OpenInfra Foundation Minutes of a Meeting of the Governing Board June 9, 2026
A meeting of the Governing Board of the OpenInfra Foundation ("OIF"), which is part of The Linux Foundation, was held on June 9, 2026, from 8:04 AM - 9:31 AM PT via Zoom.
Board Voting Members Present (constituting a quorum under the OIF Charter):
Randy Bias
Tony Breeds
Kurt Garloff
ChangBo Guo
Julia Kreger
Amy Marrich
Mohammed Naser
Allison Randal
Hieu Le
Phil Robb
Josh Villarreal
Xu Wang
Johan Christenson
Eoghan Glynn
Xiangyu Li
Chris Morgan
OpenInfra Staff / Executive Leadership Present:
Mark Collier
Thierry Carrez
Allison Price
Wes Wilson
Jeremy Stanley
Ms. Kreger called the meeting to order at 8:04 AM PT, reviewed the Linux Foundation Antitrust Policy Notice, and confirmed that a quorum was present.
Mr. Stanley provided an update on the state of vulnerability management across OpenInfra communities. He explained that the growing popularity of LLM technologies has opened new avenues for security research, with open source projects serving as ripe subjects, producing an unprecedented flood of work that is falling primarily on the same volunteers already responsible for keeping projects afloat and putting them at risk of burnout. He shared that the OpenStack VMT has seen a dramatic increase in 2026, with other projects such as Kata Containers seeing similar trends. He added that LLM-assisted reporting is increasing the educational burden and leading to duplicates and premature disclosures, that central organizations like MITRE are also overloaded, and that community services and coordinators across the Kata Containers, OpenStack, StarlingX, and Zuul communities are feeling the strain.
There was healthy discussion from the Board, including brainstorming around potential solutions. Members raised ideas such as providing community education, identifying possible avenues to find additional support, seeking more information on the sources of vulnerability reports, and adding agent files across all project repositories to help guide LLMs. Mr. Stanley committed to writing additional documentation on how to properly submit vulnerability reports.
Mr. Wilson wrapped the section by noting that savings due to shared leadership have been partially assigned to bring on a Linux Foundation IT resource to help with systems maintenance and timezone coverage. This will free up staff time to dedicate to more complex maintenance tasks, vulnerability management, and release management.
OpenInfra staff provided an update to the Board.
Ms. Price began with an overview of OpenInfra project momentum and recent events. She highlighted the StarlingX community’s delivery of its 12.0 release, an upcoming AWS demo of running Kata Containers, and an upcoming session at KubeCon CloudNativeCon India where NPCI will share how it built its AI infrastructure on OpenStack at national scale. She reviewed recent events, including the PTG and Open Forum Sweden, and previewed a full slate of upcoming events across 7 countries. She noted that for OpenInfra Summit Asia, registration, and sponsorship opportunities are open. The schedule will be live on June 17 and sponsorship closes July 17. She reminded the board that there will be an in-person board meeting corresponding with the Summit on September 10 in Shanghai.
Ms. Price then provided updates from several working groups. The VMware Migration Working Group is regrouping to focus on the compatibility of SAP and Oracle with OpenStack, engaging directly with SAP as well as OpenInfra member organizations, and issued a call to action for members with established compatibility to reach out. The Digital Sovereignty Working Group reported that the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies published an OpenStack case study on Sovereign AI; a comparison guide between proprietary and OpenStack clouds, a digital sovereignty best practices guide, and member bylines are coming soon. The OpenInfra for AI Working Group is organizing project messaging around agentic AI, including an OpenInfra Live episode on Zuul’s architecture, an upcoming Kata Containers meetup in China focused on agent sandbox scenarios, content for OpenStack leveraging existing features, and a forthcoming byline.
Mr. Wilson provided an update on the AI Policy Working Group, which held its first meeting on May 20 with good participation and discussion around the current landscape and the need for simplified policy. He noted that an AI Policy mailing list and working document have been established to draft policy, and that the next meeting is scheduled for June 17 at 18:00 UTC.
Mr. Carrez provided an update on the European Commission’s recently released Technological Sovereignty Package. He emphasized that the Commission has framed technological sovereignty as openness rather than protectionism or isolationism, providing positive signals for open source. Mr. Carrez outlined the Cloud and AI Development Act in more detail, noting it is a regulation under the EC’s AI Continent Action Plan that will be negotiated through 2026-2027, built on three pillars: research, development and innovation; capacity, including tripling EU data centre capacity within five to seven years. He also reviewed the proposed cloud assurance levels.
Mr. Wilson reminded the Board that the NPS survey closes on June 9, then reviewed the upcoming events to meet OpenInfra Foundation staff in person. He concluded the staff update by reminding the board that the July 14 board meeting will be skipped and that a mid-year budget review will take place during the August 11 board meeting.
There being no further business before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at 9:31 AM PT.
Respectfully submitted,
Wes Wilson
Secretary