2021-01-27 Meeting Notes

[ali...@weave.works]

Here are the notes from today's meeting

• Host: Bob

• Notetaker: Alison
  

• Attendees: 

  • Matt Broberg

  • Kendall Nelson

  • Rey Lejano

  • Cody Crudgington

• Welcome and recurring business  [Host]

  • CoC [Host]

  • New Contributor Intro here \o/ [Everyone]

• ContribEx Updates:

  • Lazy consensus period over for Alison to become chair \o/

  • Meeting looking to be moved 30min early+1

• Events:

  • Office hours [Jorge]

  • Community Meeting [Laura]

    • SIGs schedule their own public sessions, getting updates from SIGs independently

      • It was dropped as it’d be difficult for attendees

    • Openstack approaches community meetings by letting folks record video updates, We could approach folks to record video updates every quarter and then compile them together

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    • Considering the “why” of the meeting

      • A front door for new members (or campfire aspect of news)

      • A ‘what’s new for current members’

      • Would we be able to keep the same vibe with a different medium

        • Maybe podcast, maybe youtube

    • Issue with the community meeting was there was no discussion

    • Fixing calendar issue - port the mailing list to gsuite 

      • Is google groups adequate? A whole other can of worms

    • TODO : Create a GitHub issue for further discussion

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  • Contributor Summit(s) [Bob]

    • Potentially do something for Kubecon EU

      • If we do something it will be separate from kubecon

  • Other/Discussion: 

• Mentoring:

  • Meet Our Contributors [Paris]

    • Still looking for folks to get involved with helping out, mailing list

  • Playground, gsoc, outreachy, LFX Mentorship Program [Ihor]

    • If you plan to be a mentor, the deadline is January 31

    • Info is in the cncf repo

  • New Contributor Workshop [Josh]

    • Progress has been made with making an interactive environment for build and test

    • Progress is slow but steady

    • Calendar Invite

      • Josh to create doodle to find new eu friendly meeting time

• Community-management:

  • Need to Know Chairs/TLs email [Bob/Jorge]

    • Need to send this email out

    • More folks need to see this and take a look

  • APAC coordinator update [who dis?]:

  • Annual Contributor Survey

    • Survey questions

    • Demographic data is desired to help establish a baseline of contributor diversity. Questions have been sent to CoCC for comment.

    • Questions have been locked in, except for the demographic ones

    • Code of conduct committee are reviewing demographic questions

• Devstats [Lauri]

• Marketing [Matt/Kaslin]

  • Content push right now --- asking anyone and everything to write up a few paragraphs on how they contribute to kubernetes

    • Signed up: 

      • Chris Short on “non-code contribution” 

      • Matt Broberg on “lurker to contributor in 4 hours a week”

      • Sladyn Nunes on joining marketing to learn a new skill

      • Interested? 

  • Draft in progress on PSP deprecation - https://github.com/kubernetes/website/issues/26202#issuecomment-766901866 

  • Going to talk about the Community meeting next :) 

• Contributor-documentation:

  • Contributor Guide [Bob/Jorge]

  • Developer Guide [Erik/Joel]

  • Contributor Site [Bob/Jorge]

• GitHub-management [Bob/Nikhita/Christoph]:

  • Jan 2021 Inactive Member clean up

    • Removes 60~ people from the org

    • HELP WANTED: Need assistance with follow up OWNER files clean up.

    • Is there any Automation we would like around this? 

      • There is some automation we would like to do in the long term

• Slack-infra [Jorge/Jeefy]:

  • Discussion/Update

  • Finished renaming the kubernetes contributor channel

    • Positive changes seen, most comments are on topic

• Open Mic/Discussion

  • Slack “meeting” feedback [Bob]

    • Positives, we were able to get responses from people in many different time zones

    • Negatives: Slack threading made things hard to follow

    • Needed to bound the conversation times more formally- conclude comments by X date/time

    • Potentially create a separate channel for the meetings

    • Alternating slack meetings with video meetings could be a good approach if we work out the technical issues

    • Actual things that need to be decisions/discussions to be placed on a separate thread

      • Decisions section of the notes

      • Here are the decisions, send them out to the mailing list to get feedback

      • Potential integration https://fellow.app/blog/2020/effective-meetings-with-fellow-and-slack/ 

  • Review 1.20 / 1.21 milestone [Bob]

    • Managed to clear out a bunch of issues in 1.20

    • New Contributor Workshop to be the focus of the next release cycle