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Any project that intends to join LF AI & Data Incubation in the future and wishes to lay the foundations for that.
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New projects that are designed to extend one or more LF AI & Data projects with functionality or interoperability libraries.
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Independent projects that fit the LF AI & Data mission and provide the potential for a novel approach to existing functional areas (or are an attempt to meet an unfulfilled need).
Incubation
Sandbox requirements plus:
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Have 2+ organizations actively contributing to the project.
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Have a defined Technical Steering Committee (TSC) with a chairperson identified, with open and transparent communication.
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Have a sponsor who is an existing LF AI & Data member.
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Have at least 300 stars on GitHub.
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Have achieved and maintained a Core Infrastructure Initiative Best Practices Silver Badge.
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Have the affirmative vote of the TAC.
Graduated
Sandbox and Incubation requirements plus:
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Have a healthy number of code contributions coming from at least five organizations.
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Have reached a minimum of 1000 stars on GH.
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Have achieved and maintained a Core Infrastructure Initiative Best Practices Gold Badge.
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Have demonstrated a substantial ongoing flow of commits and merged contributions for the past 12 months.
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Receive the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the TAC and the affirmative vote of the Governing Board.
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Have completed at least one collaboration with another LF AI & Data hosted project
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Have a technical lead appointed for representation of the project on the LF AI & Data TAC