CNCF Cloud Native Sustainability Week 2023

The CNCF Global Week of Cloud Native Sustainability is an event organized by the CNCF TAG Environmental Sustainability and the wider Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) community to address the emerging topic of environmental sustainability in the cloud native industry and open source space. The event aims to engage with the community and IT industry as a whole, get a better understanding of the current environmental sustainability landscape, and promote collaboration and knowledge sharing on the topic.

During the second week of October 2023 (W41), the CNCF community groups around the globe will organize meetups in their cities with a focus on cloud native sustainability. These meetups can be organized by anyone interested in supporting the effort. Additionally, the CNCF Environmental Sustainability Technical Advisory Group (TAG ENV), will host a virtual meetup. The recordings of the virtual and recorded in person event will be uploaded to this playlist on YouTube.

Events

We will host 21 local meetups happening across 16 countries and 4 continents. Below, you see a visual representation of all the local meetups.

Local Meetups

Virtual Mini Conference on Oct.12

Virtual Mini Conference is a meetup organized by the CNCF Environmental Sustainability Technical Advisory Group (TAG ENV). It is a 2-hour event with presentations both from the community speakers and TAG ENV maintainers. You can find the event on the CNCF community page here. The recording can be found here.

Blog Posts

The blog posts will be published on the CNCF blog and on the TAG ENV blog.

Livestreams on YouTube by kubesimplify with Host Saiyam (Civo) and Divya (Suse)

Event Goals

1. Gain better insights into the current Cloud Native Sustainability Landscape: Engage with the community and IT industry as a whole to develop a deeper understanding of the Cloud Native Sustainability Landscape.
2. Identify knowledge gaps: Recognize domain areas for cloud native environmental sustainability where further exploration and knowledge sharing is needed.
3. Foster project collaboration: Encourage participants to actively collaborate on further development and improvement of existing projects and tools that pertain to the field of cloud native sustainability.
4. Raise awareness: Enhance awareness and knowledge sharing around the topic of cloud native environmental sustainability.
5. Promote TAG ENV and CNCF: Promoting the #tag-environmental-sustainability and raising awareness about the CNCF in general.
6. Survey: distributing a survey to gather information on end user adoption of cloud native sustainability.
7. Badges: providing badges from credly for organizers and potentially speakers.

This document describes the goals in more detail and the plan how we can achieve them.

Contact and Resources

Please reach out to us via the CNCF Slack workspace in the channel tag-env-sustainability, if you have any comments or questions. All resources are publicly accessible. If you are a meetup organizer, we have a tracking issue to collect input and questions.

• General Tracking Issue: https://github.com/cncf/tag-env-sustainability/issues/95
• General Meetup Organizer Guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s28lqqc3IBAMw4T7n13zfyAuUEEc3I4_xhPxCLA4_dk/edit?usp=sharing
• Milestone to track the event organization tasks: https://github.com/cncf/tag-env-sustainability/milestone/3
• Google Drive folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pdBQTxlpvDr0QFIuIpjfERau1IQNfdaX?ths=true

Acknowledgements ✨

The event is organized solely by volunteers who dedicate their spare time, making it a true community effort. Without the collective contributions of everyone involved, this event would not have been possible. Thank you to each and every community member for your support and contributions!

Special thanks to Kristina Devochko, Leonard Pahlke, Nancy Chauhan, Mercy Bamiduro and the wider TAG ENV community to help organise the event. Many thanks to all the local meetup organizers and the entire CNCF team for their support.