 Perfect. Well, welcome everyone to the September Marketing Committee meeting. I'm your host today, Katie Greenlee, and just a reminder for this call, this is all the information kind of how to participate and all of that. And then the next meeting will be October 4. As a reminder, this call will be recorded and you can find the slides in the Marketing Committee folder as well as the recordings on YouTube. And then just our LF antitrust policy. Let's make sure that we're keeping this civil and that we're working together and that we don't have to bring lawyers into it. Quick agenda. We're going to talk about the research update, some reminders and things for you to know about new project event guidelines in CubeCon China, some project updates, CNCF team updates, and then key takeaways. So kicking it off is the research update. And I believe that is Charlie. She was running behind. So she said just go on without her. I think her train was running late. Great. So just a quick overview. So we have our CNCF annual survey going on. We would really love your feedback and guidance for this 11th iteration. So if you can take some time to fill out that survey, we have a 25% off coupon for training inserts. So feel free to take that and help kind of guide that conversation for the cloud native industry. And then exciting news, the state of WebAssembly report is out. This goes live today. So take a chance read through that. There's a lot of really exciting data in here about wasm and how a cloud native is kind of a leading part of that. And then now open is the 2023 member and marketing surveys. We have all the surveys right now. So feel free to take the survey. We want to get your feedback on membership and marketing related benefits. You'll be entered to win $100 CNCF swag store gift card, or a bonus online program of your choosing so kind of cool giveaways there and responses are due September 15 so next Friday. Quick reminders that we have. We launched the project event guidelines for 2024. Let's see is Lindsay or Vanessa on the call. Yeah, I'm here Katie. Hi Vanessa. Good afternoon. Update on our project event guidelines. If you are a project maintainer tag or say and you're hoping are looking to hold an event CNCP host event in 2024 check out our updated guidelines. And we've got some great FAQs on the website. And if you're interested in hosting an event make sure you submit your request for to hold an event through the proposal form there's a link here. We have two upcoming deadlines if you're interested in co-locating with cube con Europe 2024 or open source summit North America 2024. The proposal deadline is Monday October 2, and the notifications for both of those events will go out the week of October 16. We have one quick question. Did anything major change in the guidelines. We did have some new changes within the guidelines so we are now offering a few different tiered options so there is a standalone project event and and what qualifies what projects qualify for that. That kind of offering and what is required to be able to take part in the offering. We have the co located in person standalone or in person events and what projects are able to take part of those as well as what requirements they have to be in order to be considered for those. That offering and then the last is we added on a virtual component for events and again what what projects can take part of that so I really do encourage all of you taking time and looking at those guidelines. Reviewing what your projects what your tags can take part in for 2024. And then if you have any questions reaching out to the events team. It's there on the FAQ, the correct email address and Vanessa if you have it handy if you can drop it in the chat that would be great I know it's color I think it's colors. I'll drop it in there. Yeah, it's a long one. It's a long one. So if you have any questions that's the right. And just to clarify these are these are project benefits specific to events the other projects like the maintainers project benefits like the maintainer session. And hosting a project meeting during cube con, having a kiosk during cube con. Those are, those are still happening and they're just not included in this specific deck here and guidelines these are these guidelines are very specific to holding an event like a co located event or standalone event. And just a reminder that cube con planning upon an open source summit China is happening this month, September 26 through the 28th register now and tell a friend and come join us it's going to be a great program. So a few project updates, I'm going to kick this over to Lori and George. Thank you so much. So I think a lot of you know that I am 100% behind our projects and trying to get the word out and I feel like I've kind of flubbed a little bit as chair of the marketing committee so it's nice when things kind of come together even though they might take a while so George and Katie have really been able to us kicking off this projects working group so based on the CNCF maintainer survey you can see projects are largely satisfied, but want help with community and user engagement, intra project collaboration and understanding CNCF resources for And so we kind of took a hold of that last one and are really trying to work together to create a working group to make things clear and easier for projects to get the help and the resources they need. Next slide please. So we have a project marketing working group. There is a Slack channel that y'all are welcome to join we'd love to have you. We will have a bi-monthly meeting to kick us off and get us started so if you can't make the first one hopefully can make the second. We just kind of wanted to make it very flexible for those will try we haven't gotten our dates lined up yet but we're really excited because we want to get our hands dirty, and really help the projects move forward. And the first initiative we have is what we're calling our project feedback session. And basically we have like three questions we want to know like, what is working, where can we improve and what is going to be most beneficial. And so there's 170 plus projects or George you can correct me on how many there actually are. But the thing is there's some everybody know about and there's 172. Thank you, George. And there are some that are just kind of stuck in this like land of I want people to know I want more end users I want more contributors I want more maintainers and I don't know how to get there. And that's