The Community of OpenAFS Users
The OpenAFS Foundation adopts a three-fold mission:
- To attract and increase the community of OpenAFS users
- To foster the OpenAFS community of experts
- To nurture and evolve the OpenAFS technology
We expect our activities for accomplishing our mission to be diverse, but our vision includes that the OpenAFS Foundation facilitate the following:
In order to attract and increase the community of OpenAFS users, The Foundation plans to:
- Offer OpenAFS and associated technologies to all members of the general public, individuals and organizations alike, through the use of open source licensing, free of charge
- Educate members of the general public in the application of OpenAFS and associated technologies (low-cost conferences, low-cost Best Practices Workshops, free-of-charge ad-hoc consulting/training via the OpenAFS ticketing system, etc.)
- Aid, assist and support other persons and organizations of any kind who wish to learn and/or employ OpenAFS – by gifts, grants, contributions or otherwise – provided that such activities are constant with the foregoing purpose
- Seek contributions by persons and organizations of any kind, via gifts, grants, contributions, "in kind" or other donations.