Mentoring​

The LFX Mentorship 2023 Term 03, September - November is open for project ideas: https://github.com/cncf/mentoring/tree/main/programs/lfx-mentorship/2023/03-Sep-Nov

Project submission and application timeline: Project proposals due: July 27, 2023 Mentee applications open: Aug 2 - 15, 2023 Application review/admission decisions/HR paperwork: Aug 16 - 29, 2023

Did you know that previous proposals can be used? If your Google Summer of Code proposal was declined and you didn't participate in LFX Term 2, this is a great way to reuse the content and submit.

All project levels welcome! Sandbox, Incubating, and Graduated projects can all participate.

We're looking forward to seeing all the project ideas you're interested in working on!

Etcd Usage Survey​

The etcd project wants to hear from you! Please take the Usage Survey (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/etcdusage23). Data compiled from the survey will help guide the project’s strategic direction and prioritize work, particularly around support for uses outside of Kubernetes.

GitHub Merge Queues​

GitHub Merge Queues are now generally available (https://github.blog/2023-07-12-github-merge-queue-is-generally-available/). The merge queue workflow allows busy teams to land changes into the main branch more efficiently. It does this by creating an independent branch of each approved change which is then added to a queue. As an item is added to the queue it is branched along with the upstream changes that are ahead of that merge in the queue, allowing for continuous merging while enforcing all the status checks. Watch the video for more (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEZMgohmtts).

Artifact Hub Expands Artifact Support​

Artifacthub.io is an indexer of cloud native deployment artifacts. It doesn’t host these artifacts, but allows projects to index their artifacts so that it’s more discoverable by users. This is handy if you publish your artifacts in multiple registries, or have a collection that you’d like to recommend to your users. Each entry also includes a social integration card so that you can embed the information in your README or website.

Over the past year Artifact Hub has gained support for more than just container images. You can also register Helm charts and plugins, Falco configurations, Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Gatekeeper policies, OLM operators, Tinkerbell actions, kubectl plugins, Tekton tasks and pipelines, KEDA scalers, CoreDNS plugins, Keptn integrations, container images, Kubewarden policies, Kyverno policies, Knative client, Backstage plugins, Argo templates and KubeArmor policies.

Boost Your Project with Documentation Advice!​

Don't miss the next CNCF Tech Docs open office session on Wednesday July 26, 2023, at 8:00 AM PDT. We're here to answer your questions and guide you in enhancing your project's documentation. No RSVP needed. Learn how we can work together to make your project shine by joining the Zoom 9https://zoom.us/j/98293716536?pwd=SElSK2FVMkxCbzJidTB1dXJ1TTNsUT09#success) (password: 77777) and check out the agenda doc (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1roexHTLCrErYjNT2NEoRsVnn_YNbQzZ1gyXNK8hXR4Q/edit#heading=h.mp4al549hr04) for topics. We look forward to seeing you there!

Services for CNCF Projects​

Curious about how CNCF supports projects? Ask no further! Check out the link at: https://www.cncf.io/services-for-projects/ For any service requests, or ideas for additional support we can provide, please swing by https://servicedesk.cncf.io and let us know.

Upcoming Event Info​

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2023 - Project Opportunities November 6-9 - Chicago, IL Calling all Maintainers from graduated, incubating, and sandbox projects, along with CNCF TAGs and SIGs chairs! We are thrilled to invite you to participate in project opportunities at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023. This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your projects and actively contribute to the vibrant Cloud Native community. Learn More [(https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/project-opportunities/)]

Space is limited Requests will be based on hierarchy, and we may only be able to accept some requests. Deadlines Project Updates on Keynotes Stage Video: Thursday, August 10 Submission for Project Opportunities Interest Form: Friday, August 18

Notifications Project Meeting + In-Person Kiosk: Wednesday, August 23 Maintainer Track: Monday, August 28 Questions? Please don’t hesitate to reach out to kmatienzo@linuxfoundation.org

Upcoming CFP Deadlines: IstioCon - July 23 KCD Austria - July 30 CNCF-hosted Co-located events @ KubeCon NA - August 6 KCD El Salvador - August 11 KCD Sri Lanka - August 28 KCD Texas - August 30 KCD Denmark - September 14

Want to contribute to August's newsletter? Drop a note to projects@cncf.io.

This is our Projects update, this will go out once a month letting CNCF maintainers know of upcoming deadlines, outreach or other useful things going on in the wider community of CNCF.

