KCD Kolkata 2025

[sandipanpanda]

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: Kolkata, India [Venue TBD]
• [ ] Event Date and Time: 2025 [Date TBD]
• [ ] Expected Number of Attendees:
• [ ] Event cost per ticket, and if you will have early bird pricing or not: TBD

  Event type:

• [ ] Virtual
• [ ] Hybrid
• [x] In person

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

• [x] Organizer 1: Sandipan Panda, Independent, CNCF Slack Username - Sandipan Panda
• [x] Organizer 2: Anurag Kumar, Independent, CNCF Ambassador, kranurag7@linux.com, CNCF Slack Username - Anurag
• [ ] Organizer 3: First and Last Name, Company, Title, Email, CNCF Slack Username

Terms

• [x] No other Kubernetes Community Day event in same major city (check with past organizers)
• [ ] Minimum of 3 organizers from 3 different organizations
• [ ] Every organizer has an account on Cloud Native Community Groups
• [ ] Each organizer lives in or just outside of the KCD location
• [ ] 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
• [ ] 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
• [x] 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
• [x] Agree to use SM Apply for CFP and to close it at least 6 weeks before the event

Getting started checklist for organizers

• [ ] 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
• [ ] 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)

Getting started checklist for CNCF:

• [ ] Organizer email alias has been created
• [ ] 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
• [ ] Schedule post mortem meeting
• [ ] Send CNCF videos to be uploaded to YouTube
• [ ] Link videos from YouTube to event page
• [ ] Post event survey sent out

Post event checklist for CNCF:

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

[kcdkolkataorg]

We plan to use kcdkolkata@gmail.com for all official communications until an organizer email alias has been created by CNCF. CNCF Slack Username - KCD Kolkata Cloud Native Community Groups profile - https://community.cncf.io/u/mpwrs5/ Twitter handle - @kcdkolkata

[Rajdeep1311]

I would love to be a volunteer for the event

[money8203]

@sandipanpanda hit me up if you need any help in organizing the event!

[prithvi1307]

Happy to help organizing this @kcdkolkataorg

[ronitblenz]

@sandipanpanda @money8203 @prithvi1307 @AudMonte01

Can we shift this to 2025 year end? Will be more than happy to organise KCD Kolkata.

[AudMonte01]

Hello @ronitblenz - please do adjust the above issue to be a request for 2025, and we will review it. Thank you.

[AudMonte01]

Thank you for your submission - we are now ready to accept official applications via Survey Monkey. The deadline for submissions will be Wednesday September 11 at 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time. More information and the application can be found via https://www.cncf.io/kcds/application/. This GitHub issue is now closed. Should your KCD be accepted into the 2025 program, a core CNCF staff member will open a new issue for program tracking and transparency.