LF AI & Data Project Incubation Levels

Any project that intends to join LF AI & Data Incubation in the future and wishes to lay the foundations for that.
New projects that are designed to extend one or more LF AI & Data projects with functionality or interoperability libraries.
Independent projects that fit the LF AI & Data mission and provide the potential for a novel approach to existing functional areas (or are an attempt to meet an unfulfilled need).

Sandbox requirements plus:

Have 2+ organizations actively contributing to the project.
Have a defined Technical Steering Committee (TSC) with a chairperson identified, with open and transparent communication.
Have a sponsor who is an existing LF AI & Data member.
Have at least 300 stars on GitHub.
Have achieved and maintained a Core Infrastructure Initiative Best Practices Silver Badge.
Have the affirmative vote of the TAC.

Sandbox and Incubation requirements plus:

Have a healthy number of code contributions coming from at least five organizations.
Have reached a minimum of 1000 stars on GH.
Have achieved and maintained a Core Infrastructure Initiative Best Practices Gold Badge.
Have demonstrated a substantial ongoing flow of commits and merged contributions for the past 12 months.
Receive the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the TAC and the affirmative vote of the Governing Board.
Have completed at least one collaboration with another LF AI & Data hosted project
Have a technical lead appointed for representation of the project on the LF AI & Data TAC