Apart from enjoying the amazing views from the 11th floor, we got to hear great talks from:
Arsh Sharma from Okteto
Álvaro Sánchez-Mariscal Arnaiz from Oracle
Álvaro Hernández Tortosa from OnGres (don’t forget- I’ll be hosting Postgres Ibiza on August 29-31st- CFP closes on June 30th so get yours in. More info- https://pgibz.io/)
Community/DevRel panel with Guillermo Ruiz, Francis Santiago, Xavier Portilla Edo, David Gómez García, Jorge Barrachina Gutiérrez (finally got a copy of his book!)
The community vibe is strong- curiosity, questions, welcoming atmosphere, snacks (Arsh will be bringing lots of Risketos back with him to India), connecting with community legends like Bilbostack co-organizer Asier Marqués.
To top it off, got to meet Luis Maria Horvath Mayor for the first time. We live an hour away from each other, know people in common through the Euskal Encounter (cc: Imanol Obaldia Sanz) and he took the time to 3D print my name.
Community work is hard, but you can’t put a price on spontaneous acts of kindness.
Hope you enjoy watching the video as much as I did recording it.
In Bilbao, the local vibe is deeply rooted in “Go big or go home,” and that’s what we stuck to in the first Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Bilbao Meetup.
Thanks to Iraia Monteagudo and INNOLAB Bilbao for letting us use their event space to host this first (of many) Cloud Native gatherings.
People all over the world have seen Angel López de Luzuriaga incredible art bringing technical concepts to life, but it was the first time he gave a talk about his experience in the Cloud Native ecosystem. He created drawings on the spot for all of the speakers and as always, did so with pizazz.
The meetup featured talks from six others- my fellow CNCF Ambassador Jorge Turrado Ferrero, Cortney Nickerson from Monokle by Kubeshop, Victor Martinez Bahillo from Auctane, David Lorite Solanas from Sysdig, David López Becerra from SALTO Systems, and last but not least Arie van den Bos from Kurago.
Excellent content, conversations, and networking. Mark your calendars for September 7th when we’ll be hosting the next one!
In less than a minute you’ll see:
– Carla Gaggini leading an amazing creative activity where groups built the values, spaces, and necessary ingredients to make communities work, and then shared their work with the rest. Shoutout to Dominique Top 👩🏼💻 for helping out with the facilitation.
– Kunal Kushwaha giving a talk and generating a great conversation about impostor syndrome, how it affects us, and how it can be stopped. Awesome interaction with the audience and gave various folks the chance to share their thoughts.
– Cheryl Hung and Alex Chircop sharing their knowledge and experience about community and contribution. There are no easy answers, and always more questions to ask. We could’ve kept going all evening.
I’ve hosted plenty of meetups, but last night’s was enough to write a book or start a podcast series given the mind meld that took place.
Meeting new folks like Michael Charles Borrelli and Margaret Carey (ACMA) who brought new ideas to the table, catching up with wonderful people like Paula Kennedy and Cheuk Ting Ho who are always on their community A-game, and enjoying the depth and breadth that Sal Kimmich, CSM delivers even when they aren’t giving a talk but how they ask questions, I really can’t ask for more.
Thanks so much to Chris Lloyd-Jones and the folks at Avanade for their hospitality, and to Mark Baker for his support in getting this set up with Amanda Brock and the OpenUK team.
Onward!