The Open Web Foundation is made up of individuals and sponsoring companies who believe that the open web is built on technologies that are created in the open by a diversity of contributors, and which free to be used and improved upon without restriction. The Foundation is working towards creating a home for community-driven specifications. Following the open source model similar to the Apache Software Foundation, the Foundation is aimed at building a lightweight framework to help communities deal with the legal requirements necessary to create successful and widely adopted specification.

Mailing Lists

The Foundation maintains a series of open mailing lists and we encourage you to join them if you're interested in getting involved and contributing. (All mailing lists will moderate your first post as a way to reduce spam.)

• Open Web Discuss - Our "general" list which generally focuses on the overall organization
• Open Web Advocacy - How can we advocate for the open web and provide better resources for those looking to support the technologies behind it?
• Open Web Legal - Our Legal Committee uses this group to collaboratively draft our specification license
• Open Web Infrastructure - Our Infrastructure Committee uses this group to keep the site up and running
• Open Web Board - A public list used for discussions surrounding the Board of the Foundation

Membership

The Open Web Foundation has nearly one-hundred individual members and membership is free. If you're interested in becoming a member, see [should write something about membership to link to]. Membership in the Foundation is not required to participate in any of the Committees or other work that is going on.

The current members of the Foundation include:

• Allen Tom
• Andreas Creten
• Andrew Turner
• Angus Logan
• Anthony Broad-Crawford
• Axel Nennker
• Ben Laurie
• Ben Lee
• Ben Metcalfe
• Ben Smith
• Ben Ward
• Ben Werdmuller
• Blaine Cook
• Brad Neuberg
• Brady Brim-DeForest
• Brady Forrest
• Brett Slatkin
• Brian Behlendorf
• Brian Fitzpatrick
• Brian McCallister
• Chris Chabot
• Chris Messina
• Chris Wilson
• Christian Crumlish
• Dan Brickley
• Dan Morrill
• Dan Peterson
• Danese Cooper
• Daniel Walmsley
• Dare Obasanjo
• David Recordon
• David Rudin
• David Storey
• DeWitt Clinton
• Dirk Olbertz
• Douglas Crockford
• Edd Dumbill
• Franco Iacomella
• Gabriel Wachob
• Glenn Jones
• Gregg Kellogg
• Gurkan Erdogdu
• Hamish Campbell
• Hans Granqvist
• Harry Halpin
• Ian Lawrence
• James Tauber
• James Walker
• Jeremiah Cohick
• Joe Gregorio
• John Adams
• John Allsopp
• John Kemp
• John McCrea
• John Panzer
• Joseph Smarr
• Jyri Engestrom
• Karl Dubost
• Kevin Marks
• Lane LiaBraaten
• Lars Hilse
• Lawrence Rosen
• Leah Culver
• Leisa Fearing
• Lindsey Simon
• Luke Shepard
• Marco Ripanti
• Mark Laymon
• Michael Malone
• Milan Stankovic
• Mohd Shukri ismail
• Monica Keller
• Mushon Zer-Aviv
• Nat Sakimura
• Nate Benes
• Nathan Angell
• Nnenna Nwakanma
• Oshani Seneviratne
• Ozgur Cem Sen
• Patrick Chanezon
• Peter Keane
• Peter Mika
• Peter Saint-Andre
• Puneet Kishor
• Rob Dolin
• Rohit Khare
• Roy T. Fielding
• Sam Pullara
• Scott Kveton
• Scott Wilson
• Seth Fitzsimmons
• Sridhar Gutam
• Stephan Wenger
• Steve Repetti
• Sylvain Carle
• Tantek Çelik
• Terrell Russell
• Thomas Huhn
• Tim Burks
• Tim Schulz
• Tom Brown
• Vid Ayer
• Will Norris

Board

Every year the Membership elects a Board of Directors to oversee the mechanics of running the Foundation. The most recent election was held in August of 2008. The current Board is:

• Brady Brim-DeForest
• Chris Messina
• David Recordon
• David Rudin
• DeWitt Clinton
• Gabe Wachob
• Lawrence Rosen
• Tantek Çelik

Past Directors include:

• Ben Laurie
• Scott Kveton
• Eran Hammer-Lahav

Records

The Foundation maintains a copy of our records online which are managed by the Board's secretary.