# K3s Community Meeting Agenda and Notes

Calendar Invite(ical): https://webcal.prod.itx.linuxfoundation.org/lfx/a092M00001IkYIjQAN

K3s Community meeting and Office Hours - AMS/EMEA TZ
Every Second Tuesday at 10:00 am PST - https://webcal.prod.itx.linuxfoundation.org/lfx/a092M00001IkYIjQAN
K3s Community meeting and Office Hours - EMEA/APAC TZ
Every Third Tuesday at 11:00 am CET - https://webcal.prod.itx.linuxfoundation.org/lfx/a092M00001IkYIjQAN

[GMT+1](https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&lid=727011,1850207,2193733,2147714,12,2643743,100,5128581,5391959&h=1816670&date=2023-1-12&sln=21-22&hf=1). We use this meeting to communicate updates to the project, listen to feedback from the K3s community, and also collect requirements/use cases for new features. Occasionally, we may also host adhoc meetings with a specific agenda. Use the calendar link below to add the recurring meeting to your calendar.

**Meeting Link**: [Meetings](https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/k3s?view=week)

**Meeting Agenda**: Read, comment, or add agenda items on the meeting notes down below.

**Calendar invite**: Get calendar invites to the community meetings, office hours, and other events by joining our distribution lists:

* [k3s-users](https://lists.cncf.io/g/k3s-users/topics)
* [k3s-dev](https://lists.cncf.io/g/K3s-dev/topics)

**Recordings**: [YouTube Playlist for K3s Community Meetings](https://www.youtube.com/@k3sio)

**Latest Release plans**:https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/blob/master/ROADMAP.md

This doc is meant to serve as the “one doc to rule them all” for K3s community meetings and open discussions.
You can find slides of previous meetings on [GitHub](https://github.com/k3s/community/tree/main/slides). _Visit the [community details page](https://github.com/k3s/community/blob/main/MEETING_SCHEDULE.md) for schedule, meeting recordings, and additional details._
If you have anything you’d like to put on the agenda, please do so below for the next meeting:

## September 9, 2025 - EMEA/APJ TZ
Recording:
Zoom: https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/94911587739?password=5c03a132-725f-4fb3-ab0f-691637e2239c

### Attendance
- NAME - COMPANY
- Orlin Vasilev, SUSE
- Matt Trachier, SUSE

### Topics on Agenda
- Orlin - Incubation - https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/issues/12564
- Orlin - KubeCon Atlanta Kiosk - accepted looking for staffing
- Kiosk Number: 14B
- Location: Building B | Level 1 | Exhibit Hall B3-B5
- Wed 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM
- Orlin - KubeCon Lighting talk
- Monday November 10, 2025 11:13am - 11:18am EST
- Building C | Level 3 | Georgia Ballroom 2
- https://sched.co/27d4c
- release 1.34 rc1
- rename from Master -> Main

### Discussions

## August 19, 2025 - EMEA/APJ TZ
Recording: https://youtu.be/4Y3rVXPyyDc
Zoom: https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/94911587739?password=5c03a132-725f-4fb3-ab0f-691637e2239c

### Attendance
- NAME - COMPANY
- Orlin Vasilev, SUSE
- Manuel Buil, SUSE
- Alex Bissessur

### Topics on Agenda
- Orlin - Incubation - https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/issues/12564
- Orlin/Andrea - DCO - https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/pull/12383
- Orlin - KubeCon Atlanta Kiosk - accepted looking for staffing :)
- Orlin - K3s website google analytics setup - requested and waiting for CNCF

### Discussions
- Orlin - maybe to change the time for this meeting as we have low attendance
- Manu changed docs Orlin to share with community to verify. - https://docs.k3s.io/cli/etcd-snapshot
- Alex - socials - mastodon was missing.
- Alex - KubeCon Europe 2026 - to join the kios possibly
- Alex - cotributing guide
- Alex - Community Mauritius meetup k3s to join and chat about the project
-

