OpenStack steps towards its Foundation future

The draft mission statement, which officially identifies the new group the OpenStack Foundation, cites OpenStack's mission as "To produce the ubiquitous Open Source cloud computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private cloud providers regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable."

The Thursday-evening webinar

The Thursday-evening webinar was moderated by Rackspace VP of Business & Corporate Development Mark Collier and Jonathan Bryce, founder of The Rackspace Cloud and member of the OpenStack Project Policy Board. The 12-member PPB currently manages OpenStack, with four of the twelve board positions are appointed by Rackspace, and the other eight positions elected by the community at large.