Sorry yeah, to add to this I would like to stress I don't think you all will ever be able to match the community run conferences like that. Mostly because at the end of the day the foundation does

Adding to Jessie's point, the Linux community has a number of "Linux Fests" that are locally organized conferences. Ohio Linux Fest, SoCal Linux Expo (SCaLE), Texas Linux Fest, etc. The small regional

As an end user I stopped submitting talks after a few conferences in a row not getting selected so I suspect there are just so many submissions it’s easy to get drowned out. I like the idea of

Is anyone capturing all this feedback somewhere? -- Matt Farina mattfarina.com

+1 on improving the CFP by providing more space for submitters to write a more detailed abstract. In the interest of keeping abstracts shorter (if this is a concern for conference programs) you might

In the Linux world that's equivalent to Linux Conf Australia (and others) which I gave a keynote at this year. Entirely community conference. Lot's of work by the organizers but all the main

BSides has been the security reaction to larger conferences with vendors. Started out, and still is in some cases, adjacent to the big conference on a different stage but then branched out to

+1, improving the CFP itself should be prio 1 (or 0). As Yuan Chen also mentioned above this is what many of us who had touch points with academia are used to and this is the very basis for being able

As a data point, this model has worked fantastically well for PyCon. There are national, regional, state and city conferences. Some have PSF sponsorship, some others just marketing and some wholly

The CNCF site notes: "The Cloud Native Computing Foundation builds sustainable ecosystems and fosters a community around a constellation of high-quality projects that orchestrate containers as part of

I agree with the need for coaching of end users. I actually sent an email last night that I thought was to the list, but didn't reply to the group. One of the problems with soliciting talks from end

Meetups are nice but not at all a substitute for a good end-user focused conference, so let's please not conflate the two things.

Thanks for pointing those out. As Dan mentioned, it's on the agenda for 2019 to support some smaller more regional events in new geos. Currently we encourage folks to start a join an existing meetup,

Has anyone looked at the WordCamp model for local conferences? They are somewhere in between a KubeCon and a meetup. There are several benefits to this model like: They are local and can be on work

It's great to hear there's support for more end user talks, since I joined the CNCF to increase end user engagement and satisfaction. End user talks will be one of my key metrics, and I'm very keen to

+1 end users often struggle to make their talks as appealing as the “real ones”. Coaching here will help. -- +31 652134960 CEO www.implicit-explicit.com Co-Founder www.softwarecircus.io Marketing

+1, great idea

There seems to be a recognition that more real-world / end user / practitioner talks would be good, because we don't want an echo chamber of ideas. One suggestion would be to provide more support &

In a few weeks, we'll be sharing plans for hosting single day events, especially in parts of the world with a lot of interest in cloud native but without easy access to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North

I'm strongly in favour of additional, community level mini conferences, at the scale of promcon for example. Having those could justify some rules aimed at improving the mega conferences.