Ceph Foundation

    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 .

    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

    • 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 .

    • 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)

    • Xie Xingguo (ZTE)

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