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• Documentation is important for clarity, but testing is crucial to catch bugs and ensure invariants are maintained
• Building relationships and networking with other contributors is key to getting help and solving problems
• Users are important for providing feedback and reporting bugs to improve the platform
• Communication barriers between organizations can be navigated by attending meetings, reaching out on Slack, and building relationships

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• The motivation of the Data Protection Working Group is to provide or build or design the basic components to support stateful application protections in the Kubernetes environment.
• The group has identified gaps in day two operations for stateful workloads in Kubernetes, particularly in application level consistency snapshots or backup of systems and restoration pieces along with data stored in persistent volumes.
• The group has published the first-ever white paper in the community, which outlines modern applications that consider or are moving to Kubernetes environment and the mechanisms those applications use to protect data.
• The group has developed several Caps, including the William model convention, which aims to fix the CVE vulnerability introduced by the volume model transition.
• The group has several active contributors from various organizations, including storage and backup vendors, cloud providers, application developers, and end-users.
• Interested parties can join the working group and contribute to the effort.