OpenSSL announces new governance structure

OpenSSL has announcedthat it has adopted a new governance framework:

The OpenSSL Management Committee (OMC) has been dissolved, and twoboards of directors have been elected for the Foundation and the Corporation. Eachorganization has ten voting members. These boards share all theresponsibilities and authorities of the former OMC co-equally.

To further engage our communities, we are establishing two advisorycommittees for each entity: a Business Advisory Committee (BAC) and aTechnical Advisory Committee (TAC). The communities will elect themembers of the BACs and TACs, creating a direct channel for communityinput in roadmap development and reflecting the diverse perspectivesof OpenSSL's communities.

OpenSSL has also announced that two projects have adopted the OpenSSL Missionand become OpenSSLprojects: Bouncy Castle, which providescryptographic APIs for Java and C#, and the cryptlib securitysoftware development toolkit. See the announcement for full details.