for feature/patch, review code, commit code. üCreate Reports/documentation, Create Feature Requests, Mailing list support by answer questions. üProvide hardware/setup – Help build test, CI/CD, test scripts. üPromote the Project – Write blogs, FAQs, üOrganize Community events or participate. • Be humble! Have low expectation! Ready to accept the Rejection! Keep moving…. How to Contribute
Maintainers • Component Owner • Approver • Reviewer • Org Member • Active Contributor • New Contributor • Each step after Active contributor is defined as 3 month timeline, with active work done at that role. •https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/governance.md •Each advanced level members can help new comers get in to the system quick and help start contributing. •Make your community with combinations various levels of contributors. Contributor Levels in K8S
Site Index – 300+ project initiative and statistics • https://projects.apache.org/ • Speaker List, Presentations & Press Kit • https://community.apache.org/speakers/speakers.html • ApacheCon – All materials in one place (Past/Future) • https://www.apache.org/foundation/conferences.html • Innovation Lab – Experiment with new ideas • http://labs.apache.org/
Model • https://www.cloudfoundry.org/the-cloud-foundry-way/ • Research – (Container Report 2016 & Developer Gap 2016) • https://www.cloudfoundry.org/research/ • Cloud Foundry Certified Provider • https://www.cloudfoundry.org/certified-providers/ • Case Studies – Well described • https://www.cloudfoundry.org/category/case-studies/
Austin 2016 The report contains: What is the size of the community, Global and regional trends, Introduce new groups, leaders, Updates on speaker bureau, recommended practices for starting and running communities, Status update on official groups, Process, Updates on user groups since Tokyo, Groups portal, Overview, Results, Welcome pack and Open Stack shop, Q&A https://www.openstack.org/videos/tokyo-2015/ambassador-community-report • Open Stack Hackathons • https://www.openstack.org/community/events/openstackhackathons • Open Stack User Survey • https://www.openstack.org/user-survey/survey-2017/landing?BackURL=/user-survey/survey-2017/ • User Committee – consolidate user requirements & work with user groups. • https://www.openstack.org/foundation/user-committee/ • User Group Portal • https://groups.openstack.org/
important get the right speaker & subject. • Target audience - beginners and intermediate. Timings, format and locations can vary. • Combined Meetup with other groups like Devops, Docker, Mesos, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud.
https://github.com/cncf/ambassadors/blob/master/Meetup%20Reimbursement%20Report%20-%20CNCF.pdf • Your own company • Why CNCF Meetup? • Other Vendors • Why would they sponsor?
& https://www.cncf.io/about/ambassadors/ • Docker Captains • https://www.docker.com/community/docker-captains • Open Stack Ambassadors • https://groups.openstack.org/ambassador-program • Apache ASF, PMC, Committers List • http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html & https://community.apache.org/speakers/ • Other Leaders • Industry relations, Linux Foundations, LinkedIn, Other conferences/events, university collaborations, etc.
& https://github.com/cncf/cluster • Join the Cluster SIG - https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-list.md • Submit & Resolve Cluster Issues. • A Getting started guide would be really hepful. • A Dash board showing cluster usage would be helpful? • Apart from Intel, can more companies get involve in Hardware sharing? • How to share the clusters with Universities – Who can help in support?
• Course Kubernetes Fundamentals (LFS258) for $99 now. • Ambassadors can really step in and help develop new courses! • https://www.cncf.io/announcement/2016/11/08/cloud-native-computing-foundation-launches-certification- training-managed-service-provider-program-kubernetes/ • BETA Certifications • You can join the SIG to get more details - [email protected] • Just announced in this KubeCon Exam BETA is coming in May (Kubernetes Certified Administrator Exam) https://github.com/cncf/curriculum
• The community development status – how do we get that? (quarterly/yearly?) • Feed community pain points back to Technical Oversees Committee (e.g: CNCF TOC - it helps to decide the projects/feature charter) What about CNCF News Letter? • Community can make it better? https://www.cncf.io/newsroom/newsletter/ KubeCon Weekly by Apprenda • Apprenda folks doing fantastic job. Anything else can be added? https://kubeweekly.com/ Industry Open Source Guidelines adopt to CNCF • e.g: Google Open Source Guide Best Practices - https://opensource.guide/
Proposal? • Ambassadors get together and share knowledge • Ambassador lunch/dinner – casual sharing? • It helps understand which regions/area how community grows and what are the new techniques employed to promote the projects.