Most community activity is organized into working groups.

Working groups follow the contributing guidelines although each of these groups may operate a little differently depending on their needs and workflow.

When the need arises, a new working group can be created. See the working group processes for working group proposal and creation procedures.

The working groups generate design docs which are kept in a shared drive and are available for anyone to read and comment on. The shared drive currently grants read access to knative-users@ and edit and comment access to the knative-dev@ Google group.

Some working groups (mostly those with a plug-in or extension model) end up responsible for a set of GitHub repos, one for each extension. This allows for easier dependency management; in these cases, one or more repo prefix names will be recorded as canonical "extension names" to allow WGs to be responsible for their own namespace without needing to get Steering Committee approval for each repo name.

Additionally, all working groups should hold regular meetings, which should be added to the shared knative calendar WG leads should have access to be able to create and update events on this calendar, and should invite knative-dev@googlegroups.com to working group meetings.

Calendar import

If you're using Google Calendar, the above should work. If you're using some other system (Apple Calendar or Outlook, for example), here is an iCal export of the community calendar.

• Follow these directions to import into Outlook Web
• Follow these directions for desktop Outlook
• Follow the import directions to import into Apple Calendar

Working Groups

The current working groups are:

• Working Groups
  • Serving
  • Client
  • User Experience
  • Eventing
  • Functions
  • Operations
  • Productivity
  • Security
• Emeritus Working Groups
  • Eventing Kafka
  • Build
  • Documentation
  • Event Delivery (previously called Eventing Channels Working Group)
  • Eventing Sources
  • Observability

Serving

Covers API resources, validation, semantics, autoscaling and networking behavior.

Artifact	Link
Charter	TODO (historical, was created before formal WG process)
Roadmap	Serving
Forum	knative-dev@
Community Meeting VC	See the top of the Meeting notes
Community Meeting Calendar	Thurs 8:00am PST Calendar
Meeting Notes	Notes
Document Folder	API, Scaling, Networking
Repos	knative/serving, knative/networking, knative/pkg, knative-extensions/net-*
Slack Channel	#knative-serving (need to join CNCF Slack for the first time)
Github Team WG Leads	@knative/serving-wg-leads

	Leads	Company	Profile
	Dave Protasowski	Independent	dprotaso

	Emeritus Leads	Subgroup	Profile	Duration
	Dan Gerdesmeier	API	dgerd	2019-2020
	Matt Moore	API	mattmoor	2018-2021
	Julian Friedman	Scaling	julz	2021-2022
	Markus Thömmes	Scaling	markusthoemmes	2019-2021
	Victor Agababov	Scaling	vagababov	2019-2021
	Joseph Burnett	Scaling	josephburnett	2018-2019
	Nghia Tran	Networking	tcnghia	2018-2021
	Zhimin Xiang	Networking	ZhiminXiang	2020-2022
	Kenjiro Nakayama	Networking	nak3	2020-2022
	Paul Schweigert	Serving	psschwei	2022-2023

Client

Client, CLI, client libraries, and client conventions

Artifact	Link
Charter	Charter
Roadmap	Roadmap
Forum	knative-dev@
Community Meeting VC	See the top of the Meeting notes
Community Meeting Calendar	Every other Tuesday 10:30a Pacific Calendar Invitation
Meeting Notes	Notes
Document Folder	Folder
Repos	knative/client, kn-plugin-*
Slack Channel	#knative-client (need to join CNCF Slack for the first time)
Github Team WG leads	@knative/client-wg-leads

	Leads	Company	Profile
	David Simansky	Red Hat	dsimansk

	Emeritus Leads	Profile	Duration
	Roland Huß	rhuss	2018-2025
	Naomi Seyfer	sixolet	2018-2021
	Dmitriy Kalinin	cppforlife	2018-2020

User Experience

User Experience concerns across Knative components, as well as designer contribution experience.

Artifact	Link
Charter / Mission	Charter
Roadmap	Roadmap
Forum	knative-dev@
Community Meeting VC	See the top of the Meeting notes
Community Meeting Calendar	Every other Thursday from 9:00-10:00am EST Calendar
Meeting Notes	Notes
Document Folder	Folder
Slack Channel	#knative-ux (need to join CNCF Slack for the first time)
Github Repository	/ux
Github Team WG leads	@knative/ux-wg-leads

	Leads	Company	Profile
	Calum Murray	University of Toronto	cali0707
	Zainab Husain	OCAD University	zainabhusain227
	Mariana Mejia	OCAD University	mmejia02
	Leo Li	University of Toronto	Leo Li

	Emeritus Leads	Profile	Duration
	Carlos Santana	csantanapr	2020-2022
	Omer Bensaadon	omerbensaadon	2020-2021

Eventing

Event sources, bindings, FaaS framework, and orchestration

Artifact	Link
Charter / Mission	Enable asynchronous application development through event delivery from anywhere.
Roadmap	Roadmap
Forum	knative-dev@
Community Meeting VC	See the top of the Meeting notes
Community Meeting Calendar	Thursday 8:00a-8:30a PST Calendar
Meeting Notes	Notes
Document Folder	Folder
Repos	knative/eventing, eventing-*
Slack Channel	#knative-eventing (need to join CNCF Slack for the first time)
Github Team WG leads	@knative/eventing-wg-leads

	Leads	Company	Profile
	Pierangelo Di Pilato	Red Hat	pierdipi
	Christoph Stäbler	Red Hat	creydr

	Emeritus Leads	Profile	Duration
	Lionel Villard (Technical)	lionelvillard	2020-2022
	Ahmed Abdalla (Execution)	devguyio	2021-2022
	Grant Rodgers (Technical)	grantr	2020-2021
	Ville Aikas (Technical)	vaikas	2018-2021

