SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- KubeCon +
CloudNativeCon NA – The Cloud Native Computing
Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for
cloud native software, today announced the winners of the fourth
annual CNCF Community Awards. The Community Awards recognize CNCF
community members working the hardest to advance cloud native
technology.
"Open source software simply would not exist without the
individuals who go above and beyond to help build and maintain
initiatives that benefit the community as a whole," said
Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, CNCF. "As CNCF
approaches 80 hosted projects, and more than 100,000 contributors
across more than 5,000 organizations, we'd like to take a moment to
recognize the individuals who make our community a better place day
in and day out."
This year's awards are being presented in the following
categories: Top Ambassador, Top Committer, and Chop Wood Carry
Water.
Top Ambassador: This award is presented to a
champion advocate for the cloud native space. This individual helps
spread awareness of cloud native, CNCF, and its hosted projects.
The CNCF Ambassador leverages various platforms, driving interest
and excitement around projects. CNCF Ambassadors voted for the
Top Ambassador. They are pleased to present the award to:
- Ian Coldwater –(
@IanColdwater) Ian Coldwater
specializes in hacking and hardening Kubernetes, containers, and
cloud native infrastructure.
Top Committer: This award recognizes excellence in
technical contributions to CNCF and its hosted projects. The CNCF
Top Committer has made key commits to projects and, more
importantly, contributes in a way that benefits the project as a
whole. CNCF Maintainers (committers) voted for the Top Committer
and are pleased to present the award to:
- Ben Elder (@BenThe Elder) – Ben
Elder is a senior software engineer at Google, a maintainer
for Kubernetes, and Kubernetes SIG Testing Chair.
Chop Wood Carry Water: This award is given to community
members helping behind the scenes, dedicating countless hours to
open source projects, hosting and building community meetups, and
often completing thankless tasks for the benefit of the community.
The winners of this award were nominated by the CNCF community and
voted on by the CNCF staff and TOC. CNCF is pleased to present this
award to:
- Erin Boyd (@erinaboyd) –
Erin is a software engineer at Apple, an active contributor to the
Kubernetes Storage SIG, co-chair of the CNCF Storage SIG, and a
maintainer of the Operator Framework project.
- Josh Berkus (@fuzzychef)
– Josh Berkus contributes to
Kubernetes, working on contributor experience, multicluster,
releases, and all of Red Hat's many Kubernetes-related
projects.
- Bridget Kromhout
(@bridgetkromhout) – Bridget
Kromhout is a principal program manager at Microsoft,
focusing on the open source Kubernetes ecosystem, and an active
contributor to Helm.
- Matt Fisher (@bacongobbler)
– Matt Fisher is a software
engineer at Microsoft and one of Helm's core maintainers.
- Richard Hartmann (@TwitchiH)
– Richard Hartmann is a
community director at Grafana, a maintainer for Prometheus, and
lead for PromCon, and founder of OpenMetrics.
For all categories, voting was performed using the
CIVS tool.
Previous winners of the Community Awards include
Frederic Branczyk, Jorge Castro, Dawn
Chen, Lachlan Evanson,
Michael Hausenblas, Kelsey Hightower, Jordan
Liggitt, Dianne Mueller,
April Kyle Nassi, Kris Nova, Sarah
Novotny, Paris Pittman, and
many more.
Additional Resources
- CNCF Newsletter
- CNCF Twitter
- CNCF Blog
- Learn About CNCF Membership
About Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Cloud native
computing empowers organizations to build and run scalable
applications with an open source software stack in public, private,
and hybrid clouds. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure,
including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. CNCF brings together
the industry's top developers, end users, and vendors, and runs the
largest open source developer conferences in the world. Supported
by more than 500 members, including the world's largest cloud
computing and software companies, as well as over 200 innovative
startups, CNCF is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. For more
information, please visit www.cncf.io.
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