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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 corporation under IRC 501(c)(6).

OCP Staff

Name	Title	Email
George Tchaparian	CEO
Bijan Nowroozi	CTO
Rob Coyle	Community Technical Program Manager	[email protected]
Bill Carter	OCP Fellow Emeritus
Dirk Van Slyke	Chief Marketing Officer	[email protected]
Steve Helvie	VP of Emerging Markets	[email protected]
Cliff Grossner	VP Market Intelligence	[email protected]
Kali Burdette	Director of Global Events	[email protected]
Michael Schill	Community Director	[email protected]
Kevin Kifer	IT Manager	[email protected]
Kate Hendle	Meeting Planner	[email protected]

Board of Directors

The OCP Foundation is governed by its Board of Directors:

Chair and Members

• Zaid Kahn, Microsoft - Board Chair
• Anurag Handa, Intel - Board Member
• David Ramku, Meta - Board Member
• Amber Huffman, Google - Board Member
• Andy Bechtolsheim, Individual - Board Member
• George Tchaparian, OCP - Board Member

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: OCP 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
• Sustainability
• 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 2023 Open Compute Project Foundation.