Ceph Foundation

The Ceph Foundation exists to enable industry members to collaborateand pool resources to support the Ceph project community. TheFoundation provides an open, collaborative, and neutral home forproject stakeholders to coordinate their development and communityinvestments in the Ceph ecosystem.

The Ceph Foundation is organized as a directed fund under the LinuxFoundation. Premier and General Member organizations contribute ayearly fee to become members. Associate members are educationalinstitutions or government organizations and are invited to join at nocost.

For more information, see https://ceph.com/foundation.

Members

Premier

• Canonical

• China Mobile

• DigitalOcean

• Intel

• OVH

• Red Hat

• SoftIron

• SUSE

• Western Digital

• XSKY

• ZTE

General

• Amihan

• ARM

• BoCloud

• Catalyst Cloud

• Cloudbase Solutions

• Clyso

• croit

• DiDi

• EasyStack

• ISS

• PingAn

• QCT

• SinoRail

• Vexxhost

Associate

• Boston University

• Center for Research in Open Source Systems (CROSS)

• CERN

• FASRC

• grnet

• Monash University

• NRF SARAO

• Science & Technology Facilities Councel (STFC)

• University of Michigan

• SWITCH

Governing Board

The Governing Board consists of all Premier members, a representativefor the General members, a representative for the Associate members,and a representative from the Ceph Leadership Team (the technicalgovernance body). The board is responsible for:

• Building and approving an annual budget for spending in support ofthe Ceph project

• Establishing ad-hoc committees to address current needs of theproject

• Coordinating outreach or marketing

• Meeting regularly to discuss Foundation activities, the status ofthe Ceph project, and overall project strategy

• Voting on any decisions or matters before the board

The Ceph Foundation board is not responsible for and does not have anydirect control over the technical governance of Ceph. Development andengineering activities are managed through traditional open sourceprocesses and are overseen by the Ceph Leadership Team. For moreinformation see Governance.

Members

• Anjaneya “Reddy” Chagam (Intel)

• Dan van der Ster (CERN) - Associate member representative

• Haomai Wang (XSKY)

• James Page (Canonical)

• Lenz Grimmer (SUSE) - Ceph Leadership Team representative

• Lars Marowsky-Bree (SUSE)

• Matias Bjorling (Western Digital)

• Mike Perez (Red Hat) - Ceph community manager

• Paul Emmerich (croit) - General member representative

• Pawel Sadowski (OVH)

• Phil Straw (SoftIron)

• Robin Johnson (DigitalOcean)

• Sage Weil (Red Hat) - Ceph project leader

• Xie Xingguo (ZTE)

Joining

For information about joining the Ceph Foundation, please contactmembership@linuxfoundation.org.