Upcoming Maintainers' Circle​

Join us on Wednesday, June 28th at 10 am PT, a new Maintainer's Circle special session with Paris Pittman on defining and managing the roles in your Project. More details here: https://github.com/cncf/tag-contributor-strategy/tree/main/maintainers-circle#community-management

Devstats Affliation​

Ever wondered where Devstats affiliations come from?

They’re in here: https://github.com/cncf/gitdm and openprofile.dev These may be useful to you! If you haven’t updated these recently, these affiliations are what Devstats looks for.

TOC Meeting with AdaLogics​

If you’re curious about the goals + processes for security audits, the Technical Oversight Meeting for 6/20 might be useful for you! This is a recorded meeting with Adalogics and some project maintainers. Recording: https://youtu.be/v2v8TuY9Ijc Presentation: CNCF TOC Meeting 6/20/2023 (https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16XmBqV7f9t9yIETbDdzJt_Qa0VHSWRFCVXWvfs0Hwec/edit#slide=id.g25ca91f87f_0_0)

Boost Your Project with Documentation Advice!​

There’s a new Sheriff in town - maintaining repo access permissions on the CNCF org When you want to grant access to your project repos to maintainers and collaborators, please submit a pull request to update the config.yaml file in the cncf/people repo. Sheriff is being used to centralize repo access control for the CNCF org on GitHub. Sheriff runs once per hour, is launched from a Github Action on cncf/people, and it will undo any changes to repo permissions that are made via a repo's settings.yml file. Using Sheriff makes it easy for us to review who has access to all community repos in the CNCF org. Sheriff also allows us to structure our teams to reflect team roles and Sheriff teams are cross platform.

Mentoring​

Don't miss the next CNCF Tech Docs open office session on June 28, 2023, at 8:00 AM PDT. We're here to answer your questions and guide you in enhancing your project's documentation. Let's make your project shine even brighter! No RSVP needed. Just join us on Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/98293716536?pwd=SElSK2FVMkxCbzJidTB1dXJ1TTNsUT09#success) (password: 77777) and check out the agenda doc (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1roexHTLCrErYjNT2NEoRsVnn_YNbQzZ1gyXNK8hXR4Q/edit#heading=h.581dl5s9us63) for topics. We look forward to seeing you there!

Mentoring​

LFX Term 02 - 2023 June - August (https://github.com/cncf/mentoring/tree/main/programs/lfx-mentorship/2023/02-Jun-Aug) has kicked off, thanks to all the mentors who are participating (55 of you!). It’s early yet, but Term 03 - 2023 September - November (https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/cncf/mentoring/tree/main/programs/lfx-mentorship/2023/03-Sep-Nov&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1692652539211219&usg=AOvVaw0NIcxPWGHkMnl_zeVeFPcS) is open for project proposals—but we're excited to see what you're interested in working on!

CNCF Project Summary Table​

A lesser-known part of the CNCF Landscape is the Project Summary Table (https://landscape.cncf.io/summary). Part of the Landscape are fields that allow projects to define both typical and business use cases (https://github.com/cncf/landscape/blob/master/landscape.yml#L188-L231).

gRPC​

Don’t miss your chance to join key customers, project leads, and contributors at the upcoming gRCP Conf 2023. Submit your CFP today (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/archive/2020/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/program/cfp/#submit-your-talk)! The CFP closes on Sunday, July 2.

Want to contribute to July's newsletter? Drop a note to projects@cncf.io.

This is our Projects update, this will go out once a month letting CNCF maintainers know of upcoming deadlines, outreach or other useful things going on in the wider community of CNCF.

Grafana Labs​

Grafana Labs is happy to offer sponsored Grafana Cloud Pro for all Linux Foundation and CNCF projects. For all Incubating and Graduated projects who need it, we are also happy to discuss increased sponsorship levels.

Grafana Cloud Pro offers a self-service way to store metrics, logs, and traces - and more. With ready-made integrations for many popular tools and use cases, OnCall and Incidents for incident management, k6 for load testing and API contract validation, Pyroscope for profiles, and Faro for real end user monitoring, projects can get full-stack observability in one holistic package. For more information, drop an email to community@grafana.com!

Maintainers' Survey​

We've opened the CNCF maintainers survey for the first half of 2023, now available here: http://maintainers-survey.cncf.io/

We've also changed the questions on the survey to highlight some of the areas that we'd like your feedback on. We'll be publishing the survey data, minus any personally identifying information, at the end of this survey round.

