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Conference: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022
Authors: Nate Waddington, Jay Tihema
2022-10-26
Most CNCF projects want to participate in new contributor mentoring programs, but it's hard to get started -- and it's even harder to be successful. Meet the new Mentoring Working Group, who will help you with information, resources, and peer coaching. We'll also be introducing an exciting new program. LFX, GSOC, Outreach, and others let you grow and diversity project contributors through mentoring. We'll talk about the existing programs, how you can get involved, and ways to minimize the work involved. We'll also review how you can help build up the Mentorship WG to assist all CNCF projects, mentors, and mentees. We'll also introduce a new regional program, He Waka Eke Noa/HWEN, which is helping New Zealand and Maori students get involved in cloud native without leaving home. This program can serve as a model for new ways to recruit non-traditional contributors. You'll learn what you need to get started or become more successful in your project mentorship efforts.
Conference: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022
Authors: Debabrata Panigrahi
2022-05-17
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The presentation discusses the journey of a student from a new contributor to an approver in the Kubernetes community. It emphasizes the importance of mentoring, perseverance, and asking the right questions in the community. It also highlights the significance of regular SIG meetings and discussions and the need for contributors to comprehend the subject of the issue before attempting to solve it.
- The speaker shares their experience as a new contributor to Kubernetes and the challenges they faced in understanding the jargon used in the community.
- The presentation emphasizes the importance of mentoring and how it helped the speaker to learn about Kubernetes as an end-user and to contribute to the project.
- The speaker also discusses the significance of perseverance and the courage to ask the right questions in the community.
- The presentation highlights the importance of regular SIG meetings and discussions and how they help contributors to identify issues and areas where they can help.
- The speaker emphasizes the need for contributors to comprehend the subject of the issue before attempting to solve it.
- The presentation provides an anecdote about how the speaker worked on developing a contributor catacoda to help newbies who are not able to clear the threshold of setting up the Kubernetes code in the local system.
- The presentation also discusses how new contributors lose interest while looking for good-first-issues.