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Board meeting dates for 2025
by Julia Kreger 06 Feb '25

06 Feb '25

Greetings Directors, I have scheduled our board meetings for the year based upon the discussion during our January meeting to hold meetings on the Second Tuesday of each month, skipping February due to our January meeting taking place on the 28th of the month. In the event you did not receive the meeting invites, the dates and times for the remaining 2025 meetings are as follows: March 11th, 1500-1700 UTC April 8th, 1500-1700 UTC May 13th, 1500-1700 UTC June 10th, 1500-1700 UTC July 8th, 1500-1700 UTC August 12, 1500-1700 UTC September 9th, 1500-1700 UTC October 14th, 1500-1700 UTC November 11th, 1500-1700 UTC December 9th, 1500-1700 UTC These dates have also been posted to the board wiki[0]. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thanks, -Julia [0]: https://board.openinfra.org/en/home

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Please Share: 2024 OpenInfra Foundation Annual Report
by Allison Price 16 Jan '25

16 Jan '25

Hi OpenInfra Board of Directors, I hope you are having a great start to 2025! First, I wanted to thank you all for your support last year. We just published the 2024 OpenInfra Foundation annual report that highlights the incredible momentum and activity in the OpenInfra Foundation and project communities last year, and we could not have done that without your support and leadership. As we start promoting the community accomplishments over the next few weeks, I would like to ask and encourage you all to share the progress on your social networks as well. After all, you were an instrumental part of supporting these milestones and industry momentum. Below are some links to make it a bit easier, but please share from your personal and company accounts as you would like. Link to 2024 OpenInfra Foundation Annual Report: https://openinfra.org/annual-report/2024 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/openinfra-foundation_openinfra-katacontainer… https://fosstodon.org/@tcarrez/113833258267380525 https://bsky.app/profile/openinfra.org/post/3lfs74potts2y https://x.com/sparkycollier/status/1879562345548279946 We look forward to another productive 2025 with more OpenInfra - with all of you! Thank you again for your continued support! Cheers, Allison Allison Price VP of Marketing & Community p: +1-214-686-6821

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OpenInfra Foundation Meeting of the Board - Tuesday, December 10th, 2024
by Julia Kreger 05 Dec '24

05 Dec '24

Greetings, The next meeting of the OpenInfra Foundation Board of Directors will occur on Tuesday December 10th, 2024. During this meeting, we will revisit and anticipate voting on a budget for the coming year. We will also have our final staff update for the year as we head into the end of the year. Meeting Date: December 10th, 2024 Meeting Time: 1500-1700 UTC Video conference: https://zoom.us/j/96201224963 International dial-in (audio only): https://zoom.us/zoomconference (conference ID #962 0122 4963) To join the session by phone only: +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) OR +1 646 876 9923 US (New York) Meeting ID: 962 0122 4963 Agenda: https://board.openinfra.dev/en/meetings/2024-12-10 Thanks, Julia

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OpenInfra Foundation Meeting of the Board - Monday, November 4th, 2024
by Julia Kreger 31 Oct '24

31 Oct '24

Greetings, The next meeting of the OpenInfra Foundation Board of Directors will occur on Monday, November 4th 2024. During this meeting, we will seat two new directors, receive a staff update, and look forward to 2025 with the budget and goals. Please keep in mind, this meeting is occurring on Monday in order to avoid multiple conflicts for directors on Tuesdays this month. Meeting Date: November 4th, 2024 Meeting Time: 1500-1700 UTC Video conference: https://zoom.us/j/96201224963 International dial-in (audio only): https://zoom.us/zoomconference (conference ID #962 0122 4963) To join the session by phone only: +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) OR +1 646 876 9923 US (New York) Meeting ID: 962 0122 4963 Agenda: https://board.openinfra.dev/en/meetings/2024-11-12 Thanks, Julia

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Following-up on informal project security discussions at OpenInfra Days NA 2024
by Julia Kreger 17 Oct '24

