Release 2 (R2) & Release 3 (R3) Contributor Awards

Instructions:

Please edit this page and add the following information to nominate a community member for their contributions to R2 and R3. Self-nominations are welcome. 

Once the nomination period closes, voting will be conducted via OpaVote. Eligible voters will be the TSC members. 

  • All individuals listed will receive participation recognition.

  • Once the nomination period closes, the TSC will vote on the top 3 contributors. 

Name

Email Address

Description of Contributions

Links (If Applicable)

Nominated By

Name

Email Address

Description of Contributions

Links (If Applicable)

Nominated By

Sagar  Arora. -R2 release

 

Excellent contributions in the area of OAI and release activities

 

Bala

Rado Chimel - R2 release

 

Excellent work done releasing R2

 

Bala

Victor Morales - R2 release

 

Excellent work done releasing R2 and test infra

 

Bala

 

Vish Jayaraman - R2 release

 

Excellent work done in Fedora support, overall leadership 

 

Bala

Alexis De TalHouet - R3 release

 

Driving changes in the community in the are of sig-architecture

 

Bala

Liam Fallon - R3 release

 

Leadership in Porch, overall release sanity and hygiene. 

 

Bala

Fiachra Corcoran - R3 release

 

Leadership in Porch, overall release sanity and hygiene. 

 

Bala

Sagar  Arora. -R3 release

 

Excellent contributions to R3 release.

 

Bala

Rado Chimel - R3 release

 

Excellent contributions to R3 release.

 

Bala

Gergely Csatari - R3 rellease

 

Driving documentation processes and changes.

 

Bala

Tim Carey

 

Driving O-RAN efforts

 

Bala

Rahul Jadhav

 

Driving OSSF score and security architecture

 

Bala

Subhash Kumar Singh-R3 Release

 

Driving Service Assurance discussions to meet Day-2 requirements of CNFs

 

Avinash

Ashish Jain - R3 Release

 

Excellent Contributions to the Helm-to-operator-codegen-sdk for conversion of helm charts to operator and added telnet support to OAI-RAN operator

 

Avinash

Joseph Thaliath - R2 Release

 

Introduced O-RAN Support in Nephio community, Developed and contributed OAI RAN operator to Nephio

 

Avinash

Wim Henderickx - R3 Release 

 

Tal Liron - R3 Release 

 

Sana Tariq - R3 Release 

 

Balaji - R3 Release 

 

Leadership/Ecosystem Evolution: SIG leadership. Work on Kubenet and Synergies with Nephio to solve networking gap in cloud native automation  

Leadership/Ecosystem Evolution: SIG leadership. Leadership in evolving Nephio's vision and core architecture evolution 

Leadership/Ecosystem Evolution: SIG & TSC leadership. Driving Nephio adoption with vendors and service providers. Nephio PoCs: RedHat, AWS and Samsung. Outreach through LFN TAC, NGMN, ATIS (Tops Council Study) and Publishing Nephio blogs

Leadership/Ecosystem Evolution: SIG leadership. Driving SIG1-SIG2 release planning process model. Supporting developers for code contribution

 

Sana 

 

Sana 

 

Sana 

 

 

Sana 

Istvan Kispal - R3 Release

 

Porch evolution - Heavy lifting on improving Porch

 

Timo

Nomination Period:

September 12th, 2024 - September 20th, 2024 at 5pm PT US/Pacific

Voting Period:

September 23, 2024 - Oct 4th, 2024 at 5pm PT

Announcement of Top Three Contributors:

October 10, 2024