Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience, 13 Feb 2020

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From YouTube: ContribEx BiWeekly Update 20200213 (APAC Edition)

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ContribEx Weekly Update for February 12, 2020

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And wonder if anyone else is going to join or not.

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Let me come with maybe a few minutes: yeah I'm just checking the website of CNC efforts. I see they have updated information about the chronal virus for the upcoming events, yeah.

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I saw that for kubernetes for I'm, saying yes well, I mean they have just mentioned that you know if you have like who, like few like symptoms to like stay at home,.

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Yeah, so they won't cancel all the events for now, so we've just started the team formation of for. Could you be a summit in Shanghai? Oh.

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That's awesome, yeah I mean I was also curious if they are still going to hold the Yukon in China. When is it again July? Yes,.

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July, so it might be a bit early to to say anything at this time. Yeah.

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I think we can start it now. We have four of us.

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I don't have to I, don't have a very the host key right now, but I see the recordings on. So you get a feel free to pick up.

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Shirin so I'm gonna start the meeting now so welcome everyone to the February 13th edition of the AIPAC contributors, experience I. Think since first we have a code of conduct, so please be excellent to each other. I, don't think we have any new contributors on the line, so I guess we can skip that next would be if there are any events or meetups or blog posts, as people would like to mention that are happening in the APAC region.

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I just have one that is that we're having a pre event meet up in Bangalore before kubernetes forums, it's in the VMware office at near trippy, Nagar and Bangalore. They have a registration form that he specifically me to fill out too before the event and the registration form closes today at around 2 p.m. I think, and that is absolutely necessary.

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If you want to like enter the vm bedroom Isis, it seems so you have like please fill that if you are interested, does anyone have any other meetups or blog posts or any other events that they'd like to talk about.

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Ok moving on so the next item sorry come on yeah. Sorry.

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So yeah hi this is daddy, so we recently started a city of Kolkata chapter politician same see of Kolkata meetups only we had a GL PC season with a limited term with a few people, but gradually we are going but yeah. It started in Kolkata. Recently, that's.

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Awesome is that an official CN CF meter, yes,.

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It is Oh, perfect.

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Yeah another call for meetups and blog posts if.

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You do not, please put the link of that in the notes.

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Okay sure thank.

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Okay, then, moving on to blog posts, version of meet our contributors, planning yang created an issue for it. So if you have any ideas free streaming, there I have one update. In the last meeting, we decided that we'd create blog posts for the India region, targeted for kubernetes forums.

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India, it's been two weeks since then, but almost everyone I've talked to has been super bandwidth constrained and super busy for the event and otherwise, as well and I think it would have been like I think we should plan things a little bit in advance next time round, so yeah I, don't think it would be possible to get a blog post out for kubernetes forums, India, so I think we should probably get another region first and circle back to India or some time again, thoughts, comments, concerns about us.

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Yeah so I think it might be a good idea to talk to contributors at the event and gather more ideas for the blog post self or for any like a set of questions for interviewee. It will contributors.

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That's an amazing idea: yeah I will check that I, don't know what I think other is on the line are also going to be at the event. So we can all do that um yeah. There was one more thing. I wanted to mention. I also talked to the sake, talk block-post folks. There is a sick dogs blog channel on the kubernetes slack, where they hang out and I ask them if they are like ok with this idea, and they were not plus one for it. So there are no objections on that side. I guess!

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The next thing we'd have to figure out is what country or region we want to target any ideas.

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I guess it's just folks from India and well Japan China on the line right now young. Do you think it would be a good idea to like I, don't know Japan or China hello.

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I just joined, my name is CJ.

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Hi Sam I started.

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Yeah yeah I joined from militia Oh awesome.

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So we also have Malaysia ongoing. Yes,.

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I have a question on out of curiosity: are there lots of contributors from Malaysia an upstream I.

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Don't think so, but I did hear about some meetups happening in Indonesia and I know a few guys from tutor who helped me out to organize. My first cabinet is made up in Malaysia Penang, where I have so that's the knowledge I have right now, but I can check on that.

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Sounds awesome yeah we can also so I should have provided some background on this issue. First, so we are planning to create a blog post series targeting specific countries or multiple countries or a specific region in the asia-pacific region.

