Starting the Year with Open Source

Open source thrives when more people feel welcome to participate - and this meetup is a step in that direction.

Join us on January 10, 2026, for the Cloud Native Lucknow community meetup, where we’ll focus on how to get started with open-source contributions and walk through a CNCF ecosystem to make the journey feel approachable.

Whether you’re completely new to open source or have been using cloud-native tools and want to give back, this session will help you understand:

• how open-source communities work,

• where beginners can start contributing with confidence, and

• how small, consistent contributions can make a real impact.

Bring your curiosity, your questions, and your experiences -- we’re here to learn together.

💡 Technical Talks

Backpacking Through the CNCF Landscape

Speaker: Abhinav Dubey @ Devtron
Talk Description:

When someone new looks at the CNCF ecosystem, what do they usually see?

Hundreds of logos.
Dozens of tools do similar things.
Endless blog posts saying “you must learn this".

For many beginners, the CNCF landscape doesn’t feel like a roadmap — it feels like a maze.

I’ve seen many people start their cloud-native journey by trying to learn everything at once: Kubernetes, service meshes, observability tools, CI/CD platforms, security projects — only to feel overwhelmed and eventually give up.

This talk looks at the CNCF ecosystem differently — like a backpacking journey.

When you go backpacking, you don’t carry your entire house with you.
You carry what matters for your journey.

In this session, we’ll explore:

• How to identify the right starting points in the CNCF landscape

• How to build a focused learning path based on curiosity, real-world use cases, and career goals

• When to move from exploration to hands-on experimentation

• And how learning naturally evolves into open-source participation

This talk is for anyone who feels intimidated by the CNCF landscape, unsure where to begin, or wants a clearer, more intentional way to navigate cloud-native technologies — without burning out.

Is Writing Code Really Enough for Open Source?

Speaker: Achanandhi M @ Keploy
Talk Description:

When we talk about open source, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?

Code. GitHub. Pull requests. Commits.

For a long time, I believed that open source was only about writing code. If you didn’t contribute code, you were just a user. If you didn’t open pull requests, you weren’t really contributing.

That belief started to change when I began spending more time in open-source communities reading issues, following discussions, and watching projects grow… or slowly fade away.

I realised that many open-source projects don’t fail because of bad code, but because of missing documentation, unanswered questions, burned-out maintainers, and a lack of human connection.

That’s when a simple question stayed with me: Is writing code really enough for open source?

In this talk, I’ll share my personal experiences and talk about the often-overlooked, non-technical contributions that keep open source alive from documentation and communication to community support and empathy. This talk is for anyone who wants to be part of open source, even if they don’t write code

📅 Date: January 10, 2026
🌍 Format: Virtual

👉 RSVP now to save your spot.

We’d love to have you join us as we build and support a stronger open-source culture in Lucknow.