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Panel Discussion: CNCF Mentees

on YouTube 35m
Panelat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 · on Monday, 2021-10-11· [diversity-and-inclusion]

speakers

name:Kunal Kushwaha
website:https://www.wemakedevs.org
name:Ihor Dvoretskyi
website:https://ihor.io
name:Divya Mohan
x:Divya_Mohan02
name:Uchechukwu Obasi
github:thisisobate

resources

video:https://youtu.be/0W9KnI1NULY
slides:none on file

summary

Panelists map exactly how contributors get started: paid, structured mentorships like GSoC, GSoD, LFX (Community Bridge), Outreachy provide three‑month placements with mentors and measurable outcomes; examples include building a documentation/versioning plugin for a project using Hugo and Go, working on Thanos and Kubernetes repos, and moving from docs edits to tests and features. Attendance stats show 69% first‑timers, programs expect you to show interest on Slack/GitHub, do real‑user work, and the projects and mentorships reliably produce usable results.

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chapters (6)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 0:41Jihad Varezky
  3. 18:36Two Ways To Select a Project
  4. 25:26Building a Rapport with the Mentor
  5. 30:55Takeaways
  6. 31:41Taking Responsibility

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