Since 2016, these awards celebrate the incredible community members who make the cloud native ecosystem thrive

Salt Lake City, UT. – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 – November 14, 2024 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the winners of the annual CNCF Community Awards. The Community Awards recognize CNCF community members who work tirelessly to advance cloud native technology. With over 200 Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox projects, CNCF has more than 256,000 contributors. 

“The open source community built around the cloud native ecosystem is incredible. We have some of the most passionate, innovative, and friendly community members I have ever worked with,” said Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, CNCF. “There are hundreds of individuals who are deserving of these awards but it is an honor to highlight those who have made a significant contribution this past year.” 

This year’s awards are presented in the following categories: the new Lifetime Achievement award, Top Committer, Chop Wood Carry Water, CNCF Lorem Ipsum (previously Documentarian), the TAGGIE, and a special Lift and Shift award.

Lifetime Achievement 

Top Committer which recognizes excellence in technical contributions to CNCF and its projects. The CNCF Top Committer has made key commits to projects and, more importantly, contributes in a way that benefits the project neutrally as a whole.

Chop Wood Carry Water 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. 

Lorem Ipsum (previously Documentarian), recognizes excellence in documentation contributions to CNCF and its projects. Excellent technical documentation is one of the best ways projects can lower the barrier to contribution and build a more inclusive community.

TAGGIE recognizes an impactful contributor to the CNCF Technical Advisory Groups. This individual has broad reach and significant impact in growing the TAG ecosystem. This award is curated by the TOC and the CNCF staff.

Lift and Shift celebrates the great efforts put in to support CNCF project infrastructure, in this instance, specifically moving the Kubernetes testing infrastructure from Google internal resources to fully community-owned infrastructure; a project that took 6 years to complete!

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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 800 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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