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Following up on today's AI policy discussion
by Julia Kreger 25 Jun '25

25 Jun '25

Greetings Board members, First I wanted to thank the board and community members who joined today to discuss changing the policy. It was a good discussion where we were able to also draw on some examples of behaviors and challenges thus far observed, which ultimately helps us drive the discussion forward in a much more informed way. The consensus we have reached leaned more towards revising the policy to highlight assistive nature, while stressing the need for verbose commit messages while also setting the general tone using the Summary. With this, some simplification as well such as removing the example commit message. The draft document[0] where changes are being tracked is still available for comments. With that, I'll work with the staff to determine the next steps. Thanks everyone! -Julia [0]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SqC0qiBPrEj0ATtHPvSc-PrK5_JhBb_qy5NLZt3…

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Invitation: OpenInfra Board Discussion - AI Contribution Policy @ Tue Jun 24, 2025 9am - 10am (PDT) (foundation-board@lists.openinfra.dev)
by Julia Kreger 18 Jun '25

18 Jun '25

OpenInfra Board Discussion - AI Contribution Policy Tuesday Jun 24, 2025 ⋅ 9am – 10am Pacific Time - Los Angeles Location https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86904480239?pwd=HtCQKgGWuyZPRL7lMWHX3MQlVBdve1.1&… https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F8690448023… Greetings Board Members,This is an optional meeting to facilitate discussion and collaboration on revising the AI Contribution Policy.A starting, or resumption point for discussion is this document: If you need any additional access, please let me know. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SqC0qiBPrEj0ATtHPvSc-PrK5_JhBb_qy5NLZt3… Kreger is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86904480239?pwd=HtCQKgGWuyZPRL7lMWHX3MQlVBdve1.1Meeting ID: 869 0448 0239Passcode: 921971---One tap mobile+16699006833,,86904480239#,,,,*921971# US (San Jose)+16694449171,,86904480239#,,,,*921971# US---Dial by your location• +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)• +1 669 444 9171 US• +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)• +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)• +1 719 359 4580 US• +1 253 205 0468 US• +1 507 473 4847 US• +1 564 217 2000 US• +1 646 931 3860 US• +1 689 278 1000 US• +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)• +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)• +1 305 224 1968 US• +1 309 205 3325 US• +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)• +1 360 209 5623 US• +1 386 347 5053 USMeeting ID: 869 0448 0239Passcode: 921971Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kg3am9YHE────────── Organizer Julia Kreger juliaashleykreger(a)gmail.com Guests Julia Kreger - organizer foundation-board(a)lists.openinfra.dev View all guest info https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=MXRoZnFpYjFxMW80… Reply for foundation-board(a)lists.openinfra.dev and view more details https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=MXRoZnFpYjFxMW80… Your attendance is optional. ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email because you are an attendee on the event. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organizer, be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status, or modify your RSVP. Learn more https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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Concluding the AI Policy revision?
by Eoghan Glynn 18 Jun '25

18 Jun '25

(Kicking off the discussion here, since the June board meeting was cancelled) Colleagues, It turns out the proposed "Assisted-By" commit message label is already in use, as can be seen from these two in-flight reviews: nova-specs/+/951222[1] owner: Sean Mooney Assisted-By: deepseek-r1 Assisted-By: google-gemini-flash-2.5 project-team-guide/+/948484[2] owner: Goutham Pacha Ravi Assisted-By: OpenAI ChatGPT (As an aside: there's nice symmetry to the nova-specs one, as I first heard the new "Assisted-By" label suggested by Sean back in early April, in advance of the board discussion) Also worth noting the actual choice of models in this small sample suggests not much weight is being put on the current policy's steer towards: "exclusively using compatible licensed inputs to train the model, using a model released as open source, using a model trained exclusively on compatible licensed code". To catch up with emerging practice, I'd suggest that we augment the formal policy with "Assisted-By" as soon as possible. FWIW, I think we should also simplify, shorten, and make the policy more permissive overall (e.g. by removing the language on the choice of model, and pushing the secondary scanning into the code review or merge gating flow). Though at least we should get the Assisted-By option codified soon. Thanks, Eoghan [1] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/nova-specs/+/951222 [2] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/project-team-guide/+/948484 -- Eoghan Glynn He/Him/His Senior Director, OpenStack Engineering Dublin, Ireland M: +353-86-8175024 <https://www.redhat.com>

