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OpenStack Foundation

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Foundation Mission

The OpenStack Foundation is an independent body providing shared resources to help achieve the OpenStack Mission by Protecting, Empowering, and Promoting OpenStack software and the community around it, including users, developers and the entire ecosystem.

Latest: http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/Mission

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July 2010 OpenStack community establishe

d

October 2011Announced plans

to launch independent Foundation in

2012

April 2012 19 companies

announce support for Foundation; form Drafting Committee

Jan/Feb 2012

Created framework

for Foundation

as a community

June/July 2012 Drafting

committee produces and

publishes three rounds of legal

documents

July 18, 2012 Final legal documents posted for ratification

Road to the OpenStack Foundation

August 2012 Individual &

Gold Director elections; first

Board of Directors meeting

Sept 19, 2012 OpenStack Foundation

Launch!

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Foundation Approach

Provide a permanent legal home for OpenStack, with broad industry support and the resources to support OpenStack’s success

While preserving what’s working – a.k.a. the “OpenStack Way”‣ Technical people making technical decisions based on merit‣ Dedicated resources building the community and ecosystem‣ A strong ecosystem of companies making money‣ Encouraging and rewarding contribution in all forms

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Membership of the Foundation: Three types

Individual Members participate in the community on their own or as part of their paid employment. It’s free to join as an Individual Member and Individual Members have the right to run for, and vote for, a number of leadership positions.

Platinum Members are companies that make a significant and strategic commitment to OpenStack in funding and resources. Each of the eight Platinum Members each appoint a representative to the Board of Directors.‣AT&T, Canonical, HP, IBM, Nebula, Rackspace, Red Hat, and SUSE

Gold Members are companies that provide funding and resources, but at a lower level than Platinum Members, and fees are on a sliding scale according to revenue. Gold Members as a class elect eight representatives to the Board of Directors. ‣Cisco, Cloudscaling, Dell, DreamHost, ITRI, Mirantis, Morphlabs, NetApp, Piston Cloud Computing and Yahoo! are Gold Members, with Intel, NEC and Vmware joining in September

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What does an Individual Member do?

• Run for an elected position such as Project Technical Lead, Technical Committee Member, or Board of Directors

• Vote in elections such as for the Board of Directors or major revisions to Foundation bylaws and structure

• Stay informed of the latest OpenStack news through member updates, and talk to your Individual Member representatives about issues that are important to you

• Advocate for and contribute to the OpenStack community• Be respectful, wear your “OpenStack Hat” when handling

community issues, and abide by the OpenStack community code of conduct

• Individual membership is free – openstack.org/join

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Board of DirectorsResponsibilities

‣Oversees Foundation operations

‣Sets overall budget & goals

‣Advocates for the Foundation and the entire OpenStack community

Membership

‣Individual Members elect 1/3 of the seats (8)

‣Gold Members elect 1/3 of the seats (8)

‣Platinum Members appoint 1/3 of the seats (8)

‣Members must follow a code of conduct, committing to advancing OpenStack, staying active in the community, and performing their duties with integrity

‣No one company may control more than two board seats

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Project Technical Leads

Nova PTL Vish Ishaya

Responsibilities

‣Manage day to day operations for their project

‣Drive the project goals

‣Make tough calls and resolve disputes when needed

‣Also serve on the Technical Committee

Membership

‣Each OpenStack Core project elects one PTL

‣Elected by Active Project Contributors

‣Serve six month term through release cycle, but can be re-elected indefinitely

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Technical CommitteeResponsibilities

‣Evolution of the Project Policy Board (PPB)

‣Independent and meritocratic, responsible for software development and direction

‣Set technical policies that cross projects

‣Determine which new projects are “incubated”

‣Recommend which “incubated” projects should become “core” OpenStack

Membership

‣Fully elected by Active Technical Contributors and Active Project Contributors

‣13 total members, comprised of 8 Project Technical Leads, elected every six months, and 5 directly elected members, elected on a staggered basis for one-year terms

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User CommitteeResponsibilities

‣New committee established to advocate for users with Board of Directors and Technical Committee

‣Close the feedback loop to make sure we’re developing software that is meeting user needs

Membership

‣Tim Bell of CERN appointed by Board to establish committee

‣Mix of enterprise, service provider and govt/academic research users

‣Exact structure to be determined, get involved to help out!

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Foundation Staff & Roles ‣Executive Director Jonathan Bryce hires & manages staff, reports to Board ‣Small, globally distributed team of 10-12 employees‣Most important employed positions are focused on coordinating the larger community resources in an independent way (e.g. testing infrastructure, community management, marketing/event management) ‣Legal affairs will likely require an independent attorney; possibly outside counsel on retainer‣We’re hiring for several positions! openstack.org/jobs

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Example Foundation Services ‣ Large scale testing and continuous integration

coordination

‣ Tools to help developers contribute code easily

‣ Event management (Summit & Conf, other regional events)

‣ Legal (CLA process, trademark management & defense)

‣ Educational resources to help developers, sys admins, users, CIOs, evaluate and implement OpenStack

‣ Promotion of the OpenStack brand, including webinars, case studies, TCO studies, user interviews, and press outreach for member companies to leverage when promoting their OpenStack-powered products

‣ Promotion of ecosystem building OpenStack businesses

‣ "State of OpenStack” reports covering topics like the OpenStack Jobs outlook, OpenStack economic impact

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Summary - Foundation Priorities

The Foundation will provide a set of independent, shared resources to further the OpenStack Mission. Key priorities include:

‣ User adoption, globally and across all industries

‣ Growing and enabling the ecosystem and tools vendors

‣ Delivering the best cloud software