In this 30 minute session, we will explore the projects we have been working on with Contributor Experience and the future work we have on deck. We will provide an update to the following projects and have information on how to get involved.

1. Welcome to
SIG Contributor Experience

2. What is the Kubernetes Community
#1 OSS project by developer activity*
#2 project by Pull Requests*
Source: devstats
Community Stats (Aug 2020)
Contributors 48,000+
Org Members 1,179
Repos 209
Pull Requests 166,425~
Slack 100,000+
* As of 2020-02-25 - Ref: CNCF Velocity Report

3. Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc.
Who are we?

4. Who are we?
Bob Killen
@mrbobbytables
Jorge Castro
@castrojo
Nikhita Raghunath
@nikhita
Christoph Blecker
@cblecker

5. Teams
● Events
● Marketing
● GitHub Admins
● Stream Team
● Moderators
● APAC
● “Community Managers”

6. What we do
“The Contributor Experience Special Interest Group (SIG) is responsible for
improving the experience of those who upstream contribute to the Kubernetes
project. We do this by creating, and maintaining programs and processes that
promote community health and reduce project friction, while retiring those
programs and processes that don't. Being conscientious of our contributor base is
critical to scaling the project, growing the ecosystem, and helping the project
succeed.”
- SIG Contributor Experience Charter

7. First things first
● https://git.k8s.io/community/sig-list.md
● Calendar:
https://kubernetes-contributor.netlify.app
/resources/calendar/

8. How we do it...subprojects
● Community - Owns and manages overall community repo, including community group
documentation and operations.
● Community Management - Manages operations and policy for upstream community group
communication platforms.
● Contributor Documentation - Writes and maintains documentation around contributing to
Kubernetes, including the Contributor's Guide, Developer's Guide, and contributor website.
● Devstats - Maintains and updates https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io, including taking requests for new
charts.
https://git.k8s.io/community/sig-contributor-experience#subprojects

9. How we do it...subprojects
● Events - Creates and runs contributor-focused events, such as the Contributor Summit. Event
Teams are part of this subproject.
● GitHub Management - Manages and controls Github permissions, repos, and groups, including
Org Membership.
● K8s.io - Creates and maintains shortcuts and automation apps running in the k8s.io domain.
● Mentoring - Oversees and develops programs for helping contributors ascend the contributor
ladder, including the New Contributor Workshops, Meet Our Contributors, and other programs.
● Slack Infra - Creates and maintains tools and automation for Kubernetes Slack.
https://git.k8s.io/community/sig-contributor-experience#subprojects

10. Community Management
● Mailing Lists and Calendars
○ All SIGs have public meetings with notes on the community calendar
○ Join the list of the thing you’re interested in
● YouTube
○ Check out youtube.com/kubernetescommunity
○ Stream team is looking for more members, specifically on the West Coast US
“The last remnants of the old republic
are being swept away ...eventually”

11. Community Management
● Community Repo
○ OWNERs of github.com/kubernetes/community
○ “Meta of the meta” - governance documentation, election procedures, values.md, anything
steering wants us to oversee or janitorialize.
● Zoom
○ TLDR: Keep your clients up to date
● discuss.k8s.io
○ Community forum with related k8s topics
● Moderators
○ Always looking, especially APAC.

12. ● Team was established late last year and has grown significantly!
● Launched a communication framework to provide clear and regular updates.
● Wrote multiple blog posts on SIGs that resulted in new contributors! (Editorial board)
● New Contributor Twitter account launched -
@k8sContributors
Community Mgmnt Upstream Marketing?
Channels
Needs
Feedback
Appreciated
ICYMI
Priority
Action
Required
Up next
● Scope and release of a message
syndication bot.
● Simplify our issue template based on
initial feedback.
● Continue community group blog series.

13. Contributors Documentation
● “Living documents”
● Contributor Guide
● Developer Guide
○ Currently undergoing a significant
rework.
● Contributor Site
○ Publish contributor guide, community
calendar, release information and more.
○ Launch targeting end of August

14. DevStats
● Toolset to visualize GitHub archives
(GitHub events) using Grafana
dashboards
● Revisiting all the boards and
sections with the mindset of how
they can used by leads.
● Ping Lauri Apple (@LappleApple) if
you’re interested.

15. Events
● Contributor Summits during KubeCon :(
○ Currently on hiatus due to world events, more to
follow.
○ Potentially going to host virtual event.
● Upcoming Steering Committee election
○ Announcement will be sent to kubernetes-dev
mailing list.
● Kubernetes Office Hours

16. GitHub Management
● Manages and controls Github permissions, repos, and groups, including Org
Membership.
● GitHub Org Clean up is done o/
○ Community Membership Guidelines have been updated to support off-boarding members
○ Members with NO activity across any of the Kubernetes Orgs for 18 months will be removed
and asked to go through org membership process again
● Kubernetes-incubator should be retired by the end of August
● Upcoming: Pruning inactive repos in the Kubernetes org

17. Mentoring Prereq - The ladder
Subproject
Owner
- Set priorities and approve proposals for subproject
- Responsibility and leadership for entire
repository/directory
Approver
- Approve contributions for acceptance
- Highly experienced reviewer and contributor in
subproject
Reviewer - History of reviewing; reviews frequently
- Authorship in subproject
Member - Active contributor to the project
- Sponsored by two Reviewers
Non-member Contributors

18. Mentoring
● Programs / Initiatives:
○ Meet our Contributors - AMA with current contributors
○ Group Mentoring Cohorts - Semi-structured group mentoring initiative with a small group of
people
○ Shadow Programs (Building Teams) - Scalable apprenticeship program
○ 1:1 Hour - Pair with someone in the ecosystem
○ Google Summer of Code (GSoC) - Internship program
○ Outreachy Internships - Internship Program
○ New Contributor Workshop - more on this in a bit
ESSENTIAL TO OVERALL PROJECT HEALTH

19. Mentoring - New Contributor Workshop
● Formerly an all day workshop hosted as a
part of the Contributor Summits
● Being reworked to be piecemeal and targeted
towards online only
● Looking for volunteers to help present and
record sections

20. Slack infra
● Slack tooling has enabled us to manage a 100k user
Slack (thanks Katharine~)
● Upcoming:
○ Connecting github to #announcements so people can
PR/approve
announcements
○ Channel-level moderation

21. Related Working Groups
● WG Naming
○ We have a new WG working with SIG Contribex!
○ We are working with GitHub for their roadmap on renaming the default branch on repos to
“main”.

22. How you can Contribute

24. Getting involved...the SIG Meeting
● Every SIG/WG/UG has regularly
scheduled meetings
● All meetings are uploaded to the
Kubernetes Community YouTube
Channel
● SIG ContribEx Mailing List
...sometimes we have random hat days too!

25. Tips on your first SIG Meeting
● Find a buddy
● Volunteer to take notes
● Attend regularly
● Small, dependable contributions > volunteering for the world
● SIGs should have a list of “good first issues” for you to chew on,
if they don’t then … start with issue triaging

26. There are non-code related paths available

27. Where to find us
● Chairs
○ @mrbobbytables
○ @castrojo
● Technical Leads
○ @cblecker
○ @nikhita
● Home page: README link
● Slack channel: https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/sig-contribex
● List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubernetes-sig-contribex