## August 12, 2025 - AMS/EMEA TZ
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmlrGzX1-YI
Zoom: https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/96759130729?password=ba7ed4a9-4b51-4535-8bba-c00316d42b8a

### Attendance
- NAME - COMPANY
- Orlin Vasilev, SUSE
- Manuel Buil, SUSE

### Topics on Agenda
- Incubation - https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/issues/12564
- DCO - https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/pull/12383
- k3s google analitics CNCF request Orlin
-
### Discussions

## July 15, 2025 - EMEA/APJ TZ

Recording:
Zoom: https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/94911587739?password=5c03a132-725f-4fb3-ab0f-691637e2239c

### Attendance
- NAME - COMPANY
- Orlin Vasilev, SUSE
- Andrea Benini, SUSE
- Ashish Kumar Singh, Altair Engineering Inc.
- Roberto, SUSE

### Topics on Agenda
- Governance was merged!!! - https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/blob/master/GOVERNANCE.md
- Incubation - https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/issues/12564
- DCO - https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/pull/12383

### Discussions
- Ashish - K3s - Windows support and roadmap

## July 8, 2025 - AMS/EMEA TZ

Recording:
Zoom:

### Attendance
- NAME - COMPANY
- Robert Sirchia, SUSE

### Topics on Agenda

### Discussions
- No discussion topics and we ajourned the meeting early.

## June 17, 2025 - EMEA/APJ TZ
Recording:
Zoom: https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/94911587739?password=5c03a132-725f-4fb3-ab0f-691637e2239c
### Attendance
- NAME - COMPANY
- Orlin Vasilev, SUSE
- Sergio Méndez, USAC University
- Manuel Buil, SUSE
- Alex Bissessur, La Sentinelle

### Topics on Agenda

### Discussions
- GOVERNANCE.md PR: https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/pull/12466
- CLOMonitor outstanding issues - https://clomonitor.io/projects/cncf/k3s
- KubeCon
- talks CFP notification July 28th
- Kiosk by - July 21

- K3s in contribfest? It might help @Orlin. Perhaps host it virtually?
- Maybe add contributions guide to docs
- Different folders tend to be intimidating
- Guide to test development
- Development cycle

## June 10, 2025 - AMS/EMEA TZ
Recording:
Zoom: https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/96759130729?password=ba7ed4a9-4b51-4535-8bba-c00316d42b8a
### Attendance
- NAME - COMPANY
- Orlin Vasilev, SUSE
- Sergio Méndez, USAC University

### Topics on Agenda

### Discussions
- reintroduce s390x support? - https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/issues/12451
- GOVERNANCE.md PR: https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/pull/12466
- CLOMonitor outstanding issues - https://clomonitor.io/projects/cncf/k3s
- Artifact Hub Badge - https://clomonitor.io/docs/topics/checks/#artifact-hub-badge
- Dependencies policy - https://clomonitor.io/docs/topics/checks/#dependencies-policy
- SBOM - https://clomonitor.io/docs/topics/checks/#software-bill-of-materials-sbom
- Security insights - https://clomonitor.io/docs/topics/checks/#security-insights
- Signed releases - https://github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/
/docs/checks.md#signed-releases
- Token permissions - This check determines whether the project’s automated workflows tokens are set to read-only by default.
- July 8th community meeting someone to lead - Orlin is on PTO
- KubeCon
- talks CFP notification July 28th
- Kiosk by - July 21
- biweekly community meetings?
- Migrate from dockerhub to gcr under another namescape(repository) not rancher - futher to discuss
- recognition of cotrnibutions - blog, badges, swag

## May 20, 2025 - EMEA/APAC TZ
Recording: https://youtu.be/rsa_xjKSSm0
### Attendance
- NAME - COMPANY
- Orlin Vasilev, SUSE
- van Dam, Pascal, pascalvandam.com / Poortier Management B.V.
- Andrea Benini, SUSE

