KCD Washington, DC 2022

[faheem556]

Please fill in information, organizers, and sponsors as you assemble them, and then make a new comment when this application is ready for review.

Event Location:

American Red Cross DC 1730 E Street NW 20006 Washington DC

Event Date and Time:

Sep 14th, 2022 - 9am to 4pm

Event type:

In Person

Submission checklist for organizers:

*Please check each of these as you complete them:

• [x] No other Kubernetes Community Day event in the same region
• [x] Minimum of 3 organizers from 3 different organizations
• [x] Every organizer has an account on Cloud Native Community Groups
• [x] Each organizer lives in or just outside of the KCD location
• [x] At least one organizer is a CNCF member employee, CNCF ambassador, or CNCF project maintainer
• [x] All organizers agree to follow the event guidelines and CNCF Code of Conduct
• [x] Monthly check in with KCD Core Organizer scheduled
• [x] All organizers have taken Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation (LFC102)
• [x] Minimum of 3 sponsors committed (not required for virtual only events)
• [x] Identified fiscal sponsor that can accept payments such as from sponsorships and pay out expenses
• [x] Agree to offer (at minimum) 3 complimentary tickets to increase diversity for the event
• [x] Agree to use Cloud Native Community Groups for registration, scheduling, and event website
• [x] Reviewed the Bevy Virtual Conference Overview, the full course can be had for free upon request
• [x] Agree to use SM Apply for CFP
• [x] Event date and time has been chosen
• [x] Agree that there will not be an all male speaker lineup
• [x] Added usernames for CNCF Slack for all organizers so that we can add you to the #kcd-organizers channel
• [x] Create a Twitter handle specific to your KCD event (except for countries like China and Korea where Twitter is not used)
• [ ] Provided CNCF access to all event social handles

CfP open and close dates: 2022-06-1 to 2022-07-31 Website launch date: 2022-05-23

Submission checklist for CNCF:

• [x] Organizer email alias has been created
• [x] Region created in Bevy
• [x] Added to Bevy header
• [x] CfP created

Post Event checklist:

• [ ] Removed from Bevy header
• [ ] CfP deactivated
• [ ] Videos uploaded to Youtube and linked to event page

Expected Number of Attendees: 50-200

Organizer 1:

Faheem Memon, Amobee Inc, DevOps Architect, [email protected], Faheem Memon

Organizer 2:

Matthew Cascio, Executive Director, [email protected], Matthew Cascio

Organizer 3:

Brandon Mitchell, BoatBox, DevOps Solutions Architect, [email protected], Brandon Mitchell

Organizer 4:

Jason Morgan, Buoyant, Developer Evangelist, [email protected], jmo

Organizer 5:

Robert Brown, USCIS, CTO, [email protected], Robert Brown(?)

CfP Admin:

Faheem, Brandon, Jason, Robert

Sponsor 1

Rancher Gov Solutions

Sponsor 2

BoxBoat Technologies

Sponsor 3

American RedCross (HOST)

Fiscal sponsor that will accept payments

NaOM Lab

[sudo-bmitch]

I see the CFP has been created at https://kcd.smapply.io/prog/kcd_washington_dc_2022_cfp/. Can our accounts be added as reviewers/admins over there?

[AudMonte01]

Closing notes:

• Matthew Cascio posted a retrospective blog
• Videos are on YouTube
• 52 registered and 32 attendees (aside from organizers) showed up in person