There are many opportunities for individuals and companies to get involved with the OCP community.
Contribute to the Community
- Join a current project, read the specs, offer comments and suggestions on the specs, help shape the direction of a spec as it is developing.
- Feed ideas for new projects to the incubation committee.
- Test out a prototype design.
- Contribute a hardware or software prototype to a project.
To become a member of the Open Compute Project Foundation and participate in the projects, please download and complete the membership agreement. Once you’ve done that, please pick the projects you are interested in and sign the OWF CLA for those projects. Now you’re ready to engage with a current project on GitHub or suggest a new one to the incubation committee. We’re setting up infrastructure to maximize efficient project communication, so stay tuned!
Participate in a Summit
The Open Compute Project Foundation hosts summits twice a year. Here are a few ways you can participate:
- If your company is interested in sponsoring an OCP summit, please contact ffrankovskyfb@fb.com and we’d be happy to share upcoming opportunities.
- Attend a summit! The next OCP summit will be held in Palo Alto, California on December 5th and 6th. Stay tuned for more information.
- If you’re interested in leading a technical workshop or presenting at a future summit, please contact jkenevey@fb.com.
Stay Informed
- Join the OCP group on Facebook.
- Get on the mailing lists for the tracks that you’re interested in and stay up to date with projects and foundation activities:
- For general information: lists.opencompute.org/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-all
- For data center design: lists.opencompute.com/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-datacenterdesign
- For hardware management: lists.opencompute.org/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-hardwaremngt
- For the Open Rack: lists.opencompute.com/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-openrack
- For storage: lists.opencompute.org/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-storage
- For virtual I/O: lists.opencompute.com/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-virtualio