Cloud Native Valencia Website

https://cloudnativevalencia.com

Static website for the Cloud Native Valencia community, featuring YouTube integration, speaker profiles, sponsor showcase, and links to community resources.

Website Sections

Hero

• Main headline and community tagline
• Call-to-action buttons: "Submit Your Talk" (Sessionize) and "Sponsor" (GitHub Sponsors)
• Animated decorative graphics

Videos

• Featured YouTube video embed
• Subscribe button linking to YouTube channel
• "View All Videos" button

Call for Proposals (CFP)

• Information about submitting talks
• Deadlines and event details
• Talk formats: 30min talks, 60min workshops, 5min lightning talks
• Links to Sessionize for submissions

About the Community

• Three pillars: Community-Driven, Hands-On Learning, Production Focus
• Connect with us links:
  • LinkedIn
  • CNCF Chapter
  • Meetup

Organizers

The team behind Cloud Native Valencia:

• Jade Lassery
• Luiz Bernardo Levenhagen
• Chad M. Crowell

Sponsors

Current sponsors supporting the community:

• VictoriaMetrics
• Red Hat
• Flywire

"Become a Sponsor" button linking to GitHub Sponsors.

Footer

• Community links
• Resource links (KubeSkills, Kubernetes Docs, CNCF)
• Social media icons (YouTube, LinkedIn, CNCF Chapter, Meetup)

Floating "Support Us" Button

• Appears on scroll
• Links to GitHub Sponsors page

Accessibility

• Semantic HTML5 elements
• ARIA labels on interactive elements
• Focus visible styles
• Skip to content link
• Keyboard navigation support
• Color contrast meets WCAG AA
• Alt text on all images
• Proper heading hierarchy

Performance

• Minimal CSS/JS (no frameworks)
• Lazy loading images
• Preconnect to YouTube
• Scroll animation optimization
• Netlify CDN delivery

License

MIT License

Publishing a Blog Post

No local tooling required — everything happens on GitHub.

1. Fork the repository

1. Go to https://github.com/CloudNativeValencia/cloudnativevalenciacom
2. Click Fork in the top-right corner and select your personal GitHub account as the destination
3. GitHub creates a copy at https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/cloudnativevalenciacom

2. Create the file in your fork

1. In your fork, navigate to hugo-blog/content/posts/
2. Click Add file → Create new file
3. Name the file using lowercase words separated by hyphens — this becomes the URL slug, e.g. my-new-post.md → cloudnativevalencia.com/blog/my-new-post/

3. Write the post

Paste the following front matter at the top of the file, fill in each field, then write the post body in Markdown below the closing ---:

---
title: "Your Post Title Here"
date: 2026-05-04
description: "One sentence shown as the excerpt on the blog index."
authors: ["Your Name"]
draft: false
tags: ["Community"]
---

Your post content here...

Field	Description
title	Displayed as the post heading and in the blog index
date	Publication date in YYYY-MM-DD format
description	Short excerpt shown on the blog index page
authors	Your name in a list — e.g. ["Chad M. Crowell"]. Links to your author page at /blog/authors/<your-name>/
draft	Set to true to save without publishing; change to false when ready
tags	Category label shown next to the date — e.g. ["Kubernetes"], ["Community"], ["Career"]

4. Create a new branch

1. After writing the post, scroll down to Commit changes
2. Give the commit a short title, e.g. Add blog post: my-new-post
3. Select Create a new branch for this commit and start a pull request
4. Name the branch something descriptive, e.g. blog/my-new-post
5. Click Propose new file

5. Open a pull request from your fork

1. On the Open a pull request screen that appears, review the title and description
2. Click Create pull request
3. A Netlify deploy preview is automatically generated — click the preview link in the PR checks to proofread the post before it goes live
4. View all open PRs here: https://github.com/CloudNativeValencia/cloudnativevalenciacom/pulls

6. Merge and publish

1. Once the PR is approved, click Merge pull request
2. Netlify detects the push to main, runs the Hugo build, and publishes within ~30 seconds
3. Post is live at https://cloudnativevalencia.com/blog/my-new-post/

To update a published post, navigate to its .md file on GitHub, click the pencil icon to edit, and open a new PR with your changes.

Contributing

1. Fork repository
2. Create feature branch
3. Make changes
4. Submit pull request

Support

• GitHub: Open an issue
• LinkedIn: Cloud Native Valencia
• Meetup: Cloud Native Valencia

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Built with love by the Cloud Native Valencia community