⚡ Lightning Talk: Open Source, Kubernetes, And CloudNative From the Eyes Of a High-Schooler

The speaker, a high school student involved in Kubernetes and CloudNative, shares their perspective on open source and motivates the audience to contribute to the CloudNative ecosystem and open-source software in general.

• Open source can be intimidating, but finding your motivation to contribute can help
• Open source is about learning, teaching, mentorship, feedback, and networking
• Kubernetes and CNCF are great avenues to start your open source journey
• Opinionated tips include not being afraid to ask, giving back, and it's okay to not know everything

The speaker shares how they got the idea for their talk by asking someone at a conference for their perspective on starting open source in high school and contributing.

Being a high-school student involved in the Kubernetes and CloudNative, I have had a quite non-conventional path in the open-source community. This talk is aimed at seeing open-source through my perspective and motivate not just high-schooler but have valuable content for everyone in the audience to start contributing to the CloudNative ecosystem and open-source software in general. Though, this talk is not about how to make a PR or file an issue or git. I start the talk by introducing why and how I found the motivation to go into open-source apart from the olympiads and school work in the first place and talk about how the audience could find their motivation to make their first step in open-source. I also highlight how one could request feedback, make lasting connections, what it means to contribute and how anyone could make a meaningful impact. Finally, I also highlight my experience with k8s and CNCF and why it might be a great avenue for the audience to grow themselves with open-source.