[Organizer Request] Add Gaurav Gahlot as Organizer to Berlin Chapter

[gauravgahlot]

Name of chapter inquiring about

Cloud Native Berlin

Tell us about yourself. List your name, email, company, GitHub URL, LinkedIn URL, and CNCF Slack workspace name (or if you need to be invited), and a required profile link on community.cncf.io

• Name: Gaurav Gahlot
• Email: gauravgahlot0107@gmail.com
• Company: IONOS Cloud
• GitHub: @gauravgahlot
• LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gauravgahlot
• Community Profile: https://community.cncf.io/u/mgu8vy/
• CNCF Slack: @Gaurav
• Kubernetes Slack: @Gaurav
• Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation (LFC102): Credly badge

Tell us why you want to be added or removed from the chapter

I have been involved and active in the CNCF community for over 6 years now through organizing meetups, contributing code, speaking, conducting workshops, blogging etc. My employer is a leading cloud provider in Europe and I'm part of the Managed Kubernetes team. From recent experience at FOSDEM, local meetups, and conversations with university students pursing apprenticeship at IONOS, I could understand that there is still a large community that is new to the CNCF ecosystem.

I believe the chapter will benefit from my expertise and networking in the CNCF world, helping us target a larger audience and organize successful events in Berlin. Currently the meetups are OTel centric, and has built an audience. I would like to leverage on that and bring the larger CNCF ecosystem to everyone.

Also, being part of the Merge Forward initiative, I do all I can to build an inclusive community for everyone. My recent conversations with in the Community room at FOSDEM only fueled my mission.

It would be my great pleasure to help the current organizers team in their task to make this chapter a strong representative of the CNCF beliefs in Germany.

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow the CNCF Code of Conduct

Where organizer resides

• I confirm I am local to or live near the city of the above-proposed chapter (do not mark if not relevant to request)

Organizers companies/affiliations

• I come from xyz company which is differing from that of the current organizers (do not mark if not relevant to request)

Inclusive

• I agree. To assure this, I have recently completed the Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation (LFC102) course (do not mark if not relevant to request). I will comment in this issue with a link to my Credly badge proving completion of the course.

Vendor Neutral

• I have read what vendor-neutrality means, and I agree the main content of our meetups will remain vendor-neutral (do not mark if not relevant to request)

Remain an active chapter

• I understand the activity level standards of all CNCF chapters (do not mark if not relevant to request)

Collaboration with other chapters

• I acknowledge the CNCF right to approve additional chapters in my area based on this criteria (do not mark if not relevant to request)

Aim to have a diverse representation of speakers in your meetups

• I will do my best to host diverse speakers throughout the year (do not mark if not relevant to request)

[jpkrohling]

I support, especially as @gauravgahlot would be focusing on the Kubernetes side of things, which could indeed have some love.

[hspease99]

Wonderful! @gauravgahlot can you please share the link to your credily badge for the Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation (LFC102) course?

In order to move forward, we will need approval form at least 50% of current organizers in order to add you to the team. Thank you, @jpkrohling, for already doing this!

I am tagging a few more organizers to get their approval.

@benazirk, @aditya-konarde please provide approval or suggestions on more ways they can get involved in the community.

[gauravgahlot]

Thank you @hspease99. I have updated the description to include my Credily badge for LFC102.

[aditya-konarde]

I'm supportive as well.

@gauravgahlot wants to help on the K8s side, and it's much appreciated..

[gauravgahlot]

Hey, @hspease99!
Is there anything else required for this to move forward?

[hspease99]

Wonderful! Thank you, everyone!

@gauravgahlot You have now been added as a co-organizer! You should have just received an automated welcome email from us with next steps. And if you agree to the above organizer terms, please check the box upon accessing the chapter via Bevy.

Please be sure to add a profile picture to your community.cncf.io account so it may be forward-facing on the chapter page.
You can update whether they are visible on the chapter page or not by clicking Settings --> Team --> either 3 dots or pencil (depending on new or legacy dashboard), and marking the box that says "Visible on chapter and event pages”.

I will also send you an invite to the community organizers slack channel.

[hspease99]

@gauravgahlot are you able to share a link to you slack profile? I am having trouble finding your profile.