I'm familiar with the OpenFPGA stuff but hadn't connected it to the folks listed -- consider this an ask to have bios on the site as I evidently picked the wrong people to google. It's great to know there's more than meets the eye here beyond a vague press release I can't make heads or tails of.
Looking at other hardware-related foundations (like the RISC-V foundation) there are explicit callouts for "individuals not representing a legal entity," which is where someone like myself would fit, but the bucketing on OSFPGA makes it seem like people in this group who are not students (for example, me, not that I'm particularly special) don't have a place here. (As an aside, I dislike how many orgs collapse members and sponsors into one thing, but that's neither here nor there).
Finally, I didn't mean to imply that the work I mentioned came whole cloth from the respective author's heads. Sorry if what I wrote conveyed that.
PS: When is Zero ASIC coming out of stealth? :)