Today, the Open Infrastructure Foundation, which hosts projects like the OpenStack cloud computing platform and Starling X edge computing stack, launched two regional hubs, OpenInfra Asia in Singapore and OpenInfra Europe in Belgium, to promote and protect open source in those regions.
The Foundation emphasizes that OpenInfra Asia and Europe are legal entities but not separate from it. Instead, it calls them hubs to help the Foundation promote its local membership groups.
Europe (38.8%), Asia (32.5%), and the rest of the world comprise the OpenInfra Foundation’s membership organizations.
The Foundation believes these regional entities will give its community legal stature to participate in policy discussions and influence measures like the EU Cyber Resilience Act. As a platform for developing private clouds, the OpenInfra Foundation’s flagship OpenStack project’s users often prioritize data sovereignty and governance.
“The world has changed, and open source needs regional resiliency and action to continue developing vital software technologies in the open,” he said. “Key regional issues, like digital sovereignty in the EU, have created an opportunity for OpenInfra regional hubs to facilitate collaboration and discussion, coordinate responses, and give the OpenInfra ecosystem a voice.”
Individual centers will open with advisory committees that will define their focus. The hubs have no leadership teams, but OpenStack staff in these locations will assist them. That may alter over time.