Re: [PROPOSED] CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy leadership changes

St Leger, Jim
+1 NB.
And hats off to both Paris and Stephen for all of their work in the past, for passing then baton, and for 2022 planning to narrow their focus. The result
will benefit all of the community.
Thanks,
Jim
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From: cncf-toc@... <cncf-toc@...>
On Behalf Of Stephen Augustus
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 2:07 PM
To: CNCF TOC <cncf-toc@...>
Cc: cncf-tag-contributor-strategy@...
Subject: [cncf-toc] [PROPOSED] CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy leadership changes
Hi TOC!
TAG Contributor Strategy would like to propose Dawn Foster as a TAG Chair.
For those that have the privilege of working with Dawn in her many capacities, no introduction is necessary.
But for the sake of the list, a few words...
Dawn leads the open source community strategy efforts within VMware’s Open Source Program Office. She is on the Board of OpenUK, committed to develop and sustain UK leadership in Open Technology. She is on the Governing Board and is a maintainer
for the Linux Foundation’s CHAOSS open source metrics project and is also on the TODO Group Steering Committee.
She has more than 20 years of experience in business and technology with expertise in strategic planning, management, community building, community management, open source software, market research, and more. She is passionate about bringing people together
through a combination of online communities and real-world events. She has experience building new communities, and managing existing communities with a particular emphasis on developer and open source communities.
Most recently, Dawn was a consultant at The Scale Factory after being Director of Community at Puppet. Prior to Puppet, she was leading the Community Office within Intel’s Open Source Technology Center. In addition to working at Intel, Dawn was an online community
consultant, and she has worked at Jive Software, Compiere, and a Midwestern manufacturing company in positions ranging from Unix system administrator to market researcher to community manager to open source strategist.
Upon TOC approval of Dawn's appointment, both Paris and I will be moving to Emeritus TAG Chairs.
From Paris:
Team,
I'd like to resign my Chair hat for the TAG and nominate Dawn Foster in my place. Explanation below but first about Dawn:
<Dawn's bio above>
**Whats Next:**
I submitted the proposal to the Technical Advisory Council (TOC) for the then Special Interest Group that we now call Technical Advisory Groups over
[two years ago]. The group has flourished to be a helpful resource to the TOC and CNCF projects through ad hoc services, tooling, and programs. We've grown to include many contributors, a new tech lead
role: Carolyn!, a repo of templates AND guidance, a CNCF
contributor site to house said guidance!, and a
maintainer circle to support the humans behind the code.
And the last point brings me to my 2022 goals: I'd like to focus on Maintainer Circle! Bringing that up not only to a solid state but an industry leading resource for the thousands of maintainers and leaders of CNCF projects. After coordinating the events we
have had virtually and in-person, we've gotten feedback that folks not only really like this but want to see more of it. With this focus, it would be best if I step back from Chair and concentrate on this area. There is a lot of power in maintainers coming
together to learn, share, and grow; really looking forward to this thriving.
I have the utmost respect and trust in Dawn to co-chair our group; she has stepped up in countless ways with contributions including organizational functions and leadership. Dawn will be an excellent TAG Chair!
From me:
Hey TAG Contributor Strategy!
Upon the TOC's approval of Dawn's appointment as TAG Chair, I will also be resigning my seat.
It has been an absolute pleasure to serve the community in this capacity and with the leadership we have in place and the wonderful TAG Contributor Strategy contributors, I have complete faith that this crew will continue to flourish and support CNCF maintainers
on their journey.
To get the administrivia out of the way, here is the pull request to actuate the leadership changes:
https://github.com/cncf/tag-contributor-strategy/pull/150
In 2022, I'll be turning focus to my new roles on the TODO Group and Kubernetes Steering Committee.
...but! I'll also be working with Paris to evolve the Maintainers Circle, so I won't be too far away.
Same address. Same GitHub. A few more Slack channels, but a whole lot of fun ahead. See you on the internets!
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Re: [PROPOSED] CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy leadership changes
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On Jan 12, 2022, at 1:07 PM, Stephen Augustus < hey@...> wrote:
Hi TOC! TAG Contributor Strategy would like to propose Dawn Foster as a TAG Chair. For those that have the privilege of working with Dawn in her many capacities, no introduction is necessary. But for the sake of the list, a few words... Dawn leads the open source community strategy efforts within VMware’s Open Source Program Office. She is on the Board of OpenUK, committed to develop and sustain UK leadership in Open Technology. She is on the Governing Board and is a maintainer for the Linux Foundation’s CHAOSS open source metrics project and is also on the TODO Group Steering Committee.
She has more than 20 years of experience in business and technology with expertise in strategic planning, management, community building, community management, open source software, market research, and more. She is passionate about bringing people together through a combination of online communities and real-world events. She has experience building new communities, and managing existing communities with a particular emphasis on developer and open source communities.
