[Voting Open] Tekton Community Awards 2024 🏆

[afrittoli]

This issue is to receive nominations for the 2024 Tekton Community Awards.

Award	Description
Most Valuable Contributor	This award recognises excellence of contributions to the Tekton project, which may be any or a combination of contributions to the project code, documentation, and infrastructure as well as advocacy and fostering adoption.
Most Valuable Advocate	This award is presented to an individual who has helped advocate for Tekton through organization of events in-person or online events, blog posts, etc.
Security MVP	This award is presented to an individual most consistently providing excellent security reports or resolving security issues.

To nominate someone, please use the linked Google form: https://forms.gle/MAuFWsA8qkwUtkR99
If you'd prefer to not use a Google form, please send an email to [email protected] including:

1. Full name or GitHub username of the person you’re nominating
2. Short description of their contributions to Tekton and why they should win.

Timeline:

• Nominations close: Thursday, February 22 at 11:59 PST
• Voting opens: Thursday, February 22
• Voting closes: Friday, March 22 at 11:59 PST
• Winners announced at cdCon: April 16–18, 2024

More details are available here https://github.com/cdfoundation/foundation/blob/main/CDF%20Awards%20Guidelines.md

[afrittoli]

Voting

Voting Link: https://forms.gle/wBUFxAQMfufznkb48
Voting closes: Friday, March 22
Winners announced at cdCon: April 16–18, 2024

If you'd prefer to not use a Google form, please send an email to [email protected] with your votes.

Most Valuable Contributor

This award recognises excellence of contributions to the Tekton project, which may be any or a combination of contributions to the project code, documentation, and infrastructure as well as advocacy and fostering adoption.

Name	GitHub Username	Anonymous Feedback
Alan Greene	@AlanGreene	Alan is one of the sole maintainer of the tektoncd/dashboard for a while now. He doesn't miss releases, he is also involved in other component, triaging issues, working on documentation as well, helping both the users as well as the maintainers.
Chitrang Patel	@chitrangpatel	Chitrang Patel has been making wonderful contributions to Tekton Pipeline, Tekton Chains, and the Tekton ecosystem as whole. I would like to highlight his work in driving Tekton Artifacts (TEP-0139). From laying the ground work with Larger Results via Sidecar Logs (TEP-0127) to breaking down the Tekton Artifacts mountain into implementable phases, e.g. TEP-0147, Chitrang does it all, and he does it with a smile. I am grateful to have Chitrang as a community member. His willingness to always help and move forward is inspiring.
Jerome Ju	@JeromeJu	I would like to nominate Jerome Ju for all his relentless work on the Tekton API and feature flags, helping to keep the Tekton API stable and flexible for Tekton users
Piyush Garg	@piyush-garg	Piyush has been regularly contributing to various Tekton CD projects, and he is a great source when it comes to sharing knowledge about Tekton and encouraging its adoption. I wholeheartedly like to nominate him for the award.
Vinamra Jain	@vinamra28	Thank you Vinamra for your contributions!

Since we received several nominations for this category, we will be using ranked choice voting for this award. Please rank up to 3 candidates.
1st = 3 points, 2nd = 2 points, 3rd = 1 point, with the winner being decided by who has the most total points.

If you would like to write-in a candidate not listed, email your vote to [email protected].

Most Valuable Advocate

This award is presented to an individual who has helped advocate for Tekton through organization of events in-person or online events, blog posts, etc.

Name	GitHub Username	Anonymous Feedback
Al Huizenga	@alhuizenga	I would like to nominate Al Huizenga for his work advocating for Tekton at the CDF and Linux Foundation and for his presentation about Tekton and its security and SLSA features.
Andrea Frittoli (NOT ELIGIBLE)	@afrittoli	(1) Lots of talks on Tekton features and organizations at OSS, Kubecon etc. e.g Open Source Summit Japan 2023 - Trusted Artifacts in Tekton (2) Andrea Frittoli for his tireless work, multiple talks, events, … he participates in :)

If you would like to write-in a candidate not listed, you can do so via the form or email your vote to [email protected].

Security MVP

This award is presented to an individual most consistently providing excellent security reports or resolving security issues.

Name	GitHub Username	Anonymous Feedback
Luiz Carvalho	@lcarva	Luiz Carvalho, for his work on tektoncd/chains.
Vincent Demeester	@vdemeester	I would like to nominate Vincent Demeester for his work on the Tekton VMT, managing Tekton dependencies and always keeping Tekton secure and up-to-date.
Billy Lynch (NOT ELIGIBLE)	@wlynch	Billy is always pushing for secure ways of doing things in Tekton even if that is at a slight cost of consistency with existing methods. One such example: When Tekton released StepActions, we now do not allow direct param substitution in Scripts as a way to avoid the possibility of shell-attacks.

If you would like to write-in a candidate not listed, you can do so via the form or email your vote to [email protected].

[vdemeester]

@afrittoli were the "winners" announced ?

[afrittoli]

@vdemeester yes, https://cd.foundation/cdf-community-awards-2024/:

• Tekton MVP: @AlanGreene
• Tekton Security MVP: @vdemeester
• Tekton MVA: @alhuizenga