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• 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.