Most recently, Dawn was a consultant at The Scale Factory after being Director of Community at Puppet. Prior to Puppet, she was leading the Community Office within Intel’s Open Source Technology Center. In addition to working at Intel, Dawn was an online community consultant, and she has worked at Jive Software, Compiere, and a Midwestern manufacturing company in positions ranging from Unix system administrator to market researcher to community manager to open source strategist.
Upon TOC approval of Dawn's appointment, both Paris and I will be moving to Emeritus TAG Chairs.From Paris: Team,
I'd like to resign my Chair hat for the TAG and nominate Dawn Foster in my place. Explanation below but first about Dawn:
<Dawn's bio above>
**Whats Next:** I submitted the proposal to the Technical Advisory Council (TOC) for the then Special Interest Group that we now call Technical Advisory Groups over [two years ago]. The group has flourished to be a helpful resource to the TOC and CNCF projects through ad hoc services, tooling, and programs. We've grown to include many contributors, a new tech lead role: Carolyn!, a repo of templates AND guidance, a CNCF contributor site to house said guidance!, and a maintainer circle to support the humans behind the code.
And the last point brings me to my 2022 goals: I'd like to focus on Maintainer Circle! Bringing that up not only to a solid state but an industry leading resource for the thousands of maintainers and leaders of CNCF projects. After coordinating the events we have had virtually and in-person, we've gotten feedback that folks not only really like this but want to see more of it. With this focus, it would be best if I step back from Chair and concentrate on this area. There is a lot of power in maintainers coming together to learn, share, and grow; really looking forward to this thriving.
I have the utmost respect and trust in Dawn to co-chair our group; she has stepped up in countless ways with contributions including organizational functions and leadership. Dawn will be an excellent TAG Chair!
From me: Hey TAG Contributor Strategy!
Upon the TOC's approval of Dawn's appointment as TAG Chair, I will also be resigning my seat.
It has been an absolute pleasure to serve the community in this capacity and with the leadership we have in place and the wonderful TAG Contributor Strategy contributors, I have complete faith that this crew will continue to flourish and support CNCF maintainers on their journey.
To get the administrivia out of the way, here is the pull request to actuate the leadership changes: https://github.com/cncf/tag-contributor-strategy/pull/150
In 2022, I'll be turning focus to my new roles on the TODO Group and Kubernetes Steering Committee. ...but! I'll also be working with Paris to evolve the Maintainers Circle, so I won't be too far away.
Same address. Same GitHub. A few more Slack channels, but a whole lot of fun ahead. See you on the internets!
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Re: TAG Runtime Tech Lead Nomination - TOC Vote
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From: cncf-toc@... <cncf-toc@...>
On Behalf Of Ricardo Aravena via lists.cncf.io
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2021 4:21 PM
To: CNCF TOC <cncf-toc@...>
Subject: [cncf-toc] TAG Runtime Tech Lead Nomination - TOC Vote
Hi all,
TAG-Runtime would like to nominate a candidate for the tech lead role in the TAG:
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He's been a member of the TAG for a few months and is a regular contributor.
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He will continue to contribute to the community's growth and will bring a lot of knowledge and experience.
We are thrilled to continue working with Alexander in this capacity, and we appreciate his ongoing contributions to the community!
Alexander Kanevskiy - Tech Lead Nominee
Cloud Software Architect - Intel
Alexander Kanevskiy is an architect in Intel's Cloud Native team. Alexander in the past 5 years worked on several subjects in Kubernetes community: SIG-Cluster-Lifecycle (kubeadm), SIG-Node (node-feature-discovery,
device plugins APIs and support for Intel devices), Resource Management WG (Intel’s CRI-Resource-Manager, topology awareness improvements in kubelet, ...), cri-o/containerd (Intel RDT and Block I/O support).
Alexander is currently a co-lead of Container Orchestrated Devices WG of CNCF TAG-Runtime (https://github.com/cncf/tag-runtime/blob/master/wg/COD.md) and coordinating effort between teams
from several companies to improve the ways on how hardware accelerators and other hardware resources can be consumed in Cloud Native ecosystem: runtime’s CDI and NRI interfaces.
Before working in projects of Cloud Native ecosystem, Alexander had over 20 years of experience in Intel, Nokia and other companies in areas of creating Linux distributions, Release Engineering,
CI/CD, Development tools, Infrastructure and Networking.
To vote, please reply to this email. The CNCF, as always, welcomes non-binding community votes in addition to the required votes of TOC members.
Thanks,
Ricardo Aravena
Co-chair CNCF TAG Runtime
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Re: [TOC][VOTE] Re: [cncf-toc] [PROPOSED] CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy leadership changes

Dave Zolotusky
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 2:19 AM Davanum Srinivas < davanum@...> wrote: Adding the `[VOTE]` tag to make sure toc members do so :)
+1 for Dawn.
thanks, Dims On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 7:15 AM Liz Rice < liz@...> wrote: +1 for Dawn (*waves hello*)
Organizationally, I'm assuming Maintainers Circle still falls under TAG Contributor Strategy, so the TOC community will continue to hear news from Maintainers Circle at the monthly TAG updates meeting?
