Meet our Contributors

Meet Our Contributors gives you a monthly one-hour opportunity to ask questions about our upstream community, watch interviews with our contributors, and participate in peer code reviews.

Meet Our Contributors - Ask Us Anything!

When Slack seems like it’s going too fast, and you just need a quick answer from a human…

Meet Our Contributors gives you a monthly one-hour opportunity to ask questions about our upstream community, watch interviews with our contributors, and participate in peer code reviews.

When:

Every first Wednesday of the month at the following times:

Where:

Follow along live: Kubernetes YouTube Channel

Ask questions: #meet-our-contributors Slack channel

To ask anonymously, direct message the host on Slack. They will ID at the start of the show.

Watch past recordings: Playlist of previous Meet-Our-Contributors monthly meetings

What You’ll Gain By Participating:

  • An opportunity to learn more about how to get started contributing to K8s
  • A chance to get your PRs reviewed by members of the community
  • Peer code review that can help you get more eyes on your code, or learn more about a part of the Kubernetes code that may have you struggling
  • A deeper understanding of the unique role that our contributors occupy in the Kubernetes ecosystem as a whole
  • Practical advice and hands-on tips for how you can get started as a Kubernetes contributor, become a member, or otherwise contribute to the project

What’s on-topic:

  • How our contributors got started with k8s
  • Advice for getting attention on your PR
  • GitHub tooling and automation
  • Your first commit
  • kubernetes/community
  • Testing

What’s off-topic:

Submitting questions and/or code for review/walk through:

Questions:

Questions will be on a first-come, first-served basis. The first half of the discussion will be dedicated to questions for contributors and in the second half, we will pick a problem (in advance) for peer code review.

Code snip / PR for peer code review / Suggestion for part of codebase walk through:

Problems will be chosen based on time commitment needed, the skills of the reviewer, and if a large amount are submitted, need for the project.

Call for Mentor Panelists!

Expectations of mentors:

  • Be online 5 minutes early. You can look at questions in the queue by joining the #meet-our-contributors Slack channel to give yourself some time to prepare.
  • Expect questions about the contribution process, membership, navigating the Kubernetes seas, testing, and general questions about you and your path to open source/Kubernetes. It’s okay if you don’t know the answer!
  • We will be using video chat (Zoom, but livestreaming through YouTube) but voice-only is fine if you are more comfortable with that.
  • Be willing to provide suggestions and feedback to make this process & experience better!