Functions

Knative Functions CLI, API, and language packs

Artifact	Link
Charter / Mission	Charter
Roadmap	Roadmap
Forum	knative-dev@
Community Meeting VC	See the top of the Meeting notes
Community Meeting Calendar	Tuesdays 10:00a-10:30a EDT Calendar
Meeting Notes	Notes
Document Folder	Folder
Slack Channel	#knative-functions (need to join CNCF Slack for the first time)
Github Team WG leads	@knative/func-wg-leads

	Leads	Company	Profile
	Luke Kingland	Red Hat	lkingland
	Mauricio Salatino	VMWare	salaboy

	Emeritus Leads	Profile	Duration
	Lance Ball	lance	2022-2023

Operations

Managing, assessing system health and maintaining Knative clusters

Artifact	Link
Charter	Charter
Forum	knative-dev@
Community Meeting VC	See the top of the Meeting notes
Community Meeting Calendar	Tuesdays at 10:00am PST Calendar
Meeting Notes	Notes
Document Folder	Folder
Repo prefixes
Slack Channel	#knative (need to join CNCF Slack for the first time)
Github Team WG leads	@knative/operations-wg-leads

	Leads	Company	Profile
	Vincent Hou	CoreWeave	houshengbo

	Emeritus Leads	Profile	Duration
	Kenny Leung	k4leung4	2019-2020
	Ben Browning	bbrowning	2019-2020
	Greg Haynes	greghaynes	2019-2019

Productivity

Project health, test framework, continuous integration & deployment, release, performance/scale/load testing infrastructure

Artifact	Link
Charter	Charter
Roadmap	Roadmap
Forum	knative-dev@
Community Meeting VC	See the top of the Meeting notes
Community Meeting Calendar	bi-weekly, Wednesday, 8am EDT (12am UTC, 2pm CEST) Calendar
Meeting Notes	Notes
Document Folder	Folder
Repo prefixes	actions-*
Repos	knative/hack, knative/test-infra, knative-extensions/.github, knative-extensions/reconciler-test, knative-extensions/knobots
Slack Channel	#knative-productivity (need to join CNCF Slack for the first time)
Github Team WG leads	@knative/productivity-wg-leads

	Leads	Company	Profile
	Mahamed Ali	Cisco	upodroid
	Chris Suszynski	Red Hat	cardil

	Emeritus Leads	Profile	Duration
	Krsna Mahapatra	krsna-m	2022-2024
	Chi Zhang	chizhg	2020-2022
	Scott Nichols	n3wscott	2020-2021
	Chao Dai	chaodaiG	2019-2020
	Jessie Zhu	jessiezcc	2018-2019
	Adriano Cunha	adrcunha	2018-2020

Security

Security concerns across Knative components

Artifact	Link
Charter / Mission	Charter
Forum	knative-dev@
Community Meeting VC	See the top of the Meeting notes
Community Meeting Calendar	Every other Monday at 8:30am PST Calendar
Meeting Notes	Notes
Document Folder	Folder
Repo prefixes
Slack Channel	#knative-security (need to join CNCF Slack for the first time)
Github Team WG leads	@knative/security-wg-leads

	Leads	Company	Profile
	Evan Anderson	VMware	evankanderson
	David Hadas	IBM	davidhadas

	Emeritus Leads	Profile	Duration
	Julian Friedman	julz	2021-2022

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Emeritus Working Groups

Documentation

Documentation concerns across Knative - especially the Docs repo.

Artifact	Link
Charter / Mission	Charter
Roadmap	Roadmap
Forum	knative-dev@
Community Meeting VC	See the top of the Meeting notes
Community Meeting Calendar	Every other Tuesday from 9:30-10:30am PST Calendar
Meeting Notes	Notes
Document Folder	Folder
Slack Channel	#knative-documentation (need to join CNCF Slack for the first time)
Github Repository	/docs
Github Team WG leads	@knative/ux-wg-leads

	Leads	Company	Profile	Duration
	Samia Nneji	VMware	snneji	2021-2023
	Ashleigh Brennan	Red Hat	abrennan89	2020-2023
	Sam O'Dell	Google	samodell	2018-2020

Eventing Kafka

The Eventing Kafka was a dedicated working group for Kafka-based Knative Eventing components. In 2023 it has been merged back into the parent Eventing working group.

Artifact	Link
Charter / Mission	Charter
Roadmap	Roadmap
Forum	knative-dev@
Meeting Notes	Notes
Document Folder	Folder

	Leads	Profile	Duration
	Travis Minke	travis-minke-sap	2022
	Ahmed Abdalla	devguyio	2021-2022
	Lionel Villard	lionelvillard	2021-2022

Build

	Leads	Profile	Duration
	Jason Hall	ImJasonH	2018-2019

Event Delivery (previously called Eventing Channels Working Group)

	Leads	Profile	Duration
	Adam Harwayne	Harwayne	2019-2021
	Matthias Wessendorf	matzew	2019-2021
	Francesco Guardiani	slinkydeveloper	2020-2021

Eventing Sources

The Eventing Sources working group was responsible for various event producers, and has been started to split up the initial work to ramp up those soures. In 2022 it has been merged back into the parent Eventing working group.

Artifact	Link
Charter	Charter
Meeting Notes	Notes (Notes before March 2021)
Document Folder	Folder

	Emeritus Leads	Profile	Duration
	Lionel Villard	lionelvillard	2019-2022
	Ignacio (Nacho) Cano	nachocano	2019-2020
	Ville Aikas	vaikas	2019-2021
	Scott Nichols	n3wscott	2019-2021

Observability

	Leads	Profile	Duration
	Mustafa Demirhan	mdemirhan	2018-2019

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