The Linux Foundation's Latest Puff Pieces (KubeCon + CloudNativeCon)
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Three insights you might have missed from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon [Ed: Sponsored junk]
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Looking back on KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2022
At the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's flagship KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference, held in Detroit from Oct. 24-28, 2022, the over 290 sponsors and almost 8,000 attendees who showed up in person said "yes."
CNCF executive director Priyanka Sharma kicked off the keynote with the new Humans of Cloud Native project. Highlights included the CNCF's growth, with its 176,362 contributors, over 1,000 maintainers and 7 million developers. The growth included an increase of 172 end users and 835 members, according to Sharma.
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Kubernetes and the open-source maintainer question[Ed: Sponsored junk; same media outlet as the above]
While much of last month’s KubeCon-CloudNativeCon North America was focused on specific software projects, case studies and tech challenges, there was a discernible undercurrent of concern. And it wasn’t just about specific projects, it was to do with keeping the open-source movement going as a whole.
The key words here were ‘contributors’ and ‘maintainers’. These are the people who keep projects alive and well, the former by contributing ideas and code, and the latter by pulling it all together and managing the project.