HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL

We have done our best to make the submission process as simple as possible. Here is what you will need to prepare:

1. Choose a submission format:

• Solo Presentation: 35-minute presentation, limited to 1 speaker
• Dual Presentation: 35-minute presentation, limited to 2 speakers
• Lightning Talk: A brief, 5-minute presentation, maximum of 1 speaker
• Panel: 35 minutes of discussion amongst 2 to 5 speakers
• Tutorial: 90-minute, in-depth, hands-on presentation with 1–4 speakers

Note: All submissions with 3–5 speakers are required to have at least one speaker that is a woman and the speakers must not all be from the same company.

2. Choose which CNCF hosted software your presentation will be focused on (Choose all that apply):

• containerd (Graduated)
• CoreDNS (Graduated)
• Envoy (Graduated)
• Fluentd (Graduated)
• Kubernetes (Graduated)
• Prometheus (Graduated)
• CNI (Incubating)
• CRI-O (Incubating)
• etcd (Incubating)
• gRPC (Incubating)
• Harbor (Incubating)
• Helm (Incubating)
• Jaeger (Incubating)
• Linkerd (Incubating)
• NATS (Incubating)
• Notary (Incubating)
• Open Policy Agent (Incubating)
• OpenTracing (Incubating)
• Rook (Incubating)
• TiKV (Incubating)
• TUF (Incubating)
• Vitess (Incubating)
• Brigade (Sandbox)
• Buildpacks (Sandbox)
• CloudEvents (Sandbox)
• Cortex (Sandbox)
• Dragonfly (Sandbox)
• Falco (Sandbox)
• KubeEdge (Sandbox)
• Network Service Mesh (Sandbox)
• OpenEBS (Sandbox)
• OpenMetrics (Sandbox)
• OpenTelemetry (Sandbox)
• SPIFFE (Sandbox)
• SPIRE (Sandbox)
• Telepresence (Sandbox)
• Thanos (Sandbox)
• Virtual Kubelet (Sandbox)

Note: Final tracks for the conference will be based on accepted submissions.

3. Choose a topic to narrow down the focus:

• Application & Development (includes Brigade, Helm & Telepresence)
• Case studies
• CI/CD
• Community
• Customizing & Extending Kubernetes
• Machine Learning & Data
• Networking (includes KubeEdge, NATS, CoreDNS, CNI, gRPC, & Network Service Mesh)
• Observability (includes Prometheus, Jaeger, Fluentd, Cortex, OpenTelementry, Thanos, & OpenTracing)
• Operations
• Performance
• Runtimes (includes containerd & CRI-O)
• Security, Identity & Policy (includes Notary, OPA, SPIFFE/SPIRE, and TUF)
• Serverless (includes CloudEvents)
• Service Mesh (includes Envoy, & Linkerd)
• Storage (includes Vitess, OpenEBS & Rook)

4. Provide a detailed and focused description with a max of 900 characters. This is what will be used on the online schedule if your talk is accepted.
5. Provide more in-depth information in the “Benefits to the Ecosystem” section. This is your opportunity to elaborate on your content and share any more details with the committee with a max of 1,500 characters.
6. Provide a biography for all speakers, including previous speaking experience.
7. Provide resources to enhance your proposal. These can be videos of you or your speakers presenting elsewhere, links to personal websites (including LinkedIn), links to your open source projects, or published books.
8. If you choose to submit a tutorial please explicitly mention what the audience will learn from or walk away with after attending your session. Additionally, please indicate what prerequisites (if any) are needed for the attendee to know prior to attending, and if any materials should be brought with them or downloaded ahead of time (i.e. must install Python 2.7.15) prior to attending.

SAMPLE SUBMISSION

Your abstract will be the cornerstone of your proposal.

This is your chance to *sell* your talk to the program committee, so do your best to highlight the problem/contribution/work that you are addressing in your presentation. The technical details are still important, but the relevance of what you are presenting will help the program committee during the selection process.

This is the abstract that will be posted on the website schedule, so please ensure that it is in complete sentences (and not just bullet points), free of typos and that it is written in the third person (use your name instead of “I”).

Example:

Kernel Weather Report (Jon Corbet, LWN.net) – The Linux kernel is at the core of any Linux system; the performance and capabilities of the kernel will, in the end, place an upper bound on what the system can do as a whole. In this presentation, Jon Corbet will review recent events in the kernel development community, discuss the current state of the kernel, the challenges it faces, and look forward to how the kernel may address those challenges.

Scoring Guidelines

To help you further understand what is considered while the program committee and co-chairs are reviewing your proposal, please review the Scoring Guidelines and Best Practices page.

TRAVEL SUPPORT + SPEAKERS PASSES

If you require travel support, you will be given the chance to apply for travel funding upon acceptance. Only speakers whose talks are accepted will be considered for travel funding.

All accepted speakers and panelists will receive a complimentary conference pass.

CODE OF CONDUCT

The Linux Foundation and its project communities are dedicated to providing a  harassment-free experience for participants at all of our events. We encourage all submitters to review our complete Code of Conduct.