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# 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