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.
Every first Wednesday of the month at the following times. Grab a copy of the calendar to yours from kubernetes.io/community
- 02:30pm UTC Convert to your timezone.
- 08:00pm UTC Convert to your timezone.
Tune into the Kubernetes YouTube Channel to follow along with video, check out our playlist of previous Meet-Our-Contributors monthly meetings and join #meet-our-contributors on Slack for questions and discussion.
- 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
- How our contributors got started with k8s
- Advice for getting attention on your PR
- GitHub tooling and automation
- Your first commit
- kubernetes/community
- Testing
- End-user questions (Check out #office-hours on Slack and details here)
- Day of on Twitter - use the hashtag #k8smoc after your question
- Slack - Ask your question in #meet-our-contributors
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.
- At least 24 hours before the session to Slack channel (#meet-our-contributors)
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.
Contributors - sign up to answer questions!
Expectations of volunteers:
- 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!