[bassamtabbara]

[disclosure: I started the crossplane project and ceo/founder at upbound]

If you look at the governance of Crossplane [1], you'll see the three original maintainers of Crossplane (all Upbound employees) will be bootstrapping the steering committee and have a 2 year term, 2 others are currently being added without upbound affiliation. We believe this bootstrapping period is important to ensure that the project remains true to its vision, and to build trust and rapport with new folks joining the project. After the bootstrap period ends, the community will vote new members in. This is the same way Kubernetes and the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee were bootstrapped.

Upbound will have a commercial solution around Crossplane, but our commercial goals are not at odds with creating a strong open source community with strong governance. For Crossplane to be successful it's going to take a village, this is why we're donating it to the CNCF.

[1] https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/blob/master/GOVERNA...