CF.</p><p>Every year, the leaders in the Istio project <a href=https://github.com/istio/community/blob/master/steering/CONTRIBUTION-FORMULA.md>estimate the proportion</a> of the <a href="https://istio.devstats.cncf.io/d/5/companies-table?orgId=1&amp;var-period_name=Last%20year&amp;var-metric=contributions">hundreds of companies that have contributed to Istio in the past year</a>, and uses that metric to proportionally allocate nine Contribution Seats on our Steering Committee.</p><p>Then, four Community Sea