KCD Angola 2024 (April)

[antonio-pedro99]

KCD Organizer Checklist

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 Details

• [ ] Event Location: ISPTEC
• [x] Event Date and Time: April 5 & 6
• [x] Expected Number of Attendees: 250-500
• [ ] Event cost per ticket, and if you will have early bird pricing or not

  Event type:

• [ ] Virtual
• [x] Hybrid (livestream to YouTube)
• [x] In person

  Organizers Details (identify at least 3 organizers). Designate who will be the CFP admin, as well as the financial officer:

• [x] Organizer 1: Antonio Pedro, IIIT-D, CSE Student, antonio20028@iiitd.ac.in, CNCF Slack: @antonio20028
• [x] Organizer 2: Paulo Estêvão, K2 Partnering Solutions, Software Engineer, pl1745240@gmail.com, Slack: @Paulo Lopes Estevão
• [x] Organizer 3: Mário Domingos, Institute of Administrative Modernization, DevOps Engineer, Email: kennymario.k@gmail.com, CNCF Slack: @Kenny Mario
• [x] Organizer 4: Amim Knabben, VMware, CNCF Ambassador (GitHub: @knabben), amim.knabben@gmail.com
• [x] Organizer 5: Daniel Batubenga, Sidea Tecnologia, DevOps Engineer, Email: daniel.batubenga@gmail.com, Slack: @Daniel Batubenga

Terms

• [x] No other Kubernetes Community Day event in same major city (check with past organizers)
• [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 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] All inquiries / communication to come via GitHub (comment under your KCD issue) for easy tracking
• [x] All organizers have taken Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation (LFC102)
• [x] Agree to offer at least 3 complimentary tickets to increase diversity for the event
• [ ] Share the sponsor prospectus with CNCF via your GitHub issue, and link it on your website.
• [x] Agree to ensure the final program schedule is diverse (e.g., not all speakers of one gender, one culture, or from 1 or 2 of the same company). Here are some tips on how to create a diverse lineup.
• [x] Agree to submit your final lineup to kcd@cncf.io for review, prior to publishing it
• [x] Agree to use Cloud Native Community Groups for registration, scheduling, and event website. If using a platform outside of Bevy, organizers must provide CNCF with a full list of attendees. -- Regardless of your platform choice, please use these questions to create your registration form
• [ ] Agree to use SM to Apply for CFP and to close it at least 6 weeks before the event

Getting started checklist for organizers

• [x] Schedule monthly check-ins with KCD Core Organizer(s) (kcd@cncf.io)
• [ ] Minimum of 3 sponsors committed (not required for virtual only events) Sponsor 1 Sponsor 2 Sponsor 3
• [ ] Identified fiscal sponsor that can accept payments such as from sponsorships and pay out expenses Fiscal sponsor that will accept payments
• [x] Added usernames for CNCF Slack for all organizers so that we can add you to the #kcd-organizers channel
• [ ] Create a Twitter handle specific to your KCD event (except for countries like China and Korea where Twitter is not used)

Getting started checklist for CNCF:

• [x] Organizer email alias has been created: angola-africa@kubernetescommunitydays.org
• [x] Region created in Bevy
• [] Added to Bevy header
• [ ] CFP created in SMapply
• [ ] Marketing Plan shared

Organizer Planning Timeline

• [ ] Make a copy of this timeline based on whether your event is In-person, Hybrid, or Virtual and link your own spreadsheet here ().
• [ ] To assure you have a diverse lineup, you are required to send a copy of your program to kcd@cncf.io before you publish it.

Post event checklist for Organizer:

• [ ] Send CNCF event analytics
• [ ] Send CNCF videos to be uploaded to YouTube
• [ ] Link videos from YouTube to event page
• [ ] Post event survey sent out
• [ ] Schedule post mortem meeting

Post event checklist for CNCF:

• [ ] Removed from Bevy header
• [ ] CFP deactivated
• [ ] Upload videos to YouTube

[knabben]

Happy to help in the event organization!

/assign

[AudMonte01]

JULY 14 KICK-OFF MEETING NOTES

The Team

• Antonio (LFX mentee) -- Computer science and engineering student -- Mobile developer, contributing to OSS since 2021, 2022 best international contributor at a hackathon
• Paolo
• Daniel
• Mario (Tech Enthusiast) -- DevOps professional at the Institute of Administrative Modernization -- Independent

Learn about Luanda the city

• 7 hours ahead of Pacific Time
• Southern Africa
• High population, good food, and good whether
• Younger generation due to 50+ universities (more private) -- IT (30%), law, medicine -- https://www.isptec.co.ao is one of the largest and most prestigious
• Most professionals are closed source (not many contributors)

Content

• Plan to run a one-month mentorship program
• Introduction to open source and cloud native
• Hybrid: Livestreaming in-person sessions. Goal to broadcast the efforts and impact.
• Prominent language in Angola is Portuguese
• Possible speakers from Brazil

Action Items

• [ ] Organizers to explore venues like Universities
• [ ] Organizers to do research on CNCF and LF and external, regional events to not conflict with them

[antonio-pedro99]

Hi @AudMonte01, the one-month mentorship program is actually out of the scope for the KCD. This is another social project I am working with other peers. This project is called Angola Open-source Community, and we plan to run mentorships and workshops to introduce open-source and cloud native technologies in our community.

[AudMonte01]

MEETING NOTES

Date in March or April

• Tentative April 13 or 20

Potential venues

• Taking some time to explore further

CNCF Benefits

• Platform
• Training vouchers & CNCF store voucher
• Templates like logos

Action

• [x] Audra to create CNCF Slack channel for organizers
• [x] Audra to create email alias

[AudMonte01]

MEETING UPDATES

Venue

• [ ] Team to let Audra know official dates to give letter of recommendation, with projected 6 months in advance of April 13 or 20, and send to Mario (Kenny) --- Instituto Superior Politécnico de Tecnologias e Ciências ISPTEC
• [x] Audra to give team Bevy access with chapter

Sponsorships

• Team will search Open Collective for a fiscal sponsorship

[antonio-pedro99]

The KCD Angola will be happening in 2025. Will closed this issue and reopen it after a while.