Our Mission

The Wireshark Foundation is a non-profit organization helping as many people as possible understand their networks as much as possible. As time goes on, more and more of our daily life happens using software, and that software relies on network connectivity. By hosting educational conferences, the Wireshark Foundation provides industry professionals and students with the knowledge and understanding required to ensure that the networks and systems we depend on are reliable, secure, and fast.

The Wireshark Foundation fosters open source development and will continue to explore new ways of educating the public.

Our Goals

1. To educate current and future generations of network engineers, network architects, students, application engineers, network consultants, and other IT professionals in best practices for troubleshooting, securing, analyzing, and maintaining productive, efficient networking infrastructures through use of the Wireshark free open source analyzer and other analysis tools.
2. To share use cases and knowledge among members of the Wireshark and other open source project developer and user communities, in a relaxed, informal milieu.
3. To remain a self-funded, independent, community minded educational conference.
4. To foster open source development and continue to explore ways of educating the public.

Our Individual Supporters

The following individuals have donated to the Wireshark Foundation, thank you very much for your support!

Board of Directors

• Gerald Combs
• Janice Spampinato
• Loris Degioanni
• Mark Stout
• Kary Rogers
• Jasper Bongertz
• Sharareh Najafi

The Team

• Treasurer: Gerald Combs
• Executive Director: Sharareh Najafi
• Marketing Manager & Web Developer: Angelo Spampinato