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Been There, Done That: Tales of Burnout from the Open Source W...

Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 · 2022-05-16..05-20· [soft-skills]

speakers

name:Savitha Raghunathan

website:https://savitharaghunathan.github.io/

name:Divya Mohan

x:Divya_Mohan02

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video:https://youtu.be/UIU8qZWL3Io

slides:none on file

summary

Personal accounts show burnout from juggling Kubernetes SIG Docs, SIG Release and Litmus Chaos duties alongside day jobs, internships like Google Season of Docs, and roles such as PR wrangler and release manager (renamed release engineer to match employers). Contributors report overcommitment, missed deliverables and emotional exhaustion, then recover by pacing work, delegating onboarding, running a six‑week cohort that seeds three co‑chairs, and setting explicit, sustainable release goals and small, theme‑based milestones.

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