[blog] Roadmap to 2030: The Horizon of Network Management

Author: nemesifier

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+Roadmap to 2030: The Horizon of Network Management
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+:date: 2025-12-29
+:author: Federico Capoano
+:category: news
+:tags: roadmap
+:lang: en
+:image_url: https://openwisp.org/images/blog/roadmap.webp
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+.. image:: {static}/images/blog/roadmap.webp
+    :alt: Development Roadmap (2030)
+
+For the past 13 years, I have had the privilege of contributing to
+OpenWISP and growing alongside this community. During this time, I have
+continuously collected feedback from users, contributors, and partners,
+reflecting on the long-term direction required to keep open-source network
+management at the cutting edge.
+
+I have synthesized these years of notes and community dialogue into a
+structured vision for the coming years: the `Roadmap to 2030
+<https://openwisp.io/docs/dev/general/roadmap-2030.html>`_.
+
+This roadmap outlines the technical and strategic paths I intend to pursue
+to ensure OpenWISP remains a capable, accessible, and versatile system for
+modern, heterogeneous networking environments.
+
+Key Strategic Themes
+--------------------
+
+1. **Frictionless deployment**: Move toward a day-one ready approach by
+   simplifying installation workflows and providing clear, sensible
+   default configurations that work out of the box.
+2. **Refined user experience**: Improve the interface of core modules so
+   that frequent operations, such as device onboarding, configuration,
+   monitoring, and firmware upgrades, are intuitive and accessible, even
+   for users with limited technical background.
+3. **Community-driven feature parity**: Address long-standing feature
+   requests from the community and reduce functional gaps compared to
+   proprietary network management solutions.
+4. **Ecosystem agnosticism**: Expand support beyond OpenWrt by improving
+   compatibility with other operating systems and adopting standard
+   protocols such as NETCONF, YANG, TR-069, and TR-369. This will allow
+   OpenWISP to manage a wider range of hardware and software platforms,
+   making it useful to a larger audience.
+
+Help Us Build the Future
+------------------------
+
+While this roadmap represents my personal vision for the project, it can
+only be realized through collective effort. We are actively seeking:
+
+- **Technical contributions**: Help us implement these architectural
+  changes, `start contributing
+  <https://openwisp.io/docs/dev/developer/contributing.html>`_!
+- **Funding and sponsorship**: Financial support is vital to accelerate
+  development and ensure long-term sustainability. Consider `sponsoring
+  OpenWISP <https://openwisp.org/sponsorship/>`_.
+- **Community feedback**: I invite you to read the `full roadmap document
+  <https://openwisp.io/docs/dev/general/roadmap-2030.html>`_ and share
+  your thoughts in the dedicated `GitHub Discussions thread
+  <https://github.com/orgs/openwisp/discussions/1183>`_ to help refine
+  these goals.
+
+**Read the full document here:** `Roadmap to 2030
+<https://openwisp.io/docs/dev/general/roadmap-2030.html>`_.
+
+I welcome your feedback to help shape the roadmap and make this vision a
+reality!