sort of the basis of this working group. So, the feedback session will have two will have one for a pack and then one for North America Amia so on September 26 that 8pm Pacific and the 27th at 8am Pacific So please share these links with anybody that you know in the community that works on a project that you think would want to hear what other projects have to say and would like to raise their hand and give a voice to kind of what some of the things that they're experiencing as part of the CNCF. Next slide please. So Katie, like in the middle of our meeting she's like oh I have something I want to show you guys and I was super stoked George was super stoked the ability to have this in a template form is awesome so it's brand new project collateral and you might think well, didn't they have this before. No, they didn't like thank you Katie and the team that you worked with to make this happen. And what is this is something that is so simple yet can be so hard for people to create right when you think of like how you pitch. It's like how do you get this down in 30 seconds to tell people who I am and what I want. So this is sort of what this one pager is it's easily reproducible right so you can get this imprint for an event or you can transform this into a web page. It's clean, it's easy to read. It's stylized and the main thing is all the high level information that you need if you're curious about a project is created and in a nice easy to read location on this one pager so this is like, I think the beginnings of some really cool stuff that we can do. This marketing committee is huge and you all have special backgrounds and things that you specialize in so if you're interested in being a part of the working group of something like this you're like oh I have an idea of something else that we could do that might be beneficial. I would love to have you again, you can join the slack group, you can slack me slack George slack Katie will add you can't find it no big deal, but this is just like one of those things that if you're a project and you're just trying to like code, you're trying to get the community involved and you're just kind of lost in the process, something like this really can help you out and the goal is to create more things like this that are templated and easy to maintain easy to update. And again, the feedback session is to find out what other things you know can projects do and I would love for the working group to kind of like keep going you know and just find more initiatives and find more stuff so Chris thank you for that feedback see Katie, and yeah so I'm babbling and I'm going to stop and hand it back over to Katie. Oh, one more thing. Okay, my bad. So this is awesome. So, back to projects and the marketing committee, like, this is the awesome idea. The marketing committee is joining with the projects team for a mingle at cube con. Oh, and we have the information awesome. So it's Monday, November six. So it's the beginning of the week y'all so no excuses. It's at a time where you will not be like competing with the big big parties. Again, no excuses. So four to five at the merit marquee, like, I highly recommend that you go this is an awesome opportunity for all of us to meet but also to meet the projects that the CNC have supports that our company is supporting and meet people boots on the ground, all that good stuff. So love to see you there. Thank you so much for the calendars like the slide says RSV coming soon. Super stoked. And now I'll shut up. Thanks Laurie. That was a great update on projects I'm excited to see the growth that we're going to be able to do and awareness that will bring with that working group. We're excited to announce a few new members at the silver level so welcome to all those members that are joining us hopefully they're joining us today if not they'll be joining us in the coming weeks and feel free to say, say hi to them when you see them. And now I'm going to kick it over to the PR team I believe Katie you're on the call if you want to take us off with those updates. Yeah, definitely. So first up we have our August feature article. And last month was a pretty busy month for project updates. So this article and silver linings nicely highlights all the project movement that we had from Istio graduation to cry oh cute flow and some news from flux as well. And then we also in August announced for conference schedules for our upcoming shows. So if you're thinking about attending any of these and haven't had a look at the schedule yet definitely go and take a look. And then continuing on project news, the notary project and that's its first major release, which got some press interest. And then we also announced the graduation of Keita so we worked with the maintainers there for some press interviews. And finally we have the Kubernetes 1.28 release, which is always exciting. We worked with the release lead there to connector with media and saw some really nice coverage come out of that one as well. And I'll go ahead and hand it over to the AR team. Great. Thank you. Yeah, and the gardener side of things. Hype cycles are coming to an end. As we come to the late summer cloud native is at the peak of native expectations this year. Front runner and emergency technologies, and it was included in 54% of hype cycles, which is absolutely massive. So the great tailwind behind everything cloud native technologies right now. So there's some great news there. We're not only seeing, if you want to hop to the next slide. Thank you. Yeah, we're not only seeing cloud native being extremely hypey and Gartner other large research firms that we've been tracking are also mentioning cloud native and their research. Here's a great quote by William Fellows, the principal analyst over at four or five one research organizations to invest in cloud native broadly expected deep in their commitments with these practices, spreading a greater portion of their applications over the next several years. So just great great research coming out of both forster and four or five one on cloud native and how cloud native continues to grow and is expected to become ubiquitous over the next five to 10 years. I want to hop to the next slide. Thank you. Yeah, and I just wanted to highlight a few more reports here. Obviously, if you have time, you can click through into those reports if you have subscription access. But I also just wanted to highlight and congratulate everyone who got mentioned in the service mess report that came out of from give a giga. That was fantastic. And there's quite a few projects got got mentioned in that research. So that's always a fun one to see out of every that to see come out every year. But so far that's about all we saw for it's always off for August. Thank you. Thanks PR and AR team. Awesome work as always. I'm going to kick it over to Libby for some online programs updates. Hey y'all. Okay, so August we saw lots of great on demand webinars and live streams. We also had a live webinar. All of our viewership is trending still the same and upwards. I think the biggest note to take away for this month is that the Q4 dates for the calendar will open on September 20. So everyone mark your calendars. We will send an email and we'll send a slack message but be ready to book through the rest of the year on all your online programs. Additionally, we're seeing some increase in the click rate on our cube weekly newsletter we're continuing to get great content for that. So keep sending your articles in and sending us your announcements and tweets and everything you want to have included there to cube weekly at CNCF.io. Join us yet. Charlie is not on yet but Chris he's going to jump in and take these few slides for her. Yeah, hey everyone. Greetings from Bellevue. If you are at Wasm Cotton that's where I am hopefully you'll swing by the CNCF booth and say hi. I am not Charlie obviously but I will do my best to just pretend I have a better accent. Here's just a recap of our end user case studies that came out this month or in August. There's one with Meltwater and SVA. Again, this is a member benefit to submit an end user case studies. An end user is someone that we defined who doesn't sell cloud native services. So someone that maybe as a customer of yours or that you're partnering with who's using projects or CNCF or open source in general. There's more information in here, but just to highlight these two it's really exciting to see them come out and next slide. And then here's just a recap of the CNCF blog. A reminder that you can access this analytics dashboard on your own. I think the link is in here. Yeah, the CNCF analytics link there. It looks like there were 1269 views for August. It looks like there were some some dips there to be expected for August being a quiet month and a lot of people going on vacation and doing other things besides reading the blog. But it looks like Docker on Mac OS is slow and how to fix it was the top August blog and it's interesting that that was published back in February so again you can submit to the CNCF blog as well. There's information in the back of the deck if you're new and you don't know how that process works and we can also reach out to our blog alias for more information but again really great to see that content there. And a little highlight on our humans of cloud native. This is humanizing all the wonderful people in our community we've got a great blog series going. A couple published this month with Kunal, Annie and Guy, really exciting to see all of them be highlighted if you're interested in learning more about their story how they got involved in cloud native and what they're doing. I highly encourage you to read these spotlights they're really fun. As Charlie mentioned in here the pipeline is fully booked through KubeCon Chicago, but you can still nominate people so if you have someone that you work with or that you know through the community that you want to nominate please reach out to the alias. At KubeCon in Amsterdam Charlie did a ton of interviews there I think she might be doing something similar so again we would love your nominations to keep this program going and highlight all the wonderful humans that are in our community. And that's it I think it goes back to you Katie for community stuff. Thank you, Christy. So quick update ambassador program fall ambassador program applications are open until this Sunday, September 10. So if you or someone you work with or someone in your community. We are doing great things within the cloud native space please encourage them to check out our requirements and guidelines and to fill out an application to become a fall ambassador for fall ambassador. Quick update on Q CDs. We have completed 21 Q CDs for the year we have 10 in progress for the remainder of 2023 and 14 that have signed up for 2024. So quick update for CFP KCD Denmark is open till September 14. And then we have a lovely program for the remainder of September. We encourage you to check those. If you're local to check those Q CDs out. If not, a lot of them have been posting their talks to YouTube and we have those updated on our Q CD page on the CNCF website. And then check out our upcoming CNCG is our cloud native community groups. There's a lot of meetups happening here in the community. We've seen huge growth for the year. So if you're not able to make a KCD, feel free to check out a local chapter in your area. And then I'm going to kick this on over to Vanessa. Thanks Katie. Okay, a few event reminders and updates of what GRPC conference is taking place September 20 in Sunnyvale at the Google campus. There's still time to register. Check out the schedule if you haven't already. And I apologize. I'm not going to go into China quite yet. We I forgot to include a slide about prom con, which is taking place in Berlin September 28 and 29. I just shared the link in the chat window. Please, if you're interested in attending please register today. Also, we have cube con China coming up as Katie mentioned earlier, September 26 to the 28 and Shanghai. Please register if you haven't already. We have one CNCF hosted co located event. Taking place which is Istio con. We'll share some more details in a couple of slides here, as well as some sponsor hosted colos. And Istio con is, it's actually a two part event we've got an in person component and a hybrid or I'm sorry a virtual component. The virtual component is taking place on Monday, September 25. And as well as Tuesday, September 26. And then there's an in person component taking place in Shanghai on September 26. So if you're interested in attending either in person or virtual. You can register for the event today. We also have for sponsor hosted events coming up in China we have one summit regional day hosted by LF networking and LF edge open JS world hosted by the open JS foundation cloud native open day hosted by Ali Baba cloud and the global open source innovation meetup. So if you're interested in attending any of those you can add it onto your