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

By Allison Price on 06/07/2022
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 leverage that ability to build a sustainable community around an open source infrastructure project.
The announcement comes one year after the launch of the OpenInfra Foundation (formerly the OpenStack Foundation) with a new mission and scope of building open source communities who write infrastructure software that runs in production. Sixty organizations supported the launch of the new foundation in January of 2021. Since then, membership of sponsoring organizations at all levels has grown by more than 33%, and Silver Members now exceed 50. Ant Group, Bloomberg, FiberHome, Meta, Microsoft, Nipa Cloud, Vexxhost and Wind River have joined as OpenInfra Platinum or Gold Members within the last 18 months. The expanded mission has also enabled the OpenInfra Foundation to tap into new regions, garnering increased support from organizations in Africa and Southeast Asia.
Learn more about Directed Funding at the OpenInfra Foundation
Community Collaboration and “The Four Opens”—A Model That Works
Guided by open collaboration principles known as The Four Opens, the global OpenInfra community excels in delivering open source infrastructure software that runs in production, as evidenced by the many users who are attending the OpenInfra Summit Berlin this week to share their use cases and practical experiences. Among the projects in the spotlight are:
Delivering Value with OpenInfra Project Funds
The OpenInfra Foundation’s Directed Funding approach offers project communities the opportunity to tap into:
Platinum Members of the OpenInfra Foundation include Ant Group, Ericsson, Facebook, FiberHome, Huawei, Microsoft, Red Hat, Tencent Cloud and Wind River. Gold Members of the OpenInfra Foundation now include 99Cloud Inc., Bloomberg, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Cisco, Cleura, Deutsche Telekom, EasyStack, Intel, Jinan Inspur Data Technology Co. LTD, Mirantis, NEC, New H3C Technologies Co., Limited, Nipa Cloud, Troila Technology, Ubuntu, Vexxhost and ZTE Corporation.
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