Contributor of the Month

The Falco project is backed by a committed and diverse set of developers consisting of more than 170 individuals from over 48 countries. In recognition of outstanding contributions that deliver significant impact on the project, the community nominates and acknowledges such contributions each month as a gesture of appreciation.

"Contributor of the Month" is a unique recognition bestowed by the Falco community to acknowledge and celebrate the hard work and exceptional dedication of one or more peer members of the project.

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March, 2023

Federico Di Pierro Federico Di Pierro
March's winner is @FedeDP! Thank you for your contribution to the community and work on updating oracle to support OracleLinux9, fixing the gcc version from builder images setter, among other impactful contributions such as driving cleanup in the driver, userspace to help properly map each event to its own syscall using syscall name "accept4."
February, 2023
Melissa Kilby
Melissa added the ability to filter process ancestry by exepath, which is useful for creating rules around shells or RCE originating from Java processes, providing new opportunities to write filter expressions for many use cases, and added aexepath and aexe filters and a display option, while also changing the ordering of proc.x fields in a follow-up PR.
David Windsor
David has been performing exceptionally well as a driverkit maintainer and on libs, tirelessly adding new modern BPF syscalls; furthermore, he has recently added new features such as getresgid, getresuid, and nanosleep to modern_probe in the libs repository.

Nominate the next Contributor of the Month

Head over to the 👉🏼 Falco community repo. You’ll find an issue by month to offer nominations (open for one week starting the second Tuesday of each month) and then vote

MonthNominations openNominations closeVoting periodAnnouncement
January / FebruaryFeb 15, 2023Feb 24, 2023Feb 25, 2023 — Feb 27, 2023Feb 28, 2023
MarchMar 13, 2023Mar 20, 2023Mar 21, 2023 — Mar 27, 2023Mar 31, 2023
AprilApr 10, 2023Apr 17, 2023Apr 18, 2023 — Apr 24, 2023Apr 28, 2023

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