OpenAFS is an unincorporated open source project derived from IBM's commercial product that was released under the IBM Public License 1.0 in November 2000. OpenAFS is a globally available distributed file system designed to provide high levels of availability and superb performance in wide area networking environments. The OpenAFS organization consists of a governance board, the Elders; a team of release engineers and architects, the Gatekeepers; and a broad community of developers, system administrators and end users that contribute to the future of the product.