Keynote: Getting Started as an Open Source Contributor
summary
CNCF hosts a few dozen projects and publishes contributor and developer guides at github.com/kubernetes/community and Slack invites at slack.k8s.io; mentorship programs include Google Summer of Code, Community Bridge and Outreachy and report more than 50 Indian mentees. The community runs over 100 meetup groups with 15 meetups in India and eight ambassadors there. Contribution paths use labels like good first issue and Help Wanted, a backlog of ~2,000 issues needs triage, release teams use lead/shadow/mentee roles, and the contributor ladder goes member → reviewer → approver → owner.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:18Contribution Guides
- 1:58CNCF Meetups in India
- 2:29CNCF Ambassadors in India
- 2:59Mentorship programs
- 4:42Community Groups
- 5:28Communication
- 5:51India-specific Slack channels
- 6:51Understanding the codebase
- 7:34Find an issue
- 7:55Issue Triage
- 8:25Non-code contributions
- 8:54Shadowing on the release team
- 9:27Contributor Ladder
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