Shaping Kubernetes Community Culture

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Kubernetes community reports specific numbers and concrete actions: Slack exceeds 120,000 people and about 20,000 unique contributors in a year, PR review latency becomes a chosen health metric, the 1.19 release is extended during COVID, Dunbar tiers map to steering and SIG sizes, the code of conduct committee will publish incident handling guide, open a public Slack channel, start transparency reports for non‑conference incidents, fund a free online course replacing the in‑person new contributor workshop, and expand mentorship and internship partnerships.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:01The Kubernetes Community
3. 3:49Social Groups Have Scalability Limits
4. 8:27Transparency and Accountability
5. 10:22Transparency Reports

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