A Look Back and What's in Store for Kubernetes Contributor Summits
Authors: Paris Pittman (Google), Jonas Rosland (VMware)
tl;dr -
Seattle Contributor Summit As our contributing community grows in great numbers, with more than 16,000 contributors this year across 150+ GitHub repositories, it’s important to provide face to face connections for our large distributed teams to have opportunities for collaboration and learning. In
We build the contributor summits around you: New Contributor Workshop These personas combined with ample feedback from previous events, produce the altogether experience that welcomed over 600 contributors in Copenhagen (May), Shanghai(November), and Seattle(December) in 2018. Seattle's event drew over 300+ contributors, equal to Shanghai and Copenhagen combined, for the 6th contributor event in Kubernetes history. In true Kubernetes fashion, we expect another record breaking year of attendance. We've pre-ordered 900+
With that said... In an effort of continual improvement, here's what to expect from us this year: Unconference voting Our 2018 crew 🥁 And an introduction to our 2019 crew (a thanks in advance ;) )... 📈 80% growth rate since the Austin 2017 December event 📜 Event waiting list: 103 🎓 76 contributors were on-boarded through the New Contributor Workshop 🎉 92% of the current contributors RSVPs attended and of those: 👩🏻🚒 25% were
🗳 70% were eligible to vote in the last
📹 20+ Sessions 👀 Most watched to date: Technical Vision, Security, API Code Base Tour 🌟 Top 3 according to survey: Live API Code Review, Deflaking Unconference, Technical Vision 🎱 🎳 160 attendees for the social at
🏆 Special recognition: SIG Storage, @dims, and @jordan
Save the Dates:
Barcelona: May 19th (evening) and 20th (all day)
Shanghai: June 24th (all day)
San Diego: November 18th, 19th, and activities in KubeCon/CloudNativeCon week
Thanks!
Jorge Castro, Paris Pittman, Bob Killen, Jeff Sica, Megan Lehn, Guinevere Saenger, Josh Berkus, Noah Abrahams, Yang Li, Xiangpeng Zhao, Puja Abbassi, Lindsey Tulloch, Zach Corleissen, Tim Pepper, Ihor Dvoretskyi, Nancy Mohamed, Chris Short, Mario Loria, Jason DeTiberus, Sahdev Zala, Mithra Raja
Jonas Rosland, Josh Berkus, Paris Pittman, Jorge Castro, Bob Killen, Deb Giles, Guinevere Saenger, Noah Abrahams, Yang Li, Xiangpeng Zhao, Puja Abbassi, Rui Chen, Tim Pepper, Ihor Dvoretskyi, Dawn FosterRelive Seattle Contributor Summit