We'll be closing this survey at the end of May, deadline is May 31st.

Maintianers' Circle​

In this session, join Nate W., co-chair of the CNCF mentoring working group, as he shares the power and impact of these programs in shaping open-source projects. Then hear Lee, a seasoned CNCF mentor, share his insights, experiences, and highlights from his mentorship journey within the CNCF. Whether you’re a seasoned maintainer, a new contributor, or just interested in open source, this session promises to help you understand how mentoring can help your project grow contributors. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn, connect, and grow with your peers.

May 30th, 2023 @ 9:00am PDT / 4:00pm GMT Maintainers Circle CNCF mentoring

Sherriff + Your Access on the CNCF GitHub​

There’s a new Sheriff in town - maintaining repo access permissions on the CNCF org When you want to grant access to your project repos to maintainers and collaborators, please submit a pull request to update the config.yaml file in the cncf/people repo. Sheriff is being used to centralize repo access control for the CNCF org on GitHub. Sheriff runs once per hour, is launched from a Github Action on cncf/people, and it will undo any changes to repo permissions that are made via a repo's settings.yml file. Using Sheriff makes it easy for us to review who has access to all community repos in the CNCF org. Sheriff also allows us to structure our teams to reflect team roles and Sheriff teams are cross platform.

ServiceDesk: Your Portal to Project Support​

A project can have a lot of different requests for, or questions of, the CNCF. To try and consolidate these, we want to remind everyone that https://servicedesk.cncf.io/ exists for any and all project needs. By asking questions or raising concerns through Service Desk, it means if someone on the team is out, someone else can pick up an urgent request. As an added bonus, there’s now email support for interacting with ServiceDesk tickets (similar to using email with GitHub). Yes! Servicedesk will now pick up your emails! You can update an open ticket by replying to the email notification you receive from the Service Desk. Your reply will be added to the ticket as a comment and will be easily picked up by the team.

In other Service Desk news, we have added a bot that will move a request to a Pending state if a request has been in Waiting for Customer state for 90 days or more if you want to keep the request open, update the ticket and let us know.

Devstats Profile​

Ever wondered where Devstats affiliations come from? They’re in here: https://github.com/cncf/gitdm If you haven’t updated it in awhile, it might be good to take a look at.

TechDocs​

On the last Wednesday of each month, the TechDocs team hosts Open Office Hours for anyone to drop in with questions about technical documentation or how our team can help your project. Our next session will be on May 31, 2023, at 8:00 AM PDT. You can find details on how to join us on the public calendar (https://tockify.com/cncf.public.events/detail/433/1685545200000?startms=1682899200000). Hope to see you there!

Mentoring​

The CNCF has had 14 projects selected for the Google Summer of Code 2023 program! Thanks to all the participating projects and mentors. Congratulations to Flux and WasmEdge, who have been selected as participants in Google's Season of Docs program.

LFX Mentoring Term 01 has just been completed; thanks to everyone who participated. We had over 75 mentors across 28 CNCF projects working with 60 mentees. Term 02 - 2023 June - August (https://github.com/cncf/mentoring/tree/main/programs/lfx-mentorship/2023/02-Jun-Aug) is now in the mentee selection phase. Term 03 - 2023 September - November (https://github.com/cncf/mentoring/tree/main/programs/lfx-mentorship/2023/03-Sep-Nov) is open for project proposals -- We're excited to see what you're interested in working on!

Want to contribute to June's newsletter? Drop a note to projects@cncf.io.

Welcome back from Kubecon! This is our Projects update, this will go out once a month letting CNCF maintainers know of upcoming deadlines, outreach or other useful things going on in the wider community of CNCF.

KubeCon EU 2023 Retro Doc​

Were you at KubeCon EU 2023? Do you have any feedback to make the event better OR want to gush at the Events team?

Each KubeCon we’ve been collecting community feedback from a subset of folks, but we’d like to open it up to the entire maintainer community.

Thanks in advance!

CNCF Project Summary Table​

A lesser-known part of the CNCF Landscape is the Project Summary Table. Part of the Landscape are fields that allow projects to define both typical and business use cases.

