Apereo Foundation Joins the Open Infrastructure Foundation

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…

By Thierry Carrez on 18/12/2023

Introducing 2024’s Community-Powered, Regional OpenInfra Summit Asia and OpenInfra Days Europe

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…

By Allison Price on 14/12/2023

OpenInfra Foundation Expresses Concern over Proposed EU Cyber Resilience Act

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…

By Thierry Carrez on 26/05/2023

OpenInfra Foundation Welcomes Python and Rust Foundations as Associate Members

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…

By Thierry Carrez on 22/03/2023

Save the Dates for the Next PTG and OpenInfra Summit

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…

By Allison Price on 07/06/2022

The OpenInfra Community is Thriving

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…

By Allison Price on 07/06/2022

‘Open for Business’: OpenInfra Foundation Launches ‘Directed Funding’ for OpenInfra Project Hosting, Replicating Success of OpenStack, Kata Containers, StarlingX

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…

By Allison Price on 07/06/2022

OpenInfra Foundation Welcomes Bloomberg and Vexxhost as Gold Members of the Foundation

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…

By Allison Price on 07/06/2022

Ukraine

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…

By Mark Collier on 04/03/2022

2021 OpenInfra Annual Report: OpenInfra Working Groups (WG)

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…

By Allison Price on 14/02/2022

2021 OpenInfra Annual Report: OpenInfra Events

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…

By Erin Disney on 09/02/2022

2021 OpenInfra Annual Report: OpenInfra Community & Mentoring Programs

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…

By Allison Price on 07/02/2022

2021 OpenInfra Annual Report: Openinfra Foundation Associate Members

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…

By Thierry Carrez on 02/02/2022

Open Infrastructure Foundation Seats A Diverse Board Leadership Group, Appoints GM to Support Next Ten Years of OpenInfra Growth

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…

By Allison Price on 01/02/2022

2021 OpenInfra Annual Report: OpenInfra Foundation Membership Growth

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…

By Jimmy McArthur on 31/01/2022

2021 OpenInfra Annual Report: Openinfra Delivers More, More, More

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…

By Jonathan Bryce on 28/01/2022

2021 OpenInfra Annual Report: Chair’s Note

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…

By Allison Randal on 26/01/2022

LOKI: The OpenInfra Standard

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…

By Jonathan Bryce on 17/11/2021

Monash University Joins OpenInfra Foundation as Associate Member

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…

By Thierry Carrez on 04/11/2021

Open Infrastructure Foundation Welcomes Nipa Cloud of Thailand as Gold Member of the Foundation

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…

By Allison Price on 28/10/2021

Walmart, Workday and Other OpenInfra Users to Share Why Their Clouds Are Growing at the First ‘OpenInfra Live: Keynotes’ Event

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…

By Allison Price on 06/10/2021

ORock Technologies Makes History as the First & Only OpenStack FedRAMP-Compliant Cloud to Join OpenInfra Foundation

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…

By Allison Price on 17/09/2021

OpenInfra Foundation Welcomes Microsoft as Newest Member to Advance Open Infrastructure Use Cases, Hybrid Cloud and 5G, Using Open Source Technologies OpenStack and Airship

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…

By Jonathan Bryce on 07/09/2021

Open Infrastructure Foundation Welcomes Boston University, CERN, Open Source Business Alliance, OW2 and SODA Foundation as Inaugural Group of Associate Members

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…

By Allison Price on 01/09/2021

Organizations Gain Access to the Most Advanced AI Solutions with SambaNova and ORock Technologies Offering Highest Performance Models in a Secure Cloud

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…

By Allison Price on 26/08/2021

Open Infrastructure Foundation Unveils OpenInfra Live Virtual Event Schedule

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…

By Allison Price on 29/06/2021

Red Hat Provides $551.9 Million in Software Subscriptions to Boston University, Advancing Mission of OpenInfra Labs

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…

By Mark Collier on 27/04/2021

Airship 2.0 Arrives, Delivering Support for Public Cloud, Bare Metal With Simplified Architecture, Smaller Footprint, Faster Deployments

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…

By Allison Price on 21/04/2021

Introducing OpenInfraLive: A Weekly, Interactive Webinar Series

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…

By Erin Disney on 15/04/2021

800+ Contributors Worldwide Deliver 23rd OpenStack Release, Wallaby

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…

By Allison Price on 14/04/2021

OpenInfra Foundation Marketing Case Study - InMotion Hosting

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…

By Sunny Cai on 06/04/2021

Join Us in Building the Next Decade of Open Infrastructure

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…

By Jonathan Bryce on 28/01/2021

Open Infrastructure Foundation Seats Its First Board of Directors, Including Engineers from Ant Group, Facebook and Red Hat

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…

By Allison Price on 27/01/2021

Magma Developer Conference

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…

By Kendall Waters Perez on 25/01/2021

Remembering Dan Kohn

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…

By Jonathan Bryce on 06/11/2020

Introducing the Open Infrastructure Foundation: Building Open Source Communities Who Write Software to Run in Production

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…

By Jonathan Bryce on 19/10/2020