Related, it crosses my mind that with Paris representing Maintainers on the GB, there's a direct link from Maintainers Circle to GB - and that's an excellent thing. IMO we should set the expectation going forward that it's part of the role of the Maintainer GB representative to participate in/attend meetings of the Maintainers Circle - thoughts?
Liz
On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 9:07 PM Stephen Augustus < hey@...> wrote: Hi TOC! TAG Contributor Strategy would like to propose Dawn Foster as a TAG Chair. For those that have the privilege of working with Dawn in her many capacities, no introduction is necessary. But for the sake of the list, a few words... Dawn leads the open source community strategy efforts within VMware’s Open Source Program Office. She is on the Board of OpenUK, committed to develop and sustain UK leadership in Open Technology. She is on the Governing Board and is a maintainer for the Linux Foundation’s CHAOSS open source metrics project and is also on the TODO Group Steering Committee.
She has more than 20 years of experience in business and technology with expertise in strategic planning, management, community building, community management, open source software, market research, and more. She is passionate about bringing people together through a combination of online communities and real-world events. She has experience building new communities, and managing existing communities with a particular emphasis on developer and open source communities.
Most recently, Dawn was a consultant at The Scale Factory after being Director of Community at Puppet. Prior to Puppet, she was leading the Community Office within Intel’s Open Source Technology Center. In addition to working at Intel, Dawn was an online community consultant, and she has worked at Jive Software, Compiere, and a Midwestern manufacturing company in positions ranging from Unix system administrator to market researcher to community manager to open source strategist.
Upon TOC approval of Dawn's appointment, both Paris and I will be moving to Emeritus TAG Chairs.From Paris: Team,
I'd like to resign my Chair hat for the TAG and nominate Dawn Foster in my place. Explanation below but first about Dawn:
<Dawn's bio above>
**Whats Next:** I submitted the proposal to the Technical Advisory Council (TOC) for the then Special Interest Group that we now call Technical Advisory Groups over [two years ago]. The group has flourished to be a helpful resource to the TOC and CNCF projects through ad hoc services, tooling, and programs. We've grown to include many contributors, a new tech lead role: Carolyn!, a repo of templates AND guidance, a CNCF contributor site to house said guidance!, and a maintainer circle to support the humans behind the code.
And the last point brings me to my 2022 goals: I'd like to focus on Maintainer Circle! Bringing that up not only to a solid state but an industry leading resource for the thousands of maintainers and leaders of CNCF projects. After coordinating the events we have had virtually and in-person, we've gotten feedback that folks not only really like this but want to see more of it. With this focus, it would be best if I step back from Chair and concentrate on this area. There is a lot of power in maintainers coming together to learn, share, and grow; really looking forward to this thriving.
I have the utmost respect and trust in Dawn to co-chair our group; she has stepped up in countless ways with contributions including organizational functions and leadership. Dawn will be an excellent TAG Chair!
From me: Hey TAG Contributor Strategy!
Upon the TOC's approval of Dawn's appointment as TAG Chair, I will also be resigning my seat.
It has been an absolute pleasure to serve the community in this capacity and with the leadership we have in place and the wonderful TAG Contributor Strategy contributors, I have complete faith that this crew will continue to flourish and support CNCF maintainers on their journey.
To get the administrivia out of the way, here is the pull request to actuate the leadership changes: https://github.com/cncf/tag-contributor-strategy/pull/150
In 2022, I'll be turning focus to my new roles on the TODO Group and Kubernetes Steering Committee. ...but! I'll also be working with Paris to evolve the Maintainers Circle, so I won't be too far away.
Same address. Same GitHub. A few more Slack channels, but a whole lot of fun ahead. See you on the internets!
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[TOC][VOTE] Re: [cncf-toc] [PROPOSED] CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy leadership changes

Davanum Srinivas
Adding the `[VOTE]` tag to make sure toc members do so :)
+1 for Dawn.
thanks, Dims
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 7:15 AM Liz Rice < liz@...> wrote: +1 for Dawn (*waves hello*)
Organizationally, I'm assuming Maintainers Circle still falls under TAG Contributor Strategy, so the TOC community will continue to hear news from Maintainers Circle at the monthly TAG updates meeting?
Related, it crosses my mind that with Paris representing Maintainers on the GB, there's a direct link from Maintainers Circle to GB - and that's an excellent thing. IMO we should set the expectation going forward that it's part of the role of the Maintainer GB representative to participate in/attend meetings of the Maintainers Circle - thoughts?
Liz
On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 9:07 PM Stephen Augustus < hey@...> wrote: Hi TOC! TAG Contributor Strategy would like to propose Dawn Foster as a TAG Chair. For those that have the privilege of working with Dawn in her many capacities, no introduction is necessary. But for the sake of the list, a few words... Dawn leads the open source community strategy efforts within VMware’s Open Source Program Office. She is on the Board of OpenUK, committed to develop and sustain UK leadership in Open Technology. She is on the Governing Board and is a maintainer for the Linux Foundation’s CHAOSS open source metrics project and is also on the TODO Group Steering Committee.