Please check and see if your project already has these Use Case fields populated and if not, fill them in with some useful information. If you need help or a launching off point, please check KubeEdge’s Use Cases or contact projects@cncf.io

LFC Courses​

The Linux Foundation has worked with the CNCF and created several courses specific to Open Source and inclusive communication. These are free for anyone to take so please feel free to sign up if you haven’t. https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/inclusive-speaker-orientation/ https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/inclusive-open-source-community-orientation-lfc102/ https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/inclusive-strategies-for-open-source-lfc103/

Mentoring - LFX Mentorship​

LFX Proposals are open for both Term 02 and 03. If you have proposals, please feel free to open a PR and submit! These are a great alternative to GSoC if your proposal wasn’t accepted. Term 02 - 2023 June - August Term 03 - 2023 September - November

TechDocs Open Office Hours​

On the last Wednesday of each month, the TechDocs team hosts Open Office Hours for anyone to drop in with questions about technical documentation. Our next session will be on April 26, 2023, at 8:00 AM PDT. You can find details on how to join us on the public calendar. Hope to see you there!

Happy March! This is our Projects update, this will go out once a month letting CNCF maintainers know of upcoming deadlines, outreach or other useful things going on in the wider community of CNCF.

KubeCon Hotels​

We encourage you to book your hotel for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Amsterdam quickly - a few hotels listed still have availability. The room blocks end March 30, 2023.

KubeCon for maintainers!​

There will be some maintainer-focused activities at KubeCon, be sure to check them out: Keynote: Building a Sustainable CNCF Project Contributor Base by Dawn Foster Panel discussion: TAG Contributor Strategy: What We Get Out of It (and You Could Too!) with Dawn Foster, Nate Waddington, Dave Sudia, Josh Berkus, and Catherine Paganini TAG Contributor Strategy kiosk in the project pavilion: swing by, meet the team, and learn about the different resources the TAG created for maintainers (learn more about the TAG here) Maintainers Circle: Engaging the End User Community. Maintainers of the OTel project mostly come from vendors that ingest telemetry data, but the challenge they’ve had is that most people coming to the project form outside are end users using OpenTelemetry to instrument their code. They’ll talk about how they engaged those community members, and provide a structure for examining your constituency and how to engage the people in your community who aren’t contributors. Wednesday April 19, 11-12, Rooms D203-204 (not on Sched)

Equinix Resource Audit​

First: Our thanks go out to everyone who helped move resources out of data centers being deprecated by Equinix. Much love.

During this process, the Equinix folks and CNCF staff found many instances of dangling/stale resources that were running but not used. Because of this, Equinix+CNCF plan to do a walk through of all CNCF resources within Equinix to ensure that what’s provisioned is being actively used and not a random box from 2019.

As a call to action, if you know your project has Equinix resources, please check on them and make sure they’re still currently used. This should speed the process along for everybody!

Equinix Livestream Showcase​

Our friends over at Equinix would love to hear your stories on using their resources and being an open source maintainer. If you would like to be interviewed and enjoy nerding out about bare metal, please reach out to Ed Vielmetti (evielmetti@equinix.com) and Madeline Wallace (madwallace@equinix.com)

GitHub 2FA​

GitHub will require all users who contribute code to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023. More importantly to our community, they are starting with Open Source Software that is widely used. Very soon, CNCF Projects will begin having a 2FA requirement for GitHub org membership.

tl;dr: Please enable 2FA on your GH account. If you are unable to enable 2FA, please contact the Projects team (projects@cncf.io) and they can connect you with the appropriate GitHub folks on how to help.

Github Security Advisories​

Hey CNCF maintainers! We wanted to let you know about a feature from GitHub that you can enable on your repos to support vuln reporting:

https://github.blog/changelog/2022-11-09-privately-report-vulnerabilities-to-repository-maintainers/

This can be useful instead of maintaining a separate security mailing list.

GitHub Maintainers Community​

Being an open source maintainer is a badge of honor, and can be deeply fulfilling. You can also run into very niche situations or problems that only other maintainers could understand or comment on.

GitHub has created an exclusive-to-Maintainers community for these types of discussions and group therapy sessions. They’ve invited our maintainer community to join, as a rising tide lifts all boats. Please take a minute to join and introduce yourself if you’re feeling extroverted.

Heroku OSS Credit Program​

The folks over at Heroku wanted to let our community know that they have a program for OSS projects that need hosting/compute resources.

TechDocs​

• SPIFFE and Notary now have a new look! 😍 As part of our ongoing support for projects within our community, we just completed a complete redesign of the SPIFFE and Notary websites!

