The OpenInfra Summit Asia'24 is the first community-led Summit[0], hosted by the OpenInfra Korea User Group in collaboration with other OpenInfra user groups throughout Asia. The CFP is currently open and accepting applications until May 29, 2024, so there's only two weeks left to get your proposals submitted[1]. Keep in mind that Summit talks are often professionally recorded and re-watched by a much larger global audience, having a broad impact for years after the event concludes, so your reach can be far greater than just the people who happen to be in the room at that moment. This time, the Summit will be co-located with the OCP (opencompute.org) Regional Summit APAC and will showcase the latest advancements in open source infrastructure software and hardware. If you want to present but are struggling to to come up with ideas, "beginner" content is always a crowd pleaser (setting up your first environment, tips for new contributors), but this could also be of particular interest for the growing local community in Korea. Since this event is occurring alongside one for the Open Compute Project, hardware-related topics might serve to draw in participants from their community and help grow our own through the sort of collaboration we're best known for. Upgrade stories and talks about reducing complexity are also something our users are especially keen to hear about. For that matter, talks about Networking (including 5G telephony) or integration with adjacent community tech (Ceph, Kubernetes, OVN) would be great to show how OpenStack is really an integral piece of the larger open source ecosystem. If you want to attend and your employer cannot fund your travel, the OpenInfra Foundation is continuing the OpenInfra Travel Support program. You can apply for travel support[1] until May 29. If you have any questions or want help (even if it's just to bounce ideas off me for a talk you're thinking about proposing), feel free to reply or find me (fungi) in the #openstack channel on the OFTC IRC network. [0] Register for the OpenInfra Summit Asia: https://2024.openinfraasia.org/ [1] Submit to the CFP: https://openinfrafoundation.formstack.com/forms/openinfra_asia_summit_2024 [2] Apply for the OpenInfra Travel Support Program: https://openinfrafoundation.formstack.com/forms/openinfra_tsp -- Jeremy Stanley