Member Projects Benefits

--- tags: TOC --- # Member Projects Benefits Contributors: - Melissa McKay - Andrea Frittoli Reference Issue: [member projects benefits](https://github.com/cdfoundation/toc/issues/168) Existing web page: [CDF Project Services](https://cd.foundation/project-services/) ## Introduction Today we have a member benefits document but we don’t have anything similar for projects. Audience: - Prospective projects - Existing projects, so they are aware about what they can get from the CDF Type of content: - Benefits that exists today - Benefits that the TOC believes should exist, as part of the TOC roles defined in the charter ## Benefits Introduction (Melissa) - We are part of the LF and we inherit benefits - How do we differentiate from other foundations - Do we want to highlight CDF benefits compared to other foundations? - Comparison, but not we're better than - We have a different focus, on CD Project benefits are grouped in the following areas: - Community and Thought Leadership (Melissa) - Outreach and Marketing (Melissa - Lori) - Governance and Legal (Andrea) - Community Building and Tools (Andrea) - Project Development and Infrastructure (Andrea) ## Closing section (Andrea) https://www.cncf.io/services-for-projects/#other-services - Include a call to action ### Community and Thought Leadership - Community includes projects, practitioners/end-users and vendors - Platform for SIG and WG - discuss common problems and solutions - Reference architecture - Opportunity to drive innovation and standardization in the CI/CD space - Discuss with other project maintainers, practitioners ### Outreach and Marketing - Project Representative on the Outreach Committee - Brand management, logo design - CDF Ambassadors - CDF Blog, Podcast - CDF Events, project community days, project booths - CNCF Example: https://www.cncf.io/services-for-projects/#marketing - Ask Roxanne, Lori, Fatih to help us with details about this section ### Governance and Legal - Project Representative to attend TOC meetings - TOC advice for project governance - CDF advice for legal matters (via LF) ### Community Building, Tools and Development - Slack - we don't have a paid plan, but it's a shared home for our community - Netlify - enterprise - Hackmd - Zoom, meetup, mailing list, calendar - Netlify - LFX Insights, EasyCLA and other LF LFX - Project awards - CDF Events (summit), CDF Workshops - end user community ### Project Development, Resources and Infrastructure - CI/CD Infrastructure (Infra donor program WIP - additional benefits like press releases) - Project specific? - Advise on efficiency and cost savings measures; manage expense - Project Graduation - Project Security Audit (through 3rd party, sponsorship) - Project Grants - what does the process looks like today? - Example: CDEvents improve their documentation - We could include training - Project Tools - Website guidelines https://github.com/cdfoundation/foundation/blob/main/CDF%20Project%20Website%20Guidelines.md - Other guidelines https://github.com/cdfoundation/foundation - Copyright notices https://github.com/cdfoundation/foundation/blob/main/CDF%20Copyright.md - CDF's one is marked as draft, why? ## Notes What are other foundations doing? - https://www.cncf.io/services-for-projects/ - LF Fellows, can we access that? - Make it more clear that we are part of the LF - highlight benefits that we get from the LF (get ideas from some of CNCF documentation) - add intro paragraph speaking of LF List of Tools - Find out what we have enterprise access to (what subscription levels) - Tekton (Enterprise plan for CDF) - HackMD (CDF administrated?) - List tool suggestions/recommendations? (if we don't have paid plans) Trainings - We are working on a GitOps training - Anything else? Internationalization - Does the CNCF service rely on LF resources? - Is it something we could do as CDF as well? Service Desk - Is there a CDF service desk page like http://servicedesk.cncf.io Infra Lab - CNCF is doing https://www.cncf.io/community-infrastructure-lab/ - Perhaps we could do something similar Ideas - Project journeys - Other services we provide: - CDF can connect project with relevant contacts in other orgs as needed - Open the door to communication - We can formalise this service from what we learn from questions we get Formats - PDF for printable at conferences - Web site