Peep the new look! https://spiffe.io/ https://notaryproject.dev/

We are very committed to improving our project's websites with the very best design that the community would love and embrace.

TechDocs Open Office Hours​

On the last Wednesday of each month, the TechDocs team hosts Open Office Hours for anyone to drop in with questions about technical documentation. Our next session will be March 29, 2023 at 8:00AM PDT. You can find details on how to join us on the public calendar. Hope to see you there!

KubeCon TechDocs Open Office Hours​

We’re taking this show on the road! If you have any questions or just want to chat about documentation, the CNCF TechDocs team will be holding office hours at KubeCon on Thursday at 11:00 - 12:30 in Room E101 (we’ll be on the schedule too, just in case there are any changes).

##Mentorship Updates​

• Google Season of Docs The CNCF is applying to participate in Google Season of Docs as an org this year, and we’ve made a call for proposals. If your project needs documentation help, this is a great opportunity to bring a writer on board!

• Google Summer of Code We have been accepted as an organization for GSoC 2023 🎉 Thanks for all the project proposals!

• LFX Mentorship 2023 Term 01 has just started, thanks to everyone who is participating as a mentor.

We’ve also published the timelines for the next two terms of the LFX Mentorship program. If you have proposals, please feel free to open a PR and submit! These are a great alternative to GSoC if your proposal wasn’t accepted. Term 02 - 2023 June - August Term 03 - 2023 September - November

KubeCon Mentorship Open Office Hours​

Since we’re doing a road version of the TechDocs open office hours, we thought we’d do the same with the Mentorship Crew! If you have any questions about mentorship, and how it might fit in with your project, or want to get pointers on writing proposals, or selecting candidates, come by our open office hours at KubeCon on Wednesday, April 19 from 2:30pm - 4:40 – Room E101, we’ll be on the schedule too so you can find us there in case there are any changes.

ServiceDesk: Your portal to project support​

A project can have a lot of different requests for, or questions of, the CNCF. To try and consolidate these, we want to remind everyone that https://servicedesk.cncf.io/ exists for any and all project needs.

By asking questions or raising concerns through Service Desk, it means if someone on the team is out, someone else can pick up an urgent request.

As an added bonus, there’s now email support for interacting with ServiceDesk tickets (similar to using email with GitHub).

CLOMonitor: A Project Health tracker​

Many have already heard of CLOMonitor, but for those that haven’t: This tool is meant to track project health and adherence to the standards the CNCF would like to see in a project. Things like security policies, governance, and validating trademarks on project website.

Please take a look at your project on CLOMonitor and see if you could improve your project’s score!

https://clomonitor.io

ArtifactHub: Now with KubeArmor Policies!​

A recent new feature of ArtifactHub is support for storing KubeArmor Policies! ArtifactHub is an awesome project that looks to support as many CNCF-related artifacts as possible. If this sounds interesting or potentially helpful to you, feel free to reach out to #artifact-hub on the CNCF Slack!

Welcome into a new year! This is our new Projects update, this will go out once a month letting CNCF maintainers know of upcoming deadlines, outreach or other useful things going on in the wider community of CNCF.

Happy February! (We made it!) This is our new Projects update, this will go out once a month letting CNCF maintainers know of upcoming deadlines, outreach or other useful things going on in the wider community of CNCF.

Mentorship​

Google Season of Docs The CNCF is applying to participate in Google Season of Docs as an org this year, and we’ve made a call for proposals. If your project needs documentation help, this is a great opportunity to bring a writer on board!

Google Summer of Code Interest has been high for project participation in GSoC, we’ve had a lot of proposals, thanks everyone! We should know if the CNCF has been accepted as an organization by Feb 22. We’ll make any announcements and updates on the cncf/mentoring discussion board.

LFX Mentorship Applications for Term 01 have just closed, and projects are now making their mentee selections.

We’ve also published the timelines for the next two terms of the LFX Mentorship program. If you have proposals, please feel free to open a PR and submit! These are a great alternative to GSoC if your proposal wasn’t accepted. Term 02 - 2023 June - August Term 03 - 2023 September - November

TechDocs​

Open office hours On the last Wednesday of each month, the TechDocs team hosts Open Office Hours for anyone to drop in with questions about technical documentation. Our next session will be March 29, 2023 at 8:00AM PDT. You can find details on how to join us on the public calendar. Hope to see you there!

