We're excited to welcome William Mapp to the Open Compute Project Foundation staff! William has been an enthusiastic force in the open source tech industry for many years now. Williamjoins us from Servergywhere he worked with both hardware andsoftware in the Power Linux space. While there he was re (...)
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Project Lead Elections: Testimonial Phase Begins
The Testimonial Phase of the OCP Project Lead elections is now open and the Foundation would like to thank all the nominees who have agreed to run for these seats. Leadership of an OCP project is, by far, one of the most important volunteer roles within the OCP ecosystem. The role of an OCP Project (...)
OCP Community Growth Continues: Upcoming 2014 Events Announced
The OCP Foundation is pleased to announce the dates for our first international Summit on Thursday, October 30 and Friday, October 31, 2014 at the École Polytechnique in Paris France. Registration is now open! We have seen enormous growth throughout the project after our last summit in Jan ‘14 . In (...)
Nominations for the OCP Project Lead 2014 - 2015 Term Now Open
Starting today, Monday 7 July through Friday 18 July 2014, OCP project members can begin nominating candidates for the project lead positions. Current project leads are eligible to run for these positions as well. Seats Available: Compliance and Interoperability Data Center Hardware Management High- (...)
21 July - OCP Engineering Workshop in New Hampshire - Registration Now Open
Join us;registration is now open for a 1-day OCP Engineering Workshop which will take place on 21 July at the University of New Hampshire. This is a free event and open to the public; however, registration is required. If you would like to attend you can register here. This Engineering Workshop will (...)
Announcing the Newly Elected OCP Incubation Committee
The Foundation would like to express a sincere thank you to all those members of the OCP Incubation Committee (IC) who were appointed by the Foundation Board of Directors and served on the IC from it’s inception. These early pioneers and supporters of the project have built the groundwork for how we (...)
Tiered Membership Rollout Status
Hello OCP Community!We’ve received some great feedback on the Open Compute’s tiered membership program. We’ve also received a couple of questions. so I wanted to take a minute to address those now.As you probably already know we designed this project in almost the complete opposite way from most oth (...)
Voting for the IC Begins!
Hey OCPers! Voting Phase in the IC elections begins today. In order to participate in this phase of the election your organization must be an OCP Silver, Gold or Platinum Corporate Member. Silver Members will get 1 voting key, Gold Members will be given 2 voting keys and Platinum Member organization (...)
Testimonial Phase of OCP IC Elections Begins
We made it! OCP is now in the Testimonial Phase of the Incubation Committee (IC) election process. The nomination phase of this election lasted longer than we expected due to the Tiered Membership Program though we are now ready to start the next phase of elections. Tiered Membership has now been ro (...)
Update on OCP Tiered Membership and IC Elections
To All OCP enthusiasts, I’m happy to announce that after months of work Tiered Membership is ready to roll out and members should begin getting custom emails from the Foundation starting Wednesday, April 23rd. All current members have been assessed based on their contributions for 2013 and 1st quart (...)