By now you may have heard the news: The OpenInfra Foundation Board has voted to take the next steps in joining forces with the Linux Foundation. As one who helped create the OpenInfra Foundation…
ByJonathan Bryce on 12/03/2025
The OpenInfra Diversity & Inclusion Working Group The OpenInfra Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Working Group was created to foster a welcoming environment within the global community by lowering…
ByAllison Price on 26/02/2025
2024 — A Year in Review As mentioned in Jonathan Bryce's blog post and introduction to the 2024 OpenInfra Foundation Annual Report, 2024 was a good year for OpenInfra. Partnered with a surge in open…
ByAllison Price on 29/01/2025
Today, the OpenInfra Foundation seated our 2025 Board of Directors kicking off another year furthering our mission of supporting open source infrastructure communities. First, I want to thank Shuquan…
ByJonathan Bryce on 28/01/2025
The second of OpenInfra Foundation’s key goals for 2024 was to act to support and strengthen OpenInfra projects. OpenStack, Kata Containers, StarlingX and Zuul are all at different stages of a project…
ByAllison Price on 27/01/2025
The last of OpenInfra Foundation’s key goals for 2024 was to increase OpenInfra’s impact. We reviewed all of our activities with an eye toward reinforcing the OpenInfra brand and increasing awareness…
ByAllison Price on 23/01/2025
One of the OpenInfra Foundation’s key goals for 2024 was to act to protect OpenInfra’s vision of open source: an incredible engine to drive innovation forward and make it accessible to everyone. This…
ByThierry Carrez on 22/01/2025
In retrospect, 2024 turned out to be a much more exciting year for Open Infrastructure than I anticipated. At the OpenInfra Foundation, we made tremendous progress toward our 2024 goals of protecting…
ByJonathan Bryce on 14/01/2025
The OpenInfra Member: VMware Migration Working Group was formed earlier this year to help educate and inform organizations looking to move their workloads from VMware to OpenStack. As part of this…
ByAllison Price on 19/11/2024
Last month, over 650 community members collaborated during 54 different online meetings to discuss next steps in developing open source infrastructure software. Over 34 teams participated representing…
ByAllison Price on 07/11/2024
The Open Infrastructure (OpenInfra) Foundation today announced that Rackspace Technology (NASDAQ:RXT), co-creator of OpenStack, the world’s most widely deployed open source cloud infrastructure…
ByAllison Price on 22/10/2024
The artificial intelligence (AI) landscape is evolving at an increasingly rapid pace. At the OpenInfra Foundation, we build open source software that lets you provide infrastructure to run modern…
ByMark Collier on 13/06/2024
The Apereo Foundation, a global open source software community serving higher education institutions, is proud to announce its newest milestone in fostering open source collaboration and community…
ByThierry Carrez on 18/12/2023
The Community-Powered, Regional OpenInfra Summit Asia 2024 For the past decade, the OpenInfra Summit, formerly known as the OpenStack Summit, has provided a centralized opportunity for the global…
ByAllison Price on 14/12/2023
The Open Infrastructure Foundation, a global non-profit organization facilitating development and promoting the use of open source solutions in infrastructure, joins other leading open source…
ByThierry Carrez on 26/05/2023
The Open Infrastructure (OpenInfra) Foundation today announced two new members of its Associate Member category: the Python Software Foundation and the Rust Foundation. Python and Rust programming…
ByThierry Carrez on 22/03/2023
Mark your calendar for two opportunities to innovate in person with the global OpenInfra Community; also, learn more about OpenInfra Live and regional OpenStack and OpenInfra Days near you. The…
ByAllison Price on 07/06/2022
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, the OpenInfra Foundation (formerly the OpenStack Foundation) builds communities who write open source infrastructure software that runs in production…
ByAllison Price on 07/06/2022
The Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra Foundation) announced today that it has added the ability to directly fund specific projects and is “open for business” to those organizations who want to…
ByAllison Price on 07/06/2022
The Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra Foundation) announced today that Bloomberg and Vexxhost have become Foundation’s newest Gold Members. Bloomberg is a global finance, media and technology…
ByAllison Price on 07/06/2022
Open source is built on the foundation of community, and community suffers when aggression of any kind is the preferred choice for resolving divergent points of view. We stand with our community…
ByMark Collier on 04/03/2022
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION WORKING GROUP The Diversity and Inclusion Working Group continued reaching out to the OIF projects and inviting them to join our efforts and expand beyond the OpenStack project…
ByAllison Price on 14/02/2022
OPENINFRA LIVE Going into the second year of pandemic related travel restrictions and in-person event cancellations, 2021 presented a unique set of challenges to our ongoing efforts to gather and…
ByErin Disney on 09/02/2022
OPENINFRA USER GROUPS Helena Spease, Marketing & Community Associate, OpenInfra Foundation In 2021, we saw 951 new members join various User Groups across the globe. The Indonesia OpenStack User Group…
