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We’re excited to welcome two new additions to the Open Compute Project Foundation staff: Stephanie Loayza and Hugh Blemings. Stephanie Loayza, Events Manager Stephanie has worked in the tech industry as an executive assistant for several years at companies such as Google and Facebook. One of the rol (...)

Timeline We are extending the Incubation Committee (IC) process by two weeks and updating the time for each phase of the IC Election Process to the following: 10 March 2014 - Call for Nominations Starts 11 April 2014 - Call for Nominations Ends 14 April 2014 - Publish list 14 April 2014 - Testimonia (...)

Following the fifth Open Compute Summit earlier this year, a lot of people in the community are excited about the recent progress in the OCP networking project. At the conference, we held a keynote panel, moderated by Facebook’s Najam Ahmad, discussing how to open up network hardware. We also had ne (...)

I have some exciting news to share: The Open Compute Project Foundation board has voted to expand to include two new members. Bill Laing, Corporate Vice President of Cloud and Enterprise at Microsoft, and Jason Taylor, Director of Infrastructure at Facebook, have joined the board effective immediate (...)

Our second blog post about the OCP Summit’s hardware hackathon comes from Derek Jouppi and Andrew Andrade who are interns at Facebook and won the hack with a new design for the Open Rack V2’s Battery Backup Unit. Derek and I decided to take part in the hardware hackathon at the Open Compute Summit o (...)

Update: The timelines and eligibilty requiments have been updated. The Open Compute Project (OCP) Foundation is pleased to announce the call for nominations to serve on the 2014-2015 OCP Incubation Committee (IC). There are seven seats available for the OCP IC 2014-2015 term. These seven seatcorresp (...)

For the last three OCP Summits, engineers with a passion for open source technologies and hardware have come together for a 24-hour hackathon where they work nonstop in a competition to create the best hack. This year, three teams won the hackathon, and two of them will share their experiences on th (...)

Four years ago, Facebook broke ground on its first greenfield data center project in Prineville, Oregon. In the years since, we’ve deployed six iterations of that design, culminating in the first building currently under construction at our new campus in Altoona, Iowa. With facilities around the wor (...)

As announced at Summit V, OCP is now adding new hardware licensing option for our contributors. As I mentioned in my earlier blog post, you, the community, would be given the opportunity to review this new license and give us feedback. Below is our rationale behind the decision to create this new li (...)