 Thousands of programmers, computer scientists, and network engineers are already working on software-defined networks to speed delivery of new cloud, big data, social business and mobile services, and they all have their own ideas for how things should be. Some of these engineers got together and asked, what if we all work together? What if there was a new community that delivered an open-source platform consisting of code and architecture to rapidly enable and advance software-defined networking? And what if the community committed to the spirit of progress and allowed SDN to be deployed broadly from the smallest data centers to the largest, hyperscale computing projects? Doing so would allow the engineers and researchers to leverage a common framework instead of individual and fragmented SDKs. Better yet, they could realize the goal of an SDN platform that enables network control and programmability. Such a platform will catalyze massive productivity gains and enable new classes of network applications, applications that we haven't even imagined yet. The community knows that every party will benefit from rapidly developing unification in network programmability and control. This difficult technical problem can be solved through standards bodies, specifications, and a unified software framework, a sort of kernel for SDN. The Open Daylight Project, a not-for-profit, member-supported Linux Foundation collaborative project welcomes contributors of all sizes, from individuals to multinational companies. The Open Daylight Project focuses on software and will deliver several components, an SDN installer, overlay virtual network, protocol plugins, applications, and the architecture and programmatic interfaces for tying it all together. These components will jump-start SDN and enable code reuse, making software engineers more productive. Their work will allow for greater productivity for network and DevOps admins. Now, networkers can adopt SDN with confidence, speeding time to value while reducing complexity and cost. Join us.