She has more than 20 years of experience in business and technology with expertise in strategic planning, management, community building, community management, open source software, market research, and more. She is passionate about bringing people together through a combination of online communities and real-world events. She has experience building new communities, and managing existing communities with a particular emphasis on developer and open source communities.
Most recently, Dawn was a consultant at The Scale Factory after being Director of Community at Puppet. Prior to Puppet, she was leading the Community Office within Intel’s Open Source Technology Center. In addition to working at Intel, Dawn was an online community consultant, and she has worked at Jive Software, Compiere, and a Midwestern manufacturing company in positions ranging from Unix system administrator to market researcher to community manager to open source strategist.
Upon TOC approval of Dawn's appointment, both Paris and I will be moving to Emeritus TAG Chairs.From Paris: Team,
I'd like to resign my Chair hat for the TAG and nominate Dawn Foster in my place. Explanation below but first about Dawn:
<Dawn's bio above>
**Whats Next:** I submitted the proposal to the Technical Advisory Council (TOC) for the then Special Interest Group that we now call Technical Advisory Groups over [two years ago]. The group has flourished to be a helpful resource to the TOC and CNCF projects through ad hoc services, tooling, and programs. We've grown to include many contributors, a new tech lead role: Carolyn!, a repo of templates AND guidance, a CNCF contributor site to house said guidance!, and a maintainer circle to support the humans behind the code.
And the last point brings me to my 2022 goals: I'd like to focus on Maintainer Circle! Bringing that up not only to a solid state but an industry leading resource for the thousands of maintainers and leaders of CNCF projects. After coordinating the events we have had virtually and in-person, we've gotten feedback that folks not only really like this but want to see more of it. With this focus, it would be best if I step back from Chair and concentrate on this area. There is a lot of power in maintainers coming together to learn, share, and grow; really looking forward to this thriving.
I have the utmost respect and trust in Dawn to co-chair our group; she has stepped up in countless ways with contributions including organizational functions and leadership. Dawn will be an excellent TAG Chair!
From me: Hey TAG Contributor Strategy!
Upon the TOC's approval of Dawn's appointment as TAG Chair, I will also be resigning my seat.
It has been an absolute pleasure to serve the community in this capacity and with the leadership we have in place and the wonderful TAG Contributor Strategy contributors, I have complete faith that this crew will continue to flourish and support CNCF maintainers on their journey.
To get the administrivia out of the way, here is the pull request to actuate the leadership changes: https://github.com/cncf/tag-contributor-strategy/pull/150
In 2022, I'll be turning focus to my new roles on the TODO Group and Kubernetes Steering Committee. ...but! I'll also be working with Paris to evolve the Maintainers Circle, so I won't be too far away.
Same address. Same GitHub. A few more Slack channels, but a whole lot of fun ahead. See you on the internets!
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Re: [PROPOSED] CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy leadership changes
On 1/13/22 04:15, Liz Rice wrote: +1 for Dawn (*waves hello*) Organizationally, I'm assuming Maintainers Circle still falls under TAG Contributor Strategy, so the TOC community will continue to hear news from Maintainers Circle at the monthly TAG updates meeting? Correct. Related, it crosses my mind that with Paris representing Maintainers on the GB, there's a direct link from Maintainers Circle to GB - and that's an excellent thing. IMO we should set the expectation going forward that it's part of the role of the Maintainer GB representative to participate in/attend meetings of the Maintainers Circle - thoughts? +1 -- -- Josh Berkus Kubernetes Community Architect OSPO, OCTO
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Re: [PROPOSED] CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy leadership changes

Stephen Augustus
Also: love the idea of having the GB Maintainer rep being intrinsically involved with Maintainers Circle!
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Correct on the organizational updates and structure for maintainers circle. On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 4:15 AM Liz Rice < liz@...> wrote: +1 for Dawn (*waves hello*)
Organizationally, I'm assuming Maintainers Circle still falls under TAG Contributor Strategy, so the TOC community will continue to hear news from Maintainers Circle at the monthly TAG updates meeting?
Related, it crosses my mind that with Paris representing Maintainers on the GB, there's a direct link from Maintainers Circle to GB - and that's an excellent thing. IMO we should set the expectation going forward that it's part of the role of the Maintainer GB representative to participate in/attend meetings of the Maintainers Circle - thoughts?
Liz
On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 9:07 PM Stephen Augustus < hey@...> wrote: Hi TOC! TAG Contributor Strategy would like to propose Dawn Foster as a TAG Chair. For those that have the privilege of working with Dawn in her many capacities, no introduction is necessary. But for the sake of the list, a few words... Dawn leads the open source community strategy efforts within VMware’s Open Source Program Office. She is on the Board of OpenUK, committed to develop and sustain UK leadership in Open Technology. She is on the Governing Board and is a maintainer for the Linux Foundation’s CHAOSS open source metrics project and is also on the TODO Group Steering Committee.