ByAllison Price on 07/02/2022
This year we introduced a new class of non-voting members of the Foundation called the Associate member class. It was created on June 29, 2021 by a resolution of the Foundation Board of Directors, in…
ByThierry Carrez on 02/02/2022
In its Wednesday meeting, the Board of the Open Infrastructure (OpenInfra) Foundation laid the groundwork for the next ten years of open infrastructure growth by seating its most diverse board…
ByAllison Price on 01/02/2022
This was the first year that the OpenInfra Foundation began operating under a new name and things have changed dramatically since 2012 when we created the OpenStack Foundation. Our mission is to build…
ByJimmy McArthur on 31/01/2022
When 2021 began, we were celebrating the launch of the OpenInfra Foundation and seating our new Board of Directors. At that time, I concluded my annual letter to the community by predicting “the next…
ByJonathan Bryce on 28/01/2022
While 2021 was a year of continued uncertainty around a pandemic that still hasn't quite managed to end, for many it was also a year of contemplation. The trend has many different names, including the…
ByAllison Randal on 26/01/2022
We are at a time when we need more infrastructure than ever before and there are more open source technologies than ever before. At the intersection of infrastructure and open source, you have open…
ByJonathan Bryce on 17/11/2021
The OpenInfra Foundation is excited to welcome Monash University as the latest organization to join the Foundation as an Associate Member. Monash University joins Boston University, CERN, Open Source…
ByThierry Carrez on 04/11/2021
The Open Infrastructure Foundation announces the joining of its newest Gold Member, Nipa Technology Co., a leading cloud service provider based in Thailand. Nipa Technology Co., commonly known as Nipa…
ByAllison Price on 28/10/2021
The Open Infrastructure (OpenInfra) Foundation today unveiled a new virtual event—and the return of its flagship in-person event, the OpenInfra Summit. OpenInfra Live: Keynotes is a new virtual event…
ByAllison Price on 06/10/2021
ORock® Technologies, Inc., a high-performance hybrid cloud service provider built on OpenStack and certified by FedRAMP and the Department of Defense, today announced that it has joined the Open…
ByAllison Price on 17/09/2021
OpenInfra Foundationhas signed an agreement with Microsoft as the newest Platinum Member. With this multi-year commitment, the OpenInfra community will work closely with Microsoft to advance open…
ByJonathan Bryce on 07/09/2021
The Open Infrastructure (OpenInfra) Foundation today announced five inaugural members of its new Associate Member category. Boston University, CERN, Open Source Business Alliance - Federal Association…
ByAllison Price on 01/09/2021
SambaNova Systems, the company building the industry’s most advanced software, hardware, and services to run AI applications, today announced a strategic partnership with ORock Technologies, Inc., a…
ByAllison Price on 26/08/2021
AUSTIN, Texas — June 29, 2021 — The Open Infrastructure (OpenInfra) Foundation today announced the schedule of upcoming episodes for its recently launched OpenInfra Live series of one-hour virtual…
ByAllison Price on 29/06/2021
OpenInfra Foundation Platinum Member Red Hat is providing $551.9 million USD in software subscriptions and resources to the Hariri Institute’s open research cloud initiative, in addition to $2…
ByMark Collier on 27/04/2021
All-new control plane in Airship 2.0 is built on Kubernetes, with cluster API multi-cloud provisioning and other cloud-native tools; Helm 3 and the Flux Helm Controller are integrated, offering better…
ByAllison Price on 21/04/2021
Over the last year, we have been trying to create the perfect virtual event configuration to support our community contributors as they meet and build software that runs in production. After feedback…
ByErin Disney on 15/04/2021
Improvements to role-based access control (RBAC) and integration with other open source projects including Ceph, Kubernetes and Prometheus to strengthen open infrastructure for cloud native…
ByAllison Price on 14/04/2021
At the first virtual Open Infrastructure Summit in 2020, Open Infrastructure Foundation officially announced its ongoing evolution to build open source communities that write infrastructure software…
BySunny Cai on 06/04/2021
Over the last few years, we’ve been steering our Foundation through a series of transitions to align with the evolution of our community and the changing landscape of open source and cloud. This…
ByJonathan Bryce on 28/01/2021
AUSTIN, Texas — January 27, 2021 — The Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra Foundation) today announced that the Foundation Board of Directors has expanded to 27 individuals, including Amar…
ByAllison Price on 27/01/2021
One week from today on February 3, the Magma community will be hosting the Magma Developers Conference. This virtual conference will be an opportunity to hear from Magma developers as they share more…
ByKendall Waters Perez on 25/01/2021
The open source community mourns the loss of Dan Kohn, one of its key advocates. Always joyful and approachable, Dan was instrumental in forming a cloud-native ecosystem on top of Kubernetes at the…
ByJonathan Bryce on 06/11/2020
The Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra Foundation) was just announced as the successor to the OpenStack Foundation (OSF) by Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenInfra Foundation during…
ByJonathan Bryce on 19/10/2020