CNCF Community Awards - Nominations for 2025 (closes 9/29)
It's that time again! We're starting the nomination process for our community awards.
- September 16, 2025 - Nominations Open
- September 29, 2025 - Nominations Close
- September 30, 2025 - Voting Opens
- October 6th, 2025 - Voting Closes
Award Categories
Top Committer
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
Given to a community member who helps behind the scenes, dedicating countless hours of their time to open source projects + completing often thankless tasks for the ecosystem's benefit.
Lorem Ipsum (prev. Top Documentarian)
Given to a community member who has shown excellence in documentation contributions to CNCF and its projects. Excellent technical documentation is one of the best ways projects can lower the barrier for contribution.
TAGGIE
This award recognizes an impactful contributor to the CNCF Technical Advisory Groups. This individual has broad reach and significant impact in growing the TAG ecosystem.
Nomination Form: https://forms.gle/Cish6XYPUhN5Lpqx7
Nominations close on September 29, 2025
Award winners will be announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America.
References
- Nomination Form
- CNCF Community Awards - Past award winners and award descriptions
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America - Event information