May K8s Chairs/TechLeads Mtg Wrap / Call for June Content

[Contributors Kubernetes]

Notes from May Meetings. Reply directly to this email or #chairs-and-techleads in slack with suggestions for June. Lots to unpack here; links in the agenda.

1 - sig-governance.md has been updated

2 - community group annual reports

3 - new upstream marketing team under #sig-contribex that can help you with many things. @k8scontributors - new twitter account

4 - shouts to lauri apple for helping us with community triage efforts [link to deck under devstats]

SIG Chair/TL Monthly

Agenda:

[start 3 minutes after. agenda is showing 1hr for this session]

• Welcome! CoC! Intros (for 1st time folks) [5 mins]

• Everyone will do a super quick roll call - name, sig/wg/ug, your position (chair, techlead, combo, ug organizer)

• Guest intros

• Announcements and Resources [READ ONLY/COMMENT HERE WITH Qs and OTHER]

• Fellow chairs will now host this meeting on a rotating monthly basis

• Jim A has volunteered for one time slot in June - who wants to do the other? :)

• Contrib summit EU is canceled 

• creating a virtual new contributor workshop program 

• K8s Release Team Comms introduces the comms timeline for v1.19 release and emphasizing the possibility to share your development throughout a K8s feature blog - mkoerbi/Max Körbächer - Comms Team Lead https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/pull/1072

• Big update to k/website in preparation for theme update - some stuff will look funky as we transition [Jim A]

• 1.19 Enhancement Freeze is Tuesday - 19 May EOD [Jeremy]

• If you had a maintainer track session for KubeCon EU, the deadline for responding to offer to do a virtual talk is May 15

• Last meeting recap/follow up from previous meetings [5 mins]

• Updated chair role book [MERGED]

• Updated annual report (nee: community health check) MERGED

• Enhancements team is now under sig-arch; #sig-pm is now #enhancements 

• [demo/newstuff] UPSTREAM MARKETING AND COMMS!!! [10 mins]

• WHAAATT we have a contributor twitter account now?? https://twitter.com/K8sContributors [We haven’t tweeted yet but follow us]

• https://github.com/kubernetes/community/pull/4729 

• (Update: we are not going to tweet KEPs)

• People that will help you do things? Whaaaaat.

• Promote your office hours/events on all comm streams, ask for cross sig collaboration, highlight your contributors and those doing the work, help recruit different types of contributors/focused efforts

• https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/04/21/contributor-communication/

• We’re going to try tags like [Action Required] [Feedback Appreciated] and [ICYMI] (in case you missed it) and you can too!

• How to get a hold of us:

• Issue template https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/new/choose

• Mention @contributor-comms in #sig-contribex to talk

• At a meeting every Friday. Check contribex calendar for more. 

• How can they help y'all?

• [discussion] DevStats: live focus group [10 mins]

• Pre and post discussion in #chairs-and-techleads

• If data was clean/perfect/easily obtained, what would really make the operations of your group smooth, help manage, help your contributors, etc.?

• [open discussion - chairs and tech leads only] 30 minutes

• Possible discussion questions - in a perfect world where data is awesome and perfect, what metrics do you want to see to measure project health of your groups? 

• Anything else you want to discuss?