The Plan

KubeTrain wants to provide a sustainable and fun initiative for travelling to KubeCon by train. With our initiative we would like to encourage KubeCon’s participants to consider evironmentally-friendly alternatives to plane travel.

There are two challenges that make people prefer planes over train as main form of transportation:

💸 Train travel can be expensive, at times more expensive than travelling by plane

🥱 Train travel can take a long time for destinations that are further away

How do we plan to fix that?

Travelling to KubeCon by train is not something new, many participants have done it in the past and had an amazing experience doing it.

Our plan is to rent train carriages (one or more) from different departure cities to KubeCon. 🚝 Those carriages will be founded by sponsors that believe in the initiative and participants that would like to travel to KubeCon by train.

Both sponsors and participants get a great deal out of this initiative:

📌 Sponsors will be able to show interest in this sustainable initiative, distribute their material during the trip and have visibility throughout the duration of KubeTrain

🙋 Participants will be able to buy their train tickets to KubeCon with a considerable discount and enjoy the trip with activities organized by the sponsors and the local community.