KCD Chennai 2022 Blogathon Contest 🎉
Tags: devops, cncf, cloudnative, kubernetes
Published: 2022-03-28 17:39:20

## Blogathon
_Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing._ --**Benjamin Franklin**

As of 2021, there are more than 570 million blogs on the internet (and this number is constantly growing). Over 7 million blog posts are published daily. 77% of people regularly read blogs online. Blogging is a powerful means of sharing knowledge and promoting your thoughts and views.

Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) Chennai 2022 is hosting a **Blogathon**. If you are a seasoned blogger, or the occasional writer, or the one searching for the right reason to start blogging, we invite you to participate!! **Unleash the writer in you.**

## What are the Prizes on Offer?

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![prizest](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/dalgcnjoxlbg7ldc58gp.png)

## How do I Participate?

- Register yourself [here](https://forms.gle/3Kqx2C7GMAiKFf246)
- Upon registration you'll receive an email containing further steps to be followed

## Important Dates
- 29-March-2022: Registration begins
- 16-April-2022: Blogging begins
- 15-May-2022:   Registration ends
- 31-May-2022:   Blogging ends
- 4-June-2022:   Winners announced during KCD Chennai 2022

## What topics can I write about?
We invite Technical blogs on a wide variety of topics. You are allowed to write about any topic you are passionate about, as long as the content is technical.

## Publishing your blog

- When you create a new blog, under 'Create Post' choose 'Kubernetes Community Days Chennai' as shown below.

![how-to-publish-blog](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/vq5jo68ezht9x39fcm4y.png)


## How is the score calculated?

- Your score would be calculated using all these parameters:
  - No. of views
  - No. of reactions (likes, unicorns, bookmarks)
  - No. of blogs
- Blogs published during 16-April to 31-May alone would be considered for scoring. (**Tip:** Keep publishing **as many good-quality** blogs as possible.)
- The person who publishes the max. no of blogs during 16-April to 31-May wins the **Prolific Blogger** award (**Tip:** Become a blogging factory!)

## Score board

The **kcd-chennai bot** publishes the score board to the #kcd-chennai channel in CNCF slack. Sign-up for free at https://slack.cncf.io and join the #kcd-chennai channel to view the score board

## Rules

- You are allowed to publish any number of blogs; there is no restriction.
- You are allowed to cross-post blogs you've already published in other blogging sites e.g. medium, hashode, wordpress etc.
- You are allowed to publish blogs you've already published in DEV under your personal account.
- Published blogs would be reviewed by our team. If the blog is offensive, violates copy rights or we detect plagiarism, such blogs would be removed.

## Can I promote my blogs?
Of course yes! Feel free to promote your blogs via Social media, Emails, Newsletters, WhatsApp etc. This would help increase the views and reactions!!

## Contact Us
If you have further questions or need help, post it in the #kcd-chennai channel in https://slack.cncf.io