Keynote: Getting Started as an Open Source Contributor
summary
Contribution starts with the public contributor and developer guides on github.com/kubernetes/community, plus local meetups (about 15 in India) and roughly 560 India-focused Slack channels. Mentored paths include Google Summer of Code, Community Bridge and Outreachy, and the release team runs a shadow-to-lead model that promotes people after 1–2 releases. Find issues marked good first issue then progress to help wanted, do triage, reviews and work toward reviewer → approver → owner roles.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:47Contribution Guides
- 1:17CNCF Meetups in India
- 1:59CNCF Ambassadors in India
- 2:57Mentorship programs
- 5:00Community Groups
- 5:42Communication
- 6:01India-specific Slack channels
- 7:01Understanding the codebase
- 7:37Find an issue
- 8:00Issue Triage
- 8:33Non-code contributions
- 8:44Shadowing on the release team
- 9:28Contributor Ladder
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