17 Oct '24

Greetings everyone, This week at OpenInfra Days NA, I held a session on resurrecting the project security discussion[0]. I had intended to resurrect this discussion for the past few months, but I was stuck in the middle of dealing with two CVEs. Furthermore there was a leadership meet and greet session where some of the discussion continued as well. At a *high* level, the consensus surfaced in the discussion that the Open Regulatory Compliance working group was the best path to try to identify recommendations and requirements as it relates to what we will likely want to assert for projects and our communities in terms of legal requirements coming from the compliance frameworks. The discussion then pivoted to management of security vulnerability management within projects. Goutham Pacha Ravi, the chair of the OpenStack Technical Committee, was present and agreed that the committee likely needs to implement some sort of process to require projects to actively update security contacts with known active contributors each cycle. Furthermore, consensus in the room surfaced that the OpenStack VMT should likely become mandatory for all OpenStack projects. It should be noted, at present it is not mandatory. It is important to note, this is only the beginning of the discussion of specific changes, and we'll want to follow-up with the Technical Committee in the near future and, depending on those discussions, then make recommendations to our other projects. The concept of a minimum threshold pool of security contacts for each project was also briefly discussed, but it was quickly recognized that it would be a hard policy to implement. An interesting idea came up regarding having some sort of required yearly security training for contributors. While an intriguing concept, there was no specifics on how that might work. One last item to note: During a community leadership meet and greet session[1], some frustration was expressed by community members as to what they perceived as "pressure to retire projects". Specifically the example was the OpenStack Freezer project which was not being actively maintained. The community members sought to understand why there was any pressure. As we are aware, these sorts of decisions revolve around risk management, and we were able to point back to the Murano issue earlier this year as an example why. Discussion pivoted to how might they be able to raise interest, awareness, and collaborators prevent such actions in the future. Understandably, this is difficult when community leadership has already made such attempts and no contributors stepped up to engage. If any director would like to discuss further, please let me know and we can set up a time to discuss. Thanks, -Julia [0]: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/forward-direction [1]: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/leadership-na

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OpenInfra Foundation Meeting of the Board - Tuesday, October 8th, 2024
by Julia Kreger 02 Oct '24

02 Oct '24

Greetings, The next meeting of the OpenInfra Foundation Board of Directors will occur on Tuesday, October 8th 2024. During this meeting, we will review a platinum member application and receive a staff update. Meeting Date : October 8th, 2024 Meeting Time: 1500-1700 UTC Video conference: https://zoom.us/j/96201224963 International dial-in (audio only): https://zoom.us/zoomconference (conference ID #962 0122 4963) To join the session by phone only: +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) OR +1 646 876 9923 US (New York) Meeting ID: 962 0122 4963 Agenda: https://board.openinfra.dev/en/meetings/2024-10-08 Thanks, Julia

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Reminder: November 12th meeting of the board moving to Monday, November 4th
by Julia Kreger 02 Oct '24

02 Oct '24

Greetings Directors, Per our discussion consensus during the last meeting of the board, we agreed to move our November meeting to Monday, November 4th, 2024 from Tuesday, November 12th, 2024. This was to avoid conflicts with KubeCon *and* the US General Election. An update to the meeting invite has been made for board members, and the dates on the board wiki have also been updated. If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know. Thanks! -Julia

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Encouraging feedback loop?
by Julia Kreger 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

Greetings Directors, I hope everyone is doing well! I wanted to reach out because I have had several discussions over the past week which have had a similar conclusion of need. This need is best described as an "active feedback loop". The approach the Foundation has taken over the past few years is to encourage members organizations to send individual contributors into communities to advocate for their problems and/or needs. I know feedback I have personally received is the approach can be successful for some, but it really depends on two factors. The individual's knowledge and skill in the community to self advocate, and the willingness of the community participants to listen. Obviously, depending on the individual project and what is generally going on, the results can vary dramatically, which creates inconsistency and increases friction of participation. Ideally, we all want participation and collaboration to be low friction, but sometimes low friction is just not possible without conveying the business case so the answer to the question of "why?" is mutually understood. And so I think we need to look at creating an intentional or active feedback forum where individuals who can speak in those business case terms can connect and discuss potential multi-member collaborations in the wider community. I don't think of this as something the Board of Directors should directly drive, but after discussion with Allison Price it seems like the foundation staff would like to understand if the board feels this might have value before they work on brainstorming. In an ideal world, I think we would want a forum of individuals who are somewhere in their career between "team leaders" through to "product management" or "business development". This would operate something like a Meta-PTG where we would discourage team level siloing, and focus on problems and challenges in general terms. From there, participants would be encouraged to reach out to collaborate in typical community fashion. The plus side is these individuals should, through their career experience, the business case lexicons and connections to help drive items forward. For those of you who have been around a very long time, this idea might be reminiscent of long past discussions from the early days of OpenStack. I think the decline in travel falling out from the pandemic has hurt the ability for some of these conversations to just happen organically as they once did. As such, I feel we need to find new, if even old ways to build connections enable more collaboration. Thoughts? Interest in participating should we determine a viable format? -Julia

