The NFB, the Open Networking Foundation that drives the adoption of SDN is no longer a mere association of operators and suppliers. She actually took the party to become an open source software community and will offer code repository to its new site OpenSourceSDN.org.
A real improvement in the projects or future minefields?
The new site will be to provide an open platform as software at all those commercially deploy open SDN solutions, free from any monopoly of a particular seller. 
This change seems to be a technical solution of interest conflicts between VMWare Cisco, HP and Juniper on the development of virtualization tools around the SDN. Unclear how the Open Daylight community will work out this new structure, besides the Open NFV Association recently created
Objective:. Facilitate interoperability
Launched at the forum SDN NFV 2015, the OpenSourceSDN.org had already been pre-announced by Dan Pitt, Executive Director of the Open Networking Foundation from the living room of barcelona phones, the MWC 2015. For the vice president of the NFB, Curt Berckman (photo below) Technical Director Europe Brocade 
and now in Paris, this marketing open source software will surely simplify the development of de facto standards and promote interoperability of multi-vendor offerings: “ The development of open source software will complement the work specifications of the NFB. The open source work can also be done by other teams sopen source project and look forward to working with these associations “. “
The NFB is installed in the same building as the onos software company that also provides Open Source code and services can count on help from nearby. In the image below, are designed 4 types
services around the SDN. 
They are part of project development code. For Curt Berckman source proposed by the NFB will be many causes and not just the company “neighbor”
A Governance Board to drive open source projects
To help in the governance of the site, the NFB has also established a Software Leadership Council (SLC), an industry expert group with long experience in open software source software development.
Stuart Bailey, founder Infoblox will be the first president of SLC
” The new SLC Council and the open source software community are important next steps for growth of open SDN , “said Stuart Bailey, founder and director Infoblox .. (photo below )
” I look forward to working with the other members of the SLC to develop new programs NFB events and activities that will drive the adoption of open source software. We build on the work done by the NFB in the last two years – starting with a software competition around an open driver for OpenFlow It will be followed by the NFB SampleTap, simply created a network application to illustrate the use SDN and OpenFlow (1.0). This one includes basic functionality to operate applications with SDn. “ The third project is the routing segment called Open Spring should resume Cisco principles presented in this domain .
One should attends moves from memorable weapons in this new committee, economic issues are vital to participating firms.
A group of specialists in command
The current members of SLC belong to different providers. Here is an overview
- Jono Bacon, XPrize
- Stuart Bailey, Infoblox (Chair)
- Jasson Casey, Flowgrammable
- Saurav Das, NFB
- Carl Moberg, Cisco Systems
- Ben Pfaff, VMware
- Rob Sherwood, Big Switch (Vice-President)
- Dan Talayco, Self-Referential Software
Foundation
We will follow with interest the first developments of this platform that should facilitate the adoption of SDN that could, in the opinion even Curt Berckman take five to ten years to become the majority.
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