g. open source concept)

Blogposts

CoMPAS Documentation/demonstration

Documentation shall be continuously improved.

Specially for SCT part where documentation is not sufficient. 

Changelog

Webinar to showcase the demo environment in order to promote CoMPAS and also sense community's doubts/questions/feature-suggestions

Write/record tutorials on how to work with LF energy CoMPAS 

How to create your own plug-in/how to install it locally (technical tutorials)

Example/test files (e.g. 104) and plug-in manuals

Explain the QA proces

Finalizes the roadmap for publishing

Promote CoMPAS at WG10 / Prototype WG10 idea's

Share relevant IEC61850 based data models/specifications / BAP's

Create your own distribution (Docker compose generator)

Getting started guide

Public demo

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In order to facilitate the adhesion to the project, a demo should be created.environment is build:

https://demo.compas.energy/

Write/record tutorials on how to work with LF energy CoMPAS

Expected due Date : To define.

Low barrier for entrance

Be clear on how to contribute: https://com-pas.github.io/contributing/

Template plug-in to get started

Translation capabilities

Engineering hub (Jakob Vogelsang)

List of all vendor tools and CoMPAS interobability

CoMPAS Community call (already their)

Website to generate your own CoMPAS distribution (example: Spring Initializr)

Make a lower barrier to make feature request (Github issues might be to much for some people)

Phyiscal meetup to write plug-ins

Start a tech-forum of questions and support (e.g. forum/wiki

Hacktober

Regular CoMPAS meetup

First time getting started tour

Theme editor to adjust it to company logo's

Get the education sector involved

Use the nework network to get CoMPAS into the education space (universities)

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Act in order to reach gold level at OpenSSF BestPractices.

Expected objective : Silver level at the end of 2022CoMPAS is currently at (partly) silver stage.

Make sure the software is of good quality by testing it by hand and in an automated way

Expected due Date : Continuous improvement.

Collaborate with others

• Collbaborate Collaborate with Fledge (Fledge uses the SCL configurations), Powsybl (Service to map CIM Data to SCL Data) and RiseClipse (validation of SCL files)
• Work upstream with OpenSCD
• Convince vendors to collaborate

Communication improvement suggestions

• Have a better mascot
• Promote/share contributors and show a list of contributors (LGH avatar)
• SWAG
• Research: Why are maillinglist subscribers not involved in the actual developement?
• Put the CoMPAS logo everywhere

TODO List

See: TSC Growth Plan Actions (github.com)

Promotion requests can made here: https://github.com/lf-energy/foundation/issues/new/choose