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NEW - Next Generation Edge: Edge Computing Architectures for AI and ML Use Cases whitepaper
by Ildiko Vancsa 09 Jul '25

09 Jul '25

Hi All, I'm reaching out to you to draw your attention to a new whitepaper, published by the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group. The working group has been set out to explore the technology area of the intersection between edge computing and AI, to understand the demands, needs, requirements and start building the architecture models that can support them. This whtepaper serves as a technology foundation for the Edge AI space for anyone who's considering, or already using AI at the edge. Learn more about the effort: https://openinfra.org/blog/where-do-next-generation-edge-and-ai-intersect You can also access the Next Generation Edge: Edge Computing Architectures for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Use Cases whitepaper directly: http://openstack.org/use-cases/edge-computing/next-generation-edge-edge-com… Are you already using AI at the Edge or planning to? Have you built your Edge AI architecture with OpeInfra projects, or in the process of? We want to hear from you! Get involved in the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group and share your use case, requirements and stories about building and operating Edge Ai infrastructure: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Group_Resources You can also catch the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group at the upcoming OpenInfra Summit Europe, and check out our presentation, Next Generation Edge: Edge Computing Architectures for AI/ML Use Cases, about the whitepaper and further deveopments in the Edge AI area: https://summit2025.openinfra.org/a/schedule#event=26402 You can also reach out to me directly with any questions, comments or to have a chat about the paper and next steps! Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community OpenInfra Foundation

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First OpenInfra Governing Board (Was OpenInfra Board of Directors) Meeting
by Julia Kreger 07 Jul '25

07 Jul '25

Greeting, The first meeting of the OpenInfra Governing Board will be held on Tuesday, July 8th, at 1500 UTC. During this meeting we will be seating the Governing board and setting up the basic structures similar to how we setup the OpenInfra Board of Directors. We also anticipate a short staff update, and a further discussion regarding our AI generated contribution policy if time permits. Thanks, -Julia [0]: https://board.openinfra.org/meetings/2025-07-08

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OpenInfra Summit Europe Schedule & Promotion Materials
by Allison Price 01 Jul '25

01 Jul '25

Hi everyone, I hope you have seen that earlier today we published the agenda for the OpenInfra Summit Europe. I am really excited about the lineup and the diversity of topics we have represented. Below are blogs we posted today highlighting the sessions by OpenInfra project. In the upcoming weeks, we will be highlighting different topics, particularly AI, digital sovereignty and VMware Migration as these topics are prominent within the agenda as well as market interest. Please share the below links and attached image to your networks and with your team. Registration prices increase tomorrow, July 2 at 11:59pm PT, so please make sure your teams and customers are aware. OpenStack: https://www.openstack.org/blog/exploring-openstack-at-openinfra-summit-euro… Kata Containers: https://katacontainers.io/blog/kata-containers-openinfra-summit-eu-2025-sch… StarlingX: https://www.starlingx.io/blog/starlingx-openinfra-summit-eu-2025-schedule/ Zuul: https://zuul-ci.org/blog/#20250701a The full schedule is available here: https://summit2025.openinfra.org/a/schedule/ I will follow up soon with complimentary registration codes for OpenInfra Board members. If you have any questions in the meantime, please let me know. Cheers, Allison

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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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Cancelling the June meeting of the Board
by Julia Kreger 28 May '25

28 May '25

Greetings everyone, After consulting with the Foundation staff, the decision has been made to cancel the June meeting of the Board. This possibility was mentioned during our last meeting of the board as the staff is busy focusing on our merger into the Linux Foundation's structure. If you have any matters for the board, please feel free to contact me and we'll figure it out. We anticipate our first meeting of the Governing Board to occur during our scheduled meeting for July 8th. -Julia

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OpenInfra Foundation Board of Directors Meeting, May 13th, 2025 at 1500-1700 UTC
by Julia Kreger 09 May '25

09 May '25

Greetings everyone, The next meeting of the OpenInfra Board of Directors will occur on Tuesday, May 13th 2025 at 1500 UTC. During the meeting, the board anticipates reviewing a member application, receiving updates from staff including status on the LF transition and the OpenInfra Summit happening later this year. Finally, the board anticipates briefly stopping over with the compensation committee and revisiting the AI generated contribution policy. Meeting Date: May 13th, 2025 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.org/en/meetings/2025-05-13 Thanks, Julia

