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Author: mathieu-benoit

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+title: Trip report - Score at KubeCon London 2025
+date: 2025-04-07T00:00:00-00:00
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+description: Learn more about all the activities related to Score that happened at KubeCon London 2025!
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+author: mathieu-benoit
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+That's a wrap! [KubeCon EU 2025 in London](https://score.dev/blog/score-at-kubecon-eu-in-london/) was a blast. The Score project and its maintainers got a lot of opportunities to connect and collaborate with the community.
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+We are so grateful for these opportunities and for what the CNCF does to help individuals and projects to connect and grow.
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+Within its [first year as CNCF Sandbox project](https://score.dev/blog/score-joins-the-cncf-as-a-sandbox-project/), the sub-projects updates and the community achievements mark an exciting milestone for Score. We were so eager to connect with the CNCF community to showcase how Score is evolving.
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+This blog post is my trip report highlighting key activities related to the Score project that I have captured during this KubeCon 2025 in London.
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+On Sunday, I attended the [Cloud Native Rejekts](https://cloud-native.rejekts.io/) (highly recommended!). A great place to connect with ~250 people, right before KubeCon, a good warm up. There, I met with [Stevan from Red Hat](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevanlemeur/) and [Yacine from Postman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yacinekheddache/) to respectively chat about how we could better illustrate how Score could be used with [Podman](https://podman.io/) and [Microcks](https://microcks.io/). Stay tuned!
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+![](rejekts.png)
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+As Score Maintainer, I was able to attend the [Maintainer Summit](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/features-add-ons/maintainer-summit/) on Monday, opened not just for Kubernetes maintainers for the first time. Got so much inspirations to make the Score project and its community growing.
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+![](maintainer-summit.jpg)
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+As Score Maintainer, I was delighted to represent the Score project and its community on Tuesday by delivering a [Project Lightning talk](https://sched.co/1tcwp) to 300+ people:
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+![](lightning.jpg)
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+As Sandbox project, the CNCF printed the Score logo as a sticker that was available in the CNCF projects stickers wall:
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+![](sticker.jpg)
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+With [Nils from Humanitec](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nilsty/), we delivered a workshop on Tuesday to 50 people to talk about Score and the Humanitec's Score implementation:
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+![](workshop.jpg)
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+With [Kendall from Diagrid](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kendallroden/), we delivered a [talk about Dapr and Score](https://sched.co/1txGi) on Wednesday to ~800 people in the room:
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+![](dapr.jpg)
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+As Sandbox project, the CNCF gave Score the opportunity to have a Kiosk in the Project Pavilion area, on Thursday for 3 hours. [Ben](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-meier-b76224129/), [Chris](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-stephenson-99ba3628/) and I as Score Maintainers were able to discuss with ~30 people:
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+![](kiosk.jpg)
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+As Sandbox project, the CNCF gave Score the opportunity to have a [ContribFest](https://sched.co/1tczO), on Thursday for 1.5 hours. [Ben](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-meier-b76224129/), [Chris](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-stephenson-99ba3628/) and I as Score Maintainers were able to help ~20 people make their first contributions to a CNCF project while improving the Score project. I had also a great discussion with [Stéphane from ITQ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sestegra/) to see how projects could be more inclusive, and how we could simplify the onboarding process of new contributors.
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+![](contribfest.jpg)
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+With [Maxime from RBC](https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximecoquerel/), we delivered a talk about [Platform Engineering and Security](https://sched.co/1txGE) on Thursday to ~800 people in the room:
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+![](security.jpg)
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+That's a wrap!
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+Mind-blowing!
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+So grateful and thankful for these opportunities, collaborations and the discussions generated. This is so inspiring!
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+For those looking to dive deeper into Score, our CNCF Slack channel and our monthly Community Calls offer a collaborative space to explore the latest updates, discuss challenges, and connect with other users. Stay informed by [visiting our community page](https://docs.score.dev/docs/community/) and signing up for the calls.
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+Now, back to prepare and cook what will be next for [KubeCon NA 2025 in Atlanta](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)! ;)