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<title>OpenPOWER Foundation overview</title>
<para>
The OpenPOWER Foundation was founded in 2013 as an open technical membership organization
that will enable data centers to rethink their approach to technology. Member companies
are enabled to customize POWER CPU processors and system platforms for optimization and
innovation for their business needs. These innovations include custom systems for large
or warehouse scale data centers, workload acceleration through GPU, FPGA or advanced I/O,
platform optimization for SW appliances, or advanced hardware technology exploitation.
OpenPOWER members are actively pursing all of these innovations and more and welcome
all parties to join in moving the state of the art of OpenPOWER systems design forward.
</para>
<para>
To learn more about the OpenPOWER Foundation, visit the organization website at
<link xlink:href="http://openpowerfoundation.org">openpowerfoundation.org</link>.
</para>
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<title>Foundation documentation</title>
<para>Key foundation documents include:
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<para>
<link
xlink:href="http://openpowerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/OPF-Bylaws-0410.2014.pdf">
<citetitle>Bylaws of OpenPOWER Foundation</citetitle>
</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<link
xlink:href="http://openpowerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/OpenPOWER-IPR-Policy.1.15.2015.pdf">
<citetitle>OpenPOWER Foundation Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy</citetitle>
</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<link
xlink:href="http://openpowerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/OpenPOWER-Membership-Agreement-04.2014.pdf">
<citetitle>OpenPOWER Foundation Membership Agreement</citetitle>
</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
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<citetitle>OpenPOWER Anti-Trust Guidelines (link TBD)</citetitle>
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</para>
<para>More information about the foundation governance can be found at
<link xlink:href="http://openpowerfoundation.org/about-us/governance/">openpowerfoundation.org/about-us/governance</link>.
</para>
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<title>Technical resources</title>
<para>Development resouces fall into the following general categories:
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<listitem>
<para>
<link xlink:href="http://openpowerfoundation.org/technical/working-groups/">
Foundation work groups</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<link xlink:href="http://openpowerfoundation.org/technical/technical-resources/development-environmentvm/">
Remote development environments (VMs)</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<link xlink:href="http://openpowerfoundation.org/technical/technical-resources/development-systems/">
Development systems</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<link xlink:href="http://openpowerfoundation.org/technical/technical-resources/technical-specifications/">
Technical specifications</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<link xlink:href="http://openpowerfoundation.org/technical/technical-resources/software/">
Software</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<link xlink:href="http://openpowerfoundation.org/technical/technical-resources/openpower-developer-tools/">
Developer tools</link></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>The complete list of technical resources are maintained on the foundation
<link xlink:href="http://openpowerfoundation.org/technical/">Technical Resources</link> web page.
</para>
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<title>Contact the foundation</title>
<para>To learn more about the OpenPOWER Foundation, please use the following contact points:
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<listitem>
<para>General information -- <email>info@openpowerfoundation.org</email>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Membership -- <email>membership@openpowerfoundation.org</email>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Technical Work Groups and projects -- Jeff Brown, TSC Chair, <email>tsc-chair@openpowerfoundation.org</email>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Events and other activities -- Michelle Hunt, OpenPOWER ED, <email>m.hunt@ieee.org</email>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Press/Analysts -- <email>press@openpowerfoundation.org</email>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>
More contact information the foundation governance can be found at
<link xlink:href="http://openpowerfoundation.org/get-involved/contact-us/">openpowerfoundation.org/get-involved/contact-us</link>.
</para>
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