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F2F Board meeting collocated with the Paris summit?
by Eoghan Glynn 12 Jun '25

12 Jun '25

Colleagues, We're looking at travel budget for the Paris event right now in my management team at Red Hat, and I was wondering whether the board will likely be following: (a) the South Korea pattern from last year (no collocated board meeting) or: (b) the Berlin/Vancouver model (collocated board meeting the day before Summit kicks off) Thanks, Eoghan -- Eoghan Glynn He/Him/His Senior Director, OpenStack Engineering Dublin, Ireland M: +353-86-8175024 <https://www.redhat.com>

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OpenInfra Foundation staff update, June 2025
by Thierry Carrez 12 Jun '25

12 Jun '25

Hi everyone, Since we are not having an OpenInfra Foundation Board meeting this month, I wanted to provide an OpenInfra Foundation staff update via email as there are many initiatives making progress right now. I want to specifically call out a deadline that is the most important, which is the enrollment of OpenInfra Member organizations in the Linux Foundation. Not only will this impact the eligibility of OpenInfra members moving forward, it also significantly impacts the formation of the initial OpenInfra Foundation Governing Board, which is going to be seated early July. Several of your organizations have not completed the enrollment process; the participation agreement must absolutely be signed before June 30to ensure that your 2025 OIF membership can transfer to the new organization without any lapse.The enrollment process is accessible here <https://enrollment.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/?project=openinfra-foundation>.If you do not know your status, please contact Jimmy McArthur at jimmy(a)openinfra.dev <mailto:jimmy@openinfra.dev>or anyone on the Foundation staff. The rest of the staff update includes LF transition progress and updates organized by the 2025 OpenInfra Foundation goals, including several OpenInfra Summit updates (CFP closes this week!) and ongoing community and marketing initiatives. * LF Progress o As Jonathan previously communicated, the final documents were signed and the deal was closed on June 1st. All of the OpenInfra Foundation staff has successfully transferred to the Linux Foundation and begun onboarding. o The OpenInfra member organizations transition is around 40% complete. It is critical that your organizations complete this process as soon as possible. If you have concerns about the June 30 timeline or questions, please let us know ASAP. The enrollment process can be accessed here <https://enrollment.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/?project=openinfra-foundation>. o Last week, Jonathan posted a blog <https://openinfra.org/blog/openinfra-joins-linux-foundation>providing an update on the LF transition to the OpenInfra community. In the upcoming weeks, additional announcements will be made through the Linux Foundation around Mark and Jonathan’s roles, and I will post my vision specifically for the OpenInfra Foundation and how it fits into this larger strategy on the OpenInfra blog. We will let you all know once these are live. o The inaugural OpenInfra Foundation Governing Board meeting will happen early July. It will cover the initial setup steps, including confirming the 2025 budget for the rest of the year. * Increasing Financial Resilience o Since May 1, the OpenInfra Foundation has added one new Platinum Member, Cachengo, as well as two new Silver members. We have already begun working more closely with the Linux Foundation Sales Team to further accelerate OpenInfra member growth. o AWS donation toward OpenStack’s OpenSearch log cluster has been renewed for 2026 (a $40,000 value). This service <https://governance.openstack.org/sigs/tact-sig.html#opensearch>collects CI job results in one searchable place, so OpenStack developers can filter them by time or other criteria, see simple visualization for most common errors etc. o OpenInfra Summit Europe <https://summit2025.openinfra.org/>sponsorships are progressing well and the team has already exceeded 75% of the sponsorship revenue goal. There is an initial deadline of this Friday, June 13 to sign up as a Summit sponsor to be included in the schedule announcement later this month. The final deadline to sign up as a sponsor is September 26. o Earlier this year, the OpenInfra marketing team initiated targeted marketing collaboration specifically around VMware migration, but have also recently piloted other