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+# Community
+
+KEDA is a CNCF project and follows the [CNCF Code of Conduct](https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md).
+
+## Recognizing community members with Credly badges
+
+KEDA is only as successful as the community that drives it. To show our appreciation to essential members of our community, we want to recognize them by issuing Credly badges.
+
+We are supporting the following badges:
+
+| Type | Description | Level | Notes |
+|:-----|:------------|:------|:------|
+| Maintainer | Defines a clear vision of the project to grow the project and help the cloud-native community to scale Kubernetes workloads efficiently.  | Advanced | Only issued to [KEDA Maintainers](MAINTAINERS.md)|
+| Scaler Maintainer | Maintain one or more built-in KEDA scaler. You don't commit and run, but help maintain the scaler! | Intermediate | |
+| Contributor | Contribute to the KEDA community and help with maintainers to make KEDA a better project, be it with code contributions, reviews and/or documentation improvements. | Intermediate | |
+| Documentarian |  This badge recognizes excellence in documentation contributions to CNCF and its projects. Excellent technical documentation is one of the best ways projects can lower the barrier to contribution. | Intermediate | |
+| Chop Wood Carry Water | A distinguished badge for community contributors that focus on the non-shiny improvements of KEDA, such as test automation/coverage/stability, quality/performance improvements, security, etc. | Intermediate | |
+
+If you believe you apply to the criteria for one of these badges, feel free to reach out to [cncf-keda-maintainers@lists.cncf.io](mailto:cncf-Keda-maintainers@lists.cncf.io) and explain why you believe you qualify for a badge.
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 - [**Breaking Changes & Deprecation Policy**](DEPRECATIONS.md)
 - [**Branding**](BRANDING.md)
 - [**Code of Conduct**](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)
+- [**Community**](COMMUNITY.md)
 - [**Governance**](GOVERNANCE.md)
 - [**Maintainers**](MAINTAINERS.md)
 - [**Releases**](RELEASES.md)