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Please Share! OpenInfra Foundation News & Momentum
by Allison Price 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

Hi everyone, Following last week’s board meeting, I wanted to share some of the media coverage as well as links to the community initiatives. Please share these links with your social networks, teams and customers. It is very exciting to see not only the OpenStack and Kata Containers in the spotlight but also OpenInfra Foundation momentum. The OpenInfra Board of Directors helping to amplify the news would be extremely helpful. This ZDNet article by Steven Vaughan-Nichols reflects on OpenInfra Summit Asia, highlighting OpenInfra Foundation, OpenStack and Kata Containers momentum Share the article <https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-openstack-and-kata-containers-are-both-se…> Share this LinkedIn post <https://www.linkedin.com/posts/markcollier_why-openstack-and-kata-container…> Share this tweet on X <https://x.com/sjvn/status/1833145752782086223> Share this on Mastadon <https://social.openinfra.dev/@OpenInfra/113148602891417911> The VMware Migration Working Group put together a landing page as well as a commissioned white paper to position OpenStack as a virtualization alternative. Landing page <https://www.openstack.org/vmware-migration-to-openstack> White paper <https://www.openstack.org/vmware-migration-to-openstack-white-paper> Article highlighting GEICO’s migration to OpenStack <https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/28/geico_vmware_openstack_migration/> Share this LinkedIn post <https://www.linkedin.com/posts/openstack_openstack-activity-723654281430872…> Share this tweet on X <https://x.com/OpenStack/status/1830863300587905266> Share this on Mastadon <https://social.openinfra.dev/@OpenStack/113072149159023752> The Open Infrastructure Blueprint white paper was a cross-community collaboration highlighting the power of integrating Linux, OpenStack, and Kubernetes. Thank you to everyone whose teams participated! White paper <https://openinfra.dev/open-infrastructure-blueprint-white-paper> Share this LinkedIn post <https://www.linkedin.com/posts/openinfra-foundation_linux-openstack-kuberne…> Share this tweet on X <https://x.com/knelson92/status/1830790447951933934> Share this on Mastadon <https://social.openinfra.dev/@OpenInfra/113071162264476340> We have created a YouTube playlist <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqjY-vzt45oayXLa4aLpMRU> where we will be uploading the OpenInfra Summit Asia videos and some of the keynotes are already available! We will provide an update when all of the breakout sessions are live. Thank you and please let me know if you have any questions. Cheers, Allison Allison Price VP of Marketing & Community OpenInfra Foundation <https://openinfra.dev/> p: +1-214-686-6821

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OpenInfra Foundation Meeting of the Board - Tuesday September 10th, 2024
by Julia Kreger 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

Greetings, The next meeting of the OpenInfra Foundation Board of Directors will occur on Tuesday August 6th at 1500 UTC. During this meeting we will receive a staff update focusing on an update after the OpenInfra Summit which occurred last week. Meeting Date : September 10th, 2024 Meeting Time: 1500-1700 UTC Video conference: https://zoom.us/j/96201224963 International dial-in (audio only): https://zoom.us/zoomconference (conference ID #962 0122 4963) To join the session by phone only: +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) OR +1 646 876 9923 US (New York) Meeting ID: 962 0122 4963 Agenda: https://board.openinfra.dev/en/meetings/2024-09-03 Thanks, Julia

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