 Mae'r ddechrau am ddull yn archwelio peithio cyffredinol. Mae cyffredin yn cyffredinol. Mae'r dweud yn Paul Okenody. Yn cyfërddau ym Chwmbrholiwyr Rydym yn Aelod Sint-Taso, mae'n cymdeithasr â mewn cyreu'r cyffredinol i bobl gyda'r platforma ac yn gatheru. Dyma y cysylltu bwyd, drwy'n ei fyddio mewn cyffredinol, sy'n cyffredinolol yn enwedig oedd ymdill, Oes iddyn nhw'n ei wneud gan y cyffredinol. A dyma rhaid i ni. But what's a CFP? A CFP stands for Call for Proposal. It's basically a form that you have to fill in with loads of information. It goes to a committee generally of volunteers, they're typically superheroes. They take some time, they have to read thousands of submissions and then they make a decision whether that talk fits or doesn't fit and then they let you know. How do you find one? Plastic answer, it depends. It depends on your community. It depends what you're interested in. I tend to spend a lot of time on Twitter even now. And so I look and see what people are talking at. There's CFP land, there's paper called IO. There's lots of different places that you can find where conferences are kind of advertising their CFPs. Local meetups are a good one as well. If you're looking for something that's a little bit more low key. What information will you need? Well, you need to provide a pretty standard set of information who you are, a quick biography, the talk title. That's the first thing people look for. So try and make it something catchy. The talk abstract has to have just enough detail so that people know what they're going to be getting. And there's quite often questions about what will the community get from your talk, what will the audience take away. That lets the committee know really what the talk is about. And once you've written this information, save it because you can use it over and over again for all the CFPs that you apply for. What should I talk about? The best talks I've seen are where people talk about something that they're passionate about, something that they care about. It could be something that you've learnt. It could be some failure stories. Sometimes when things go wrong, those are the best lessons that people are interested to be shared to hear about. If you're not sure, but there's an event that you like the look of, you can have a look at past talks and see what other talks have been about. And sometimes organisers will offer to answer questions. And if that's the case, you can contact the organisers and just ask what kind of talks would be the best for that conference. Why me? You might think that whatever thing is that you want to talk about, everyone's already talked about it before. There's probably thousands and thousands of talks about Kubernetes. But your story is different. No one's got the same experience that you have. No one's been on the same journey as you. And it might be that your story inspires someone else. It might be the one thing that answers a specific question. It might be the one thing that really motivates someone else to get up and tell their story. What if I'm too nervous? Well, everyone gets nervous. I get nervous all of the time. There's lots of advice out there for how you can overcome stage fright, how you can practice. Like I said, everyone gets nervous. What's in it for me? Well, fame, maybe. Fortune, probably not. Making connections. For me, the thing I love about public speaking is really getting to meet new people, getting to share stories, getting to basically think about something that I've learned and shared with other people. And the most motivating thing for me is when someone comes up to me and says, oh, that talk you gave, that really helped me. I love hearing that kind of feedback. What if I'm rejected? Well, I mean, I've been rejected from KubeCon five times, I think. This is my first ever KubeCon that I got accepted. So very exciting. Thank you. But it happens all the time. The thing with being rejected is it's not personal. Sometimes your talk doesn't quite fit. Maybe it's not quite the right story. Maybe it's the wrong format. You can't take it personally. If you get rejected from one place, submit somewhere else. You will find a place that your talk will fit. And if you are lucky, you can ask the kind of organisers why you got rejected, but be kind because those people reviewing those submissions, they get a lot of submissions. So if they do offer to give you feedback, take it, but don't be upset if they haven't got time to give feedback. What if I'm accepted? Well, this is when the panic really starts. My general process goes, celebration, panic. Then I write the talk. Then I rewrite the talk quite a few times. I count it at both ends until I'm completely panicked. Then I give the talk. Yay, great celebration. That's how my process normally goes. Any more advice? Well, be brave. Submit what's the worst that could happen. Right? If you like this talk, you can scan this code and give me some feedback. And I want to do a quick shout-out. I'm one of the co-organisers for Kubernetes Community Days UK. And we opened RCFP yesterday. Amazing coincidence. So if you'd like to submit to that, you can go to our website and submit to our talk. Thank you.