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Open Invitation to the Vendor Commitee

· 3 min read
Weyert de Boer
Weyert de Boer
Lead Developer at FNZ, OpenFeature maintainer

The OpenFeature project is excited to announce the formation of our Vendor Council — a collaborative forum designed to deepen engagement with commercial vendors and open-source maintainers in the feature flagging ecosystem.

About OpenFeature​

OpenFeature is a CNCF-incubating project that's defining open standards for feature flagging and experimentation. As a vendor-agnostic initiative, we're committed to improving the developer experience across the feature flagging landscape.

Key highlights:

  • A vendor-agnostic open standard for feature flagging
  • Open-source project under Apache 2 license
  • Supported under the CNCF (alongside projects like Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry)
  • Designed to work with any feature flag management tool - commercial, open-source, or in-house
  • Broad industry support with many feature flagging vendors already providing official integrations
  • Support for multiple tech stacks, both server-side and frontend - 12 and counting

Why Join the Vendor Council?​

As key players in the feature flagging ecosystem, your insights are invaluable to shaping our specifications and improving the developer experience of consuming feature flags in codebases.

Areas Where We're Seeking Input:​

  • Enhancing flagd, our lightweight feature-flagging daemon that enables dynamic configuration updates without code changes
  • Adding event tracking capabilities to OpenFeature, to improve experimentation and A/B testing within feature flag implementations
  • The OpenFeature Remote Evaluation Protocol (OFREP), an initiative aimed at reducing SDK authoring burden on vendors and standardizing communication between flag evaluation systems
  • Future initiatives that would help flagging platforms adopt OpenFeature or make it more valuable for your users

Participation Involves:​

  • Quarterly virtual meetings (approximately 1 hour)
  • Occasional email correspondence for feedback
  • Optional participation in our Slack community

We're flexible and open to structuring participation in a way that works best for our advisors.

Benefits for Vendors:​

  • Early access to new features and specifications
  • Direct influence on the project's direction
  • Networking opportunities with other industry leaders
  • Shared marketing opportunities to promote OpenFeature features in your products
  • Recognition as a contributor to this open-source initiative

How to Join​

If your organization is involved in the feature flagging space - whether as a commercial vendor or an open-source maintainer - and you're interested in joining the OpenFeature Vendor Council, we'd love to hear from you!

Please reach out to us by:

In your message, please include:

  1. Your name and organization
  2. Your role within the organization
  3. A brief description of your interest in OpenFeature
  4. Contact information for follow-up

Join Us in Shaping the Future​

The OpenFeature project is committed to creating standards that benefit the entire feature flagging ecosystem. By bringing together diverse perspectives from across the industry, we can build something truly valuable for developers and organizations alike.

We look forward to collaborating with you!