targeted marketing opportunities that OpenInfra Members can sign up for. If your team is interested and would like to explore options, please reach out to Allison Price. These have also been shared with the marketing teams for all OpenInfra Foundation members. * Sustaining OpenStack Resurgence o Next week, the OpenInfra Member VMware Migration Working Group is publishing an extensive migration guide to further educate the growing market of organizations who are seeking virtualization alternatives to VMware. There will be extensive promotion around this ecosystem collaboration which includes several production case studies and reference architectures. The paper will be available here <https://www.openstack.org/vmware-migration-to-openstack>. o Members of the OpenInfra Foundation staff attended KubeCon Hong Kong this week, and will be attending KubeCon Japan next week, meeting with the community and press to continue elevating the OpenInfra blueprint, recruiting new OpenInfra members, and meeting fellow LF team members. o The OpenStack User Survey <http://openstack.org/usersurvey>is open and will be closing in August for annual analysis. Please encourage your teams and customers to complete the survey as this adoption data is critical to communicating the health of the OpenStack project and market opportunity. o The OpenInfra Foundation team is working with Forrester on finalizing a report specifically around the VMware migration market opportunity and exploring options with other analyst groups on the overall OpenStack market and projections for its economic value in the coming years. We will keep you posted as both of these efforts progress. * Raising Foundation and Project Visibility o The OpenInfra Summit CFP closes this Friday, June 13 at 11:59pm PST. We have already recruited some European user talks including the United Nations and Les Restos du Coeur, a well-known French charity organization who will deliver a keynote about how open infrastructure results in more meals served for those in need, that I am personally very excited about. Please encourage your teams to submit their sessions <https://summit2025.openinfra.org/cfp>and workshops by this deadline. The community-led programming committee will begin working on the selection process immediately so we can publish the official schedule by the end of June. o The first OpenInfra Summit Europe registration price increase will occur on July 2. Ticket prices will double, so please encourage your teams to register by then to secure the early bird price of €60. o The OpenInfra Edge Computing Working Group is publishing a white paper in early July: Next Generation Edge—Edge Computing Architectures for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Use Cases. o The OpenInfra marketing team will be publishing a call to action encouraging the OpenInfra project communities and OpenInfra Members to submit case studies, tutorials and community progress updates to the project blogs, OpenInfra blog, and Superuser. This effort is to maximize the reach of the OpenInfra Foundation, projects, Members, and community efforts. * Meet OpenInfra Staff in person o June 16-19: Jonathan, Mark, and I are attending KubeCon Japan (Tokyo) o June 23-25: Ildikó and Allison are attending Open Source Summit NA (Denver) o June 27: Horace and Mark are attending AICon (Beijing) o July 3: Jimmy is attending Cloud Operator Days Tokyo o July 28: Jimmy is attending OpenInfra Days Vietnam (Hanoi) o July 12: Kendall is attending Open Source Contribution Academy (Seoul) o July 31-August 3: Ildikó is attending FOSSY (Portland) o August 25-27: Ildikó and I will be attending Open Source Summit EU (Amsterdam) o August 26: Jimmy is attending OpenInfra Days Korea (Seoul) Lots of collaboration opportunities ahead! Hoping to see you in person somewhere soon ! -- Thierry Carrez General Manager, OpenInfra Foundation

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F2F Board meeting collocated with the Paris summit?
by Eoghan Glynn 10 Jun '25

10 Jun '25

Colleagues, We're looking at travel budget for the Paris event right now in my management team at Red Hat, and I was wondering whether the board will likely be following: (a) the South Korea pattern from last year (no collocated board meeting) or: (b) the Berlin/Vancouver model (collocated board meeting the day before Summit kicks off) Thanks, Eoghan -- Eoghan Glynn He/Him/His Senior Director, OpenStack Engineering Dublin, Ireland M: +353-86-8175024 <https://www.redhat.com>

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