Unconference Session: The Happy Circle: Maintainers and End Users
summary
Nine months of running the CNCF end‑user program surfaces concrete playbooks: ask projects for meetings, get your logo onto adopters.md, coauthor a reference architecture or case study to earn stage time, and show up at the project pavilion and colo days. End users rarely have hireable maintainer time but contribute via advocacy and prioritized bug asks; KubeCon CFP acceptance is about 11%, so joint CFPs help. CNCF is using LFX insights and pilot reference architectures to map real stacks and connect maintainers and adopters.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:06Happy circle: maintainers and users
- 6:15Users contributing to projects
- 9:44CNCF resources for users
- 13:57Professionalizing user relationships
- 17:49DevEx vs UX challenges
- 24:08Making meetings useful for users
- 25:53Communication barriers for users
- 27:41Vertical-specific user programs
- 29:28Finding adopters for sandbox
- 31:41Connecting at events
- 33:46Q&A
