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CONFLUENT COMMUNITY CATALYSTS

Welcome to the Confluent Community Catalyst program!

A Confluent Community Catalyst is a person who invests relentlessly in the Confluent and/or Apache Kafka®️/Apache Flink®️communities. They make it a habit of contributing knowledge, enthusiasm, support, encouragement, mentoring and sometimes even code to one of the most innovative communities on earth. The Catalysts are some of the most elite contributors who are willing to multiply and empower the developer community and share the goodness of event streaming platforms with others.

REWARDS

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The recognition of your peers

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Direct interaction with Confluent developers as well as the Confluent founders at special events

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Free pass for Current and Kafka Summit

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Special swag

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Access to the private MVP Slack channel

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Massive bragging rights

Free Certification

REQUIREMENTS TO BECOME A CONFLUENT COMMUNITY CATALYST:

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Expertise

You must know things. You should have a proven record showing mastery of relevant data streaming technology, whether it is via production deployments, educational material, conference talks, or any other way to showcase your knowledge.

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Sharing or Contributing

Sharing: As a leader in the community, you spend your time sharing your knowledge and experience with other people. You are eager to help others get up to speed by writing blog posts, speaking at Meetups and conferences, conducting webinars, answering questions on Stack Overflow, Twitter, and the Confluent Community Slack workspace.

Contributing: You contribute to projects central to the life of the Community. You have answer questions on dev mailing lists, you have commit rights on one or more projects, and you submit PRs when you have a useful feature or bug fix to offer.

Nominations have closed for 23/24, but you can already start nominating yourself or your peers for the 2024/25 edition!

Nomination Process

If you know anyone who fits the above description, please nominate that person! You'll be submitting their email address, so be sure to ask first. And yes, of course you can nominate yourself.

Nominee Details:

We are thrilled to see young people involved in the Community, but for legal reasons we can't accept your nomination yet. But keep after it! Tech is a great life to live.

If you know anyone who fits the above description, please nominate that person! You'll be submitting their email address, so be sure to ask first. And yes, of course you can nominate yourself.

Requirements to become a Confluent Community Catalyst:

SHARING or CONTRIBUTING

Nominees must show a past record of sharing and/or contributing to the community, with at least 3 provable examples from the past year in the links below.

Sharing: Nominees must have at least 3 proven forms of wide sharing over the past calendar year. These can be: relevant meetups, conferences, webinars, writing relevant blogs, articles, whitepapers, supporting the community on the Confluent Community Slack and forum throughout the past calendar year, and interaction on Twitter including more than 40 total likes on Kafka-related tweets within the past calendar year.

Contributing: Nominees must have code commits merged into master in the past calendar year, must have answered questions on relevant developer mailing lists, commit rights on one or more projects, and have submitted PRs when they have a useful feature or bug fix to offer.

Please choose 3 links to add below to prove the activity noted above. (Bear in mind that we can be flexible if you don't meet all the requirements, but there must be a valid reason for us to make an exception.)

Please share with us a very brief paragraph that summarizes why you or your nominee should be chosen. This will appear next to your picture in the nominees page. And yes, it is ok to promote your nomination among your peers!

Class of 2022 - 2023

 Antón Rodríguez
Antón
Rodríguez 
Bobby Calderwood
Bobby
Calderwood 
Elad Leev
Elad
Leev 
Florian Hussonnois
Florian
Hussonnois 
Francesco Tisiot
Francesco
Tisiot 
Gerard Klijs
Gerard
Klijs 
Gunnar Morling
Gunnar
Morling 
Hans-Peter Grahsl
Hans-Peter
Grahsl 
Israel Ekpo
Israel
Ekpo 
João Bosco Seixas
João Bosco
Seixas 
Jordan Moore
Jordan
Moore 
Josep Casals
Josep
Casals 
Kate Stanley
Kate
Stanley 
Liam Clarke-Hutchinson
Liam
Clarke-Hutchinson 
Loic Divad
Loic
Divad 
Luan Moreno Mederios Maciel
Luan Moreno Mederios
Maciel 
Marcelo Costa
Marcelo
Costa 
Mateus Oliveira
Mateus
Oliveira 
Matteo Ferroni
Matteo
Ferroni 
Mickael Maison
Mickael
Maison 
Mitchell Henderson
Mitchell
Henderson 
Neil Buesing
Neil
Buesing 
Nikki Thean
Nikki
Thean 
Ofir Sharony
Ofir
Sharony 
Olena Kutsenko
Olena
Kutsenko 
Peter Ko
Peter
Ko 
Raúl Estrada
Raúl
Estrada 
Ryanne Dolan
Ryanne Dolan 
Saumitra Srivastav
Saumitra
Srivastav 
Simon Aubury
Simon
Aubury 
Vanitha
Vellingiri 
Wonyoung Choi
Wonyoung
Choi