• The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is thrilled to congratulate the 2025 Term 3 (September - November) CNCF LFX Mentorship Program mentees who have successfully completed the program! • This term saw a fantastic cohort of mentees working across 27 different Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox projects, including Cilium, KubeArmor, KubeEdge, Kubernetes, OpenCost, and many more. • Our mentors and mentees have worked tirelessly over the past three months to improve code, documentation, and community engagement. • The LFX Mentorship program continues to be a vital pipeline for new contributors to the cloud native ecosystem, fostering the next generation of open source leaders. • Below, you’ll find highlights from some of our graduating mentees, followed by a full list of all the successful projects and participants from this term. • The next term of CNCF LFX Mentorship is accepting applications now!
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- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that all mentees from its 2025 Term 3 (September-November) LFX Mentorship Program have successfully completed the program. The cohort contributed to 27 projects across the Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox tracks, including Cilium, KubeArmor, KubeEdge, Kubernetes, and OpenCost. Participants worked on code, documentation, and community engagement, with highlights such as Abhishek Kumar’s work on KubeEdge’s semantic‑segmentation benchmark and Adesh Pal’s Model Context Protocol integration for OpenCost. CNCF noted the program’s role in cultivating new open‑source leaders and announced that applications for Term 4 are open until February 10, 2026.
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