Stewardship, Not Ownership: What I’m Carrying from OpenStack and OpenInfra into the PyTorch Foundation

I’m taking on a new role at the Linux Foundation, leading the PyTorch Foundation at a moment when PyTorch is rapidly becoming one of the defining infrastructure layers of the AI era. I’ve written separately about the role itself and the mission of the PyTorch Foundation. Here, I want to focus on something more fundamental: what I’ve learned over more than a decade working on OpenStack and within the OpenInfra community, and how those lessons are shaping the way I approach this next chapter. I’ve