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title: "CNCF Platform Engineering Technical Community Group Update"
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tags:
 - platformengineeringday
 - keynote
 - update
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## Basics

The TCG (no not trading card game) is a community focused on:
- Sharing knowledge and best practives
- Exploring Tools

They have two meetings (one in EMEA one in APAC) rotating every week with two main formats:
- Hallway Track: Interactive discussion
- Community Track: Sessions

## Current Initiatives and Updates

- **Whitepaper:** Internationalisation + new simplfied language and version selection for change tracking
  - Whitepaper is heading towards v2
- **Maturity Model:** Simnplified language + examples and a self-assesment tool/framework
  - Plans for v2: Usage&Helpfullness survey + Input from different viewpoints

## Roundtables / Interaction

- Community coffee every day at 7am
- Platform Lunchtime aka select tables for discussion Tue-Thu
- Both in the project pavilion on wednesday
- Lightning talks at the booth from 13:00 to 13:40

Closing sentence: "May your paths be golden"