This is great news and would increase a big participation from all the companies and individuals , although people use these projects even now as well. Dublin seems to be a great location and really

https://m.hexus.net/tech/news/software/125747-14-open-source-projects-get-eu-funding-bug-bounty-payments/

Also happy to share experiences from 5 years worth of tier 1 conference logistics and content wrangling for Microsoft for Office and AI development. Thanks, Sonya Sonya Koptyev | Director of

Same here. Happy to share experiences and/or volunteer as needed. Have done it for PyCon US for last 6 years, happy to help KubeCon in any capacity. Best, Ruben

Janet and Bryan, I am sure some of us who have handled content at a conference that had track chairs would be happy share details on the experience, if you’re interested in learning more. I will

Matt, Thanks so much for gathering this -- I agree with all of it. I would like to add a couple of points. First, I really enjoyed the Monday "co-located" conference that I went to (I went to the

+1 for track chairs We're doing that for DockerCon and it really helps to shard the workload of building the agenda. P@

Changes such as using track chairs is a decision of the co-chairs, which for Barcelona are Janet Kuo and Bryan Liles. They're reading all the commentary and will comment early in the new year. Thanks,

To be clear, in full agreement with need for track chairs. That will help with the review aspect for sure. But there's also the proposal side that needs improvement. Without incorporating a few key

I like the track idea, and I would propose a track specifically for developers working for vendors building tools in the cloud-native ecosystem and their particular concerns around developing stable,

I want to add a little more to the sponsored talk conversations. I spent some time thinking about them. First, I was not the person who brought up sponsored sessions. I just transcribed it from the

What is the process for making changes like adding track chairs? I know there are impacts on conference logistics (like when tracks are decided upon). Track chairs seem like a popular idea and one

We collect all the feedback in https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sDXfk5MHAmHZVdIx1t4PREo_SSXKcloCOUYjZIo4jBs/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=102541127919449992468. We responded to a number of points - see

I have similar questions about the review process as Ruben. Are we planning to make any changes? The review and selection process is such a key factor for the success of the conference. We had a long

Thanks a lot for putting this together, Matt! Huge +1 for track chairs. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Hausenblas, Developer Advocate OpenShift by Red Hat Mobile: +353 86 0215164 | Twitter:

+1 on track chairs. Would be excellent to see actually mutiple people as track chairs. It would be a great opportunity to expand the number of organizations involved in organizing KubeCon. Also,

Note, Chris A. also shared that there is going to be a post conference transparency report from CNCF that compiles some data we are able to collect and track through our own systems, observations,

I really like Quintons idea. It forces us to pay attention to and try to meet the needs of end users. If we don't do that something else could come along and steal our thunder.

+1 for track chairs I've been part of several program committees over last several years. And this one factor really helps build a great agenda. The chairs still oversee the agenda but they deal with

Nanci Lancaster (https://www.cncf.io/people/staff/) is nearly a full-time staff member supporting the co-chairs and program committee in their work. She is also backed up by Jillian on the LF content