(Draft) # New Buildpack community organization Author: [Juan J. Bustamante](https://github.com/jjbustamante) <!-- summary --> The [Buildpacks community](https://github.com/buildpacks-community/) organization is a vendor-neutral Github organization where the community provides trusted [Cloud Native Buildpacks](http://buildpacks.io) tooling, platforms and integrations. <!-- motivation --> It will provide a staging area to incubate new technologies and projects that solve common yet still relatively niche problems that are not suitable to be added to the core [Buildpacks](https://github.com/buildpacks) organization. For a project to be admitted to the Buildpacks community organization, it must meet several criteria, but the first step is to create a Github issue in the [Buildpacks community](https://github.com/buildpacks-community/community) repository. Once it is mature enough to be part of the core Buildpacks organization, the project maintainers can request for the project to be graduated into the core Buildpacks organization. <!-- more info --> Do you want to know more? you can find all the details in the [RFC](https://github.com/buildpacks/rfcs/blob/main/text/0117-buildpacks-community.md) ## Join the Buildpack community We are excited to hear from you and learn with you! Here are several ways you can get involved: - Join Buildpack’s slack channel, [#buildpacks in CNCF](https://slack.cncf.io/) workspace, and connect with Buildpack's users. - Find us on [GitHub](https://github.com/buildpacks). Suggest how we can improve the project, the docs, or share any other feedback. - Attend our Community Meetings! Check out the [Community page](https://buildpacks.io/community/) for full details on how to attend.