Kubernetes Registry Deprecation: k8s.gcr.io => registry.k8s.io​

In an effort to reduce reliance on Google and reduce cloud spend, the Kubernetes Project is migrating all references of k8s.gcr.io to registry.k8s.io. The old URL, which is referenced across the Cloud Native ecosystem, will be frozen beginning in April.

Please check this GH Issue to see if your project may be affected.

Does your project need a mainframe?​

The Open Mainframe Project (a sibling foundation to the CNCF) recently reached out to the CNCF to see if any projects have a need for mainframe resources for CI testing or building. If your project has any interest in these resources, please reach out to jeefy@linuxfoundation.org

Elekto? GitVote? Project voting tools!​

The Cloud Native Way is often distributed, and (much like etcd) some form of quorum must be established. In support of this, we have some tools your project might be able to use!

Does your project run elections for things like a steering committee or TOC? If so, check out https://elekto.dev/ – a Cloud Native way to run elections inspired by the long-running CIVS project.

Ever want to have structured voting within a GitHub Issue? How about a PR Check that prevents merging without a 2/3rds majority vote? You can do all of that with GitVote.

Both of these projects are open source and built with love by fellow Cloud Native Community members, so please take a look and feel free to file issues or add feature requests!

CNCF GitHub Org Housekeeping​

Recently, the CNCF GItHub Org has begun using Sheriff, an OSS project created by the folks over at ElectronJS, to manage people-related resources (GitHub and Slack to start). What does this mean? For better or worse, Yet Another YAML File. (YAY…F) – Adding folks to GitHub Teams and repo access is managed through a new file in the cncf/people repository You can now programmatically create Slack User Groups via changes to said file Soon, you will be able to automatically receive access to various resources (Service Desk, Equinix, etc.) and mailing lists as we build plugins for Sheriff. A lot more self service, and a lot less ServiceDesk tickets for Maintainer updates

Short term, this might cause some headaches as we all get used to this pattern. That said, this is a huge win in terms of sustainability and optimization of processes for us all.

For any questions or additional ideas for automation, reach out to jeefy@linuxfoundation.org or file an issue in cncf/sheriff

Project-meetings.cncf.io now open​

One of the benefits of a CNCF Project is being able to get time on the CNCF’s calendar to discuss issues, concerns, or ideas your project has. To better execute on this offering, we’ve set up a Calendly to enable scheduling time with us!

Our door is always open, so feel free to schedule as needed! https://project-meetings.cncf.io Note: When requesting, give us an idea of your discussion topics so we can ensure the right CNCF folks are in the room!

Ideally we’d like to hear from each of you at least once a year, so we may start reaching out to check on the weather in your project. :)

KubeCon Hotels​

We encourage you to book your hotel for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Amsterdam quickly - a few hotels listed still have availability. The room blocks end March 30, 2023.

Welcome into a new year! This is our new Projects update, this will go out once a month letting CNCF maintainers know of upcoming deadlines, outreach or other useful things going on in the wider community of CNCF.

Ambassador Applications Open​

As we approach 2023, the prestigious CNA program has been refreshed and we are now accepting applications for spring 2023. Could you be the newest CNA? If you have a track record of significant and impactful contributions to the cloud native community, check out the responsibilities and requirements to apply.

LFX Mentorships - March through May cycle open​

The LFX Mentorship 2023 Term 01 March - May is open now open for project ideas:

https://github.com/cncf/mentoring/tree/main/lfx-mentorship/2023/01-Mar-May

Project submission and application timeline:

• project proposal period: January 16 - 31 we are here
• mentee applications open: February 1 - 14 (2 weeks)
• application review/admission decisions/HR paperwork: February 15 - 28

We're looking forward to seeing all the project ideas you're interested in working on!

New: Request meetings with Projects team​

One of the benefits of a CNCF Project is being able to get time on the CNCF’s calendar to discuss issues, concerns, or ideas your project has. To better execute on this offering, we’ve set up a Calendly to enable scheduling time with us!

Our door is always open, so feel free to schedule as needed!

Note: When requesting, give us an idea of your discussion topics so we can ensure the right CNCF folks are in the room!

Ideally we’d like to hear from each of you at least once a year, so we may start reaching out to check on the weather in your project. :)

Questions? Drop a note back to projects@cncf.io, we’re happy to help!