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What is the Open Compute Project?

The Open Compute Project is a rapidly growing community of engineers around the world whose mission is to design and enable the delivery of the most efficient server, storage and data center hardware designs available for scalable computing. Currently there are eleven Project Groups that individuals and organizations can get involved with and participate in.

Participate

If you are interested in working with the Open Compute Project, we are glad to welcome you to our community. There are several ways to get involved with OCP. We encourage everyone to take a look at the [OCP website] and to sign up for our mailing lists to participate in the project meetings.

How to Join

• Become a Member

Corporate Tiered Membership

• Membership Agreements
• Membership Directory

How to Contribute

• OCP Contribution Process
• Contribution Agreements

Foundation Structure

The Open Compute Project Foundation is a Delaware corporation under IRC 501(c)(6).

OCP Staff

• George Tchaparian - CEO
• Bijan Nowroozi - CTO
• Bill Carter - OCP Fellow Emeritus
• Dirk Van Slyke - Chief Marketing Officer dirkv@opencompute.org
• Steve Helvie - VP of Emerging Markets steve@opencompute.org
• Cliff Grossner - VP Market Intelligence cliff@opencompute.org
• Kali Burdette - Director of Global Events kali@opencompute.org
• Rob Coyle - Community Techincal Program Manager rob.coyle@opencompute.org
• Michael Schill - Community Director michael@opencompute.org
• Kevin Kifer - IT Manager kevin@opencompute.org
• Kate Hendle - Meeting Planner kate@opencompute.org

Board of Directors

The OCP Foundation is governed by its Board of Directors:

Chair and President

• Rebecca Weekly, Cloudflare

The Board of Directors charters the Projects and sets the strategic mission and focus of the OCP Foundation.

Incubation Committee

The Incubation Committee (IC) reviews and approves all new specs which are submitted to the OCP Foundation.

The IC Chair positions are appointed by the OCP Foundation Board.

The IC seats that mirror the OCP Projects are elected seats. For more information on the community election process go to: http://www.opencompute.org/wiki/Governance

• IC Members
• IC Meetings

OCP Project Groups

Specifications and designs are contributed to the OCP Foundation through the OCP Projects. Each Project Group has Project Leads. The Project Leads run the monthly project calls and assist with specification & design submissions. To join the conversation and attend a project meeting, visit the OCP Projects page here.

• Cooling Environments
• Data Center Facility
• Hardware Management
• Networking
• Open System Firmware
• Rack & Power
• Security
• Server
• Storage
• Telcos
• Time Appliance Project

Future Technologies Initiative

• OCP Future Technologies Initiative

Regional Communities

• OCP China
• OCP Europe
• OCP Japan
• OCP Korea
• OCP Taiwan

Contributions

• OCP Contributions
• Contribution Process

Governance

• Governance

Licensing

This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Copyright 2018 [Open Compute Project Foundation].