Welcome to Kubernetes New Contributor Workshop!

In this meetup, we will learn how to contribute to the Kubernetes and participate in various avenues of the community.

• Introduction to the Kubernetes Community
• Experiences of contributors from India
• Community groups overview
• Communication in the k8s community
• Kubernetes community repositories tour
• kubernetes/kubernetes walkthrough
• Break for 10mins
• Introduction to labels, bots and GitHub Workflow
• How to find your first issue?
• Live PR demo
• How and where can you help?
• Break for 10mins
• Hands-on session + Questions
• Swags!

• Slides URL: here
• Attendee instructions
• Contributor Documentation
  • Contributor guide
  • Contributor cheatsheet
  • Developer guide

Nabarun is a Member of Technical Staff at VMware and the Kubernetes 1.21 Release Lead. He helps with several other subprojects in the Kubernetes community like Enhancements, API Machinery, Kubernetes Clients. He has dabbled with multiple software industry domains ranging from web services to data pipelines to infrastructure. Nabarun also actively contributes to and mentors new contributors in diverse open source communities like Kubernetes and Python.

Nikhita is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at VMware, a member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee and a CNCF Ambassador. She is also the technical lead for a Special Interest Group (SIG) - SIG Contributor Experience - in the upstream Kubernetes project. She also helps run the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and Outreachy internship programs for CNCF/Kubernetes.

Alongside her day job as a Senior Systems Engineer at HSBC, Divya has been contributing to the k8s community for almost a year now in various capacities. She's the SIG Docs lead for another project under the CNCF umbrella, LitmusChaos & is a CNCF ambassador. Outside of work commitments, she loves speaking about her (mis)adventures in the Cloud Native space & tweeting cat photos.

Arsh is currently a Google Summer Of Code (GSoC) Student Developer with CNCF. Previously he has been a Linux Foundation Mentee where he worked on evaluating dependency updates to Kubernetes. Apart from contributing to open source projects, he loves writing blogs about various things in the cloud-native ecosystem.

Madhav, a systems geek and goof, is an active contributor to various projects in the Kubernetes community and works mainly on the API Machinery and Node side of things and has also been involved with the structured logging efforts in the Kubernetes project for the 1.22 release. Apart from that, he helps organize and document code walkthrough sessions for the Kubernetes contributor community in India and helps new contributors get started in the Kubernetes community.