Hey everyone, I'm happy to announce that NATS has been accepted into CNCF as an INCUBATION level project (sponsored by Alexis Richardson): https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/81

+1 TOC binding votes (8 / 9):

- Sam Lambert: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1845
- Alexis Richardson: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1847
- Camille Fournier: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1874
- Solomon Hykes: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1882
- Jonathan Boulle: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1883
- Ken Owens: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1889
- Ben Hindman: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1890
- Brian Grant: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1891

+1 non-binding community votes: 

- Chris Short: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1844
- Ginger Collison: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1846
- Alex Chircop: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1848
- Jessica Frazelle: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1849
- Lee Calcote: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1850
- Christian Posta: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1851
- Eduardo Silva: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1852
- Michael Hausenblas: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1853
- Derrick Kittler: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1854
- Quinton Hoole: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1855
- Michael Cwienczek: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1856
- Dustin Kirkland: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1857
- Andy Santosa: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1858
- Louis Fourie: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1859
- Patrick Chanezon: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1860
- Gou Rao: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1861
- JJ (Jeyappragash): https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1862
- Nick Chase: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1863
- Randy Abernethy: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1864
- Justin Cormack: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1865
- Mark Peek: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1869
- Justin Cappos: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1870
- Dino Dai Zovi: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1871
- Daniel Bryant: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1873
- Dan Wilson: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1875
- Doug Davis: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1878
- Duncan Johnston-Watt: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1884
- Haim Helman: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1887
- Richard Hartmann: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/1888

We'll be working with the NATS community over the next few weeks to welcome them to the CNCF project family. Thanks again to everyone who voted and participated in the due diligence process: https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/master/process/due-diligence-guidelines.md

Finally, please welcome the NATS community!

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The linkerd team has requested a move to the incubation level: https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/86 

You can see the project statistics here: https://linkerd.devstats.cncf.io/ and the linkerd project believes they meet the incubation criteria requirements:

- Used successfully in production by at least three independent end users of sufficient scale and quality: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd/blob/master/ADOPTERS.md

- Have a healthy number of committers: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd/blob/master/MAINTAINERS.md
- Demonstrate a substantial ongoing flow of commits and merged contributions: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd/releases and https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd/graphs/contributors

Please vote (+1/0/-1) by replying to this thread; the full incubation proposal located here: https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/86

Remember that the TOC has binding votes only, but we do appreciate non-binding votes from the community as a sign of support!

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Chris Aniszczyk (@cra) | +1-512-961-6719

The TOC has decided to invite NATS (https://github.com/nats-io) as an INCUBATION level CNCF project, sponsored by Alexis Richardson from the TOC: https://nats.io/

NATS is a mature, seven year old messaging technology, built from the ground up to be cloud native, implementing the publish/subscribe, request/reply and distributed queue patterns to help create a performant and secure method of InterProcess Communication (IPC). Simplicity, performance, scalability, and security constitute the core tenets of NATS. It is being adopted by organizations such as Apcera, Apporeto, Clarifai, Comcast, General Electric (GE), Greta.io, CloudFoundry, HTC, Samsung, Netlify, Pivotal, Platform9, Sensay, Workiva and VMware.

Please vote (+1/0/-1) by replying to this thread; the full project proposal located here: https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/81

Remember that the TOC has binding votes only, but we do appreciate non-binding votes from the community as a sign of support!

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Chris Aniszczyk (@cra) | +1-512-961-6719

+1 binding

On Mar 8, 2018, at 5:28 AM, Chris Aniszczyk <caniszczyk@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

The TOC has decided to invite NATS (https://github.com/nats-io) as an INCUBATION level CNCF project, sponsored by Alexis Richardson from the TOC: https://nats.io/

NATS is a mature, seven year old messaging technology, built from the ground up to be cloud native, implementing the publish/subscribe, request/reply and distributed queue patterns to help create a performant and secure method of InterProcess Communication (IPC). Simplicity, performance, scalability, and security constitute the core tenets of NATS. It is being adopted by organizations such as Apcera, Apporeto, Clarifai, Comcast, General Electric (GE), Greta.io, CloudFoundry, HTC, Samsung, Netlify, Pivotal, Platform9, Sensay, Workiva and VMware.

Please vote (+1/0/-1) by replying to this thread; the full project proposal located here: https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/81

Remember that the TOC has binding votes only, but we do appreciate non-binding votes from the community as a sign of support!

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Chris Aniszczyk (@cra) | +1-512-961-6719

The TOC has decided to invite NATS (https://github.com/nats-io) as an INCUBATION level CNCF project, sponsored by Alexis Richardson from the TOC: https://nats.io/

NATS is a mature, seven year old messaging technology, built from the ground up to be cloud native, implementing the publish/subscribe, request/reply and distributed queue patterns to help create a performant and secure method of InterProcess Communication (IPC). Simplicity, performance, scalability, and security constitute the core tenets of NATS. It is being adopted by organizations such as Apcera, Apporeto, Clarifai, Comcast, General Electric (GE), Greta.io, CloudFoundry, HTC, Samsung, Netlify, Pivotal, Platform9, Sensay, Workiva and VMware.

Please vote (+1/0/-1) by replying to this thread; the full project proposal located here: https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/81

Remember that the TOC has binding votes only, but we do appreciate non-binding votes from the community as a sign of support!

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Chris Aniszczyk (@cra) | +1-512-961-6719

I'd like to give a big +1 to Solomon's nomination. Justin Cormack is a
strong and vibrant part of many open source projects and would be a great
addition for the TOC.

Thanks,
Justin

On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 9:55 PM, Solomon Hykes <solomon@...> wrote:

Dear TOC friends, I wanted to let you know that, as I reach the end of my
first term, I won't be presenting myself for reelection. Instead I have
nominated Justin Cormack as a candidate to replace me.

Not only is Justin a better fit than me for this role, I think he would be
a fantastic addition to the TOC, and would be an incredible resource for the
CNCF projects. He is an open-source veteran, an active contributor to
several CNCF projects, and an endless source of knowledge, wisdom, and
empathy. He is a humble guy, which is why I'm going the extra mile in
pointing out his accomplishments - I know he won't be comfortable doing it
himself.

There are more details on Justin's qualifications in the nomination
spreadsheet. I encourage you to take a look and ask any follow-up questions
you may have. I think the TOC would be lucky to have him.

I want to thank my fellow TOC members for inviting me to be part of the
CNCF experiment. This kind of governance work is not easy, and rarely
appreciated, but it's important, and you're doing it well. A special thank
you to Alexis and Chris, for doing so much of the heavy lifting.

All the best,
Solomon