### Topics on Agenda
- https://scans.k3s.io/ - thanks to Guilherme Macedo and Derek Nola we have setup a k3s-specific CVE scans portal showing CVEs (including those that we've vexed) in k3s-team built images
- k3s org on LinkedIn - http://linkedin.com/company/k3sio
### Discussions
- Orlin - Upcoming conferences CfP
- KubeCon NA 2025 - CFP Closes: Tuesday, May 27 at 11:59pm Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)
- https://sessionize.com/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2025/
- Maintainers summit - https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/features-add-ons/maintainer-summit/
- Orlin - KubeCon NA 2025
- Project Kiosk - Monday, July 21
- Project Lightening talk - Monday, August 18
- Orlin - Adopters and Contributors
- chatting with ARM to join as official adopter and possibly to start contributing
- few others that I cannot disclose as of now :)

## May 13, 2025 - AMS/EMEA TZ
Recording: https://youtu.be/coFWHxa4jS0
### Attendance
- NAME - COMPANY
- Orlin Vasilev, SUSE
- Justin Janes, SUSE
- Ian Nichols, SUSE
- Chris Wayne, SUSE
- Pedro Tashima, SUSE
- Brooks Newberry, SUSE
- Brad Davidson, SUSE
- Matt Trachier, SUSE
- Paul Gonin, SUSE
- Vivekanand Koya,
- Sergio Méndez, USAC University
- Cor Meurs,

### Topics on Agenda
- https://scans.k3s.io/ - thanks to Guilherme Macedo and Derek Nola we have setup a k3s-specific CVE scans portal showing CVEs (including those that we've vexed) in k3s-team built images
- k3s org on LinkedIn ?
### Discussions
- Orlin - Upcoming conferences CfP
- KubeCon NA 2025 - CFP Closes: Tuesday, May 27 at 11:59pm Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)
- https://sessionize.com/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2025/
- Maintainers summit - https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/features-add-ons/maintainer-summit/
- Orlin - KubeCon NA 2025
- Project Kiosk - Monday, July 21
- Project Lightening talk - Monday, August 18
- Orlin - Adopters and Contributors
- chatting with ARM to join as official adopter and possibly to start contributing
- few others that I cannot disclose as of now :)
- Vivekanand - Are there any guides to using eBPF within K3? - Profile Go/Java/Python applications running in pods.
- Vivekanand - Can we use cowsql instead of sqlite for resiliency?

## April 15, 2025 - US/EMEA TZ
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ls5kAzRTfg
### Attendance
- NAME - COMPANY
- Orlin Vasilev, SUSE
- Manuel Buil, SUSE
- Jiwon Hu, SUSE
- Andrea Benini, SUSE

### Topics on Agenda
- Orlin - Welcome to our new rebooted Community Meetings!
- The ideas behind the community meetings.
- update [contributing.md](https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)

### Discussions
- Orlin - Upcoming conferences CfP
- KubeCon NA 2025
- Orlin - add auto-assignee

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## April 8, 2025 - US/EMEA TZ
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRuJROA6Z3k
### Attendance
- Orlin Vasilev, SUSE
- Brad Davidson, SUSE
- Sergio Méndez
- Justin Janes, SUSE
- Derek Nola, SUSE
- Shylaja Devadiga, SUSE
- Matt Trachier, SUSE
- Ish Sookun
- Kourosh Maneshni
- Brian Downs, SUSE
- Caroline O'Hara, SUSE
- Brooks Newberry, SUSE
- Pedro Tashima, SUSE
- Vitor Savian, SUSE
- Rafael Breno, SUSE
- Brian Almeida
- Paul Gonin, SUSE
- Archana Ganesh, SUSE
- Mahbubur Rahman (MD), SUSE

### Topics on Agenda
- Orlin - Welcome to our new rebooted Community Meetings!
- The ideas behind the community meetings.
- update [contributing.md](https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)

### Discussions
- Orlin - Upcoming conferences CfP
- OSS Summit Europe - Amsterdam
- KubeCon NA 2025
- KubeCon India
- Contributing
- where do we start?
- just looking at issues is not enough
- mentoring on Good First Issues?
- how can we defuse any fear of contributing?
- How to boost up our Adopters to something more realistic