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title: 2017-08-17 Community Meeting Update
date: 2017-08-17
author:
  name: Mya Pitzeruse
  position: Indeed
  link: https://www.indeed.com
---

**Next Community Meeting:** Thursday, August 31, 2017 11am Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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## General Announcements

Call for Papers: CloudNativeCon

CloudNativeCon gathers all CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) projects under a single roof. 
Presenters will be talking about their experiences with Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTracing, Fluentd, Linkerd, gRPC, CoreDNS, containerd, rkt and CNI.
The call for papers period will be ending on Monday, August 21, 2017.
The conference will be taking place on the 6th and 7th of December, 2017.
If you submit a talk, please add an entry to the spreadsheet linked in the [gRPC Community Meeting Working Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DTMEbBNmzNbZBh8nOivsnnw3CwUr1Q7WGRe7rNxyHOU/edit#bookmark=id.7qk9qf3ri75m).

Register for [CloudNativeCon](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudnativecon-and-kubecon-north-america/attend/register)

## Release Updates

1.6 will be available soon.
The required changes have already been merged and published in the protocol buffer libraries.
Keep your eyes peeled for the upcoming release.

## Platform Updates

No platform updates.

## Language Updates

No language specific updates.