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Overall and we'll be focusing on contributors from a particular region, creating a small interview like pattern, we haven't really decided how that post format would look like, but that's kind of the general idea right now. So the next thing that we were thinking about is what region to target next.

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So yeah yang to you, what do you think about and I hear in two countries you keep oscillating between two countries, I think so which what do you think I.

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Think that we can so one one idea is to to do one country proposed or we can like, we can focus on a specific topic, a each post like from from this C or the other C, or this contributor, these three contributors joy in the community last year and several next year, something like that.

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Yeah, that's also a good idea, I wonder if it's like how do we? How do we choose folks on? How do we like to find that boundary where we want to select folks like I mean people might have joined last year, but they maybe started getting more active and serious this year, so would I mean? Would you also include such folks?

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I I was like so in my what I, just like good thinking out loud I was thinking if we target a specific country or region, and when we publish the blog post, we can advertise that sort of a market mold in that region and kind of like focus on getting contributors from that particular country or region, and that click heads to target and focus better I. Think good, like I. Don't have strong opinions on this? Oh yes,.

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Yes, so target in a specific country or region is definitely a good idea to help us get more contributors.

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Another idea that would it help to like localize these blog posts in the language that the like, depending on the country, that we're writing upon, so that it might help to reach to more folks.

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So I think we could start with the country and then, if we decide to like this, isn't working out that well and we should probably update the format we can move on to, like you said pick a particular sake or folks who join in the last, you are or something.

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Just just edition from my side, so what? If we do announcement of this in the particular slack channel for each country, so that you like for the militia users I, have started and I have around just only 21 users and being nickel and all spent over there and specific a shape like perfect regions.

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At this, we can reach out to the users who are there in the slide. First.

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Before but I'm not really sure like how we plan to go about this, yet it's okay.

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Haven't really finished all the logistics but yeah? That's that's a good idea and yeah I didn't know that there was a channel from Malaysia to that's pretty awesome.

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Yeah I think we could, like start out with yeah I mean I'm, okay, with like starting out with India as well, like a fur to start out with a region that we have like folks on the line here, because we definitely need country backs and the APAC team to initiate this so like I'm, happy to help out with India, if you all have like. If anyone wants to start the lead on this or wants to take initiative on the first block was like, please feel free to chime in.

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Just just a question, so the blog post has to be around that specific topic or in general about the region from where you are coming and how's the community. Looking right now, I.

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Don't really know I mean just say no I mean we haven't really like decided that we like to stick to a particular format. It's pretty open-ended right now, but yes, we'd, like to kind of restrict it to upstream contributors from that area.

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Like yeah, we can include a little bit of like a section about meetups that are happening, but in general we want to focus on upstream efforts that is different, like contributors who are active and six who are maintenance, who are project owners, project owners, approvers and reviewers, and how they got and like an interview, format, maybe like how they got started, what kind of challenges they faced, how they went of the contributor ladder, how they manage time and some general things like that, and if there are specific things that they like to talk about, we can also do that.

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Okay, let me reach out to these guys who are in India nation, Vietnam and I will provide you an update like once they're caught on that.

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That's awesome. Thank you. So much hey.

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Nobody on here so I had one concern regarding that. So if we are putting all that content in a blog post, can we do it per country like will? Will it not be way too long, or should we like space target specific contributors, I went out here.

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That's a really good question: I.

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I I was like from what I had in mind. Was we could kind of talk about it and brief about like we won't be talking about each contributors journey, but we'll kind of survey in quotes about their journey, and then we can like draw out patterns or I.

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Or so so, if we have like a question which says what are the challenges you faced and everyone chimes in with their challenges that they faced, maybe we can draw patterns or choose specific responses to a particular question. So not all contributors will be answering all questions or will not include all answers from all contributors to all questions, but we like pickup subset of something like that. So.

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Basically, we will curate yeah.

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Yeah, that's put.

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It in more marketing friendly or more UX friendly words am I correct in saying that yeah.

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That's what I had in mind but I mean it's all, just a rough sketch right now, so we can definitely update it if there are any other ideas that actually.

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Sounds good just the equator to ensure that people from the region that we are targeting actually answer questions, so maybe we would have to go to each person and then like nag them here. Please, oh yeah,.

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I I definitely expect lots of pinging people on slack and everywhere and just following up, we could maybe set up a Google forum or something like that to make it easier to just post it in the like a sock channel and then we'd also follow up with specific folks that we'd want to hear from yep.