She has more than 20 years of experience in business and technology with expertise in strategic planning, management, community building, community management, open source software, market research, and more. She is passionate about bringing people together through a combination of online communities and real-world events. She has experience building new communities, and managing existing communities with a particular emphasis on developer and open source communities.
Most recently, Dawn was a consultant at The Scale Factory after being Director of Community at Puppet. Prior to Puppet, she was leading the Community Office within Intel’s Open Source Technology Center. In addition to working at Intel, Dawn was an online community consultant, and she has worked at Jive Software, Compiere, and a Midwestern manufacturing company in positions ranging from Unix system administrator to market researcher to community manager to open source strategist.
Upon TOC approval of Dawn's appointment, both Paris and I will be moving to Emeritus TAG Chairs.From Paris: Team,
I'd like to resign my Chair hat for the TAG and nominate Dawn Foster in my place. Explanation below but first about Dawn:
<Dawn's bio above>
**Whats Next:** I submitted the proposal to the Technical Advisory Council (TOC) for the then Special Interest Group that we now call Technical Advisory Groups over [two years ago]. The group has flourished to be a helpful resource to the TOC and CNCF projects through ad hoc services, tooling, and programs. We've grown to include many contributors, a new tech lead role: Carolyn!, a repo of templates AND guidance, a CNCF contributor site to house said guidance!, and a maintainer circle to support the humans behind the code.
And the last point brings me to my 2022 goals: I'd like to focus on Maintainer Circle! Bringing that up not only to a solid state but an industry leading resource for the thousands of maintainers and leaders of CNCF projects. After coordinating the events we have had virtually and in-person, we've gotten feedback that folks not only really like this but want to see more of it. With this focus, it would be best if I step back from Chair and concentrate on this area. There is a lot of power in maintainers coming together to learn, share, and grow; really looking forward to this thriving.
I have the utmost respect and trust in Dawn to co-chair our group; she has stepped up in countless ways with contributions including organizational functions and leadership. Dawn will be an excellent TAG Chair!
From me: Hey TAG Contributor Strategy!
Upon the TOC's approval of Dawn's appointment as TAG Chair, I will also be resigning my seat.
It has been an absolute pleasure to serve the community in this capacity and with the leadership we have in place and the wonderful TAG Contributor Strategy contributors, I have complete faith that this crew will continue to flourish and support CNCF maintainers on their journey.
To get the administrivia out of the way, here is the pull request to actuate the leadership changes: https://github.com/cncf/tag-contributor-strategy/pull/150
In 2022, I'll be turning focus to my new roles on the TODO Group and Kubernetes Steering Committee. ...but! I'll also be working with Paris to evolve the Maintainers Circle, so I won't be too far away.
Same address. Same GitHub. A few more Slack channels, but a whole lot of fun ahead. See you on the internets!
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Re: [PROPOSED] CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy leadership changes
Correct on the organizational updates and structure for maintainers circle.
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 4:15 AM Liz Rice < liz@...> wrote: +1 for Dawn (*waves hello*)
Organizationally, I'm assuming Maintainers Circle still falls under TAG Contributor Strategy, so the TOC community will continue to hear news from Maintainers Circle at the monthly TAG updates meeting?
Related, it crosses my mind that with Paris representing Maintainers on the GB, there's a direct link from Maintainers Circle to GB - and that's an excellent thing. IMO we should set the expectation going forward that it's part of the role of the Maintainer GB representative to participate in/attend meetings of the Maintainers Circle - thoughts?
Liz
On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 9:07 PM Stephen Augustus < hey@...> wrote: Hi TOC! TAG Contributor Strategy would like to propose Dawn Foster as a TAG Chair. For those that have the privilege of working with Dawn in her many capacities, no introduction is necessary. But for the sake of the list, a few words... Dawn leads the open source community strategy efforts within VMware’s Open Source Program Office. She is on the Board of OpenUK, committed to develop and sustain UK leadership in Open Technology. She is on the Governing Board and is a maintainer for the Linux Foundation’s CHAOSS open source metrics project and is also on the TODO Group Steering Committee.
She has more than 20 years of experience in business and technology with expertise in strategic planning, management, community building, community management, open source software, market research, and more. She is passionate about bringing people together through a combination of online communities and real-world events. She has experience building new communities, and managing existing communities with a particular emphasis on developer and open source communities.
Most recently, Dawn was a consultant at The Scale Factory after being Director of Community at Puppet. Prior to Puppet, she was leading the Community Office within Intel’s Open Source Technology Center. In addition to working at Intel, Dawn was an online community consultant, and she has worked at Jive Software, Compiere, and a Midwestern manufacturing company in positions ranging from Unix system administrator to market researcher to community manager to open source strategist.
