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+# Metal³ Proposal
+
+*Name of project*: Metal³ ("Metal Kubed")
+
+*Description*:
+
+The Metal³ project (pronounced: Metal Kubed) exists to provide bare metal host
+management for Kubernetes.  The primary components of Metal³ include
+baremetal-operator, a component that provides a Kubernetes API for provisioning
+and managing bare metal hosts, and cluster-api-provider-metal3, which
+integrates Metal³ with cluster-api project from the Kubernetes cluster
+lifecycle SIG.
+
+While the cluster-api integration allows you to use Metal³ to automate the
+provisioning of bare metal hosts for a Kubernetes cluster, a subset of Metal³
+can be used to perform bare metal host provisioning for any purpose.
+
+*Statement on Alignment with the CNCF Mission*:
+
+As cloud native technologies become the norm for organizations to deploy and
+manage their applications, Metal³ aims to apply similar patterns such as
+declarative APIs to allow administrators to manage their underlying
+infrastructure.  Metal³ is trying to make physical infrastructure management
+more accessible to the cloud native ecosystem.
+
+*Sponsor / Advisor from TOC*: TBD
+
+*Unique Identifier*: metal3-io
+
+*License*: Apache 2.0
+
+*Maturity Level*: Sandbox
+
+*Web Site*: https://metal3.io
+
+*Source Control Repositories*:
+
+All repositories under https://github.com/metal3-io/
+
+*Issue Tracking*:
+
+GitHub issues on each repository.
+
+*Release Methodology and Mechanics*:
+
+* link:https://github.com/metal3-io/cluster-api-provider-metal3/blob/master/docs/releasing.md[cluster-api-provider-metal3] - Following the same release cadence as the cluster-api project of the Kubernetes cluster lifecycle SIG
+* baremetal-operator - No releases yet, link:https://github.com/metal3-io/metal3-docs/issues/71[issue for creating release process here].
+
+*Initial committers*:
+
+Initial committers are reflected in the OWNERS file from each repository.  For example:
+* https://github.com/metal3-io/cluster-api-provider-metal3/blob/master/OWNERS
+* https://github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator/blob/master/OWNERS
+
+The process for adding/removing committers (or maintainers) is:
+https://github.com/metal3-io/metal3-docs/tree/master/maintainers
+
+There are currently maintainers across different repositories from the following
+companies:
+
+* Ericsson
+* Mirantis
+* Red Hat
+
+*Existing Community*:
+
+The project was started by a team at Red Hat, but has grown to include
+contributors from several companies over the last year.  Contributing companies
+now include:
+
+* AT&T
+* Dell EMC
+* Ericsson
+* Fujitsu
+* Mirantis
+* Red Hat
+
+As of 2020-03-25:
+
+* baremetal-operator has 38 commit authors
+* cluster-api-provider-metal3 has 20 commit authors
+
+*Project Infrastructure*:
+
+* Prow based CI cluster running on donated capacity from https://packet.net:
+  https://prow.apps.ci.metal3.io/
+* Jenkins server for some additional CI jobs using capacity from
+  https://www.nordix.org/:
+  https://github.com/metal3-io/project-infra/blob/master/jenkins/README.md
+* Web page (https://metal3.io) hosted on GitHub pages:
+  https://github.com/metal3-io/metal3-io.github.io
+* Infrastructure resources: https://github.com/metal3-io/project-infra/
+* https://metal3.io/community-resources.html
+
+*Communication*:
+
+* link:https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/metal3-dev[Mailing List]
+* Slack Channel: #cluster-api-baremetal on the Kubernetes Slack
+* link:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d7jqIgmKHvOdcEmE2v72WDZo9kz7WwhuslDOili25Ls/edit[Bi-weekly zoom meeting]
+
+*Social Media Accounts*:
+
+* link:https://twitter.com/metal3_io[Twitter]
+* link:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_xneeYbo-Dl4g-U78xW15g[Youtube Channel]
+
+*Other References*:
+
+* link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIIkVD7gujY[Talk at KubeCon San Diego, Fall 2019]
+* link:https://github.com/metal3-io/metal3-docs/blob/master/design/foundation-proposal.md[Proposal to metal3-io community to apply to the CNCF Sandbox]
+
+*Project Logo*:
+
+* link:https://github.com/metal3-io/metal3-docs/blob/master/images/metal3.svg[SVG]
+* link:https://github.com/metal3-io/metal3-docs/blob/master/images/metal3.png[PNG]
+* link:https://github.com/metal3-io/metal3-docs/blob/master/images/metal3-white.svg[SVG - White]
+* link:https://github.com/metal3-io/metal3-docs/blob/master/images/metal3-white.png[PNG - White]
+* link:https://github.com/metal3-io/metal3-docs/blob/master/images/metal3-.svg[SVG - Black]
+* link:https://github.com/metal3-io/metal3-docs/blob/master/images/metal3-black.png[PNG - Black]
+* link:https://github.com/metal3-io/metal3-docs/blob/master/images/metal3-website-sticker.svg[SVG - Sticker]
+* link:https://github.com/metal3-io/metal3-docs/blob/master/images/metal3-website-sticker.png[PNG - Sticker]
+* link:https://github.com/metal3-io/metal3-docs/blob/master/images/metal3-banner.pdf[PDF - Banner]
+
+*External Dependencies*:
+
+Generated using https://github.com/google/go-licenses
+
+.Dependencies for baremetal-operator
+|===
+|Package |License
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+.Dependencies for cluster-api-provider-metal3
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