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The Kubernetes & CNCF Bulgaria meetup requested a TF speaker for 2/28, but we passed on this because we couldn’t find a speaker in time. *They would welcome a speaker at a later meeting.
Prague Containers Meetup - open to having a speaker, requested abstract and availability. No response to request for speakers on Slack and dev email list.
Cloud Native London - interested in a service mesh presentation.
OSN User Group in Moscow is interested hosting a TF presenter at an upcoming meetup in May or June. Alex's team unable to to this. If no other options, we will need to decline.
***Bay Area Cloud-Native Open Infrastructure Meetup would like a service mesh presentation ("the best security of both worlds" demo) and has asked if Juniper will host/provide speaker/select date. Organizer Lisa Namphy also suggests partnering with Henrik (from NeuVector), who is interested in sponsoring an Istio meetup. Perhaps partner up to help mitigate costs and organizational effort. Chaitanya? Possible dates: April 2-4, April 23-25, May 14-16, May 21-23.
***Sat Melbourne Cloud Native Kubernetes Lab by SatXDesign Seeks speaker for 16th or 30th March, 9am - 1pm Australian Eastern Std Time. rajeev.arora.au@gmail.com JF emailed Diogo Montager, Jupiter employee in Melbourne, 2/28.
Meetup Outreach
DFW: email to Qasim Arham, no response
Bay Area:
Bay Area OSNUG - email sent
Bay Area Kubernetes Meetup - email sent
San Francisco Cloud Mafia - email sent
SF Bay Area Microservices and Cloud-Native Apps Meetup - email sent
Will contact Sujata’s Out of the Box Networking meetup for a service mesh presentation ("At-scale cluster load balancing" demo) or an SDN lab that could perhaps be hosted at Intel
Canada:Maddison pursuing opportunities (will have updates in Q2)
Toronto - which Juniper's Geoff Sullivan helps coordinate
Montreal - which CloudOps coordinates
Ottawa - which CENGN coordinates
Other:
Marta keeping an eye out for opportunities for Codilime to offer speakers
Discuss how to get speakers committed faster.
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