Upon TOC approval of Dawn's appointment, both Paris and I will be moving to Emeritus TAG Chairs.From Paris: Team,
I'd like to resign my Chair hat for the TAG and nominate Dawn Foster in my place. Explanation below but first about Dawn:
<Dawn's bio above>
**Whats Next:** I submitted the proposal to the Technical Advisory Council (TOC) for the then Special Interest Group that we now call Technical Advisory Groups over [two years ago]. The group has flourished to be a helpful resource to the TOC and CNCF projects through ad hoc services, tooling, and programs. We've grown to include many contributors, a new tech lead role: Carolyn!, a repo of templates AND guidance, a CNCF contributor site to house said guidance!, and a maintainer circle to support the humans behind the code.
And the last point brings me to my 2022 goals: I'd like to focus on Maintainer Circle! Bringing that up not only to a solid state but an industry leading resource for the thousands of maintainers and leaders of CNCF projects. After coordinating the events we have had virtually and in-person, we've gotten feedback that folks not only really like this but want to see more of it. With this focus, it would be best if I step back from Chair and concentrate on this area. There is a lot of power in maintainers coming together to learn, share, and grow; really looking forward to this thriving.
I have the utmost respect and trust in Dawn to co-chair our group; she has stepped up in countless ways with contributions including organizational functions and leadership. Dawn will be an excellent TAG Chair!
From me: Hey TAG Contributor Strategy!
Upon the TOC's approval of Dawn's appointment as TAG Chair, I will also be resigning my seat.
It has been an absolute pleasure to serve the community in this capacity and with the leadership we have in place and the wonderful TAG Contributor Strategy contributors, I have complete faith that this crew will continue to flourish and support CNCF maintainers on their journey.
To get the administrivia out of the way, here is the pull request to actuate the leadership changes: https://github.com/cncf/tag-contributor-strategy/pull/150
In 2022, I'll be turning focus to my new roles on the TODO Group and Kubernetes Steering Committee. ...but! I'll also be working with Paris to evolve the Maintainers Circle, so I won't be too far away.
Same address. Same GitHub. A few more Slack channels, but a whole lot of fun ahead. See you on the internets!
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Re: [PROPOSED] CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy leadership changes
+1 for Dawn (*waves hello*)
Organizationally, I'm assuming Maintainers Circle still falls under TAG Contributor Strategy, so the TOC community will continue to hear news from Maintainers Circle at the monthly TAG updates meeting?
Related, it crosses my mind that with Paris representing Maintainers on the GB, there's a direct link from Maintainers Circle to GB - and that's an excellent thing. IMO we should set the expectation going forward that it's part of the role of the Maintainer GB representative to participate in/attend meetings of the Maintainers Circle - thoughts?
Liz
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 9:07 PM Stephen Augustus < hey@...> wrote: Hi TOC! TAG Contributor Strategy would like to propose Dawn Foster as a TAG Chair. For those that have the privilege of working with Dawn in her many capacities, no introduction is necessary. But for the sake of the list, a few words... Dawn leads the open source community strategy efforts within VMware’s Open Source Program Office. She is on the Board of OpenUK, committed to develop and sustain UK leadership in Open Technology. She is on the Governing Board and is a maintainer for the Linux Foundation’s CHAOSS open source metrics project and is also on the TODO Group Steering Committee.
She has more than 20 years of experience in business and technology with expertise in strategic planning, management, community building, community management, open source software, market research, and more. She is passionate about bringing people together through a combination of online communities and real-world events. She has experience building new communities, and managing existing communities with a particular emphasis on developer and open source communities.
Most recently, Dawn was a consultant at The Scale Factory after being Director of Community at Puppet. Prior to Puppet, she was leading the Community Office within Intel’s Open Source Technology Center. In addition to working at Intel, Dawn was an online community consultant, and she has worked at Jive Software, Compiere, and a Midwestern manufacturing company in positions ranging from Unix system administrator to market researcher to community manager to open source strategist.
Upon TOC approval of Dawn's appointment, both Paris and I will be moving to Emeritus TAG Chairs.From Paris: Team,
I'd like to resign my Chair hat for the TAG and nominate Dawn Foster in my place. Explanation below but first about Dawn:
<Dawn's bio above>
**Whats Next:** I submitted the proposal to the Technical Advisory Council (TOC) for the then Special Interest Group that we now call Technical Advisory Groups over [two years ago]. The group has flourished to be a helpful resource to the TOC and CNCF projects through ad hoc services, tooling, and programs. We've grown to include many contributors, a new tech lead role: Carolyn!, a repo of templates AND guidance, a CNCF contributor site to house said guidance!, and a maintainer circle to support the humans behind the code.
