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February 2026

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LF Member Summit in Napa, CA
by Thierry Carrez 12 Feb '26

12 Feb '26

Hi everyone, I was wondering if any of you is going to be present at the LF Member Summit in Napa in two weeks? If yes we should definitely plan to meet! From the OpenInfra staff we'll have Jonathan, Mark, Wes, Horace, Jimmy and myself present. See you there? Thierry Carrez General Manager, OpenInfra Foundation

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Pytorch Foundation, My new role
by mark＠openinfra.dev 12 Feb '26

12 Feb '26

Hi Folks - I wanted to let you all know that I am adding a new hat this week at the Linux Foundation to my hat collection. I am stepping into the role of Executive Director of the Pytorch Foundation. The previous Executive Director, Matt White, is now CTO. The Pytorch Foundation is going through a similar evolution as we've navigated at OpenInfra, expanding beyond it's original mandate (all things Pytorch!) to host other critical project for AI like vLLM, DeepSpeed and Ray. When we discussed the idea of merging with the Linux Foundation, one of the hopes was that Jonathan and I would have an opportunity to explore leading other critical open source projects and foundations and that is really picking up steam in less than year. I'm still involved in OpenInfra, still love OpenStack, and you can definitely expect to see me at the event in Shanghai which will feature OpenInfra Summit, Kubecon, AND a Pytorch Conference. I'm really excited by what we've been able to get done in less than a year as part of the LF. Thierry has done a magnificent job as GM and the team is all doing an amazing job. OpenStack looks to be continuing its comeback with an extra boost from vmware migrations and AI infra build out, not to mention sovereignty. Kata is now being used for AI agent sandboxes, which are super hot right now, and I keep hearing about new Starlingx interest. When it comes to Zuul, I personally think there's the rise of coding agents will make testing even more valuable and I expect great things there this year. Thank you for all of the support over the many years we've all been working together! Mark Read more: https://pytorch.org/blog/why-im-joining-the-pytorch-foundation/

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