OpenStack Foundation is the independent home of OpenStack in the world, aiming at promoting the development, dissemination and use of OpenStack cloud operating system in the world. The goal of OpenStack Foundation is to serve developers, users and the whole ecosystem on a global scale and provide them with * * * resources to expand the growth of OpenStack public and private clouds, thus helping technology vendors to choose platforms and developers to develop the best cloud software in the industry.

OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit organization, was established on 20 12. Alan Clark, Director of Industry Innovation of SUSE, holds an important position as Chairman of OpenStack Foundation. OpenStack foundation is divided into two categories: individual members and corporate members. Individual membership of OpenStack Foundation is free and there is no threshold. They can participate in the OpenStack community through technical contributions or community building. The company can be divided into platinum members, gold members, corporate sponsors and support organizers according to the sponsorship fees of each branch, among which platinum members and gold members have the greatest right to speak. At present, two board members of OpenStack Foundation are from China, and the whole foundation has three gold medal member companies, namely Huawei, EasyStack and UnitedStack Youyun.

Selection of board members

The OpenStack Foundation has 24 directors and 8 platinum members are fixed on the board of directors, so there is no need to participate in the election. The remaining 16 members will be elected, and 8 of them will compete among all gold members by voting within 1 day, and the community will not be open to the public. The other eight are called individual independent directors, and they are finally decided by millions of individual members of the community through 1 week voting. The board seats of the foundation can affect the development and construction direction of OpenStack, and its importance is self-evident, so it has become the reason why enterprises flock to the membership level and board seats.

Division of member enterprises of the foundation

After talking about the division of board members, let's take a look at who the members of the enterprise are. To be precise, OpenStack Foundation only allows 8 Platinum members and 24 Gold members at most.

AT & amp； Eight seats have been granted to Platinum members; Including T, Canonical, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Rackspace, Red Hat and SUSE.

Gold members are limited to 24 seats, including Aptira, CCAT, Cisco, Dell, DreamHost, EasyStack, EMC, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Huawei, inwinStack, Juniper Networks, Mirantis, NEC, NetApp, Symantec, UnitedStack and Virtuozzo, as shown in the following figure. There are currently five vacant positions.

Alan Clark, chairman of the OpenStack Foundation, told us that this community is very open to individual members, basically anyone. However, if you want to become a gold medal member, you must pass a series of standards to review the backup companies, and you must be recognized by the foundation and board members. The first point of evaluation is to see if they have contributed to the OpenStack community.