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.