# Contributor Experience Meeting Notes

THIS IS A TEST BY JORGE

**Who:** **[README](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-contributor-experience)**, [Charter](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-contributor-experience/charter.md)

**Where we make decisions: **[Google Group / Mailing List](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubernetes-sig-contribex) & [GitHub](https://github.com/kubernetes/community)

**When do we meet: **

<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Shared calendar of wizardry: </span>([here](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=c8bafef04s12ra0gkqql6fchjc%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FLos_Angeles)) //UNDER CONSTRUCTION

**Host instructions and recurring meeting template: [Separate doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T-WdTVycZ62CjsvHKH97dFvnghgDJ4-8lhooPknSZQ0/edit?usp=sharing)**

**[Our Meeting Note Archive](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ABHjzuBP-1coefcAXjhX0lwLyi_5xiBbmRaIv2lPGJk/edit?usp=sharing)**

**🌟ContribEx Bi-weekly on Wednesdays@ [9:30 AM PT](http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/?t=9:30&tz=Los%20Angeles); ([Video meeting](https://zoom.us/j/397264241)) 🌟**

**🌟ContribEx APAC Topics Bi-weekly on Wednesdays@ [9:00 PM PT](https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/?t=21:00&tz=Los%20Angeles); ([Video meeting](https://zoom.us/j/144440337)) 🌟**

Others:

* Triage Team:
* Subprojects:
* Events (currently Amsterdam Summit)
* Every Monday at 10a PT
* [Project Board ; Agenda and notes](https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/projects/21)
* [Points of contact](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/events/OWNERS)
* Community-management
* Points of contact: Jorge, Paris, Ihor, Jaice
* Upstream Marketing Team Meeting:
* Weekly to bootstrap on Fridays at 8am; point of contact: paris
* APAC Coordinator Planning meeting
* Meta plans for scaling contribex into APAC regions
* Bi weekly on Thursday 5am UTC (wednesday 11pm PT)
* Points of contact: Chairs, Yang
* Github-management
* Monthly, 30 minute public meeting //when?
* Points of contact: Christoph, Aaron, Nikhita, Bob, others
* Slack-infra
* Slack standups
* Points of contact: (on slack): #slack-admins
* Contributor-documentation
* Fourth Wednesday of the month @ 11am PT
* [Project Board](https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/projects/17) ; Agenda and notes inline with main meeting below
* [Points of contact](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/guide/OWNERS)
* Mentoring
* Second Thursday of the month @ 830a PT
* [Project Board](https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/projects/18) ; Agenda and notes inline with main meeting below
* [Points of contact](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/OWNERS)

**Repo: **[/community](https://github.com/kubernetes/community) & future contributor site to be linked

**Have a topic?** Add it to the agenda in the Open Mic section or leave a comment

**Slack:** #sig-contribex - slack.k8s.io for an invite

**Chair/TL contact on Slack: __ **(Display names) mrbobbytables, mae, cblecker, nikhita

**Future Topics:**

Doc Sprint for community cleanup

[https://www.papercall.io/events](https://www.papercall.io/events) - jorge

Survey results

# March 26th APAC Biweekly Meeting

Attendees:

* Yang Li
* Nikhita Raghunath
* Peeyush
* Saiyam Pathak
* Rajula Vineet
* Alison Dowdney

Agenda:

* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* Would any new contributors (or new to this SIG) like to give a brief introduction?
* Recent contributions/meetups/blogs from community
* Virtual Contributor Summit Shanghai
* Weekly meeting for organizing the event ~3 hrs before this call
* Most organizers are from China and LF
* Announcement will go out to k-dev mailing list later

Open Mic/Discussion:

* Is the virtual contributor summit EU cancelled?
* Yes, we would like to have a better event later than having a half one now
* Blog post series discussion
* We need to discuss more with contributors from APAC regions on how the blog post structure should look like
* Can post it in country specific channels before the next APAC call to seed the discussion
* We will be creating a new slack user group with APAC coordinators for easier collaboration
* There are lots of regular folks who attend the APAC meetings, the list of APAC coordinators in the community repo to be updated to include them (thanks Yang for suggesting this!)

# March 25 Biweekly

Host: Elsie Philips

Note Taker:

Attendees:

* Bob Killen
* Dawn Foster
* Elsie Philips
* Chris Short
* Christoph Blecker
* Ihor Dvoretskyi
* Nikhita Raghunath
* Vamshi Samudrala
* Rajula Vineet
* Jonas Rosland
* Jorge Castro
* Paris Pittman
* Taylor Dolezal
* Josh Berkus (uuid)

Agenda:

* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* Events:
* Office hours [jorge]
* New panelists! Yay!
* Community Meeting [jorge]
* Mbroberg killed it, Taylor’s turn this month! Planning starts 1 April.
* Contributor Summit(s) [Jeff / Bob]
* Virtual Contributor Summit is cancelled
* Virtual New Contributor Workshop is being developed
* Other/Discussion.
* Mentoring:
* Meet Our Contributors [paris]
* Next week!
* Other/Discussion [playground, gsoc, outreachy, community bridge]:
* [nikhita] GSoC: mentors have signed up on the website, student application period is in progress.
* Already received applications
* [ihor] Kubernetes project ideas for GSoC - [https://github.com/cncf/soc#kubernetes](https://github.com/cncf/soc#kubernetes)
* [ihor] Community Bridge - extended the final evaluation deadline until April 1st
* [paris] we had a good mentoring meeting; still have lots of work to do and would appreciate all hands on deck. We are trying to get group mentoring around reviewers and approvers going. Ill do a mentoring update email to the list within the next two weeks.
* Community-management:
* [Need to Know Chairs/TLs email](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ivmV-ouim7YcTnmv21m0pP6prmj-FFZxcRBuWbT706c/edit?usp=sharing) [paris]
* Sig Chair / TL Meeting:
* Will (likely) focus on meeting facilitation and zoom best practices
* APAC coordinator update:
* No new updates, the meeting was cancelled last week due to low attendance.
* Marketing Team update:
* Meetings every Friday
* Other/Discussion:
* [Bob] Splain / Zoom still having intermittent problems, some videos are not being posted. Expect to have it resolved by the end of the week.
* GitHub-management:
* Discussion/Update:
* Incubator deprecation- 4 repos left
* No clear owners/owners don’t want them
* GH admin team meeting tomorrow, open to everyone
* Slack-infra:
* Discussion/Update
* Next cycle rotate out pro-tempore admins
* Looking for new moderators
* Contributor-documentation:
* Contributor Guide
* Developer Guide
* Non Code Guide
* Contributor Site
* [Bob] k/website will be moving to use docsy. Looking to do this for the contributor site.
* Review [project board](https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/projects/1)
* Open Mic/Discussion
* New Contributor Intro here \o/
* [Bob] Subprojects should if possible have a planning meeting for the 1.19 release before the next contribex Biweekly meeting.

# March 13 (Mentoring)

* Attendees
* Marky Jackson
* Jorge Alarcon
* Paris
* HH
* Josh berkus
* Chris short
* Samudrala
* Agenda
* Community Bridge [Ihor]
* Not here ; need alternative time slot
* Meet our Contributors [Paris]
* [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/processes/hosting-moc.md](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/processes/hosting-moc.md)
*
* Outreachy [Paris]
* Marky to help; needs to sign up with outreachy
* Not participating this Summer
* Winter is our Next Opportunity
* Josh would you to help?
* Redhat Credit Available
* Recurrint Project -> The Contributor Site Intern / Dev Guide
* LIkely no updates for a while ^^^
* GSOC [paris]
* Looking for help
* Marky could help, and will re-reach out to Nikita and Ihor
* Update: Participating in the Upcoming
* Student Application Process Starting Soon
* (ihor/nikita email) GSOC Interns will be poking around, point them to gsoc channel / CNCF slack
* #gsoc CNCF Slack has our mentos
* Starts in 3 days, ends last day of March
* AI: We need to put all these mentoring type of deadlines on a community calendar
* Apply for GSOC Today
* Apply for Outreachy!
* Communications Que
* (Upstream Marketing Team bases there comms of our deadlines)
* Get into habits of putting in events in community calendar
* 1:1 Hour [paris]
* UnBussing many places… help welcome
* A tweet for your enjoyment
* Very Focused
* One Off / Dependent on Technical Workflows to Work
* If we do it as manual, we will will have legacy issues
* We need tooling, zoom invitations + calendar invites
* Pair Programming is a good one/off activity
* You have something specific (a PR)
* Somehow they would file an issue with /pair me me
* Notifications
* Hippie has ideas towards the end
* But we need the github based workflow
* Here’s the flow of things
* You’re set time
* Marky has been doing something similar
* Tweeting good first issues
* Watch them take it
* Then ask to setup a one on one issue
* @paris ^^ AUTOMATE THAT^^^
* Entire reason for the one on one hour is the pipeline!
* For labels/ci we already have this
* Maybe setting up our own repo, or we do it in the contributor playground repo
* 800 Markys! Amazing Everywhere! How do we scale connection and humanity!
* Matching based on SIG, tailoring based on the code / people
* In case you didn’t tell THIS IS A PLEA FOR HELP
* To prototype and play
* Group Mentoring [paris]
* [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [Another Plea for HELP](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [A long time coming, another one that addresses more reviewers and approvers with everyone on this call can appreciate](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [BURNOUT avoidance](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [Peer Mentoring Concept goes on overdrive and belonging](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [I don’t have this burden of someone who is just waiting on me](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [A lot of this is already drawn up](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [HELP](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [Automation intake](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [How do we know that a SIG needs certain people](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [(like approvers)](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [#1 Admitting you have a problem](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [#2 Admitting you need help](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [Getting the people who might be interested in helping](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [Form for members that might want to help](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [How do we get SIGs adoption](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [Brainstorming needed here](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [7 mentees + 2-3 Mentors](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [More than 1/1 more ½ ⅓ ](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [Chair and Tech leads](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [Looked doey eyed](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [One SIG at a time (Josh)](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [Grueling](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [But we just need more people (Josh)](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [Having trouble with logisting](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [Choose sigs that are Activley dragging feet](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [How do we use a heat map, to measure velocity](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [Paris: Are the being specific in request? Not yet](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [Meta Example](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [Contrib-ex - meta mentoring needs more](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [Every Monday we have a slack standup](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [This is mentoring stuff](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [Feedback from mentor (paris)](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [Better than ambiguously talking](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [Jorge: I’ve been doing my own version of group mentoring](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [I fell into this cool workspace](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [CI Signal is a good parking spot where people can just learn how to fix / collaborate with other SIGS](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [The flow is](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [People have issues in an area](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [Someone appropriate to that sigs makes a list of issues / and talk with the interested foks and let them work on it](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [Sometimes I am working with a SIG I’m not usually a part of, and help them with technical reviews, they only additional step is we have to get an approver](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [Connect the person who wants to help, working in k8s, and connect them with approvers. With enough time, possibly more people, we can build enough of a culture are going to say](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* [I tried the group mentoring, let’s try to actually set it up!](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/group-mentoring.md)
* Help them whenever possible to become approvers
* [paris] Approvers are still going to have to build the trust
* Do you feel they have that without building the direct connetion?
* [] If someone is interested in that area, they will continue and over time collaborate with other approvers in that area. Someone just helps them with that initial code reviews, the mechanics of the work, and that allows them to focus on the connection better.
* Results of Group Mentoring
* Approver -> All intentions of putting them into the OwnersFile
* Meta Mentoring is to create MOAR OWNERS
* There is some resistance
* Let’s figure out how to find the helpers!
* People put themselves out on a limb
* With very technical very complex sigs
* We need to lead with the goal (to the sig)
* Get more reviews and approvers in the OWNES file
* SIG-Testing
* Knows the need help
* Pro Growth
* ISSUES
* Reviewers not being helpful
* mentoring /process/logistings
* We do this because people don’t have the time
* **AI: Who can help, talk with Josh and I next week**
* **Being in the weeds**
* **Everything you do puts you behind**
* **Anything new puts**
* **Group for SIG-Arch**
* Open
* More scheduling stuff coming up -
* Five Opportunities via Heat Map
* Asia / Pacifica
* (Is there a link here
* Kubemacs, Humacs, or Huemacs
* Pairing / Mentoring Tech

# March 13th APAC Biweekly Meeting

**Note: Cancelled due to low attendance and empty agenda**

Attendees:

* Peeyush Gupta
* Nikhita Raghunath

Agenda:

* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* Would any new contributors (or new to this SIG) like to give a brief introduction?
* Recent contributions/meetups/blogs from community

Open Mic/Discussion:

*

# March 11th Biweekly

* Attendees
* Bob Killen
* Marky Jackson
* Paris
* Nikhita
* Chris Short
* Christoph Blecker
* Sahadev Zala
* Vamshi Samudrala
* Josh Berkus
* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* Events:
* Office hours [jorge]
* Community Meeting [jorge]
* Contributor Summit(s) [Jeff/Bob]
* Amsterdam
* Both a virtual and in-person summit is being planned
* NCW and some active contributor content will be moved virtual
* Reaching out to content owners on preference
* In-person will be more akin to Barcelona with sig f2f sessions and some content.
* Shanghai
* KubeCon Shanghai has been cancelled
* Virtual Summit (or virtual NCW) may still occur
* [Tracking Issue for planning](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4513)
* Other/Discussion:
* Start thinking about election judges [paris]
* Need to be very detail-oriented
* Need one judge to carry over from last year
* Mentoring:
* Meet Our Contributors [paris]
* Life is good
* Looking for additional host for 2nd session
* Other/Discussion [playground, gsoc, outreachy]:
* [nikhita] GSoC - We are currently inviting mentors to the GSoC website. We’ll be having 3 projects from the Kubernetes side.
* Ongoing issue to box up NCW - Once it is done, the NCW will move from events to mentoring subproject [Bob]
* Community-management:
* [Need to Know Chairs/TLs email](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ivmV-ouim7YcTnmv21m0pP6prmj-FFZxcRBuWbT706c/edit?usp=sharing) [paris] / [Chair/TL Stuffs](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jio9rEtYxlBbntF8mRGmj6Q1JAdzZ9fTDo3ru1HK_LI/edit#heading=h.m2810xermea1)
* Lots of issues in k/community
* Moving to make role book for chairs/TLs
* [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/contributors/chairs-and-techleads](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/contributors/chairs-and-techleads)
* APAC coordinator update:
* No new updates, there was a plan ongoing for Shanghai Contributor Summit but has been called off now. Might do virtual NCW though.
* Have a meeting tomorrow/tonight to discuss more steps regarding outreach.
* [Tracking Issue for planning](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4513)
* Marketing:
* [Twitter Handle Poll](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4554)
* Issue with k8s-contributors exceeding 15
* New poll likely
* K8s-contribs
* Still have lots of roles available and TONS OF WORK
* Looking for more bloggers
* Sig stories etc
* Sig scalability blog post will be released soon
* Building internal communications manager
* Events / programs
* KEPs
* Process changes
* GitHub-management:
* Discussion/Update:
* Do we want to have "heavy PR loads" warning? Discussion at 10am
* Slack-infra:
* Discussion/Update
* Contributor-documentation:
* Contributor Guide
* Developer Guide
* Non Code Guide
* Review [project board](https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/projects/1)
* Docs hackathon?
* Open Mic/Discussion
* New Contributor Intro here \o/
* [Subproject owner update](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4585) [Bob]
* Want to complete update before end of 1.18 cycle so owners may help with 1.19 planning
* Schedule SIG/subproject planning session(s) [Bob]

# Feb 28th Mentoring

Attendees:

* Marky Jackson
* Chris Short
* Bob Killen
* Josh Berkus
* Yuvraj

Topics:

* At the end of stand up, we will give an opportunity to any new contributors to this call or the community a chance to give a brief introduction.
* New meeting time
* The current time is not very APAC/EU friendly
* Need to have a time that is earlier than 9am pacific for Nikita etc.
* Marky will talk to that contingent and get some times that would work for them
* ~~GSoC [Ihor]~~
* ~~Community Bridge [Ihor]~~
* Meet our Contributors [Paris]
* Ready to go for March session
* Need to send out a doodle regarding a potential second session
* Outreachy [Paris]
* Missed deadline for outreachy
* Do not have intern for next term
* "winter" term means putting together positions before September
* [https://www.outreachy.org/](https://www.outreachy.org/)
* KubeCon Mentoring [Paris]
* Looking for coordinators to help with "pod mentoring"
* 2-3 mentees for 20 min with 1 mentor (mentor speed dating)
*
* Group Mentoring [Paris]
* Marky is working on expanding the shadowing program to other SIGs
* Group mentoring is more about moving people to reviewer or owner, but is less structured, harder to have a "playbook" for approver
* Tried to do a more structured version of this kind of like Openstack institute, but was overengineered and cumbersome.
* Other
* Ncw needs some kind of link here -> [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/mentoring](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/mentoring)
* Could use a README with a list of all of the resources
* Marky to take this action
* [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/shadow-roles.md](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/shadow-roles.md)
* Made this parking lot page for all things shadow roles
* As a newbie, for contributing to kubernetes, where should I start?
* See contributor ladder & contributor guide

# Feb 27th APAC BiWeekly Meeting

**Note: Please use the new Zoom meeting ID: [https://zoom.us/j/144440337](https://zoom.us/j/144440337)**

Attendees:

* Nabarun Pal
* Yang Li
* Haoran Wang
* Sujay Pillai
* Saiyam Pathak

Agenda:

* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* Would any new contributors (or new to this SIG) like to give a brief introduction?
* Haoran Wang, Red Hat
* Recent contributions/meetups/blogs from community
* Cloud Native Data Management Bangalore(cncf meetup) [https://www.meetup.com/Cloud-Native-Data-Management/events/268480314/](https://www.meetup.com/Cloud-Native-Data-Management/events/268480314/)
* Kubernetes forums India
* [http://konfhub.com/ncc](http://konfhub.com/ncc) (Saiyam having a talk on kubernetes security)
* Kubernetes Community Days Bengaluru [https://github.com/cncf/kubernetes-community-days/issues/169](https://github.com/cncf/kubernetes-community-days/issues/169)
* Discussions around a Contributor Focused event in India [nabarun]
* Tech community days: [https://www.meetup.com/Docker-Bangalore/events/268746942/](https://www.meetup.com/Docker-Bangalore/events/268746942/)
* KCS Shanghai [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4513](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4513)
* Will start the work after the team formed, maybe one week or two

Open Mic/Discussion:

* As a new contributor in this SIG, where should I start?
* Join the community channels, mailing list, slack, github
* Find the area interests you or connected with your daily work
* Coronavirus update for Kubecon Amsterdam:
* Conferences are still on at RAI - [https://www.rai.nl/en/calendar/](https://www.rai.nl/en/calendar/)
* CNCF updates [https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/attend/novel-coronavirus-update/](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/attend/novel-coronavirus-update/)
* Live update [https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6](https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6)

# Feb 26 ContribEx BiWeekly Meeting

Attendees:

* Bob Killen
* Chris Short
* Jorge Castro
* Jonas Rosland
* Christoph Blecker
* Chris Short
* H4euM0r9nUeOglICopCmrx/axpyf3yiA8, aka Josh Berkus
* Nikhita Raghunath
* Karthikeyan Govindaraj
* Elsie Phillips
* Rin Oliver
* Samudrala vamshi

Agenda:

* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* Events:
* Office hours [jorge]
* Entire west coast session was new hosts and did an awesome job
* Community Meeting [jorge]
* Planning starts next week
* Contributor Summit(s) [Jeff / Bob]
* Close to capacity, reg now if you have not
* Monitoring Coronavirus, will really depend on what actions CNCF takes.
* Potentially pushing active contributor track to org members and sponsored attendees only. There continues to be confusion on “actively contributing to the upstream kubernetes project”.
* Other/Discussion.
* Mentoring:
* Meet Our Contributors [paris]
* Other/Discussion [playground, gsoc, outreachy]:
* Community-management:
* [Need to Know Chairs/TLs email](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ivmV-ouim7YcTnmv21m0pP6prmj-FFZxcRBuWbT706c/edit?usp=sharing) [paris]
* Last chance to register for contributor summit - almost sold out
* APAC coordinator update:
* Move forward with blog post series
* Meeting scheduled for tonight/tomorrow to discuss further there
* GitHub-management:
* Recurring meeting tomorrow
* Discussion/Update:
* Slack-infra:
* Discussion/Update
* Contributor-documentation:
* Contributor Guide
* Developer Guide
* Jorge / Duffie going to update development.md on a TGIK
* Help-wanted:
* If you have domain knowledge in a specific section of the devel guide, please check it over. Some sections are very out of date.
* Call out named sections that need review
* Open an issue for each section that needs review
* Non Code Guide
* Contributor Site
* Need to migrate domains (kubernetes.dev / k8s.dev)
* Vishakha working on adding contrib summit section
* help-wanted:
* Update pages for MoC / Office Hours
* Jorge will update and sync with community repo
* Ambitious: migrate to docsy
* Update sig readme template to include metadata header and weight to mirror sig-list rendering
* Review [project board](https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/projects/1)
* Open Mic/Discussion
* New Contributor Intro here \o/
* KubeCon + CloudNativeCon contingency? [Jorge Castro]
* Potentially do digital summit with streaming/recording presentations
* [Issue Triage KEP](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/pull/1554) - Bob

# Feb 13 (Mentoring)

Attendees:

* Bart Smykla
* Alison Dowdney
* Laura Santamaria
* Paris
* Bob Killen
* Ihor
* Marky
* Mani
* Matt Broberg
* Samudrala Vamshi

Agenda:

* At the end of stand up, we will give an opportunity to any new contributors to this call or the community a chance to give a brief introduction.
* GSoC [Ihor]
* Waiting for the formal confirmation from Google on the acception and the number of slots allocated
* 3 Kubernetes proposals submitted - [https://github.com/cncf/soc#kubernetes](https://github.com/cncf/soc#kubernetes)
* Community Bridge [Ihor]
* 8 students with CNCF projects
* 2 Kubernetes students
* [https://people.communitybridge.org/project/2d438b9a-c539-46d0-9eed-c6ee4404c88a](https://people.communitybridge.org/project/2d438b9a-c539-46d0-9eed-c6ee4404c88a)
* Meet our Contributors [Paris]
* New folder and files and hosting stuff! Yay!
* Who wants to host?
* 5 hr/month estimate for heaviest lift (initial setup)
* 3 hr/mo estimate for normal time (1 hr for event, 30-45 min prep before, then curation/getting contributors)
* Need to put out a doodle for a second time and date
* Yay scaling
* Previous set up: 7:30am and 7:30pm PST
* Outreachy [Paris]
* Going for another semester for contributor site
* Any other project ideas? Deadline is Soon.
* Other
* [Check out the new folder ](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/mentoring)
* Planning to do more around group mentoring
* Doodle that went out had issues with time zones - check with nikhita
* [alison] new contributor workshop
* Content Proposal
* Ideas around boxing it up -> Contributor Guide

# February 13th (APAC)

Attendees:

* Yang Li
* Nikhita Raghunath
* Nabarun Pal
* Rajib Mitra
* Sujay Pillai

Agenda:

* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* Would any new contributors (or new to this SIG) like to give a brief introduction?
* Recent contributions/meetups/blogs from community
* Kubernetes Forums Bengaluru Pre-event meetup - [https://www.meetup.com/Bangalore-CNCF-Meetup/events/268350803/](https://www.meetup.com/Bangalore-CNCF-Meetup/events/268350803/)
* CNCF meetup
* Kubernetes Penang meetup -

[https://www.meetup.com/kubernetespenang/events/268475358/](https://www.meetup.com/kubernetespenang/events/268475358/)

* CNCF Meetup page [https://www.meetup.com/pro/cncf/](https://www.meetup.com/pro/cncf/)
* Blog posts version of meet our contributors planning [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4469](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4469)
* [nikhita] Not enough time to create the blogpost for k8s forums India, let’s target another region first.
* [yang] it might be a good idea to talk to contributors at the india event and gather more thoughts
* [nikhita] let’s start with one country per post, in this way we can target specific countries or do l10n
* [sujay] we can post updates to slack channels to find out more
* [nikhita] we’ll mostly focus on upstream contributing
* [yang] while we have folks from multiple regions, we can start at the same time
* [yang] we should take a look at the notes from the upstream marketing team like guidelines etc.
* Shanghai contributor summit planning [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4513](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4513)
* Everyone on this call or from APAC regions are welcome to join this team
* Open Mic/Discussion
* [your name and topic here - should this be an issue against kubernetes/community?]

# February 12th (Bi-weekly meeting)

Attendees:

* Bob Killen
* Taylor Dolezal
* Elsie Phillips
* Karthikeyan Govindaraj
* Jorge Castro
* Chris Short
* Dawn Foster
* Ihor Dvoretskyi
* Taylor Martin
* Vamshi Samudrala
* Łukasz Gryglicki
* Sahdev Zala
* Guinevere Saenger
* Christoph Blecker

Agenda:

* Welcome and recurring business
* At the end of stand up, we will give an opportunity to any new contributors to this call or the community a chance to give a brief introduction.
* Regular program updates: [1-collect updates before the meeting; 2-host to read actions; 3-assign streamers to each event (if applicable)]
* Events:
* Office Hours [Jorge]
* Community Meeting [Jorge]
* Code of conduct to switch with steering for next week
* Contributor Summit [Jeefy]
* CFP is closed, schedule should be posted this Friday
* Please register
*
* Other
* Mentoring:
* GSoC [Ihor]
* Final confirmation
* Meet our Contributors [Paris]
* No updates
* Outreachy [Paris]
* Going for another semester for contributor site
* Any other project ideas? Deadline is Soon.
* Other
* [Check out the new folder ](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/mentoring)
* Planning to do more around group mentoring
* Community Bridge coming up
* 8 students with CNCF projects
* Community Management
* [Need to Know Chairs/TLs email](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ivmV-ouim7YcTnmv21m0pP6prmj-FFZxcRBuWbT706c/edit) [Paris]
* No chair email this week as there are meetings; have announcements flow through there. Are there others?
* SIG Chair/TL Community program/formation [Paris]
* 16 people attended yesterday; expecting 10+ tomorrow. Will do two TZ’s until we get less than 10 on each. (90 chairs/tls)
* [meeting agenda](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jio9rEtYxlBbntF8mRGmj6Q1JAdzZ9fTDo3ru1HK_LI/edit#heading=h.ao9ct3u67u7y) for topics
* ContribEx Survey [Paris]
* Still at the miner&kasch firm; will hear by Friday with next steps
* Marketing [Paris]
* Still looking for at least ~4 more people to help us
* [charter, focus areas, blogging guidelines - here](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/communication/marketing-team)
* Working on the following: sending a vote to kdev for the contributor twitter handle, social media guidelines, social media tool research, internal comms plans and programmatic strategies (community meeting, MOC), rolebooks
* Need to PR in a team for slack @contributor-comms with the current team
* How to get a hold of us: Jonas and internal comms team is working on a standard form, we have an issue and pr label `area/contributor-comms`, or slack team (tbu)
* Other
* [Slack audit requirement update](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4477) [Josh]
* Add yearly chat log export to tasks? [Bob]
* GitHub Management
* Recurring meeting has been scheduled
* Move from incubator to SIG still in progress (last 4 5 repos remain)
* Contributor Documentation
* [Contributor Site](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/contributor-site) [Bob]
* [Contributor Guide](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/contributors/guide)
* [Developer Guide](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/contributors/devel)
* Any issue with removal of vagrant instructions [Bob] - [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/pull/4497](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/pull/4497)
* Project Board
* Open Mic / Discussion
* DevStats Updates [Bob]
* [New license dashboard](https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/d/67/licenses-and-programming-languages?orgId=1)
* [Should checking repo group status become a quarterly task?](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/3305)
* [New Repository Group dashboard](https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/d/68/repository-groups?orgId=1) will help make future audits easier
* Looking for assistance on current missing repo -> repository group mappings: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vpM7CkLH0PZsXm_lkFA5iUOCecGkX1HxxK8Zz5Hkgt4/edit#gid=0](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vpM7CkLH0PZsXm_lkFA5iUOCecGkX1HxxK8Zz5Hkgt4/edit#gid=0)
* New repository groups dashboard: https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/d/68/repository-groups?orgId=1
* Repository Groups are outdated and still reference SIG AWS. Should they be folded under cloud provider or preserved for historical reasons?
* Yes move them under cloud provider

# January 30 (APAC)

Attendees:

* Yang Li
* Nikhita Raghunath
* Peeyush Gupta
* Vineet Rajula
* Ilayaperumal Gopinathan
* Saiyam Pathak

Agenda:

* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* Would any new contributors (or new to this SIG) like to give a brief introduction?
* Recent contributions/meetups/blogs from community
* [https://blog.kubernauts.io/octant-simplified-313a1aad69d6](https://blog.kubernauts.io/octant-simplified-313a1aad69d6) [saiyam]
* [https://blog.kubernauts.io/permission-manager-rbac-management-for-kubernetes-ed46c2f38cfb](https://blog.kubernauts.io/permission-manager-rbac-management-for-kubernetes-ed46c2f38cfb) [saiyam]
* [https://www.indiacloudsummit.com/](https://www.indiacloudsummit.com/) [14th Feb (discounts available)]
* Serverless Practitioner summit Europe - 4th feb CFP ends
* Cloud native security Day - 4th feb CFP ends
* ServiceMeshCon - 4th feb CFP ends
* KubeCon Shanghai - Feb 21 2020
* Blog posts version of meet our contributors planning [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4469](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4469)
* AI: Reach out to SIG Docs blog post subproject owners (#sig-docs-blog)
* AI [nikhita and vineet]: create a draft blog post structure google doc to share with the APAC group
* Once the doc gets lgtm, we’ll share it with contributors from India.
* We’ll first target for Indian contributors since Kubernetes Forums India is in mid Feb.
* Posts for other regions can work in parallel
* AI [yang] to start looking for prospects
* Shanghai contributor summit planning will be started soon in early feb
* Open Mic/Discussion
* [your name and topic here - should this be an issue against kubernetes/community?]

# January 29 (Contribex Issue Triage Meeting)

* Attendees:
* Marky
* Paris
* Bob
* Karthikeyan
* Sahdev
* Rin Oliver
* Notes:
* Triage sessions
* [Walk the board](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/contributor-site/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc)
* Laura Santamaria is not part of the org yet so can’t assign any issues, Bob will work with her.
* Assign owner for [https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/contributor-site/issues/56](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/contributor-site/issues/56) and

[https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/contributor-site/issues/4](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/contributor-site/issues/4)

* [https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/contributor-site/issues/60](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/contributor-site/issues/60) - Paris will clean up/break down, and Marky will be helping out
* Ping the issues and PRs owners with kind/design on community repo - move them to enhancement GH repo or close . Karthik will work on poking authors/assignees/reviewers on PRs and Issues.

# January 29 (ContribEx Update Meeting)

* Attendees:
* Eduar Tua
* Paris
* Nikhita Raghunath
* Chris Short
* Marky Jackson
* Laura Santamaria
* Taylor Dolezal
* Sahdev Zala
* Karthikeyan Govindaraj
* Jonas Rosland
* Vishakha Nihore
* Vineet Rajula
* Rin Oliver
* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* At the end of stand up, we will give an opportunity to any new contributors to this call or the community a chance to give a brief introduction.
* Regular program updates: [1-collect updates before the meeting; 2-host to read actions; 3-assign streamers to each event (if applicable)]
* Events:
* Office hours [jorge]
* West coast edition is back
* Need to sort out new rotation
* Diversity of speakers has been getting better \o/
* Need diversity of companies, esp west coast edition
* [Updated documentation and instructions](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/events/office-hours.md)
* Community Meeting [jorge]
* Planning for next one is this monday; checklist process starts
* Wants feedback on monthly format
* Attendance was the best that we’ve had in ages, 50 people in the zoom call.
* Started tracking how many people are attending
* Samuldrama will be our host in February, followed by Matt Broberg in March, and Taylor Dolezal in April
* Contributor Summit(s)
* EU [jeefy]
* quick update: registration is now live. Website is live. Tweet went out.
* Riding for a bit for now
* CTA: Branding for Shanghai and Boston, feel free to look in the chat info
* NA [bob]
* Feedback from poll (50 responses) regarding hosting on day -1 vs day 0 has had an 80/20 split in favor of hosting on day -1. Comments have been positive and pushing for sig meetings on day 0.
* So far everyone talked to in person has been overwhelmingly positive on the day -1
* [Poll Address: https://forms.gle/XCYKhHAnSwuDAWe47]
* Other: Community Days - contributor workshops?
* Mentoring:
* GSoC [ihor]
* we don't have any project ideas yet for Kubernetes, so if you have any in mind, please submit to [https://github.com/cncf/soc](https://github.com/cncf/soc).
* Also, please help us promoting across the community about this opportunity for mentors and mentees.
GSoC, yes!
* Meet Our Contributors [paris]
* Next Weds - Full panel at the moment, but feel free to join! 7:30a PST
* Need to do a poll to ensure that time is good for a lot of people.
* Updated the host guide and other docs
* See about doing different timezones or other hosts to sub in for Paris’s hard months. Some volunteers stepped forward (Chris, Jorge)
* Also updates to general Meet Our Contribs website pages
* Outreachy! [paris]
* Outreachy intern, Vishakha, doing some contrib guide stuff and dev guide stuff, events pages, etc.
* Need to check to see if we should be in the next round of interns (credits?)
* Other [playground, gsoc, outreachy]:
* [nikhita] will create doodle for new meeting
* For new biweekly mentoring meeting. See Slack.
* There are a bunch of new/updated meetings that need to get re-upped schedulewise. Details coming
* [Bob/Jorge] Pushing use of role board again?
* How can we surface this for mentoring?
* Would probably need a full marketing campaign for the role board because it’s hard to get people to actually check it.
* Need to first teach chairs to scope roles and such
* If it were embedded in the contrib site, that would be great.
* [paris] restructured folder and updating docs
* Restructured mentoring folder to have process and doc folders. Should help with surfacing.
* Still ~50% needs work. PR helpers welcome.
* [paris] marky is a new reviewer
* 👏
* Note: “We would love to promote you.” Go talk to Paris for mentoring the mentoring folder
* Community-management:
* [Need to Know Chairs/TLs email](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ivmV-ouim7YcTnmv21m0pP6prmj-FFZxcRBuWbT706c/edit?usp=sharing) [paris]
* At least 2-3 things in there.
* CTA: Surface any other announcements now.
* Nothing called out.
* Re: community day events, maybe they can go in the contrib site in events?
* SIG Chair/TL Community program/formation [paris]
* Need to know: Feb info. Agenda is forming.
* Talking about how groups are growing and how need new contribs
* Goals: Hearing what SIGs are looking for what, and what other best practices other SIGs are doing
* 10-min how-to on group mentoring
* Want to form a crew around this program
* ContribEx Survey [paris]
* Out at a data science firm right now for deeper analysis
* Hope to send to CNCF ASAP, chairs and TLs need to get together and decide which questions should be surfaced with CNCF graphics
* APAC coordinator update:
* [nikhita] will be going ahead with blog post series on diff. contributors from diff. regions, will discuss more about this in next APAC meeting
* MARKETING CREW!! [paris]
* Two meetings so far!
* Streamlining comms and consistency to different platforms
* Expect small PR with charter soon
* CTA: Tons of roles available. If you have cycles, please help.
* Label also in place area/contributor-comms!
* GitHub-management:
* [nikhita] Yang is [now a New Membership Coordinator](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/pull/4462) (NMC) and we have [extended approval privileges](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/pull/4463) for updating members to NMCs
* 👏
* Solving the sustainability problem and speed problem
* [Bob] [ 4 Repos left for deprecation of incubator](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/1922).
* External-storage - is in flight
* Kube-aws - SIG Cluster Lifecycle doesn’t really want to own it, but will take it if it’s still being actively used. Might move over to SIG Cloud Provider.
* No response from autoscaling lead on their 2 repos.
* If anyone is talking to them, please poke.
* Slack-infra
* No real updates
* Some flailing, but will catch up. Josh and Jorge to sync.
* Contributor-documentation:
* [Contributor Site](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/contributor-site)
* [Bob] Aiming to launch by Contributor Summit at Amsterdam.
* There is a MVP board. A lot checked off, but some left to go.
* Calendar is there, along with contrib guide (see below)
* Discussing bringing in the release schedule, eventual subsection on the site, with SIG release
* [Bob] Should have a quick meeting to touch base on this + contributor guide.
* 👏
* Search would be nice
* Long term effort would be including contrib guide and dev guide and all
* Contributor Guide
* [Bob] Vishakha has been working on improving and breaking apart sections of the contributor guide so that it will flow better on the contributor site.
* Developer Guide
* Big PR is open, Eduar is working on it (welcome back!)
* Non Code Guide
* Review [project board](https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/projects/1)
* Screensharing commenced
* Programmatic community management discussed; mainly needs to work on this together. May need to send bits and pieces to different team meetings
* Lots of label creation/discussion issues
* Open Mic/Discussion
* New Contributor Intro here \o/ (no one new this round)
* [Bob] Discuss using milestones again.
* Work is spread across many boards; it’s difficult to see which things people are working on or planning to work on.
* Original attempt at milestones was by month. Hard to see and track with a lot of data.
* Would like to move to following release milestones as they’re widely understood by the project.
* Plus ones from people on the call.
* [Bob] Clean up/migration of design-proposal issues/PRs.
* We have open PRs that have been frozen to update design-proposals, or small updates for typos/links etc. KEPs have been the “new” method since late 2018.
* Time to actually do it.
* Probably will be reorged to directory per KEP
* Just need to go through and ping people, then do it
* Further discussion coming to get it done.
* [your name and topic here - should this be an issue against kubernetes/community?]
* Meeting ended at 12:21p CST

# January 22 (Contributor Docs)

Attendees:

* Paris
* Bob
* Bart
* Samudrala

Topics:

Project board:

* AI: Create Umbrella issue on k/community that acts as a pointer to the contributor site for some of the high level features that will go live.
* Samudrala going to work on documenting test-grid

Open discussion

# January 16 (APAC)

Attendees:

* Nikhita Raghunath
* Nabarun Pal
* Peeyush Gupta
* Alison Dowdney
* Saiyam Pathak
* Yang Li
* Paris Pittman

Agenda:

* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* Would any new contributors (or new to this SIG) like to give a brief introduction?
* Recent contributions/meetups/blogs from community
* ([https://events.docker.com/events/details/docker-bangalore-presents-meetup-50-kickstart-your-2020-container-journey-with-docker-kubernetes-kubernetes101-workshop-sap-labs-india/#/](https://events.docker.com/events/details/docker-bangalore-presents-meetup-50-kickstart-your-2020-container-journey-with-docker-kubernetes-kubernetes101-workshop-sap-labs-india/#/) featuring kubernetes 101 workshop (18th Jan)
* [https://www.meetup.com/Cloud-Native-Data-Management/events/267530200/](https://www.meetup.com/Cloud-Native-Data-Management/events/267530200/) (25th Jan)
* Blog - [https://rancher.com/blog/2020/rancher-istio-kiali](https://rancher.com/blog/2020/rancher-istio-kiali)
* K8s meetup tokyo had retro about kubecon san diego [https://k8sjp.connpass.com/event/155240/](https://k8sjp.connpass.com/event/155240/)
* [Extending Kubernetes](https://www.meetup.com/kubernetes-openshift-India-Meetup/events/267799591/) - Bangalore - 25th Jan
* [nikhita] Update about Kubernetes Forums India: we will not have any contributor-specific co-located events but we can all meetup during the conference.
* [nikhita] Discuss next steps regarding APAC focused blog posts
* Podcasts?(no video involved)
* AI: Yang will create an issue in k/community adding notes about what we discussed so far.
* [Peeyush] Would be great to discuss with sig-contribex on taking tips for our growth.
* Blog posts will help get the word out to have more staff
* Kubernetes community days [https://github.com/cncf/kubernetes-community-days/](https://github.com/cncf/kubernetes-community-days/)
* [Peeyush ] KCD, bangalore - [https://github.com/cncf/kubernetes-community-days/issues/169](https://github.com/cncf/kubernetes-community-days/issues/169)
* Create framework for NCW, we had an issue in k/community
* [yang] Contributor Summit Shanghai 2020: about to start planning on this in feb
* [saiyam] CFP open for Kubecon China 2020
* [saiyam] GSoC [https://github.com/cncf/soc#current-year](https://github.com/cncf/soc#current-year)
* [saiyam] CFP for 2020 k8s contributor summit EU open ([https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubernetes-contributor-summit-europe/](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubernetes-contributor-summit-europe/))
* [saiyam] kubernetes office-hours notes - [https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/office-hours-for-january-15th/9245/3?u=castrojo](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/office-hours-for-january-15th/9245/3?u=castrojo) (join office-hours channel for future updates)
* Open Mic/Discussion
* [your name and topic here - should this be an issue against kubernetes/community?]

# January 15 (Contribex Issue Triage Meeting)

* Attendees:
* Arnaud Meukam
* Marky Jackson
* Paris Pittman
* Savitha Raghunathan
* Minutes:
* Triage session:
* [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/3362](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/3362) (will be frozen at the next meeting if no update)
* [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/3481](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/3481)
* Action Items:
* Do some triage for the contributor site repo: [https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/contributor-site/issues](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/contributor-site/issues)

# January 15 (ContribEx Update Meeting)

* Attendees:
* Chris Short
* Jonas Rosland
* Bob Killen
* Jorge Castro
* Rin Oliver
* Paris Pittman
* Marky Jackson
* Laura Santamaria
* Nikhita Raghunath
* Amanda Katona (and company)
* Josh Berkus
* Elsie Phillips
* Christoph Blecker (Automator of Crota)
* Samudrala Vamshi
* Savitha Raghunathan
* Josh Berkus
* Jeffrey Sica
* Sahdev Zala
* Taylor Martin
* Karthikeyan Govindaraj
* Matthew Broberg
* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* At the end of stand up, we will give an opportunity to any new contributors to this call or the community a chance to give a brief introduction.
* Regular program updates: [1-collect updates before the meeting; 2-host to read actions; 3-assign streamers to each event (if applicable)]
* Events:
* Office hours [jorge]
* West coast hours are coming to life
* Wants to fix diversity of volunteers
* Community Meeting [jorge]
* Laura hosting tomorrow
* Wants new hosts all year since we have a monthly cadence now
* Reminding sigs about status’ via their new monthly meeting
* Contributor Summit(s) [jeefy]
* EU
* [Venue finally locked in](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TlUxwNdejA_lrz2H3qK6DhdwbPvwx8Jf4ulcBk-fFog/edit#slide=id.g73f40b99f2_0_14)
* [Save the Date site is live](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubernetes-contributor-summit-europe/)
* [CFPs are open ](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfTv0YcPDomj5vPsMEodv9xS3Zd6CZWDVMcL0kGF8FjL9ADDA/viewform)
* Registration opens end of Jan
* Schedule out Mid-Feb
* Implementing $5 no show fee for ncw track
* NA / CN Searching for venues per Deb
* NA Kubecon is Wed-Fri with Day 0 events on Tuesday. There is talk/discussion about being a Day -1 event and having the contributor summit on Monday. Poll to be sent to k-dev about the idea. [bob]
* Other: Community Days - contributor workshops?
* Chris, Guin, Dawn, and Tim are working on boxing up the contributor workshop
* Mentoring:
* GSoC [ihor]
* [Launched!](https://github.com/cncf/soc)
* Propose some internships; [read details in k-dev](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/kubernetes-dev/-4hWnY4fr6o)
* Meet Our Contributors [paris]
* Paris is locking down the Feb edition.
* Outreachy Intro! [paris]
* Vishakha Nihore
* Other [playground, gsoc, outreachy]:
* Marky, with Chris, Laura, Heba, and others are building out contributor persona and building a mentorship ladder.
* Sig-release: breaking out release roles into further teams with their own mentoring programs in addition to the release shadow program. Starting with the ci-signal team.
* [AI: Create issue to index and list contributor office hours etc](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4409)
* Community-management:
* [Need to Know Chairs/TLs email](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ivmV-ouim7YcTnmv21m0pP6prmj-FFZxcRBuWbT706c/edit?usp=sharing) [paris]
* SIG Chair/TL Community program/formation [paris]
* ContribEx Survey [paris]
* Can form triage priorities from this and much more
* [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4392](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4392)
* APAC coordinator update:
* 1) meet our contributor stream plan paused, will go with blog series first, see previous meeting notes; 2) about to start shanghai contributor summit planning [yang]
* GitHub-management:
* [Deprecating kubernetes-incubator](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/1922): 5 repos remain. 1 is already flagged for deprecation / archival, need “official” sign off in the form of an issue on k/org. [bob]
* Slack-infra [jeefy]
* Onboarded several new moderators
* Work in progress to allow channel-level moderators
* All reports will still go to the main moderation team for COC assessment and enforcement
* General moderation tasks such as channel purpose and spam control delegated to channel-specific moderators
* k-careers will stick around for now, as we’ve had volunteers to moderate it (and props to Katharine for her efforts in putting out the Slackfire)
* Discussion/Update
* Contributor-documentation:
* [Contributor Site](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/contributor-site) - development ramping back up. Should be able to launch soon? Maybe announce at Contributor Summit EU [bob]
* Contributor Guide
* Developer Guide - vishakha is working on issues labeled area/developer-guide. If you see issues or prs, please assign this label.
* Non Code Guide
* Review [project board](https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/projects/1)
* Open Mic/Discussion
* New Contributor Intro here \o/
* [your name and topic here - should this be an issue against kubernetes/community?]
* [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4399](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4399)
*

# January 9 (Mentoring)

Attendees:

* Marky Jackson
* Paris
* Jorge
* Rin
* Ihor
* Samudrala Vamshi

Topics:

* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* If there are new contributors to this call or to the community on the line that would like to introduce yourself, we will do that after the standup, feel free to introduce yourself at that time.
* Mentoring:
* Meet Our Contributors
* Has a draft how to and need to PR it in [paris]
* Doodle:
* Outreachy
* Vishakha is here!
* Group Mentoring
* Need partners to build out
* 1:1 Hour
* Need partners to build out
* Pod Mentoring @ KubeCon
* Need folks to help out @ KubeCon EU
* Paris and Tim will run one session
* Need someone to run another
* Possibly Rin
* Have drafts of things to PR; how tos, etc
* Other/Discussion [playground, gsoc]:
* GSoC 2020 is about to start - CNCF will formally apply next week
* ihor is owning comms
* Community Bridge - 2 Kubernetes mentees started this time around (9 for CNCF total)
* Open Mic/Discussion
* Samudrala Intro! \o/
* Marky - meeting with a handful a people to set up the mentoring automation
* Please help us!! We want to build out cool programs and have lots to do! :)

# December 19 (APAC)

Attendees:

* Yang Li
* Peeyush Gupta
* Ilayaperumal Gopinathan

Canceled due to no agenda. Feel free to chat on slack [https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C1TU9EB9S/p1576731173001900](https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C1TU9EB9S/p1576731173001900)

# December 5 (APAC)

Attendees:

* Yang Li
* Saiyam Pathak
* Peeyush Gupta
* Ilayaperumal Gopinathan

Agenda:

* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* Would any new contributors (or new to this SIG) like to give a brief introduction?
* Recent contributions/meetups/blogs from community
* [yang] KubeCon / Contributor Summit NA
* Recap the event
* Discussed with some contributors from Japan and Nikhita, blog posts might be a better idea than video streaming session.
* [peeyush] that’s a good start for us
* [saiyam] Podcast may work well too - TBD on the details
* [yang] +1 from a podcast lover, we don’t have a community one, but there are lots of them from different companies
* [yang] (added after the meeting) I’ll try to open an issue for this later
* [saiyam] Contributor session Kubernetes Forum India
* [Ilaya] What’s the plan for K8s forum India co-located events?
* [yang] Nikhita haven’t heard back from CNCF yet when we met at San Diego, let’s start a thread on slack later with her
* [peeyush] - contributors’ social meet in Bangalore
* [saiyam] Kubecon Amsterdam Contributor summit discussion
* [yang] Jeffery will be leading [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4022](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4022)
* Open Mic/Discussion
* [your name and topic here - should this be an issue against kubernetes/community?]
* [Ilaya] Resources for debugging kubernetes core components?
* [saiyam] Kubernetes Code Walkthrough videos: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q91iZywBzew](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q91iZywBzew)
 - Kubecon2018 \
[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL69nYSiGNLP0gugLYzpNR1ueyUj9GjzpK](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL69nYSiGNLP0gugLYzpNR1ueyUj9GjzpK) - Kubernetes code walkthrough playlist

# December 4 (Update Meeting)

Attendees:

* Jorge Castro
* Jonas Rosland
* Dawn Foster
* Jason DeTiberus
* Eduar Tua
* Josh Berkus, el Capitan
* Rin Oliver
* Ihor Dvoretskyie
* Amanda Katona
* Guin Saenger
* Elsie Phillips
* Laura Santamaria
* Michael Roy
* Mani

Others:

* Events (currently San Diego Summit)
* Every Monday at 10a PT
* [Project Board ; Agenda and notes](https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/projects/21)
* [Points of contact](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/events/OWNERS)
* [Retro for contrib summit](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mDHxPAbwyy7CSrk7G__Qts6FkhuwuCUQ23RnHpJpVUQ/edit#) San Diego
* Next steps - Jeefy is putting together the AMS Contrib Summit team and will kick off new planning meetings when we have the team put together.
* Community-management
* Community meetings set for the year, jorge to send monthly cadence change to the -dev list on Monday
* MoC, Office hours all set for 2k19
* Points of contact: castrojo
* Github-management: No status this week
* Points of contact: Christoph, Aaron, Nikhita, Bob, others
* Slack-infra:
* Always looking for new volunteers, ping castrojo if you’re interested
* Points of contact: (on slack): #slack-admins
* Contributor-documentation: Not much new, adding sections for release notes in the contributor summit.
* Fourth Wednesday of the month @ 11am PT
* [Project Board](https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/projects/17) ; Agenda and notes inline with main meeting below
* [Points of contact](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/guide/OWNERS)
* Mentoring
* Second Thursday of the month @ 830a PT
* [Project Board](https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/projects/18) ; Agenda and notes inline with main meeting below
* [Points of contact](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/OWNERS)
* Discussion on Zoom reviews process and whether it might help mentoring. Laura offered to ask a friend for his process docs. Jay said yes! [https://gist.github.com/parlarjb/07aeb0efafde2a23fc43dfdd5be11c2e](https://gist.github.com/parlarjb/07aeb0efafde2a23fc43dfdd5be11c2e)

# November 20/21 - APAC Meeting

Canceled because some regular attendees will be at KubeCon NA 2019

# November 14 - mentoring

Attendees:

* Paris
* Marky
* Mani
* Ihor

Agenda:

* Outreachy
* Need to pick the interns! \o/
* Onsite f2f mentoring @ kubecon
* Paris to run the AM with Marky assisting in the PM. Tpep to float between.
* Light triage mentoring board

# November 6/7 - APAC Meeting

Attendees:

* Nikhita Raghunath
* Alison Dowdney
* Yang Li
* Peeyush Gupta
* Nabarun Pal
* Ilayaperumal Gopinathan
* (and some new folks did not wrote their names)

Agenda:

* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* Would any new contributors (or new to this SIG) like to give a brief introduction?
* [yang] Contributor focused sessions in APAC time zones
* [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4086](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4086)
* Asked in regional slack channels
* What time to have it? The meeting time is probably good, but we will create a doodle to see more opinions (Alison & Nikhita)
* Yang will ask others how the youtube streaming works
* Topics? Introduction for new folks at first, and code walk through, also interview with contributors and issues deep-dive
* [nikhita] CNCF is looking into if we can have a contributor-specific unconference-like session on Day 2 for Kubernetes Forum India.
* Next step is waiting for answers from CNCF
* Will there be any contributor related talks in Seoul or Sydney?
* [https://k8sforumseoul19eng.sched.com/event/WIRH/](https://k8sforumseoul19eng.sched.com/event/WIRH/) in Seoul
* [nikhita] Who is going to San Diego? We should meet up
* Nikhita, Yang, Peeyush, Alison, Nabarun
* Post to #contributor-summit about meeting up at the summit. Cross link to regional channels.
* Open Mic/Discussion
* [your name and topic here - should this be an issue against kubernetes/community?]
* [Ilaya] What are other SIG meetings occur at APAC-friendly time zones?
* sig-node (maybe not anymore), sig-docs (monthly), sig-cluster-lifecycle (kubeadm bi-weekly), wg-iot-edge (monthly)
* we should probably make a list of all such meetings
* [Ilaya] The purpose of this meeting?
* This is a meeting of APAC coordinators ([https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-contributor-experience/role-handbooks/apac-coordinator.md](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-contributor-experience/role-handbooks/apac-coordinator.md)), but we can also have usual contribex topics

# November 6 - ContribEx Issue Triage Update

Attendees:

* Arnaud Meukam
* Rin Oliver
* Sahdev Zala
* Savitha Raghunathan
* Alexandra McCoy

Minutes:

* No blockers
* Current focus is on the community repo
* We will start tracking triaging work after the kubecon
* No next bi-weekly meeting due to kubecon

Action Items:

* Attempt to manage remaining issues with label “lifecycle/stale” before next meeting
* May not be able to address #2696 & #3806 but plan to discuss at KubeCon

# November 6 - ContribEx Update

Attendees:

* Nikhita Raghunath
* Bart Smykla
* Jason DeTiberus
* Bob Killen
* Rin Oliver
* Sahdev Zala
* Tim Pepper
* Ihor Dvoretskyi (CNCF)
* Jorge Castro
* Taylor Martin
* Łukasz Gryglicki, CNCF (a bit late due to meeting conflict).
* Alexandra McCoy
* Savitha Raghunathan

Topics

* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* Would any new contributors (or new to this SIG) like to give a brief introduction?
* Regular program updates: [1-collect updates before the meeting; 2-host to read actions; 3-assign streamers to each event (if applicable)]
* Events:
* Office hours [jorge]
* Community Meeting [jorge]
* Contributor Summit(s) [paris]
* Other/Discussion:
* Mentoring:
* Meet Our Contributors [paris]
* Other/Discussion [playground, gsoc, outreachy]:
* Community-management:
* [Need to Know Chairs/TLs email](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ivmV-ouim7YcTnmv21m0pP6prmj-FFZxcRBuWbT706c/edit?usp=sharing) [paris]
* APAC coordinator update:
* GitHub-management:
* Enabled contributor-flagged reporting feature on k/k
* Slack-infra:
* Contributor-documentation:
* Review [project board](https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/projects/1)
* Open Mic/Discussion
* [your name and topic here - should this be an issue against kubernetes/community?]
* Coffee Tuesday morning @ Kubecon [jorge]
* [Ihor] Please, note that the CNCF Ambassadors breakfast will happen on Tuesday morning - multiple CNCF Ambassadors are the active participations at ContribX
* Recordings from meetings as podcasts ([https://github.com/kubernetes/k8s.io/issues/449](https://github.com/kubernetes/k8s.io/issues/449)) [bartsmykla]

# October 23/24 - APAC Meeting

Attendees:

* Nikhita Raghunath
* Yang Li
* Josh Berkus
* Peeyush Gupta
* Saiyam Pathak

Agenda:

* Kubernetes Seoul & Sydney
* [https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-forum-seoul-2019/](https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-forum-seoul-2019/) & [https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-forum-sydney-2019/](https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-forum-sydney-2019/)
* Also Bangalore & Delhi
* [https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-forum-bengaluru-2020/](https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-forum-bengaluru-2020/)
* [https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-forum-delhi-2020/](https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-forum-delhi-2020/)
* Any contributor activity?
* Day 2 activities are all sponsored
* Nothing scheduled by CNCF
* AI: Nikhita will ask Dims if we can have contributor focused unconference sessions
* [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubernetes-forums-india-2020-unofficial](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubernetes-forums-india-2020-unofficial) - unofficial google group for Kubernetes Forum India
* Josh can help organize something in Bangalore (probably remotely)
* Because of San Diego, Seoul & Sydney will be like less popular than Bangalore & Delhi
* Nikhita: we should advertise this meeting in SIG-Docs which has a larger Asian contributor group.
* We will have a full contributor day at KubeCon Shanghai 2020, we should be able to start planning after San Diego, although much work may be done after Amsterdam
* Webinars
* [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4086](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4086)
* Want to have CNCF Webinar things for the APAC time zones, but more contributor-focused
* Like contributor 101
* Also “meet our contributors”
* Could get US-based Owners to dial in a couple times a year
* Can we use the CNCF tooling?
* Why not use Meet Our Contributor setup?
* Does zoom work in China? Yes, there’s a China client
* Nikhita to ask Jorge & Paris
* Maybe have some in the afternoon Asia time, which would pick up europe as well.
* Survey to time zones? (Josh can arrange)
* Just hold them and try?
* Anyone on Contribex Triage team?
* #sig-contribex-triage channel [https://app.slack.com/client/T09NY5SBT/CNGLDBL5N/activity](https://app.slack.com/client/T09NY5SBT/CNGLDBL5N/activity)
* Expanding this effort to more SIGs? Have more documation first

# October 23 - ContribEx Triage Issue Meeting

Attendees:

* Arnaud Meukam
* Jorge Alarcon
* Marky Jackson
* Savitha Raghunathan

Topics:

* [AI: marky] build spreadsheet to keep track of issues
* Dedicated issue triage for k/k
* Work on [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-contributor-experience/triage-team/triage.md](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-contributor-experience/triage-team/triage.md)
* We want a good set of guidelines
* [AI] Let’s start by triaging older issues
* preference on /lifecycle rotten and go from there

# October 23 - ContribEx Update

Attendees:

* Elsie Phillips
* Jonas Rosland
* Bob Killen
* Rin Oliver
* Jorge Castro
* Jorge Alarcon
* Josh Berkus
* Tim Pepper
* Sahdev Zala
* Paris
* Eddie Zaneski
* Łukasz Gryglicki

Topics

* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* Would any new contributors (or new to this SIG) like to give a brief introduction?
* Regular program updates: [1-collect updates before the meeting; 2-host to read actions; 3-assign streamers to each event (if applicable)]
* Events:
* Office hours [jorge]
* 150 live attendees last time
* Break for this month because of KubeCon - start up again in December
* Community Meeting [jorge]
* 9 people last week - are we wasting other people’s time?
* One SIG showed up, the second didn’t, and the third didn’t respond to our request
* Should we move this to bi-weekly, once a month perhaps?
* Try bi-weekly
* Restrict demos to be about new core/SIG functionality, instead of external tools
* Finish out the year with the existing format, and then revamp after the new year
* Contributor Summit(s) [paris]
* Starting on “know before you go” info! It’s happening!!
* ~220 current contributors
* Still room for ~100 more
* NCW is cap (waitlist is huge)
* Sunday night will be fun! Karaoke
* Other/Discussion:
* Mentoring:
* Meet Our Contributors [paris]
* Pre KubeCon November edition with paul morie and need two more
* Other/Discussion [playground, gsoc, outreachy]:
* Community-management:
* [Need to Know Chairs/TLs email](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ivmV-ouim7YcTnmv21m0pP6prmj-FFZxcRBuWbT706c/edit?usp=sharing) [paris]
* Contrib summit, triage team, conformance, ??
* Triage team - possible unconference track - [Rin]
* APAC coordinator update:
* GitHub-management:
* [Owner cleanup almost complete.](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/76269)
* Cleanup of outside collaborators
* Slack-infra:
* Discussion/Update
* Public channel for steering committee
* Contributor-documentation:
* Contributor Guide
* Developer Guide
* Non Code Guide
* Review [project board](https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/projects/1)
* Open Mic/Discussion
* [your name and topic here - should this be an issue against kubernetes/community?]
* Jorge - Community Meeting
* [Declining community meeting attendance](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4019)
* Move to biweekly starting 2020
* Demos are from SIGs/core features only
* 2019 schedule will remain as is.
* tpepper - WG K8s Infra & [https://twitter.com/thockin/status/1184509308169379840](https://twitter.com/thockin/status/1184509308169379840)
* Rin - [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4149](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4149) Happy to work with whoever else may be interested on setting this up as an unconference event at the Summit, could be a great way for those who are interested in getting involved with the project but aren't sure where to start/how to contribute :) If there's a point of contact I can get in touch with to secure a space for it/someone I can talk to to get it on the contributor site schedule I'll make it happen!
* [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4149](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4149)

# October 10 - mentoring

Attendees

* Paris
* Bob Killen
* Marky Jackson
* Dawn Foster
* Jorge Alarcon

Topics

* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* Would any new contributors (or new to this SIG) like to give a brief introduction?
* Outreachy
* 3 positions
* Need help in #outreachy-apps
* KubeCon face to faces 1:1
* Marky can’t take on right now
* Paris will resume
* Project board https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/projects/18

# October 10 - APAC Planning

Attendees

* Yang Li
* Peeyush Gupta

Topics

* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* Would any new contributors (or new to this SIG) like to give a brief introduction?
* GitHub team for APAC coordinators
* All members on board and team created
* Kubernetes Community Days [https://github.com/cncf/kubernetes-community-days/issues](https://github.com/cncf/kubernetes-community-days/issues)
* We are able to help with APAC events
* Kubernetes Forums
* Schedule not announced yet, both CNCF and ContribEx are busy with San Diego
* We need at least one month if ContribEx is going to do a workshop or sth.

# October 9 - ContribEx Triage Issue Meeting

Attendees

* Paris Pittman
* Arnaud Meukam
* Marky Jackson
* Savitha Raghunathan
* Rin Oliver

Topics

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# October 9 - ContribEx Meeting

Attendees

* Paris Pittman
* Nikhita Raghunath
* Jason DeTiberus
* Bob Killen
* Dawn Foster
* Chris Short
* Jonas Rosland
* Marky Jackson
* Eduar Tua
* Tim Pepper
* Łukasz Gryglicki

Topics

* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* Would any new contributors (or new to this SIG) like to give a brief introduction?
* Regular program updates: [1-collect updates before the meeting; 2-host to read actions; 3-assign streamers to each event (if applicable)]
* Events:
* Office hours [jorge]
* Last office hours until kubecon next week
* Community Meeting [jorge]
* Marky is doing this week
* We still need hosts!! Check the meeting tracker
* Reach out and help us with finding hosts!
* Contributor Summit(s) [paris]
* Blog post to go live today along with several other outlets
* Schedule is now live; adding some sessions this week
* Amsterdam contributor summit team
* Steering Committee Election
* Jorge did some retro fixes
* [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/pull/4148](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/pull/4148)
* Lets get more election officials in the mix!! Anyone interested in next year??
* Should we do a retro? At steering level?
* CIVS can’t scale with us
* Wants to move to something that is directly tied to github
* Or web based
* Other/Discussion:
* Mentoring:
* Meet Our Contributors [paris]
* How to get the best out of kubecon - ask that
* Other/Discussion [playground, gsoc, outreachy]:
* Outreachy is live!
* Marky is helping with issue triage and breaking down some projects
* Community-management:
* [Need to Know Chairs/TLs email](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ivmV-ouim7YcTnmv21m0pP6prmj-FFZxcRBuWbT706c/edit?usp=sharing) [paris]
* Contributor summit
* Reminder about owners stuff/audit - most recent kdev email
* APAC coordinator update:
* Discussion about organizing a webinar targeting APAC timezones.
* GitHub-management:
* OWNER clean up on track for next week
* A few sig leads are cleaning up ahead of time
* [Moving forward with incubator clean up](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/1922)
* Cleaning up outside collaborators
* Slack-infra:
* Discussion/Update
* No updates
* Contributor-documentation:
* Contributor Guide
* Developer Guide
* Marky is still working on five issues
* Release team edits that came out of the retro
* Non Code Guide
* Contributor Site
* Review [project board](https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/projects/1)
* Concerns about our PR lifecycle:
* [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4149](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4149)

# September 26 - APAC Planning

Attendees

* Yang Li
* Saiyam Pathak
* Alison Dowdney

Topics

* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* Would any new contributors (or new to this SIG) like to give a brief introduction?
* Zoom in China
* [https://status.zoom.us/incidents/xbmxyfpnv4jq](https://status.zoom.us/incidents/xbmxyfpnv4jq)
* [https://zoomcloud.cn/download.html](https://zoomcloud.cn/download.html) China Zoom client, should works since
* GitHub team for APAC coordinators
* Team for APAC Coordinators to get better signals on GitHub [idealhack]
* Webinar issue created(assigned to Saiyam and Yang) Next steps ? (issue link - [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4086](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4086))
* Get form created - Look at past forms, use that as a reference for APAC
* [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4086](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4086)
* Looking at where to find existing webinars [idealhack]
* Community introduction slides for Kubernetes Workshop?
* Look at past contributor summit workshop slides
* Barcelona [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1usEbwHMSC8vR7HvbxHJBOj2ISdTkw9rmufQUq7fkIl4/edit](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1usEbwHMSC8vR7HvbxHJBOj2ISdTkw9rmufQUq7fkIl4/edit)
* Shanghai [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1usEbwHMSC8vR7HvbxHJBOj2ISdTkw9rmufQUq7fkIl4/edit](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1usEbwHMSC8vR7HvbxHJBOj2ISdTkw9rmufQUq7fkIl4/edit)
* San Diego [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18LcwvqyNn74HgqIk7O-ChgfSsJAqDIYm7obguEXto4Q/edit](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18LcwvqyNn74HgqIk7O-ChgfSsJAqDIYm7obguEXto4Q/edit)
* It would be nice if anyone can update this in the playground repo :) [https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/contributor-playground/tree/master/presentations](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/contributor-playground/tree/master/presentations)
* Videos: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL69nYSiGNLP3M5X7stuD7N4r3uP2PZQUx](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL69nYSiGNLP3M5X7stuD7N4r3uP2PZQUx)
* Other teams in SIG contribex
* Marketing: [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4044](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4044)
* Doodle link- [https://www.doodle.com/poll/6682kfq36wttq6fa](https://www.doodle.com/poll/6682kfq36wttq6fa)
* Moderators: [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4011](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4011) , [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4112](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4112)

# September 25 - ContribEx Meeting

Attendees

* Paris
* Jorge
* Jonas
* Jason
* Nikhita
* Dawn
* Jberkus
* Christoph
* Guin
* Sahdev
* Jorge

Topics

* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* Would any new contributors (or new to this SIG) like to give a brief introduction?
* Regular program updates: [1-collect updates before the meeting; 2-host to read actions; 3-assign streamers to each event (if applicable)]
* Events:
* Office hours [jorge]
* 150 live participants
* Community Meeting [jorge]
* Looking for new hosts [link for spread]
* Timpep is hosting this week; working groups are going this week for the first time
* Contributor Summit(s) [paris]
* San Diego - registration is live.
* NCW is at capacity
* We need an idea for entertainment for Sunday Night. We have a stage. No amps though. Projector screen, mic, laptop hook up, etc. We didn’t get many people who want to do a talent show. Womp womp.
* Schedule is out next week
* Steering Committee Election [jorge/bob]
* 50% through, deadline Oct 2!
* Other/Discussion:
* Mentoring:
* Meet Our Contributors [paris]
* Need two people for next Weds
* Christoph is a maybe
* Other/Discussion [playground, gsoc, outreachy]:
* Need help with forming job blurbs for the four outreachy interns we are recruiting. See github issue for the four.
* Marky is going to help out with issue triage and getting some of the 1:1 and group mentoring projects off the ground to help me - yay thank you!
* KubeCon face to face pod mentoring registration will go live in the next week. More soon.
* Community-management:
* [Need to Know Chairs/TLs email](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ivmV-ouim7YcTnmv21m0pP6prmj-FFZxcRBuWbT706c/edit?usp=sharing) [paris]
* 1-contributor summit
* 2- governance stuff like youtube playlists
* 3- owners file clean up stuff
* //could have one more
* APAC coordinator update:
* Kubernetes Summit Seoul + Sydney [idealhack]
* CFP closed, we may see folks who are going later
* Decide whether to have a new contributor workshop or other sessions or not, APAC coordinator can help if we are going to form a team
* Discuss.k8s.io updates [jorge]
* Marketing for Kubecon [jorge]
* YouTube updates [jorge]
* Survey [paris]
* [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/3969#issuecomment-535051744](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/3969#issuecomment-535051744)
* Draft of the questions is linked here. We can afford ONE more question to hit the goal of 25. (We had 32 last year and needed to trim based on feedback)
* Pending christoph and test infra
* Other Discussions:
* [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4044](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4044) - marketing team doodle just went out [paris]
* [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4011](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4011) - help wanted to make moderators@ whole [paris]
* Zoom in china [paris]
* Check on bluejeans
* Wechat
* Will we run into the case of $platform getting blocked too
* There is a zoom client that you can download in china
* Please access https://zoomcloud.cn/download.html and download the China Zoom client. After installing, users can enter the meeting ID to join a Zoom meeting.
* GitHub-management:
* Discussion/Update:
* Had a call with Jacob Palmer from LF about easycla. Have some concerns about behaviour during transition from the current bot to the new one. Going to follow-up with them + SIG Testing later. [nikhita]
* Will be replacing [fejta-bot with k8s-triage-robot](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/kubernetes-dev/31oiPVzITJw) today. [nikhita]
* Slack-infra:
* Discussion/Update:
* No updates
* Contributor-documentation: second meeting is today!
* Contributor Guide
* Developer Guide
* Need to write outreachy blurb //help wanted
* Non Code Guide
* Review [project board](https://github.com/orgs/kubernetes/projects/1)
* Open Mic/Discussion
* [Guin] 1.17 release cycle has started. Prepare your KEPs!
* Silly Hat meetings? [Josh]
* [Your name and topic here. Should this be an issue against kubernetes/community?]

# September 12 - Mentoring

Attendees

* Bob Killen
* Paris
* Dawn Foster
* Marky Jackson
* Nikhita Raghunath
* Naeil Ezzoueidi
* Jorge Alarcon
* Maria Ntalla
* Saiyam Pathak

Topics

* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* Would any new contributors (or new to this SIG) like to give a brief introduction?
* Outreachy
* Announcement to k-dev
* Last year’s announcement - [link](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HrirvVoH3hLnz2IZORAGqGq9Aaj_tQFdEjeesI_Jjas/edit?usp=sharing)
* Possibly owners file work; will need to flesh out policies
* Open Mic/Discussion
* [Your name and topic here. Should this be an issue against kubernetes/community?]
* Script that would aggregate who is doing work in a file
* Marky to help with issue triage and getting some of the programs off the ground

# September 12 - APAC Planning

Attendees

* Yang Li
* Peeyush Gupta
* Saiyam Pathak

Topics

* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* Would any new contributors (or new to this SIG) like to give a brief introduction?
* #aus-nz-dev channel created for Oceania contributors
* Kubernetes Summit Seoul + Sydney
* CFP closed, we may see folks who are going when the schedule announced
* Decide whether to have a new contributor workshop or not
* how can we be part of that - if we are going to do it, we will form a team
* KubeCon Shanghai 2020
* Contributor Summit team will be formed later
* CFP form/google form for APAC webinar
* Contact CNCF?
* Create a GitHub Issue (Saiyam) [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4086](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4086)
* We talked about this [before](#bookmark=id.yi0gusk6masm) but forgot it
* How can we update the contibex community about the talks around kubernetes ecosystem (eg kubernetes workshop, kubernetes security , k3s etc) that contributors are giving at local meetups (that might not be part of cncf)
* If they are users talks, share them at [http://discuss.k8s.io](http://discuss.k8s.io/) / slack etc.
* If they are contributors talks, share them at contributors channels on slack etc.
* How to find data around APAC contributors?
* devstats is the first place to go: [https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/d/50/countries-stats?orgId=1](https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/d/50/countries-stats?orgId=1)
* Could not find sth? Ask in #sig-contribex or open an issue at [https://github.com/cncf/devstats](https://github.com/cncf/devstats)

# September 11 - ContribEx Meeting

Attendees

* Elsie Phillips
* Bob Killen
* Marky Jackson
* Paris Pittman
* Jorge Castro
* Dawn Foster
* Guinevere Saenger
* Jacob Palmer
* Tim Pepper
* Christoph Blecker
* Jorge Alarcon Ochoa
* Łukasz Gryglicki

Topics

* Welcome and recurring business
* CoC
* Would any new contributors (or new to this SIG) like to give a brief introduction?
* Regular program updates: [1-collect updates before the meeting; 2-host to read actions; 3-assign streamers to each event (if applicable)]
* Events:
* Office hours [jorge]
* fine
* Community Meeting [jorge]
* Doesn’t have enough hosts - please volunteer
* Issue open to change formatting
* Contributor Summit(s) [paris]
* REG IS LIVE - TELL YOUR FRIENDS
* 150 RSVPs already
* Meta request - We need two sig meet and greet reps for ContribEx
* Elsie is volunteering for one slot; NEED ONE MORE; tim pepper (offered but also doing sig-release) - [Form to volunteer](https://forms.gle/hxx1qz8XtwtXEBMm8) to rep our SIG & details about who has volunteered for each SIG are [in the Issue](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/3896).
* Steering Committee Election [jorge]
* Other/Discussion:
* Mentoring:
* Meet Our Contributors [paris]
* Need folks for October 2nd - need to send an email to k-dev and chairs
* Other/Discussion [playground, gsoc, outreachy]:
* Outreachy - 1: content for dev guide 2: contributor guide content
* Community-management:
* [Need to Know Chairs/TLs email](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ivmV-ouim7YcTnmv21m0pP6prmj-FFZxcRBuWbT706c/edit?usp=sharing) [paris]
* All contributor summit updates today; ready to roll with an email so if you have something speak now or wait until the next three
* APAC coordinator update:
* See notes below for aug 29th date
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