And the last point brings me to my 2022 goals: I'd like to focus on Maintainer Circle! Bringing that up not only to a solid state but an industry leading resource for the thousands of maintainers and leaders of CNCF projects. After coordinating the events we have had virtually and in-person, we've gotten feedback that folks not only really like this but want to see more of it. With this focus, it would be best if I step back from Chair and concentrate on this area. There is a lot of power in maintainers coming together to learn, share, and grow; really looking forward to this thriving.
I have the utmost respect and trust in Dawn to co-chair our group; she has stepped up in countless ways with contributions including organizational functions and leadership. Dawn will be an excellent TAG Chair!
From me: Hey TAG Contributor Strategy!
Upon the TOC's approval of Dawn's appointment as TAG Chair, I will also be resigning my seat.
It has been an absolute pleasure to serve the community in this capacity and with the leadership we have in place and the wonderful TAG Contributor Strategy contributors, I have complete faith that this crew will continue to flourish and support CNCF maintainers on their journey.
To get the administrivia out of the way, here is the pull request to actuate the leadership changes: https://github.com/cncf/tag-contributor-strategy/pull/150
In 2022, I'll be turning focus to my new roles on the TODO Group and Kubernetes Steering Committee. ...but! I'll also be working with Paris to evolve the Maintainers Circle, so I won't be too far away.
Same address. Same GitHub. A few more Slack channels, but a whole lot of fun ahead. See you on the internets!
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[PROPOSED] CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy leadership changes

Stephen Augustus
Hi TOC! TAG Contributor Strategy would like to propose Dawn Foster as a TAG Chair. For those that have the privilege of working with Dawn in her many capacities, no introduction is necessary. But for the sake of the list, a few words... Dawn leads the open source community strategy efforts within VMware’s Open Source Program Office. She is on the Board of OpenUK, committed to develop and sustain UK leadership in Open Technology. She is on the Governing Board and is a maintainer for the Linux Foundation’s CHAOSS open source metrics project and is also on the TODO Group Steering Committee.
She has more than 20 years of experience in business and technology with expertise in strategic planning, management, community building, community management, open source software, market research, and more. She is passionate about bringing people together through a combination of online communities and real-world events. She has experience building new communities, and managing existing communities with a particular emphasis on developer and open source communities.
Most recently, Dawn was a consultant at The Scale Factory after being Director of Community at Puppet. Prior to Puppet, she was leading the Community Office within Intel’s Open Source Technology Center. In addition to working at Intel, Dawn was an online community consultant, and she has worked at Jive Software, Compiere, and a Midwestern manufacturing company in positions ranging from Unix system administrator to market researcher to community manager to open source strategist.
Upon TOC approval of Dawn's appointment, both Paris and I will be moving to Emeritus TAG Chairs.From Paris: Team,
I'd like to resign my Chair hat for the TAG and nominate Dawn Foster in my place. Explanation below but first about Dawn:
<Dawn's bio above>
**Whats Next:** I submitted the proposal to the Technical Advisory Council (TOC) for the then Special Interest Group that we now call Technical Advisory Groups over [two years ago]. The group has flourished to be a helpful resource to the TOC and CNCF projects through ad hoc services, tooling, and programs. We've grown to include many contributors, a new tech lead role: Carolyn!, a repo of templates AND guidance, a CNCF contributor site to house said guidance!, and a maintainer circle to support the humans behind the code.
And the last point brings me to my 2022 goals: I'd like to focus on Maintainer Circle! Bringing that up not only to a solid state but an industry leading resource for the thousands of maintainers and leaders of CNCF projects. After coordinating the events we have had virtually and in-person, we've gotten feedback that folks not only really like this but want to see more of it. With this focus, it would be best if I step back from Chair and concentrate on this area. There is a lot of power in maintainers coming together to learn, share, and grow; really looking forward to this thriving.
I have the utmost respect and trust in Dawn to co-chair our group; she has stepped up in countless ways with contributions including organizational functions and leadership. Dawn will be an excellent TAG Chair!
From me: Hey TAG Contributor Strategy!
Upon the TOC's approval of Dawn's appointment as TAG Chair, I will also be resigning my seat.
It has been an absolute pleasure to serve the community in this capacity and with the leadership we have in place and the wonderful TAG Contributor Strategy contributors, I have complete faith that this crew will continue to flourish and support CNCF maintainers on their journey.
To get the administrivia out of the way, here is the pull request to actuate the leadership changes: https://github.com/cncf/tag-contributor-strategy/pull/150
In 2022, I'll be turning focus to my new roles on the TODO Group and Kubernetes Steering Committee. ...but! I'll also be working with Paris to evolve the Maintainers Circle, so I won't be too far away.
Same address. Same GitHub. A few more Slack channels, but a whole lot of fun ahead. See you on the internets!
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Re: [RESULT] Pushkar Joglekar approved as TAG Security Tech Lead

Jaice Singer DuMars
Thank you Pushkar for stepping into the role and for the work you do on behalf of the community!
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Congrats Pushkar!
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Re: [RESULT] Pushkar Joglekar approved as TAG Security Tech Lead
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What Jim said! You'll make a wonderful TAG TL, Pushkar!
