diff --git a/community/Kubernetes_Dev_Summit.md b/community/Kubernetes_Dev_Summit.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c0bc753c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/community/Kubernetes_Dev_Summit.md @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +# Kubernetes Dev Summit +# +The Kubernetes Developers' Summit provides an avenue for Kubernetes +developers to connect face to face and mindshare about future community +development and community governance endeavors. + +In some sense, the summit is a real-life extension of the community +meetings and SIG meetings. + +## Event Format +## +The Dev Summit is a "loosely-structured [unconference][uncf]". Rather +than speakers and presentations, we will have moderators/facilitators +and discussion topics, alongside all-day completely unstructured +hacking. + +The discussion sessions will be in an open fishbowl format — rings of +chairs, with inner rings driving the discussion — where anyone can +contribute. The various sessions will be proposed and voted on by the +community in the weeks leading up to the event. This allows the +community to motivate the events of the day without dedicating precious +day-of time to choosing the sessions and making a schedule. + +There will be 3 rooms dedicated to these sessions running in parallel +all day. Each session should last between 45 minutes and an hour. + +Then, there will be 2 smaller rooms for hacking / unstructured +discussion all day. + +#### Who Should Go? +#### +The target audience is the Kubernetes developer community. The group +will be relatively small (~120-150 attendees), to improve communication +and facilitate easier decision-making. The majority of the attendees +will be selected from key company team and SIG leaders, power-users, and +the most active contributors. An additional pool of tickets will be +awarded via lottery. **Any interested party** should enter the lottery via +[this form][lotfrm]. Invitees will receive an invitation on or before October 12th. +RSVP information will be available in the invitation email. Tickets are +not transferrable. + +Please note that this Summit is not the right environment for people to +*start* learning about the Kubernetes project. There are plenty of +[meetups][mtp] organized by global user groups where one can get +involved initially. + +#### Call for Proposals +#### +Proposals for discussion topics can be submitted through [this +form][propfrm] by September 30, 23:59 PT. If you propose a session topic, +please be prepared to attend and facilitate the session if it gets +chosen. Other members will help with moderating, either as volunteer +co-facilitators or as members of the larger discussion group. + +Suggestions for session topic themes: + +* Hashing out technical issues +* Long term component / SIG planning + +In early October, proposal topics will be posted to the kubernetes-dev +mailing list and voted on via [CIVS][civs], the Condorcet Internet +Voting Service. A schedule will be made from the winning topics with +some editorial license, and the schedule will be announced to the group +at least a week before the event. + +## When & Where? +## +The Dev Summit will follow [Kubecon][kbc] on November 10th, 2016. +Fortunately for those who attend Kubecon, the Dev Summit will be at the +same venue, [the Sheraton Seattle Hotel][sher]. As of now, the day's +activities should run from breakfast being served at 8 AM to closing +remarks ending around 3:30 PM, with an external happy hour to follow. + +## Desired outcomes +## +* Generate notes from the sessions to feed the project's documentation +and knowledge base, and also to keep non-attendees plugged in +* Make (and document) recommendations and decisions for the near-term and +mid-term future of the project +* Come up with upcoming action items, as well as leaders for those action items, for the various topics that we discuss + +[//]: # (Reference Links) + [uncf]: + [mtp]: + [lotfrm]: + [propfrm]: + [civs]: + [kbc]: + [sher]: