OpenInfra Foundation Minutes of a Meeting of the Governing Board August 11, 2026
A meeting of the Governing Board of the OpenInfra Foundation (“OIF”), which is part of The Linux Foundation, was held on August 11, 2026, from 8:03 AM - 9:30 AM PT via Zoom.
Board Voting Members Present (constituting a quorum under the OIF Charter):
Tony Breeds
Kurt Garloff
ChangBo Guo
Julia Kreger
Amy Marrich
Allison Randal
Hieu Le
Dirk Hohndel
Josh Villarreal
Xu Wang
Johan Christenson
Tytus Kurek
Eoghan Glynn
Xiangyu Li
Chris Morgan
Ritesh Paibona
OpenInfra Staff / Executive Leadership Present:
Jonathan Bryce
Thierry Carrez
Allison Price
Wes Wilson
Ildiko Vancsa
Jeremy Stanley
Clark Boylan
Ms. Kreger called the meeting to order at 8:03 AM PT, reviewed the Linux Foundation Antitrust Policy Notice, and confirmed that a quorum was present.
Mr. Carrez welcomed Mr. Hohndel as the newest Governing Board member, replacing Phil Robb as Ericsson’s Platinum member representative. The board and Foundation staff also thanked Mr. Robb for his years of support and service in the OpenInfra community.
Mr. Carrez set up the section by reviewing the Foundation’s three 2026 goals: leveraging Linux Foundation synergies, breaking even on finances, and bringing OpenInfra projects to the next level.
Mr. Wilson reviewed progress on leveraging Linux Foundation synergies. He noted the value gained through event exposure, including joint booths with CNCF and testing combinations of events with other LF foundations to broaden OpenInfra’s audience, as well as influence gained through LF’s broader network, EU policy engagement, and inclusion in LF Research’s “ROI of Open Source” report. He also highlighted operational synergies from adopting LF systems, including the membership “Join” flow, LFX integration, the multi-foundation jobs board, and shared trademark systems and counsel. After some discussion, Mr. Bryce provided additional insights around using participation in other LF foundations to gauge regional interests in OpenInfra as well as other foundations.
Ms. Vancsa provided an update on efforts to bring OpenInfra projects to the next level, beginning with Kata Containers and its work to strengthen market position. She highlighted the availability of the Kata Containers 4.0 release, featuring a new default runtime written in Rust and a new documentation page, along with sessions planned at OpenInfra Summit Asia and a forthcoming Contributor Spotlight series.
Mr. Stanley continued with an update on OpenStack and efforts to lower the barriers to participate. He reviewed progress improving the contributor experience, including multiple rounds of contributor and maintainer surveys and the forming of a new Contributor Experience Working Group driven by the Technical Committee, as well as work to enable operators to get more involved, including an updated Operators’ Contributor Guide.
Ms. Vancsa then provided an update on StarlingX and efforts to uncover the project’s use cases, including collecting use case details, developing diagrams to show StarlingX from a usage perspective, and noting new interest in the project from the OpenInfra ecosystem.
Mr. Boylan provided an update on Zuul and efforts to increase member alignment. He noted that a new Zuul contributor has become active in the community, with work in progress to assess member potential, and that another user has been using Zuul as a central part of his LLM agent-driven workflows, sharing his experience on an OpenInfra Live episode and planning to present on the topic at OpenInfra Summit Asia.
Ms. Price reviewed efforts to bring OpenInfra projects to new audiences and establish their relevance in sovereign and AI environments. She highlighted the Foundation’s presence and project visibility at non-OpenInfra events, including KubeCon keynotes reaching large audiences, expanded efforts positioning OpenStack as the infrastructure standard for sovereignty, new production case studies around OpenStack and Kata Containers for AI and sovereign AI, and participation in the inaugural Open Sovereign Cloud Day.
Ms. Kreger recommended that the board discuss goals during the in-person board meeting, and Mr. Hohndel recommended that the Foundation find metrics to measure success.
Mr. Carrez shared the first-half financial results and second-half priorities. He reviewed revenue and expense performance against budget, noting that member churn was comparable to previous years while new member acquisition was behind, alongside three new Silver members, and that shared leadership and lower-than-anticipated post-merger operations costs had reduced expenses, with some savings reinvested to support the infrastructure team. He then outlined guidelines for the second half of 2026, including continuing to leverage LF synergies, advancing the project “next level” goals, better capturing current momentum, prioritizing new member acquisition, navigating expenses conservatively to break even in all scenarios, and evolving the 2027 event strategy based on the OpenInfra Summit Asia experience.
Ms. Kreger stressed the importance of closing the loop to collect new user stories. Mr. Christenson noted the importance of open source in sovereignty and the need to create a long-term plan to capture this momentum.
Mr. Carrez provided an update on efforts to bring the Foundation’s message to new audiences and leverage local communities, highlighting engagements across recent and upcoming events in Europe and Asia and the Foundation’s continued positioning of open infrastructure for sovereign AI.
Ms. Price shared progress growing the OpenInfra community, including the inaugural OpenInfra Day in Nigeria, a new user group in Uganda, support for Outreachy interns, university course engagement, and new user interest uncovered at KubeCon Japan. She closed with a review of the full slate of upcoming events across the remainder of the year.
Mr. Wilson reviewed upcoming opportunities to meet OpenInfra Foundation staff in person, spanning events in Asia, North America, and Europe through September and October.
Mr. Wilson continued with a review of upcoming board meetings, including the in-person meeting on September 10 in Shanghai, focused on 2027 OIF strategy and hosted by Xu Wang and Ant Group. He took a poll of the board to see who would attend in person and who would attend virtually. Details on the meeting, including the exact time and dial-in information, are to follow. Following this, he reviewed the remaining virtual meetings in November and December covering the proposed 2027 goals and budget and budget approval.
Mr. Wilson noted the upcoming AI Policy Working Group meeting on August 19 and stressed the need for participation, with a goal of sharing a draft at the next board meeting.
There being no further business before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at 9:30 AM PT.
Respectfully submitted,
Wes Wilson
Secretary