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title: "React Foundation: New Governance Model for React and React Native"
description: "Seth Webster, Executive Director of the React Foundation, details its new governance model, Meta's role, and how partners like Callstack and Microsoft will ensure stability and scale."
url: https://www.callstack.com/podcasts/react-foundation-new-governance-model-for-react-and-react-native
updated: 2026-10-24T08:39:43.190Z
---

# React Foundation: New Governance Model for React and React Native

Seth Webster, Executive Director of the React Foundation, details its new governance model, Meta's role, and how partners like Callstack and Microsoft will ensure stability and scale.

_Guest: Seth Webster, Executive Director @ React Foundation · Host: Łukasz Chludziński, Engineering Manager @ Callstack · Published 2025-11-21 · Duration 07:22 · Category: React_

Listen: [YouTube](https://youtu.be/w2visZ60kqU)

What is the new [React Foundation](https://react.dev/blog/2025/10/07/introducing-the-react-foundation) and how will it be governed? Seth Webster, its new Executive Director, details the new structure. To ensure continuity, Meta will retain a majority voting stake for the initial years, while the foundation itself will be housed under the Linux Foundation to adopt best practices for open-source stewardship.

The founding members were selected based on long-term engineering investments, combining two key strengths:

1. Partners like [Callstack](https://www.callstack.com/news/callstack-joins-as-founding-member-of-the-newly-launched-react-foundation) and Software Mansion, who build foundational ecosystem libraries.
2. Large-scale partners like Amazon and Microsoft, who provide high-intensity testing environments, enabling rapid discovery of edge cases.

This structure provides unified stewardship for both React and React Native, ensuring long-term stability.

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