cube con China registration. And as everybody knows cube con North America is right around the corner. The schedule is live we announced it last week if you haven't had the chance to check it out you can find the link there. We have plenty of hotel availability so don't wait our hotel room blocks tend to book up. So if you haven't booked your rooms make sure to do that soon. Our standard registration deadline is coming up on Friday, September 8. So take advantage of that discounted rate and register this week. The last couple of slides are the CNC have hosted co located events taking place in Chicago on November 6. Sponsorship clothes, the deadline to sponsor is September 20. If you're interested you still have time and the schedule for all of these co located events will be announced next Monday September 11. One more slide. And then we also have a series of sponsor hosted co located events. These are events that will take be taking place off site on November 6. If you're interested in attending one of these events, you can add it on to your cube con registration they are not included in the cube con all access pass. And then just a quick update here on the project opportunities we have 38 projects that are going to be hosting a project working session we have 62 projects that will have a kiosk on site in the solution showcase. We will be releasing the that schedule here in the next few weeks so we'll have an update shortly on that but we've got another great turnout of projects participating on site in Chicago. We also have another event that we just announced get ops con Europe this is going to be a virtual event taking place December 5 and 6 in the central European time zone. Sponsorships are available the deadline for a signed contract is November 20. Registration is coming soon, and the CFP is open so if you're interested in speaking you have time to submit your talk. The deadline is October 4. We also have two additional cube days coming up cube day India cube day Singapore. The sponsor deadline for both events is November 3. The early bird registration for both events ends on October 13. And the CFPs for both are still open they close on September 18. So if you haven't had a chance to submit there's still time. And then moving on to 2024. We're going to be releasing the sponsorship prospectus for cube con Europe and North America. We have a new item for next year. There will no longer be a diamond lottery. So diamond sponsorships for both cube con Europe and North America will be sold on a first come first serve basis. So watch for an email that comes out on the 11th with a link to the prospectus and all the instructions for MPOs and things like that. If you have any questions you can email sponsor at CNCF.io. Thanks everybody. Thanks Vanessa what exciting events we have coming up it's going to be a packed fall schedule so we're excited to see everyone at either all those events or some of those events. I'm going to kick it over to Christie to talk about training and certifications. Awesome and just a quick note on the prospectus for 2024 you will be receiving an email through the marketing committee alias as well as the membership list should be going out if you hasn't gone out already this morning coming from me that has a summary of all those dates so if you need to forward it to someone on your team or I get things organized all the info will be there. Just a high level overview of our training inserts in the back half of the slides. You know we offer a lot of training that can be kind of the gateway to expanding your knowledge within cloud native so just an update here on some of the courses and different registrations and enrollments and you can go ahead and go to the next slide please. And then here is a update on CK interesting to see there was a slight increase in August lots of folks may be getting together and spending their summer expanding their learning which is great I wish I was doing that. Next slide. And again, seeing continued growth in the CK as as well. Next slide. And the CK AD. Yeah, so training just continues to grow. If you have any questions about these training programs their certifications and trainings and what that means there's information here in the slides but you can also reach out to Christoph on our team who leads training and go ahead and go to the next slide. And then also an increase in the CK and a, and I think the last one is the Prometheus certification as well. Yeah, so lots of training growth over the summer which is really exciting to see. Again, if you do take the annual survey you do get a training discount 25% off so another great opportunity to leverage some of these programs. And I think that's, that's it. Okay, awesome. So just at the back of the slide here we're trying something new. Just wanted to bubble up some key takeaways from this meeting I know there's a lot of slides in here. There's a lot of information we're throwing at you. And this doesn't even cover it but we try as a team to kind of bubble up the top three to five things. So make sure you take the member and marketing survey to take, check out the state of WebAssembly report that comes out today, register of course for KubeCon China and or North America and all the other events that are coming along. And then share your cloud native journey with us by taking the annual survey. And then just one thing to get on your radar thinking ahead we're in October we're going to be talking about the road to KubeCon. We always do that the month before the event. So if you have a tip or trick to share about attending KubeCon it could be for the first time or maybe from a sponsor perspective or something fun you've done in your booth or a fun story you want to share. Share it with us we'd love to have some volunteers in the next meeting to kind of talk about how to make your KubeCon the best one yet. And with that I think it takes us through to the end yay with time to spare. So just in the back half here, we have some appendix slides as well that kind of go over your membership benefits, as well as where you can find this the slides are lovely acquisition slide as always and then resources as we talked about but that takes us through all positive see if there's any other questions in the chat or anything. I think we're good and we get to give people time back. Well, thank you everyone thank you Katie and Libby for running the, running the deck and the recording today and hope everybody has a great rest of the day. Thanks everybody. Bye.