Merge pull request #749 from UltraInstinct14/main

chore: Updated Docs

ADOPTERS.md

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-# Adopters
+# LoxiLB Adopters
 
-This is a list of companies that have adopted LoxiLB, feel free to open a Pull-Request to get yours listed.
+This list captures the set of organizations that are using LoxiLB within their environments
+(in production or at stages of R&D). If you are an adopter of LoxiLB and not yet on this 
+list, we encourage you to add your organization here as well!
 
-## Adopters list (alphabetically)
+The goal for this list is to be the complete and authoritative source for the entire community of
+LoxiLB adopters, and give inspiration to others that are earlier in their LoxiLB journey.
+
+Contributing to this list is a small effort that has a **big impact** to the project's growth,
+maturity, and momentum.  Thank you to all adopters and contributors of the LoxiLB project!
+Feel free to edit this file and open a Pull-Request to get your organization listed.
+
+## Adopters  (in alphabetical order)
+
+| Organization | Contact/Reference | Status | Description of Use |
+| ------------ | ------- | ------| ------------------ |
+| [BPFire](http://www.firebeeos.com/) | @vincentmli | ![deployment](https://img.shields.io/badge/deployment-blue) | eBPF based “BPFire” Distro | 
+| [Friedrich-Alexander-Universität](https://www.fau.de/)| [Research Paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.00078) | ![research](https://img.shields.io/badge/research-orange) | eBPF Runtime Security |
+| [KETI](https://www.keti.re.kr/main/main.php) | [JinWon Park](mailto:[email protected]?subject=LoxiLB) | ![deployment](https://img.shields.io/badge/deployment-blue) | Cloud-native LB for on-prem MLOps Deployment |
+| [Kookmin University](https://english.kookmin.ac.kr/) | *TBD* | ![testing](https://img.shields.io/badge/development%20&%20testing-green) | Cloud-native LB for on-prem ORAN Testbed |
+| [Oracle OCI](https://www.oracle.com/) | @esirame | ![testing](https://img.shields.io/badge/development%20&%20testing-green) | Telco cloud-native LB/Ingress for N2 interface |
+| [Samsung](https://upbound.io) | [Conference Presentation](https://blog.naver.com/PostView.naver?blogId=n_cloudplatform&logNo=223518118906&navType=by) | ![testing](https://img.shields.io/badge/development%20&%20testing-green) | Telco cloud-native LB/Ingress for N2/N4 interface |
+| [Viettel](https://vietteltelecom.vn/) | @chuhuutiennam | ![testing](https://img.shields.io/badge/development%20&%20testing-green) | SCP for cloud-native telco deployments|

MAINTAINERS.md

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 # LoxiLB Maintainers
-This is the list of LoxiLB project Maintainers.
+
+This is the current list of LoxiLB project Maintainers.
 
 |                                                                             |                        Name                           |   Company    | 
 |:---------------------------------------------------------------------------:|:-----------------------------------------------------:|:------------:|
-| <img width="30px" src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/106566094">  | [PacketCrunch](https://github.com/PacketCrunch)       |    Netlox    | 
 | <img width="30px" src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/75648333">   | [UltraInstinct14](https://github.com/UltraInstinct14) |    Netlox    |
 | <img width="30px" src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/111065900">  | [Trekkie](https://github.com/TrekkieCoder)            |    Netlox    |
 | <img width="30px" src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/66406124">   | [Nikhil Malik](https://github.com/nik-netlox)         |    Netlox    |
 | <img width="30px" src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/88170638">   | [BackGuyn Jung](https://github.com/backguynn)         |    Netlox    |
 | <img width="30px" src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/75723069">   | [Inho Gog](https://github.com/inhogog2)               |    Netlox    |
-| <img width="30px" src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/76096751">   | [SeokHwan Kong](https://github.com/NLX-SeokHwanKong)  |    Netlox    |
+
+If any person or an organization wants to become a maintainer of LoxiLB, please feel free to go through LoxiLB [Governance Guide](https://github.com/loxilb-io/loxilb/blob/main/GOVERNANCE.md) for further details.