Renaissance, Act 1: Building the Next Generation of the Spinnaker Community
summary
Spinnaker shows ~10 million monthly deployments but community contributions are declining and project growth stalled; plan proposes a three-question survey on every PR, use DevStats and Paradise to track engagement, revive docs and the blog, simplify installation, create test sandboxes (try Spinnaker miniker), and relaunch events like Gardening Days to recruit contributors. Roadmap includes reviving the Contributor-Experience SIG, updating demos and content, and running a community survey and spring gardening event to restore contributor momentum.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and inspiration
- 2:31Spinnaker community history
- 5:18Hype cycle and disillusionment
- 9:52Beyoncé’s Renaissance as metaphor
- 11:18Contributor experience focus
- 12:24Improving Spinnaker content
- 15:15Enhancing contributor process
- 16:59Community outreach strategies
- 19:07Roadmap and next steps
- 20:30Call to action and Q&A
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