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Just six months ago, we announced our intention to expand the charter of the Open Compute Project to include networking hardware. At the time, it was our hope that we could build on the momentum we'd established in opening up server, storage, and datacenter designs and collaborate with the broader c (...)

OCP will host anengineering workshopon Wednesday, November 13, 2013 from 8:00am-6:00pm at the San Antonio campus of the University of Texas. While this event is free and open to the public, registration is required. This is your invitation to join the OCP community and help drive the future of open (...)

Are you in or near Seoul, Korea? Are you already planning to attend the Linux Foundation's Korea Linux Forumevent? Are you interested in open hardware and the future of open data center design, management and more? Do you want to know more about the Open Compute Project (OCP) and the success stories (...)

Register Today! Registration for the OCP Engineering Workshop which will take place at UTSA in San Antonio, Texas on November 13 is now open! Please email Amber Graner for the password and then register here. This workshop will be held at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). This workshop (...)

Registration is now open for the Open Compute Project (OCP) Engineering Workshop Seoul Korea which will take place from 8am to 6pm at the Ritz Carlton Seoul on November 14, 2013. To register for this event, visit https://ocp-eng-sk.eventbrite.com/. The event is password protected; to get the passwor (...)

We are pleased to announce the dates for the next Open Compute Project Summit on Tuesday, January 28 and Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at the newly expanded San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, CA. At the last summit, attendees came from the technology sector in addition to finance, government, and (...)

REVISED SCHEDULE 21 Oct 2013 UPDATED 17 Oct 2013 - Schedule UPDATED 15 Oct 2013 - Dates Registration for the Open Compute Project (OCP) Engineering Workshop which will be co-located with LinuxCon Europe will take place on Monday 21 October 2013 is now open! To register for this event, visit https:// (...)

I have some exciting news to share: On behalf of my fellow board members, I'm pleased to announce that Cole Crawford has been promoted to executive director of the Open Compute Foundation. Colejoined us a little less than a year agoas the foundation's first full-time employee. Since then, many of yo (...)

UPDATED - Webinar on October 24, 2013 By Charlie Manese, Facebook Hardware Design team At Facebook, because of our scale, we require that solutions deployed in our data center be engineered for maximum operational efficiency and serviceability. The data center team works closely with the hardware de (...)