Community and Contributor Experience, with Jorge Castro

Oct 8, 2019

Jorge Castro is a community manager employed by VMware to help keep the Kubernetes project running smoothly. He joins Adam and Craig to talk about the programs run by SIG Contributor Experience, the difference between supporting contributors and end users, and the recent steering committee election.

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Chatter of the week

• The Jordan Luck Band
• The Exponents
• Snippets from Who Loves Who The Most, Victoria and Why Does Love Do This To Me

News of the week

• Kubernetes Steering Committee election results
• Envoy proxy journey report
• October updates to the StackRox Security Platform
• Protecting Kubernetes against a Billion Laughs attack by Stackrox
  • Billion laughs attack on Wikipedia
• Open Source in VMware Tanzu
• Project Contour moves IngressRoute to HTTPProxy
• Sloop from Salesforce
• Kontena Lens: free desktop app
• GKE master on-prem routing
• AKS managed identity
• Envoy proxy perforamcne on Kubernetes by Ambassador
• Announcing Kubernetes Community Days
• WeaveWorks GitOps Manager and WKSctl
• Transmogrify Kubernetes APIs by David Young

Links from the interview

• About Jorge Castro
  • 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
  • John Wick horse scene
  • (Ok, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, not horses)
• From Ubuntu to Heptio
• Community episodes & community managers:
  • Episode 27 with Sarah Novotny
  • Episode 1 with Paris Pittman
• Kubernetes Slack bot
• Contributor Experience properties:
  • YouTube
    • Office hours (and calendar)
    • Meet our Contributors
  • Kubernetes subreddit
  • Kubernetes Users mailing list - now archived
  • discuss.kubernetes.io
• Ask Ubuntu
• SIG Contributor Experience
• End user content:
  • KEP for setting up discuss.kubernetes.io
  • Proposal with steering for end user committee
  • Kubernetes Failure Stories
  • Kubernetes tag on Stack Overflow
• Bots fixing bugs, merging and celebrating with no humans needed
  • Humans Need Not Apply
• WG Kubernetes Infrastructure
• Kubernetes Steering Committee
  • 2019 Steering committee election
  • Election process: no electioneering
  • Condorcet method
  • Three “chop wood/carry water” winners were elected
    • Jorge himself was also a recipient!
• Self-organised community:
  • “Kubeyland” Disneyland trip
  • Cloud Native Rejekts
• Jorge and his many friends all hang out on #sig-contribex on Slack and the kubernetes-sig-contribex mailing list
• Jorge Castro on Twitter