Another factor is the relative stability of OpenStack these days.
Numbers at the German city, of both attendees and sponsors, were modest compared to other mega-conferences, with many of those who might have attended remaining unable to travel.īut that's not the whole story. While other foundations might boast of an explosive growth in projects, there is much to commend in an approach whereby companies cooperate around a single project. The new Directed Funding model is clearly aimed at attracting organizations and projects that might have been put off by the traditional approach while still trying to maintain the open ethos of OpenInfra. Kata was merely cited as an example (although we can imagine its success could see the new model retro-fitted at some undefined point in the future.) To be clear, the model is currently intended for new projects. "We've just announced this," added Bryce, "so we haven't actually implemented this yet, but, Collier interjected "let's start talking about the ones we should do in the future."
"But it isn't about controlling the roadmap or the code flow." It sounded a little like pay to play to us, but chief operating officer for the OpenInfra Foundation, Mark Collier, insisted it was quite different: "This specific thing that we've added is to … facilitate when there are a group of companies that want to pool their resources, their funding, so that that particular project can have additional help around awareness and education. Zuul and Kata Containers: OpenStack tosses top-level protonpacks to OS new cats READ MOREĪnd the OpenInfra Foundation itself? Staff to build a community.