The Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra Foundation) today announced that the Foundation Board of Directors has expanded to 27 individuals, including Amar Padmanabhan, software engineer at Facebook; Xu Wang, senior staff engineer at Ant Group; and Daniel Becker, senior director of engineering at Red Hat. The announcement was made as the OpenInfra Foundation convened its first board meeting under its new moniker, with representatives of 22 global technology organizations taking their seats as the first slate of board members. During the meeting, individual member of the Foundation Allison Randal was elected the board chair for the 2021 year.
Currently the OpenInfra Foundation comprises over 100,000 community members in over 187 countries and advances projects such as Airship, Kata Containers, Magma, OpenInfra Labs, OpenStack, StarlingX and Zuul.
“It’s exciting to see the open infrastructure movement grow at such a rapid pace, as evidenced by having more platinum members than we’ve ever had before, more OpenInfra community members encompassing infrastructure experts who operate some of the largest infrastructure in the world, like Ant Group and Facebook, and new open source software being created like Magma,” said Mark Collier, COO, OpenInfra Foundation. “All of these trends point to the start of a decade of people and companies investing in open infrastructure that’s just getting started, and we want to invite everyone to join us as we build open source communities who write software that runs in production.”
OpenInfra Foundation Board of Directors, 2021
Facebook joins previously announced Platinum Members Ant Group, AT&T, Ericsson, FiberHome, Huawei, Red Hat, Wind River and Tencent. Support for the OpenInfra Foundation comes from more than 60 corporate members.
“We are excited to see collaborative efforts around open source projects like Magma take off as we join the Open Infrastructure Foundation today,” said Amar Padmanabhan, software engineer at Facebook. “We created Magma to give operators a true cloud-native distributed mobile packet core that is compact and easy to deploy, and we look forward to what the OpenInfra community can contribute to improve connectivity for people around the world.”
The 2021 Board of Directors, seated today, includes:
