# Ansible Contributor Summit 2021.09 Write up ###### tags: `contributor summit` ![](https://i.imgur.com/H4PC7MK.png) ## Overview Ansible Contributor Summit is a community-driven online event that is hosted in two parts. All the talks and presentations are based on the interest of contributors and community users. This time the summit was live-streamed on Youtube vis Jitsi. Attendees and everyone else from the community interacted over matrix and IRC with the speakers, fellow contributors and members of the Ansible Development team. Part I had happened on September 28, 2021, with part II was on October 1, 2021. After each presentation, there was a Q&A session and the speakers gave their best to address the queries and assist with the raised issues and concerns which was also tracked in the hackmd document here. **TODO:** Following are the agenda and link to the presentation slides from _Ansible Contributor Summit - 2021.09_ ## Day 1 - Sep 28, 2021 **Part I** of the contributor summit mainly focused on welcoming contributors, community members and helping new contributors on how to get started with contributing to the Ansible project through self-paced trainings and hackathon. - Welcome and Overview - gundalow - Setting up a development environment - tadeboro - Self-paced Instruqt - ompragash - Hackathon overview - cybette & team - Ask a Maintainer - jillr, dmsimard & spotz - Hacking, training (Instruqt), Q&A, discussions ## Day 2 - Oct 1, 2021 - Welcome and Announcements - Network Team - Brad, Nilashish, Rohit, Gomathi - Security Team - Sumit, Craig - Recognizing Contributor (Badges) - Ompragash - Matrix - Greg - Increasing asynchronous discussion - Greg, gundalow - Developer Tooling - Brad, Ganesh, Priyam, Rick, Sorin, Sviatoslav - Making the Community more self sufficient - abadger - Galaxy update - Andrew Crosby (Ansible Galaxy & Automation Hub) - Executor Team - eqrx - Core Team - nitzmahone - Cloud Team - jillr - If we could wave a magic wand and fix 5 most annoying things - gundalow ## Welcome and Announcements * Hosts: * John "gundalow" Barker, Engineering Manager, Community Team * Ompragash Viswanathan, Senior Engineer, Community Team * [Presentation](https://github.com/ansible/community/blob/main/decks/contrib-summit-2021.09/FIXME) * [YouTube Link](FIXMEINCTIMESTAMP) ### Discussion (Summary of discussion here, copy from Agenda) (Ask presentor for other info) ### How to get involved (Call to action) ### Other links * AnsibleFest video links * Blogs, etc * Instruqt * https://ansible.com/community