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The CNCF TOC is the technical governing body of the CNCF. It admits and oversees all projects in the CNCF and has a mandate to facilitate driving neutral consensus for:

• defining and maintaining the technical vision andprinciples for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation,
• approving new projects within the scope of the CNCF set by the Governing Board (GB), creating a conceptual architecture for the projects, aligning projects, removing or archiving projects,
• accepting feedback from end user technical advisory board and map to projects,
• aligning interfaces to components under management (code reference implementations before standardizing), and defining common practices to be implemented across CNCF projects, if any.

The technical direction of the ecosystem is problem-centric. We encourage and support our projects to solve problems faced by adopters, to build the right ecosystem for innovation and embrace changes in the broader technical landscape. To exercise and increase the expertise within the technical community to compose solutions that stand the test of time.

• Alex Chircop (term: 2 years - start date: 3/4/2025 - 3/4/2027) [TOC-appointed]
• Chad Beaudin (term: 2 years - start date: 3/4/2025 - 3/4/2027) [EndUser-appointed]
• Davanum Srinivas (term: 2 years - start date: 2/16/2024 - 2/16/2026) [TOC-appointed]
• Emily Fox (term: 2 years - start date: 2/4/2024 - 3/4/2026) [GB-appointed]
• Faseela K (term: 2 years 3/4/2025 - 3/4/2027) [GB-appointed]
• Jeremy Rickard (term: 2 years - start date: 3/4/2025 - 3/4/2027) [GB-appointed]
• Karena Angell (term: 2 years - start date: 3/4/2025 - 3/4/2027) [GB-appointed][TOC Chair]
• Katie Gamanji (term: 2 years - start date: 3/18/2022 - 2/4/2026) [GB-appointed]
• Kevin Wang (term: 2 years - start date 2/4/2024 - 2/4/2026) [Maintainer-appointed]
• Lin Sun (term: 2 years - start date 2/4/2024 - 2/4/2026) [GB-appointed]
• Ricardo Rocha (term: term: 2 years - start date: 2/4/2024 - 2/4/2026) [EndUser-appointed]

• Ricardo Aravena (term: 1 year - start date: 3/4/2025 - 3/4/2026) [GB-appointed][shadow]

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See thecurrent CNCF projects and a description of project maturity levels (Sandbox, Incubating, Graduated).

The CNCF provides alist of services for incubating and graduated projects hosted in the foundation. A subset of these services is also available forSandbox level projects.

Do you want to contribute to a project? We have aguide to get you started.

If you would like to know more about the project lifecycle we use, we haveoutlined the process. If you have any questions or don't know where to start, please open anissue.

The TOC meets on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month at 8AM PT (USA Pacific Time;Convert to local time zone).

Here is acalendar for all public CNCF events. This calendar is also available on theCNCF Website Meetings can be joined directly form the calendar.

• Meeting Agenda and Minutes
• Archive (2018.10~2024.08) of Meeting Working Doc. This includes minutes from previous meetings.
• Archive (2016.02~2019.06) of Meeting agenda and presentations.
• Archive (2016.04~2018.11) of community presentations
• CNCF TOC Playlist on YouTube

Public mailing list for the CNCF TOC:cncf-toc@lists.cncf.io

The public mailing archive:https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc

Details to join this public mailing list:https://lists.cncf.io/mailman/listinfo/cncf-toc

In case you need to reach the CNCF TOC on sensitive issues, please email us at:cncf-private-toc@lists.cncf.io

Public CNCF TOC channel: Join theCNCF slack and we are reachable at#toc.

This is ourvoting policy. Only TOC members can cast binding votes. (+1 Binding)

• TAG Developer Experience
• TAG Infrastructure
• TAG Operational Resilience
• TAG Security and Compliance
• TAG Workloads Foundation

• Contributor Strategy and Advocacy SubProject
• Mentoring SubProject
• Project Reviews SubProject

The TOC has approved the formation ofTAGs.The following Technical Advisory Groups have been archived:

• TAG-Security
• TAG-Storage
• TAG-App-Delivery
• TAG-Network
• TAG-Runtime
• TAG Contributor Strategy
• TAG Observability
• TAG Environmental Sustainability

These Technical Advisory Groups have been spun down and replaced with new Technical Advisory Groups and TOC SubProjects, listed above.

To modify the README files for individual TAGs or TOC SubProjects, pleasedo not edit them directly. Instead, the source of truth for these files is thetags.yaml file. To understand the process for updating these READMEs by modifyingtags.yaml, please refer to theUpdating TOC TAG and SubProject README Files document.