Also an option, of course. By the way, we do have a local event - Cloud Native London, it took place last month and also in 2017 (IIRC). It's a great event, but it's not exactly affordable.

One more option to would be to partner with existing community events and add k8s or CloudNative tracks. We've found this to be a win/win at SCALE and other local events I'm involved in.

Yes ;) Cheers, Michael -- Michael Hausenblas, Developer Advocate OpenShift by Red Hat Mobile: +353 86 0215164 | Twitter: @mhausenblas http://openshift.com | http://mhausenblas.info

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:46 AM Michael Hausenblas <mhausenb@...> wrote To be clear, are you suggesting that we could leverage existing groups by considering to mini-conferences at the locations

+1 Also, we could think about how we could leverage https://www.meetup.com/pro/cncf/ for it ;) Cheers, Michael -- Michael Hausenblas, Developer Advocate OpenShift by Red Hat Mobile: +353 86

I second Matt's and Alexis' point on having more of local mini-conferences/camps. Even for those in the US or Europe, there isn't always a chance to travel to a major city, and hotel prices as well

I really like the checkbox (or slider) suggestion - I think it could be very helpful all around. I've helped review some submissions, and I try to apply consistent criteria. I based my criteria on

Firstly I am more than happy with the conference tracks, I always learn a huge amount and take away a lot more for study. A few thoughts from discussing this thread with organisers of other major

+1000 As much as I like to contribute via reviewing, I certainly don’t envy the chairs and no matter how rude certain people on this thread are or think it’s OK to use whatever tone they feel

As an organiser of various conferences (and as someone who didn't get a talk accepted at KubeCon this year), can I just point out that Liz and Janet have done a fantastic job in orchestrating

Liz, I appreciate you’re taking time here with more details. I want to note a difference between malicious intent and people drawing conclusions of it. Those are different people in different

Nick, In my experience, airtime at a major conference is a huge factor in developer growth for a project. Of the several projects I’ve started personally (heat, magnum, kolla), we saw 3x core

just for stats, for the ServerlessNYC event in 2 weeks (1 day we organized) we got about 50 submission, only 2 on Knative (one accepted) also while most submissions covered real user stories based on

Liz, i assume you know how things work, a company doesn't need to make all the submission it self to push an agenda your role is to provide diversity, not just in speakers but also in topics, its just

I'm going to say that I agree with you here, but I'm going to play devil's advocate for just a moment. Let's say that JaneSchmoeNativeTool IS better than GNativeTool. Even if Jane

For the sake of my point let's remove "Google" altogether and replace with "HugeVendor" not to be pointing fingers since they are doing what any vendor would do in their position of

Only four of the submissions on Knative were from Google! Perhaps it goes to show that a lot of other people are also interested in this technology? Again I go back to my point that a lot of people

I'm aware this is a bit a political minefield here, but I'm concerned the committee(s) are unintentionally choosing winners here (same for KubeCon EU Købnhavn). What I mean is this: "popularity" of a

liz, its not the number of submission which should count, i guess if "theoretically" there was a large company w special interest in Knative they can make hundred submission to promote it. We saw the

Eughhh, reading this through I fear it might come over as defensive, but since I've collected the information, I'm going ahead regardless. Let's look at the *actual* situation on this serverless