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Exosphere Foundation
Supporting Exosphere - A user-friendly web interface for OpenStack clouds, initially focused on research and scientific users.
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Julian Pistorius
cmart
Frank Tackitt
Kyle Tee
Michael White
Indiana Unive...
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Thank you to Indiana University - our first financial contributor!
Published on February 6, 2024 by Julian Pistorius
Last year we launched this Exosphere Foundation collective. The aim is to grow a healthy and independent open source project. Indiana University has been a long-time supporter of Exosphere, and in December of 2023 they became...
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The Foundation: The overarching objective of the Exosphere Foundation is to ensure sustainability of the Exosphere open source ecosystem (OSE).
Activities of the Foundation:
- Coordinates an external distributed developer community
- Interfaces with and supports a community of users
- Provides training and onboarding to new developers and users
- Enables efficient continuous development, integration and deployment of the open-source product
- Ensures security, privacy and reliability of all aspects of the OSE operations
- Maintains appropriate organizational governance practices
Our team
Julian Pistorius
cmart
Frank Tackitt
Kyle Tee
Michael White