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Congrats Pushkar!
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Re: [RESULT] Pushkar Joglekar approved as TAG Security Tech Lead

St Leger, Jim
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[RESULT] Pushkar Joglekar approved as TAG Security Tech Lead
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Re: TAG-Security Tech Lead Nomination
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On Dec 21, 2021, at 6:51 AM, Andrew Martin < andy@...> wrote:
+1 NB On Tue, 21 Dec 2021, 13:35 Liz Rice, < liz@...> wrote: +1 binding
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On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 at 16:10, Brandon Lum < lumjjb@...> wrote: Hi All, TAG-Security co-chairs along with TOC liaisons Liz Rice and Justin Cormack would like to nominate Pushkar Joglekar as a Technical Lead.
Below are select contributions and accomplishments to the TAG from Pushkar as well as more about him!
Cheers Brandon
(On behalf of TAG-Security Chairs)
TL Candidate - Dec 2021
Pushkar Joglekar Github: @PushkarJ Professional Affiliations: Sr. Software Engineer, VMware TanzuFollowing are some of Pushkar's accomplishments - Project Lead of Cloud Native 8: Secure Defaults guidance document (#734) - Project Lead for Cloud Native Security Whitepaper retrospective and survey (#480) - Process & governance: Created related groups catalog for TAG-Security (#680) - Meeting facilitator for weekly meetingsBio:Pushkar Joglekar is a Sr. Software Engineer (VMware Tanzu), currently working towards a goal to Make Kubernetes Secure For All. Previously, he worked on securing planet-scale container environments in a very large end user (Fortune 500) company. He has been fortunate to have donned several hats in the past as an engineer, architect, mentor, people / hiring manager and feels those experiences made him a better person. In his free time, you will find him taking photos, watching cricket and firmly believing that Chai fixes everything!
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[RESULT] Alexander Kanevskiy - TAG Runtime Tech Lead
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Results from Sandbox Inclusion Meeting, January 11
The TOC met today to review the sandbox applications. Our next Sandbox Review Meeting is March 8, 2022. Welcome new sandbox project! Devfile: included in the sandbox with a majority vote of the TOC CloudWeGo: Not included in the sandbox by a majority vote of the TOC OPCR - Open Policy Registry: Contribute to OPA as a subproject or ORAS in Open Container Initiative instead. ML Aide: Reapply with stronger connection to cloud native + community growth, consider LF AI as an alternative to joining CNCF. rk-boot: Contribute to OPA as a subproject or ORAS in Open Container Initiative instead? TOC would like to see a stronger community on reapplication. Three projects were not included at this time, as the TOC wants confirmation that these projects shouldn't be part of the Confidential Computing Consortium instead. EGo: Note that there may be a licensing issue that may not be resolvable! Marble Run Confidential Containers
-- Amye Scavarda Perrin | Director of Developer Programs, CNCF | amye@...
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[RESULT] LitmusChaos approved for incubation
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Re: Nominations Open through tomorrow, January 11, 2022
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2022, 18:24 Amye Scavarda Perrin, < amye@...> wrote: Only the GB, the End User Community and the maintainers of graduating and incubating projects can nominate for the TOC.
On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 8:02 AM Alexis Richardson <alexis@...> wrote:
what is the process for nominating someone?
On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 4:00 PM Amye Scavarda Perrin < ascavarda@...> wrote: This is a reminder that nominations for the upcoming TOC seats will close tomorrow at noon Pacific time. Timeline: December 7: Nominations open – 12 PM PT January 11: Nominations close - 12 PM PT *we are almost here* Jan 11: Qualification period opens Jan 25: Qualification period closes Jan 25: Election opens, Voting occurs by a time-limited Condorcet-IRV ranking in CIVS Feb 1: Election closes at 12pm Pacific, results announced Feb 4: New TOC is seated!
-- Amye Scavarda Perrin | Director of Developer Programs, CNCF | amye@...
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Re: Nominations Open through tomorrow, January 11, 2022
Only the GB, the End User Community and the maintainers of graduating and incubating projects can nominate for the TOC.
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On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 8:02 AM Alexis Richardson <alexis@...> wrote:
what is the process for nominating someone?
On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 4:00 PM Amye Scavarda Perrin < ascavarda@...> wrote: This is a reminder that nominations for the upcoming TOC seats will close tomorrow at noon Pacific time. Timeline: December 7: Nominations open – 12 PM PT January 11: Nominations close - 12 PM PT *we are almost here* Jan 11: Qualification period opens Jan 25: Qualification period closes Jan 25: Election opens, Voting occurs by a time-limited Condorcet-IRV ranking in CIVS Feb 1: Election closes at 12pm Pacific, results announced Feb 4: New TOC is seated!
-- Amye Scavarda Perrin | Director of Developer Programs, CNCF | amye@...
-- Amye Scavarda Perrin | Director of Developer Programs, CNCF | amye@...
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