OpenInfra Foundation Minutes of a Meeting of the Governing Board September 10, 2026.
A meeting of the Governing Board of the OpenInfra Foundation (“OIF”), which is part of The Linux Foundation, was held on September 10, 2026, from 10:05 AM - 2:45 PM CST via Zoom.
Board Voting Members Present (constituting a quorum under the OIF Charter):
Randy Bias
Tony Breeds
ChangBo Guo
Julia Kreger
Amy Marrich
Allison Randal
Hieu Le (represented by Nguyễn Trọng Vĩnh, non voting)
Xu Wang
Junyi Zhou
Johan Christenson
Eoghan Glynn
Tytus Kurek
Xiangyu Li
OpenInfra Staff / Executive Leadership Present:
Jonathan Bryce
Mark Collier
Thierry Carrez
Allison Price
Wes Wilson
Horace Li
Ildiko Vansca
Clark Boylan
Kendall Nelson
Ms. Kreger called the meeting to order at 10:05 AM CST, reviewed the Linux Foundation Antitrust Policy Notice, and confirmed that a quorum was present after a few attendees arrived late.
Mr. Carrez provided an overview of the OpenInfra Summit Asia that occurred two days before the board meeting, including highlighting specific OpenInfra related talks, OpenInfra space in the Solutions Showcase, and OpenInfra project table. Mr. Price expanded on this, sharing details around the Summit including attendance, diversity of regions attending, theme of the keynotes, and other related activities. She then shared a summary of the content shared during the keynote, including a look at where OpenInfra technologies fit in the open source AI stack.
Following that, she shared a diagram showing Viettel’s use case showing OpenStack and Kata on the infrastructure layer that was shared in the keynotes. Mr Bryce shared value in both regional events and in the experiment around this model of combined events. Ms. Price followed by sharing the regional combined events organized by the OpenInfra community, asking organizers from Vietnam and Korea to share their impressions from their local events.
Mr. Wilson then discussed takeaways from membership related meetings held by Foundation staff during the Summit, including feedback from existing members and drivers around prospective member conversations. He then provided an update on the AI Policy draft, shared on the board ML. Ms. Kreger proposed we approve the policy via lazy consensus.
Action: Hearing no objections from the board by September 23, the AI Policy will be adopted by the OpenInfra Foundation via lazy consensus.
Mr. Carrez shared a new campaign intended to drive new Silver membership prospects. He went over the basics of the campaign and the early results from the campaign. A brief discussion followed this regarding efforts around membership retainment.
Ms. Price wrapped the staff update by providing a list of events that OpenInfra Foundation and community are participating in through the start of 2027. She then reviewed upcoming opportunities to meet OpenInfra Foundation
After the staff update, the board began a strategy session covering several topics. Feedback and ideas from the board were captured in the informal meeting notes etherpad at https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/2026-shanghai-board-informal-meeting-notes. The board had several discussions around feedback shared and had an in depth discussion around session selection, including current event constraints and how to create more diversity with the session content moving forward.
Action: Foundation staff to send an update to the community revealing background behind the selection process and content highlighted during the OpenInfra Summit.
The board returned after a short break to discuss the future of OpenInfra Foundation, its communities and projects. Ms. Kreger and Mr. Carrez started this segment by outlining the current challenges, specifically with advancements in AI. The discussion shifted to exploring the idea of attracting new projects into the Foundation. The board discussed the lifecycle of open source projects, how to sustain our current projects, then the desire and current bar to accepting new projects into the Foundation.
Ms. Kreger shifted the discussion to what levers the board has to pull to drive innovation and adaptation of projects. Mr. Christenson brought the idea that the Foundation should consider focusing on the value that the Foundation brings beyond the code and contributors itself given AI’s ability to write code in such an efficient way. The board had an in depth discussion around the challenges to the contributors and the community related to this.
Action: Mr. Carrez will create a survey and distribute it before the next board meeting to set 2027 priorities.
After breaking for lunch, the board shifted the discussion to digital sovereignty and ITAI.
Mr. Guo provided an overview of ITAI to start the discussion. Mr. Carrez added perspective from a European point of view. The board discussed similarities and differences across both regions and globally, including how open source plays a critical role in the goals outlined by both concepts. Ms. Kreger agrees the goals for each concept are very similar, in different stages of the process, then shared that needs should be defined more concretely before defining how projects should evolve to improve alignment in this area.
Action: Kendall Nelson and Horace Li will follow up with Mr. Guo to discuss alignment in China’s needs with the work happening in the OpenInfra Digital Sovereignty Working Group.
The board then discussed the need to look at whether it’s necessary to adapt OpenStack and other OpenInfra projects to diverse AI accelerators and integrate it with training and inference frameworks such as PyTorch and vLLM. The board discussed current project successes in this area, like Kata Containers, and others that have not evolved to adapt to AI needs. Mr. Bryce shared learnings from CNCF in their positioning of projects in the Foundation to highlight AI use cases and identify gaps to fulfill AI related needs, including onboarding new projects. Discussion continued around the need to highlight use cases to increase awareness of AI adoption and capabilities of OpenInfra projects.
Action: Ms. Price to lead efforts on increasing awareness and highlighting expectation setting for OpenInfra projects and AI.
After a short break, the board returned to discuss the long-term vision for the OpenInfra Foundation. Topics in this section included defining scope, attracting new projects, and evolving to adapt to AI needs. The goal of this portion of the meeting is to share ideas that begin to create a vision statement for the board and Foundation staff to adopt. The vision statement was not intended to be completed today, this discussion is intended to continue beyond this meeting. Ideas shared by the board were documented in the informal meeting notes etherpad at https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/2026-shanghai-board-informal-meeting-notes. Staff will drive forward board discussion on this to help surface this vision.
Action: Foundation staff to analyze ideas shared to influence the 2027 board goals survey, and discuss at a future board meeting.
Mr. Wang asked if projects have access to tokens through OpenInfra Foundation.
Action: Mr. Bryce to look into this and get back to Mr. Wang.
There being no further business before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at 2:45 PM CST.
Respectfully submitted,
Wes Wilson
Secretary