Unconference Session: The Happy Circle: Maintainers and End Users

Don't miss out! Join us at our next KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events in Mumbai, India (18-19 June, 2026), Yokohama, Japan (29-30 July, 2026), and Shanghai, China (8-9 September, 2026). Connect with our current graduated, incubating, and sandbox projects as the community gathers to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. Learn more at https://kubecon.io Unconference Session: The Happy Circle: Maintainers and End Users Unconference Lead: Jorge Castro, CNCF Hi! I used to work on CNCF Projects like Kubernetes, Cloud Custodian, and Kubeflow. As a member of the projects team I've been working with ya'll on things like the Project Pavilion, and generally helping out. Now I work closely with CNCF End User members, and over the past 9 months I've been learning lots of things about how end users consume open source. I've also been keeping notes on the things that maintainers could learn from working with end users, and things end users can learn from maintainers. I hope to share some feedback with you, as well as gathering information on what you'd like to see the CNCF communicating to end users about maintainer needs.