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Call for Agenda Items
by Julia Kreger 05 May '25

05 May '25

Greeting Directors, The next meeting of the board is coming up on May 13th. As such I've posted an initial agenda[0] based upon the information I have at this time. If you have any additional items to add to the agenda, please let me know. Thanks! -Julia [0]: https://board.openinfra.org/meetings/2025-05-13

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Following up on AI Generated Contribution Discussion
by Julia Kreger 05 May '25

05 May '25

Greetings everyone, During our last board meeting, we revisited the AI Generated Contribution policy discussion and I'm curious if other board members would be interested in having an informal call to discuss possible changes and begin to organize a revision to the current policy. Would 16:00 UTC next Tuesday work for interested parties? Thanks, -Julia

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Invitation: Informal Board Discussion - Revising AI contribution Policy @ Tue May 6, 2025 9am - 10am (PDT) (foundation-board@lists.openinfra.dev)
by Julia Kreger 25 Apr '25

25 Apr '25

Informal Board Discussion - Revising AI contribution Policy Tuesday May 6, 2025 ⋅ 9am – 10am Pacific Time - Los Angeles Location https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85391089541?pwd=yhIF9XaEQwbaP8wb7z21hOtJUTW9Zi.1&… https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F8539108954… An Etherpad is located at https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/board-informal-ai-contribution which includes the meeting link.──────────Julia Kreger is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85391089541?pwd=yhIF9XaEQwbaP8wb7z21hOtJUTW9Zi.1Meeting ID: 853 9108 9541Passcode: 191752---One tap mobile+16699006833,,85391089541#,,,,*191752# US (San Jose)+16694449171,,85391089541#,,,,*191752# US---Dial by your location• +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)• +1 669 444 9171 US• +1 719 359 4580 US• +1 253 205 0468 US• +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)• +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)• +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 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)Meeting ID: 853 9108 9541Passcode: 191752Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kK4MuYMTz────────── Organizer Julia Kreger jkreger(a)gmail.com Guests Julia Kreger - organizer jkreger(a)redhat.com Julia Kreger amy(a)demarco.com eglynn(a)redhat.com foundation-board(a)lists.openinfra.dev - optional View all guest info https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=M3J2am12ajZjNjFh… Reply for foundation-board(a)lists.openinfra.dev and view more details https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=M3J2am12ajZjNjFh… 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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Re: Following up on AI Generated Contribution Discussion
by Julia Kreger 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Personally, I generally prefer giving folks as much notice as possible. If the week after would work, I suspect we may have better attendance for a focused discussion. Would 1600 UTC on May 6th work for you? Honestly, I suspect the foundation mailing list not be ideal to solicit such discussion, but your email does float the overall idea of possible change incoming, so it is a logical progression to drive into focused discussions to move such a topic forward. -Julia On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 7:31 AM Eoghan Glynn <eglynn(a)redhat.com> wrote: > > > Definitely interested since I brought the topic up ... though I'll be travelling to a customer onsite next week, so may not be able to join. This week or the week after would suit me better. > > FWIW after the last board meeting, I didn't get any responses to this. > > Cheers, > Eoghan > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM Julia Kreger <juliaashleykreger(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Greetings everyone, >> >> During our last board meeting, we revisited the AI Generated >> Contribution policy discussion and I'm curious if other board members >> would be interested in having an informal call to discuss possible >> changes and begin to organize a revision to the current policy. Would >> 16:00 UTC next Tuesday work for interested parties? >> >> Thanks, >> >> -Julia >> _______________________________________________ >> Foundation-board mailing list -- foundation-board(a)lists.openinfra.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to foundation-board-leave(a)lists.openinfra.org >>

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Revising the AI Generated Content policy
by Eoghan Glynn 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

