BOINC project governance

BOINC is a community-based open-source project. Anyone can contribute to BOINC, and there are many ways to contribute. People who consistently contribute are able to participate in the project's decision-making processes.

BOINC's governance structure is described ​here.

The history of BOINC is described here?.

Project Management Committee

Project decisions are generally made by community consensus. To manage this process, and to resolve conflicts when they occur, there is a Project Management Committee (PMC) consisting of community members who have consistently contributed to the project. Current PMC members are:

Bruce Allen

Leader of Einstein@Home. Director of the Albert Einstein Institute for Gravitational Physics.

David Anderson

BOINC founder and architect. Research Scientist at University of California, Berkeley.

Christian Beer

Leader of RNA World and Rechenkraft.

Matt Blumberg

Director of GridRepublic. Creator of Progress Thru Processors.

Eric Korpela

Chief scientist of SETI@home. Research Scientist at University of California, Berkeley.

Keith Upplinger

Technical lead of IBM World Community Grid.

Rom Walton

Programmer/Analyst at UC Berkeley.

Willy de Zutter

Creator of BoincStats and BAM!.