The Kubernetes Contributor Experience Special Interest Group (SIG) is tasked with developing and sustaining a healthy contributor community. Things like feature velocity, community scaling, mentoring, pull request latency, and more all fall within scope of the SIG. In this talk, we will provide an introduction to SIG Contributor Experience, its role within the project, and dive into the various subprojects that support its mission. Additionally, we will provide a general community update and go over how you can get involved.

As the third virtual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, this year’s Europe event once again set record-breaking registration and attendance.

The conference had 26,648+ registrants (a 42.5% increase from Europe 2020) and a 63% attendance rate. Of this year’s registrants, 69% were first-time KubeCon + CloudNativeCon attendees. Feedback from attendees was positive, with 95% of respondents rating the event “good,” “very good,” or “excellent” and an overall average rating of 4.1 / 5. The top two reasons respondents cited for attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon were career growth/training (58%) and networking (14%).

SIG Contributor Experience Deep Dive

Conference: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021

Authors: Bob Killen, Christoph Blecker, Alison Dowdney, Nikhita Raghunath

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