KCD Nigeria 2025

[thisisobate]

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: Lagos, Nigeria
• [x] Event Date and Time: TBD
• [x] Expected Number of Attendees: 500
• [x] Event cost per ticket: Free

  Event type:

• [ ] Virtual
• [x] Hybrid
• [ ] 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: Uchechukwu Obasi, CNCF, Developer Advocate, obasiuche62@gmail.com, @uche
• [x] Organizer 2: Ileriayo Adebiyi, Container Solutions, Cloud Nate Engineer, ileriayoadebiyi@gmail.com
• [x] Organizer 3: Edidiong Asikpo, Ambassador Labs, Senior Developer Advocate, edidiongasikpo@gmail.com
• [x] Organizer 4: Somtochi Onyekwere, Weaveworks, Developer Experience Engineer, somtochionyekwere@gmail.com

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
• [ ] 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
• [ ] All organizers agree to follow the event guidelines and CNCF Code of Conduct
• [ ] 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)
• [ ] 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.
• [ ] 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.
• [ ] Agree to submit your final lineup to kcd@cncf.io for review, prior to publishing it
• [ ] 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 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
• [ ] 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: organizers-nigeria@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
• [ ] 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

[antonio-pedro99]

@thisisobate Hi. Why this event is called KCD Africa?

[thisisobate]

It's called KCD Africa because it's a community group event under the CNCF. KCD which stands for Kubernetes Community Days is a community-organized event that gathers adopters and technologists from open-source and cloud-native communities to learn, collaborate, and network to further advancement in Kubernetes and other Cloud Native technologies. Our goal with KCD Africa is to spur interest in DevSecOps and the cloud native ecosystem while showcasing people and enterprises already invested in those technologies in Africa. @antonio-pedro99

[antonio-pedro99]

@thisisobate I understood this, but why Africa and not specifically Nigeria or wherever the event is going to happen? I am saying this because we have KCD Angola(#486), which is also in Africa.

[AudMonte01]

Yes, @thisisobate - due to there already being another KCD in Africa in the planning phases, we will need to name this one by city just like Angola.

Also, September 22-23 seems quite soon because:

• We recommend the full schedule be released at least 6 weeks ahead of the event
• Two weeks prior to the agenda release, is reviewing and then time for speakers to affirm their acceptance
• Ahead of that the call for proposals (CFP) should be open for at least 1 month

All of this cannot begin until a venue is secured, which is really what will determine your dates. Let's have a call to discuss this further: https://calendly.com/audmonte/kcd-onboarding-kickoff-call

[thisisobate]

Yes...I agree with both of you @antonio-pedro99 @AudMonte01 I think it's time for us to name it by city just like Angola.

Happy to discuss further about our prep plans @AudMonte01

[AudMonte01]

JULY 20 KICK-OFF MEETING

History

• 2022 was going to be hybrid and went virtual last-minute due to lack of sponsorships
• 2021 had over 650 registrations and about 50% check-in rate
• Used Open Collective platform account for fiscal sponsorship

Budget

• Rough budget of $4,000 USD for the entire event -- $475 USD for one of the venue
• Audra to sent Uche sponsorship template in Canva

Goal

• NOTE: Lagos is a tech hub in Africa
• 2-day event w/ 1st day virtual and and 2nd day is in-person
• Virtual goal would be 350
• In-person attendee goal will be goal of 150 (looking to stream)

Action Items

• [x] Uche looking into Open Collective account
• [x] @k8tgreenley please create an email alias for these organizers
• [x] Audra to create organizer private slack channel

Feedback

• Eventbrite is used in Nigeria, but tickets will be free this year

[k8tgreenley]

Here is the email alias: organizers-nigeria@kubernetescommunitydays.org

[AudMonte01]

AUGUST 4 MEETING NOTES

New event dates

• Google Dev Fest is either Nov or Dec (Edi to reach out to organizers)

Potential Venue

• Zone Tech Park
• Uche looking into Open Collective account, but seems active based on monthly emails

Sponsorships

• Uche is helping with sponsorship deck
• Will engage with Grafana labs marketing team
• GitLab is next on the list

[AudMonte01]

AUGUST 25 MEETING NOTES

Timing

• Google Dev Fest is November 24 & 25
• The venue (Zone Tech) the team is interested in is the most popular venue Lagos, so they should have secured it by now
• Alternative venue is not as popular as zone Tech, but Ileriayo has a good relationship with the event team
• Looking into 1 & 2 or 8 & 9 to avoid holiday weeks

Content

• September 8 CFP open date and leave open for 1 month, and give team 1 week to review proposals, send acceptances and give speakers 1 week for confirming their acceptances.

Sponsorships

• Prospectus is done, but needs venue in there. Will put dates as "first week of December"
• Inquired with Grafana Labs thus far
• [x] Audra to look into Red Hat as a sponsor once the prospectus is ready

[AudMonte01]

OCTOBER 6 MEETING NOTES

Having a hard time with sponsorships

• Most have already spent their budget for the year
• Ileri and Uche are okay with postponing to next year in the 2nd quarter
• [x] Ileri and Uche will touch base with Somto and Edi for opinions on a new date

[AudMonte01]

NOVEMBER 29 MEETING UPDATES

Venue

• Co-location with OSCAFEST? Edi is a co-organizer -- Event will occur dependent on sponsorships. Likely to happen, but not 100% -- Conversation with that organizing team will happen in December/January

Community Activity

• Ileriayo working in the Lagos chapter hosting meetups

[AudMonte01]

CNCF SYNC on FEBRUARY 27

Team assignments will come when OSCAFEST comes together to start planning

Logo

• Audra shared examples from other KCDs
• Audra shared raw files with team to build out their logo
• [ ] Team to either put together their logo or reach out to kcd@cncf.io to leverage the LF Creative team

Sponsorships

• Still would like to approach RedHat
• Isovalent would be great sponsor
• [x] Uche to have OSCAFEST organizer reach out to CNCF events team with their sponsor prospectus to inquire about sponsoring the 3rd-party event