OCM member application: August Simonelli

[augustrh]

Application

Community Participant

I actively contribute to the Open Cluster Management (OCM) project as a dedicated community delegate and advocate. My responsibilities span governance, outreach, and technical contribution, ensuring alignment between OCM’s technical roadmap and community needs. I regularly attend project meetings and serve as the internal champion for OCM within my organization. I am proud to drive external adoption and visibility by serving as a spokesperson, frequently speaking at industry conferences (e.g., KubeCon, KubeDays, vendor events), and active communication through continuous engagement and active posting on project Slack channels. I also support the process of applying for incubation and look forward to continued involvement in that capacity.

I really am excited to work with OCM and through this application seek to work as a nominated maintainer liaison for our community with the CNCF as per our project GOVERNANCE document: https://github.com/open-cluster-management-io/community/blob/main/GOVERNANCE.md#cncf-resources .

Requirements

Community commits to support governance and project awareness and refinement:

#215
#218
#221
#219

Public speaking engagements for the project:

KubeDay Australia 2024: Open-Sourcing the Open Cluster Management Project and the Lessons We Can Learn for AI
KubeCon EMEA 2025: How the SIG-Multicluster API Specifications Are Used for Real World Multicluster Management (with Microsoft)
KubeCon Japan 2025: Project Lightning Talk

Checklist

• Enabled two-factor authentication on their GitHub account.
• Contributing to community discussions (e.g. meetings, Slack, mailing list discussion).
• Subscribed to https://groups.google.com/g/open-cluster-management.
• Have read the contributor guide.
• Actively contributing to 1 or more subprojects.

Sponsors

@qiujian16
@mikeshng

[mikeshng]

Gigantic +1

[qiujian16]

invitation sent
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[openshift-ci]

@qiujian16: Closing this issue.

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