Deep Dive: Contributor Experience SIG

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Contributor summit reports 300 registered / 130 new contributors and follow-up workshops plus mentoring sessions for onboarding. Automation updates include a GitHub review status bot that skips reviewers on PTO and a first-PR welcome plugin that adds contributing links. Infrastructure spans ~190 repos across five orgs with ~900 unique members, about custom CI: ~15 clusters per PR, ~1 hour end-to-end tests, and ~1,004 open PRs in core; gaps remain around visibility and onboarding friction.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 8:57Project Board
3. 10:10Contributor Celebration
4. 10:38Contributor Summit
5. 13:08Cig Meet-and-Greet
6. 14:55Automation and Github
7. 15:22Github Review Statuses
8. 20:14What Is the Contributing Experience like
9. 21:15Github Footprint

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