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+# NATS Graduation Application
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+NATS was accepted into the CNCF as an incubating project in March 2018. Significant progress has been made in 2018 to improve process and further mature NATS as a project under the guidance of the CNCF.
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+## The following represents the successful CNCF graduation criterion met by NATS.
+
+### Committers
+**Have committers from at least two organizations.**
+
+NATS has committers from [various organizations](https://nats.devstats.cncf.io/d/5/companies-summary?orgId=1&var-period_name=Last%20decade&var-metric=repositories).
+
+* Paulo Pires [@pires](https://github.com/pires), Mesosphere
+* Laurent Magnin [@laugimethods](https://github.com/laugimethods), Logimethods
+* Various committers from Synadia
+  - Derek Collison [@derekcollison](https://github.com/derekcollison)
+  - Ivan Kozlovic [@kozlovic](https://github.com/kozlovic)
+  - Waldemar Quevedo [@wallyqs](https://github.com/wallyqs)
+  - Colin Sullivan [@ColinSullivan1](https://github.com/ColinSullivan1)
+  - Alberto Ricart [@aricart](https://github.com/aricart)
+  - Stephen Asbury [@sasbury](https://github.com/sasbury)
+  
+### Best Practices Badge
+**Have achieved and maintained a Core Infrastructure Initiative Best Practices Badge.**
+
+* https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/en/projects/1895
+
+### Adopt the CNCF Code of Conduct
+
+* https://github.com/nats-io/gnatsd/blob/master/CODE-OF-CONDUCT.md
+
+### Governance
+**Explicitly define a project governance and committer process. This preferably is laid out in a GOVERNANCE.md file and references an OWNERS.md file showing the current and emeritus committers.**
+
+* https://github.com/nats-io/nats-general/blob/master/GOVERNANCE.md
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