RISE Work Groups
About
A RISE Work Group focuses on a specific category of interest. WGs are formed by the RISE TSC and are responsible for:
Coming up with projects to propose to the Board for investment.
Managing proposed project requirements, timelines, and where appropriate project plan.
For net-new project investments (not contributions to existing projects upstream), leading the project execution.
See the Ways of Working document on how a WG operates.
Working Group Consolidation Update
Following approval by the RISE Board and Technical Steering Committee (TSC), the RISE Working Group structure will transition to five consolidated Working Groups effective June 25, 2026:
Enablement / Optimization Working Group
Developer Tooling Working Group
Platform Working Group
AI/ML Working Group
Microcontroller SW Working Group
The consolidated Working Groups bring together related technical areas to improve collaboration, coordination, and project planning across RISE. Existing technical areas, documentation, and project resources will continue to be maintained within their respective consolidated Working Groups.
Mailing lists will transition to the new consolidated Working Group structure on June 25, 2026. Additional information on the consolidated Working Groups, Working Areas, leadership, mailing lists, and wiki resources is provided below.
Working Group | Working Area | Lead(s) | Wiki | Current Mailing List | Legacy Mailing List |
Enablement / Optimization | System Libraries | Ruinland Chuan-Tzu Tsai | Enablement / Optimization WG | enablement-optimization-wg@lists.riseproject.dev | RISE-System-Libraries-WG |
Compilers and Toolchains | Peter Bergner |
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| RISE-Compilers-and-Toolchains-WG | |
Language Runtimes | Jeff Law |
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| RISE-Language-Runtimes-WG | |
Developer Tooling | Developer Infrastructure | Hai Bi, Puneetha Ramachandra | Developer Tooling WG | RISE-Developer-Infrastructure | |
Simulator / Emulator | Daniel Barboza |
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| RISE-Simulator-Emulator-WG | |
Platform | Firmware | Shatrunjay Prabhat | Platform WG | platform-wg@lists.riseproject.dev | RISE-Firmware-WG |
Distro Integration | Brian Harrington |
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| RISE-Distro-Integration-WG | |
Kernel KVM | Sunil V L |
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| RISE-Kernel-KVM-WG | |
Security Software | Robin Randhawa |
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| RISE-Security-Software-WG | |
AI/ML | AI/ML | Hongbin Zhang, Chad Norvell, Min Hsu | AI/ML WG | rise-ai-ml-working-group@lists.riseproject.dev | |
Bare Metal | Bare Metal | Robin Randhawa | Microcontroller SW Working Group |
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Work Group Mailing Lists
Everything is done through https://groups.io/groups. In fact, you can even read and post message through the web interface if you don't want to see it in your regular inbox.
Check your spam folder if you don't see messages.
WG mailing lists are meant to help coordinate the WG's operation without polluting the main RISE TSC list. Usual topics are RISE project prioritization, RISE project scoping, tracking and long term planning. The lists are not meant specifically as an additional place for technical discussions, where these would duplicating existing resources available to upstream projects.
Participation is limited to RISE members.
Work Group Meetings
Meetings and their cadence is at the discretion of each Work Group and its lead. Check the individual WG page for more info.
Also see TSC Meetings for some helpful info on getting access to recordings, resending invites, etc.