SAN DIEGO, Nov. 19, 2019 /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.
"A core strength of open source is the individuals who go above
and beyond normal responsibilities to benefit the community as a
whole," said Chris Aniszczyk, CTO,
CNCF. "As we kick off the largest KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event
ever, it's an honor to recognize individuals who've been integral
to making CNCF and its projects what they are today."
This year's awards are being presented in the following
categories: Chop Wood Carry Water, Top Ambassador, and Top
Committer.
Chop Wood Carry Water: This award is given to community
members helping behind the scenes, dedicating countless hours of
time 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 chosen by the CNCF staff and TOC. CNCF is pleased to
present this award to:
- Reda Benzair – Reda is VP of Engineering for STREAMROOT,
and a CNCF Ambassador, leading CNCF meetups and cloud native
community building in Paris.
- Katharine Berry –
Katharine is a senior software engineer on the Engineering
Productivity team at Google Cloud. She works in SIG Testing on the
Kubernetes project.
- Karen Chu – Karen is a
community manager on the Microsoft Azure Container Compute team
with a focus on open source container-native developer tools such
as Helm, where she is a maintainer. She's also the co-creator of
Phippy and friends.
- Bob Killen – Bob is a
research cloud administrator with the Advanced Research Computing
Technology Services group at the University of
Michigan, and a CNCF Ambassador working to improve
high-performance computing, machine learning, and other
computational research initiatives.
- Yang Li – Yang is a
software engineer for The Plant K.K. and a Kubernetes SIG
contributor working on experience, release, and testing.
- 张丽颖 Liying (Vivian) Zhang
– Vivian is a product and open source community manager at JD.com,
and a CNCF Ambassador building the cloud native community in
China.
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 incubated projects.
The CNCF Ambassador leverages multiple platforms, both online as
well as speaking engagements, driving interest, and excitement
around projects. CNCF Ambassadors voted for the Top
Ambassador. They are pleased to present the award to:
- Lachlan Evenson – Lachlan
is a Principal Program Manager on the Container Compute team at
Azure, a CNCF Ambassador, and a TOC contributor, and has deep
operational knowledge of many Cloud Native projects.
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:
- Frederic Branczyk –
Frederic is an engineer at Red Hat, contributing to Prometheus and
Kubernetes to build state-of-the-art modern infrastructure and
monitoring tools.
For the Top Ambassador and Top Committer categories, voting was
performed using the CIVS tool using Condorcet-IRV.
Previous winners of the Community Awards include Jorge Castro, Dawn
Chen, Michael Hausenblas,
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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