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Joining the OpenFeature Governance Committee

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Thomas Poignant
Thomas Poignant
Creator of GO Feature Flag

Thomas Poignant, creator of GO Feature Flag, has been elected to the OpenFeature Governance Committee for the 2026-2028 term. This is a milestone to be genuinely proud of — and one that feels like a natural continuation of the work done at the intersection of GO Feature Flag and the OpenFeature ecosystem.

What is the OpenFeature Governance Committee?​

OpenFeature is a CNCF incubating project that defines an open standard for feature flagging. It provides a vendor-neutral API and SDKs so that teams can adopt feature flags without locking themselves into a specific platform.

The Governance Committee is responsible for steering the overall direction of the project — from the evolution of the standard itself to community health, contributor experience, and the long-term vision for the ecosystem. It's the group that makes sure OpenFeature stays open, collaborative, and useful for everyone building with it.

Previously, Thomas was part of the OpenFeature Technical Committee, contributing to the technical direction of the project. Joining the Governance Committee means taking on a broader responsibility: helping shape not just how OpenFeature works, but where it goes.

The 2026-2028 Board​

Thomas is honored to join a strong group of contributors and practitioners. The full board for the 2026-2028 term is:

Newly elected:

  • André Silva (LexisNexis Risk Solutions) — maintainer of the OpenFeature .NET SDK and active contributor to OpenTelemetry
  • Maks Osowski (Google) — building Google's OpenFeature-first feature flagging platform
  • Thomas Poignant (Gens de Confiance) — creator and maintainer of GO Feature Flag
  • Jonathan Norris (Dynatrace) — re-elected for a second term; former Co-Founder and CTO of DevCycle

Continuing members (2025-2027):

  • Ben Rometsch (Flagsmith)
  • Michael Beemer (Dynatrace)
  • Pete Hodgson (Independent)

You can read the full announcement on the OpenFeature blog.

What this means for GO Feature Flag​

GO Feature Flag has been committed to the OpenFeature standard since its early days. The project ships native OpenFeature providers, supports OFREP (the OpenFeature Remote Evaluation Protocol), and follows the spec closely to ensure compatibility across the ecosystem.

Being on the Governance Committee means Thomas can contribute to the standard directly — bringing the perspective of a maintainer who runs a feature flagging solution in production, and who hears from users daily about what they need. It's an opportunity to make sure the standard evolves in ways that are practical, implementable, and genuinely useful for the teams building on top of it.

For users of GO Feature Flag, this is a signal of continuity: the project will remain deeply aligned with OpenFeature, and Thomas will be in a position to ensure the standard and the implementation stay in sync.

Let's keep building together​

Open source only works when people show up — as contributors, maintainers, users, and community members. Thank you to everyone who has supported GO Feature Flag and OpenFeature over the years. This role is one more way to give back to that community.

If you have thoughts on the direction of OpenFeature or GO Feature Flag, come share them on GitHub or the CNCF Slack #openfeature channel.