Fellow community members, The Foundation board meeting <https://board.openinfra.org/meetings/2025-04-08> today discussed some potential changes to the OpenInfra AI Generated Content Policy <https://openinfra.org/legal/ai-policy> that we adopted as a community almost a year ago. For the OpenStack projects at least (these just happen to be the ones I looked at), the current usage of the "Generated-By:" label in landed commit messages is vanishingly low. After some discussion with individual contributors on why it isn't being more widely used, it seems that the tab-completion/predictive style of AI tool usage isn't always well described by the "Generated-By:" label. The suggestive style of tool usage seems to be most prevalent in reality, whereas generating *entire* code artifacts via progressively refined prompts seems to be less common. Contributors may be reluctant to grant co-authorship "credit" to an AI when the code suggested by the tool was subsequently heavily reworked by them, and/or only constituted only a small fraction of the LOCs in the patch series. So the idea has been floated to augment the policy with a further label that has a softer connotation, perhaps "Assisted-By:" or something of that nature. That change might only need to impact a single section of the policy[1]. The goal here would simply be to make it more likely that any usage of AI tools to co-create community code is accurately reflected in our commit messages. We will likely spin up a working group or subcommittee of the board to discuss the proposed policy revision. We will also check what other FOSS communities are doing, since the current "Generated-By:" label was originally inspired by the Apache Software Foundation generative tooling guidance <https://www.apache.org/legal/generative-tooling.html>. Thanks, Eoghan [1] " - For contributions created using a Predictive AI tool: - If your commit includes substantial suggestions from the tool, add the “Generated-By” label to your commit message and explain in comments or the commit message any context the reviewers might need to understand the change and how much of the change came from the tool. " -- 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 Board of Directors Meeting, April 8th, 2025 at 1500-1700 UTC
by Julia Kreger 02 Apr '25

02 Apr '25

Greetings, The next meeting of the OpenInfra Foundation Board of Directors will occur on Tuesday April 8th, 2025. During this meeting, we anticipate staff updates which will include details regarding OpenInfra Summit 2025. We also expect the board to discuss Community Discussion and Interaction feedback received at SCaLE last month, and revisiting the AI Generated contribution policy. Meeting Date: April 8th, 2025 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.org/meetings/2025-04-08 Thanks, Julia

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OpenInfra Summit Europe Scheduled for October 2025
by Allison Price 25 Mar '25

25 Mar '25

Hi everyone, I wanted to share the exciting news that we have officially scheduled the OpenInfra Summit Europe for October 17-19, 2025, at École Polytechnique near Paris, France. The event will be targeting 1,000-1,500 attendees. We will be announcing this update in an OpenInfra blog post this morning, but I wanted to share the dates and venue with you in advance. You can read the announcement here: https://openinfra.dev/blog/openinfra-summit-2025. The website will be updated soon, but we wanted to get this information out ASAP so the community and ecosystem can start planning. We are very excited to have over 20 community volunteers who are helping to make this Summit happen. If you have members of your team who would like to participate, please have them email Helena Spease at helena(a)openinfra.dev <mailto:helena@openinfra.dev>. Next week, we will be launching registration, the CFP as well as sponsorship opportunities and plan to promote the event at KubeCon EU. A few things that are still in the works: We are working to add some co-located events, including potential on-site collaboration with the Ceph and Kubernetes communities. We are exploring the possibility of hosting a Virtualization Migration Day for organizations to highlight their VMware migration experience and build more OpenStack awareness as a virtualization alternative given feedback from OpenInfra member organizations and momentum behind this market opportunity. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions, and I look forward to connecting more when the official announcement goes live. Thank you for all of your patience as we pulled these details together. Cheers, Allison Allison Price VP of Marketing & Community p: +1-214-686-6821

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OpenInfra Foundation Board of Directors Meeting, March 11th, 2025 at 1500-1700 UTC
by Julia Kreger 07 Mar '25

07 Mar '25

Greetings, The next meeting of the OpenInfra Foundation Board of Directors will occur on Tuesday March 11th, 2025. During this meeting, we anticipate an executive session and votes related to the pending strategic opportunity which has been under recent discussion. We also anticipate a staff update, time permitting. Please anticipate this meeting to run longer than our typical board meetings. Meeting Date: March 11th, 2025 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.org/en/meetings/2025-03-11 Thanks, Julia

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Call for Agenda Items - March meeting of the Board
by Julia Kreger 26 Feb '25

26 Feb '25

Greetings Directors, Our next meeting of the board is scheduled for March 11th. While I anticipate we may wish to vote on the under-discussion strategic consideration[0] and will draft an agenda accordingly, if you have any other topics for the Board meeting please let me know before Friday morning US-Pacific time so I may include them into the agenda. Thanks! -Julia [0]: https://board.openinfra.org/en/strategic-consideration

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Board meeting dates for 2025
by Julia Kreger 05 Feb '25

05 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 15 Jan '25

15 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 04 Dec '24

04 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 30 Oct '24

30 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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