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Yeah, so I can definitely start out with like help out with India after cumin Harry's forums, though. But if there's like such a you that you want to, you can help out with Malaysia and addition. Vietnam is that right, yeah.

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So I'm located in militia so definitely with militia, but I will reach out to other people from these two countries. Okay,.

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That would be awesome and I will follow up on the Indian stuff, but it's again going to be after kubernetes forums, which I think is almost like. The next meeting, so I don't think we're gonna have too many updates before that. But if there's anyone who wants to take up or help out regarding India clip just get started with India, that's also completely fine, but if there's any other country that would be amazing.

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Okay, does anyone have anything more to add on blog posts before we move on to the next agenda item? Yes,.

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So two things, one is that we can. We can start means multiple country like like our last meetings. We can start with India and post with China or Japan, because I'm still looking for team members for the could be summit in Shanghai, so I might get some good ideas during this process. Also, we can start with that, but we we can also like.

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Like work, each other work together to to fall for these two regions.

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Do you mean, or do you mean like? Would countries in one blog post I mean.

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In parallel, yeah.

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That sounds good yeah.

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And the other, the other one is so Paris had a has updates on the issue that the marketing team is bootstrapping. So I might take a look at at that. The notes as well I think they might have some good ideas around that.

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Yeah, that would be nice too I.

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Unfortunately, not paid attention to what the marketing team is doing, but we should definitely sync with them and said talks folks. Yes, when we get a draft act.

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So they have a few guidelines regarding the blog post, the tone and content of that awesome.

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Marketing team I'm just thinking.

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Pr that pushes in those changes, I just uh ding-dongs act.

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Okay, any other parts, comments and Sons on the blog posts issue.

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Okay, um just to recap everything that we've discussed. We will be reaching out to folks that are setting up plan, at least for India and China.

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Initially, we will work in parallel and such I can answer reach out to folks in Malaysia and Indonesia or any other country like folks, you know, and then we can all sink in the next meeting about where, like what the status looks like overall, okay, moving on to the next item in the agenda, Shanghai contributor summit planning, young.

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Yes, so cute Concha I will be back in July and as well as to ketubah summit. So Josh has has asked me and Priya.

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We are from Germany to help lead this event and we are currently start looking for help.

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We want to look for folks to help with multiple roles like registration, communications and content and new category bookshop. That's the tentative doors for now so I think folks, on this call and from AIPAC regions, are very welcome to join this team. If you have a past contribute contributor summit experience, you can try to lead to lower. If you don't, you can also feel free to how shadow the raw.

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Awesome are we doing any sort of marketing or outreach to get more folks for this everywhere? Yes,.

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I think we should look in for folks in the dev channels for regions for shadow for shadows, but the lead will mostly come from the staff team for passing leads.

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Yeah I was like Micah advertised this on I, don't know, what's a Twitter equivalent in China, but whatever like WeChat I guess. We could also probably like advertise about this there and to get like more folks involved. They don't necessarily even have to be upstream contributors. They can be completely new folks to the community. So I think it would be like hopeful to get new folks involved as well. What do you think.

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So CN CF they have a WeChat account.

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That might get a few traffic for us.

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Awesome I think you are should be able to help with that work. If you already know folks in CN CF, who can help with it, we could probably reach out to them. Yes,.

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Cool um looks like that's the last agenda item, but before we wanted the open mic discussion, does anyone have anything else that they'd like to add about the shanghai contributor summit planning.

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Looks like no, there are currently no items and they open my discussion, but the floor is open. Does any and have anything that they'd like to talk about.

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uh I just have dated the dog with the meet up what we are having in militia region. This February.

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I wonder if there's like a place where all meetups are in one place: I like just a markdown document or something does C and C F have something like that.

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We don't have a mark, don't document, but if we go to meetup.com there is a CNC F page on which we can see all CNC have chartered meetups. Only the.

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Recognized once there's a page for that.

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Yeah that makes sense I should have checked that yeah link would be definitely nice.

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Anything else anyone wants to add regarding anything.

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Okay looks like that's a no, so we are almost at time. So thank you. Everyone for joining have a good morning afternoon evening, depending on wherever you are and see you all in two weeks and see you folks in person who is coming to compare these forums in d bye, bye, thank.

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