README.md

Contributor Experience Special Interest Group

Developing and sustaining a healthy community of contributors is critical to scaling the project and growing the ecosystem. We need to ensure our contributors are happy and productive, and that there are not bottlenecks hindering the project in, for example: feature velocity, community scaling, pull request latency, and absolute numbers of open pull requests and open issues.

The charter defines the scope and governance of the Contributor Experience Special Interest Group.

Meetings

Joining the mailing list for the group will typically add invites for the following meetings to your calendar.

• Regular SIG Meeting: Wednesdays at 9:00 PT (Pacific Time) (weekly alternating slack/zoom). Convert to your timezone.
  • Meeting notes and Agenda.
  • Meeting recordings.

Leadership

Chairs

The Chairs of the SIG run operations and processes governing the SIG.

• Alison Dowdney (@alisondy), Kasten
• Josh Berkus (@jberkus), Red Hat
• Bob Killen (@mrbobbytables), Google

Technical Leads

The Technical Leads of the SIG establish new subprojects, decommission existing subprojects, and resolve cross-subproject technical issues and decisions.

• Christoph Blecker (@cblecker), Red Hat
• Nikhita Raghunath (@nikhita), VMware

Emeritus Leads

• Elsie Phillips (@Phillels)
• Jorge Castro (@castrojo)
• Garrett Rodrigues (@grodrigues3)
• Paris Pittman (@parispittman)

Contact

• Slack: #sig-contribex
• Mailing list
• Open Community Issues/PRs
• GitHub Teams:
  • @kubernetes/sig-contributor-experience - General Discussion
  • @kubernetes/sig-contributor-experience-leads - Chairs and Technical Leads
  • @kubernetes/sig-contributor-experience-pr-reviews - PR Reviews
• Steering Committee Liaison: Bob Killen (@mrbobbytables)

Subprojects

The following subprojects are owned by sig-contributor-experience:

community

Owns and manages overall community repo, including community group documentation and operations.

• Owners:
  • kubernetes/community

community-management

Manages operations and policy for upstream community group communication platforms.

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-sigs/discuss-theme
  • kubernetes/community/communication

contributor-comms

Contributor Communications focuses on amplifying the success of Kubernetes contributors through marketing.

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-sigs/contributor-tweets
  • kubernetes-sigs/lwkd
  • kubernetes/community/communication/marketing-team
• Meetings:
  • Contributor Comms - Upstream Marketing Team Meeting: Fridays at 8:00 PT (Pacific Time) (weekly). Convert to your timezone.
    • Meeting notes and Agenda.
    • Meeting recordings.

contributors-documentation

writes and maintains documentation around contributing to Kubernetes, including the Contributor's Guide, Developer's Guide, and contributor website.

• Owners:
  • kubernetes/community/contributors/guide
  • kubernetes/contributor-site

devstats

Maintains and updates https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io, including taking requests for new charts.

• Owners:
  • kubernetes/community/sig-contributor-experience/devstats
• Contact:
  • Slack: #devstats

events

Creates and runs contributor-focused events, such as the Contributor Summit. Event Teams are part of this subproject.

• Owners:
  • kubernetes/community/events
• Contact:
  • Slack: #sig-contribex
• Meetings:
  • Office Hours European Edition (Open Q&A for end-user kubernetes related questions): Wednesdays at 09:00 ET (Eastern Time) (monthly on 3rd Wednesday). Convert to your timezone.
  • Office Hours Western Edition (Open Q&A for end-user kubernetes related questions): Wednesdays at 12:00 ET (Eastern Time) (monthly on 3rd Wednesday). Convert to your timezone.
    • Meeting notes and Agenda.
    • Meeting recordings.

github-management

Manages and controls Github permissions, repos, and groups, including Org Membership.

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-client/.github
  • kubernetes-csi/.github
  • kubernetes-sigs/.github
  • kubernetes-sigs/maintainers
  • kubernetes/.github
  • kubernetes/community/github-management
  • kubernetes/kubernetes-template-project
  • kubernetes/org
• Contact:
  • Slack: #github-management
• Meetings:
  • GitHub Administration Subproject: Thursdays at 09:30 PT (Pacific Time) (Monthly on 4th Thursday). Convert to your timezone.
    • Meeting notes and Agenda.
    • Meeting recordings.

mentoring

Oversees and develops programs for helping contributors ascend the contributor ladder, including the New Contributor Workshops, Meet Our Contributors, and other programs.

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-sigs/contributor-katacoda
  • kubernetes-sigs/contributor-playground
  • kubernetes/community/mentoring

slack-infra

Creates and maintains tools and automation for Kubernetes Slack.

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-sigs/slack-infra
• Contact:
  • Slack: #slack-infra

Relevant Presentations

This is a collection of presentations from our SIG members around contributing to Kubernetes, feel free to PR in content here:

Current Status

This is the work we've done this past cycle and plan to work on in the future:

• Contributor Experience Community Update (July 2020)
  • Slides

General Presentations

• How to Contribute to Kubernetes - Nikhita Raghunath
• Practical git for Kubernetes Contributors- Christoph Blecker
• State of the Kubernetes Contributor Community - Paris Pittman
• A peek behind the curtain: Managing the Kubernetes Contributor Community

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon

We give our SIG status at every KubeCon, here are our most current talks:

• SIG Contributor Experience Deep Dive, North America 2021 - Alison Dowdney, Christoph Blecker
• SIG Contributor Experience Deep Dive, Europe 2021 - Bob Killen, Alison Dowdney, Christoph Blecker, Nikhita Raghunath
• Introdution to Contributor Experience 2020 - Bob Killen, Jorge Castro
• Introduction to Contributor Experience 2019 - Elsie Phillips, Paris Pittman
• Contributor Experience Deep Dive 2019 - Christoph Blecker, Nikhita Raghunath