Three terms on the OpenStack Foundation board

I served on the OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors from August 2012 to March 2015. The foundation is the non-profit that supports the development of OpenStack cloud infrastructure software.

Gold member companies elect their directors. I was elected three times. I represented Yahoo for two years and the EMC Federation for six months.

On the board I was:

• Chairman of the Finance and Tax Affairs Committee.
• A member of the DefCore Committee, which set the requirements for using the OpenStack name.
• A member of the Gold Member Committee.

I joined the board to protect Yahoo's investment in OpenStack and to make sure the project succeeded. Yahoo was one of the companies that founded the foundation, and I represented it in that founding.

Board work ran alongside my other community roles. I led the OpenStack Training Guides project and helped organize the San Francisco Bay user group. The foundation named me an OpenStack ambassador.