Open Quantum Safe Project Technical Steering Committee

The Technical Steering Committee (TSC) for the Open Quantum Safe (OQS) project is responsible for technical oversight of the Open Quantum Safe project.

The role and responsibilities of the TSC are described in the Technical Charter for the OQS Project, and include:

• coordinating the technical direction of the Project;
• approving project or system proposals (including, but not limited to, incubation, deprecation, and changes to a sub-project’s scope);
• organizing sub-projects and removing sub-projects;
• creating sub-committees or working groups to focus on cross-project technical issues and requirements;
• appointing representatives to work with other open source or open standards communities;
• establishing community norms, workflows, issuing releases, and security issue reporting policies;
• approving and implementing policies and processes for contributing;
• discussions, seeking consensus, and where necessary, voting on technical matters relating to the code base that affect multiple projects; and
• coordinating any marketing, events, or communications regarding the Project.

Members

• Norman Ashley (Cisco)
• Michael Baentsch (independent contributor)
• Thomas Bailleux (independent contributor)
• Vlad Gheorghiu (softwareQ Inc.)
• Basil Hess (IBM Research) – TSC vice chair
• Brian Jarvis (AWS)
• Christian Paquin (Microsoft Research)
• Douglas Stebila (University of Waterloo) – TSC chair
• Spencer Wilson (University of Waterloo) – OQS representative to PQCA TAC

Communication Channels

Meetings

The TSC holds regular meetings every 5 weeks, alternating between 10am and 12:30pm US Eastern time. See the PQCA calendar.

Agenda and minutes

Upcoming meetings:

• Tuesday December 10, 2024, at 12:30pm US Eastern time
• Tuesday January 14, 2025, at 10:00am US Eastern time
• Tuesday February 18, 2025, at 12:30pm US Eastern time
• Tuesday March 25, 2025, at 10:00am US Eastern time
• Tuesday April 29, 2025, at 12:30pm US Eastern time
• Tuesday June 3, 2025, at 10:00am US Eastern time
• Tuesday July 8, 2025, at 12:30pm US Eastern time
• Tuesday August 12, 2025, at 10:00am US Eastern time
• Tuesday September 16, 2025, at 12:30pm US Eastern time
• Tuesday October 21, 2025, at 10:00am US Eastern time
• Tuesday November 25, 2025, at 12:30pm US Eastern time

Email list

Public mailing list for the OQS TSC: [email protected]

Subscribe and access list archives at https://lists.pqca.org/g/oqs-tsc

Discord

Join the PQCA Discord server and reach us on the #oqs-general channel.