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+# Kubernetes Dev Summit
+# 
+The Kubernetes Developers' Summit provides an avenue for Kubernetes
+developers  to connect face to face and mindshare about future community
+development and community governance endeavors.
+
+In some sense, the summit is a real-life extension of the community
+meetings and SIG meetings.
+
+## Event Format
+## 
+The Dev Summit is a "loosely-structured [unconference][uncf]". Rather
+than speakers and presentations, we will have moderators/facilitators
+and discussion topics, alongside all-day completely unstructured
+hacking.
+
+The discussion sessions will be in an open fishbowl format — rings of
+chairs, with inner rings driving the discussion — where anyone can
+contribute. The various sessions will be proposed and voted on by the
+community in the weeks leading up to the event. This allows the
+community to motivate the events of the day without dedicating precious
+day-of time to choosing the sessions and making a schedule.
+
+There will be 3 rooms dedicated to these sessions running in parallel
+all day. Each session should last between 45 minutes and an hour.
+
+Then, there will be 2 smaller rooms for hacking / unstructured
+discussion all day.
+
+#### Who Should Go?
+#### 
+The target audience is the Kubernetes developer community. The group
+will be relatively small (~120-150 attendees), to improve communication
+and facilitate easier decision-making. The majority of the attendees
+will be selected from key company team and SIG leaders, power-users, and
+the most active contributors. An additional pool of tickets will be
+awarded via lottery. **Any interested party** should enter the lottery via
+[this form][lotfrm]. Invitees will receive an invitation on or before October 12th. 
+RSVP information will be available in the invitation email.  Tickets are
+not transferrable.
+
+Please note that this Summit is not the right environment for people to
+*start* learning about the Kubernetes project. There are plenty of
+[meetups][mtp] organized by global user groups where one can get
+involved initially.
+
+#### Call for Proposals
+#### 
+Proposals for discussion topics can be submitted through [this
+form][propfrm] by September 30, 23:59 PT. If you propose a session topic,
+please be prepared to attend and facilitate the session if it gets
+chosen. Other members will help with moderating, either as volunteer
+co-facilitators or as members of the larger discussion group.
+
+Suggestions for session topic themes:
+
+* Hashing out technical issues 
+* Long term component / SIG planning
+
+In early October, proposal topics will be posted to the kubernetes-dev
+mailing list and voted on via [CIVS][civs], the Condorcet Internet
+Voting Service. A schedule will be made from the winning topics with
+some editorial license, and the schedule will be announced to the group
+at least a week before the event.
+
+## When & Where?
+## 
+The Dev Summit will follow [Kubecon][kbc] on November 10th, 2016.
+Fortunately for those who attend Kubecon, the Dev Summit will be at the
+same venue, [the Sheraton Seattle Hotel][sher]. As of now, the day's
+activities should run from breakfast being served at 8 AM to closing
+remarks ending around 3:30 PM, with an external happy hour to follow.
+
+## Desired outcomes
+## 
+* Generate notes from the sessions to feed the project's documentation
+and knowledge base, and also to keep non-attendees plugged in 
+* Make (and document) recommendations and decisions for the near-term and
+mid-term future of the project 
+* Come up with upcoming action items, as well as leaders for those action items, for the various topics that we discuss
+
+[//]: # (Reference Links)
+   [uncf]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference>
+   [mtp]: <http://www.meetup.com/topics/kubernetes/all/>
+   [lotfrm]: <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8t6pvRjh1OeF6xrXKbXmzHGMhQ4c-MbZ6QUr9APJNjpgAzA/viewform>
+   [propfrm]: <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf30x18OGCv_Und7qah4y5Zs3Z-0YoBCo964ZsmhtbxBjMzxA/viewform>
+   [civs]: <http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/>
+   [kbc]: <http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon>
+   [sher]: <http://www.sheratonseattle.com/>