Getting started as an Open Source Contributor

Nikhita Raghunath, a Steering Committee member and a core contributor to Kubernetes; and Ihor Dvoretskyi, a long-term Kubernetes contributor, now a Developer Advocate at the Cloud Native Foundation, the largest open source foundation in the world, will share their insights on becoming a contributor and an active community member in the world of open source. Also, they will highlight the opportunities for those who are about to make their first steps in the open source contributions, including the programs as Google Summer of Code, Community Bridge by The Linux Foundation, Outreachy and others.

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2. Ihor Dvoretskyi and Nikhita Raghunath
   Getting started as an Open Source
   Contributor
   

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3. Contribution Guides
   contribute.cncf.io
   

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4. CNCF Meetups in India
   Meetup Groups
   15
   

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5. CNCF Ambassadors in India
   Ambassadors
   8
   

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6. Mentorship programs
   ● Google Summer of Code
   ● Community Bridge
   ● Outreachy
   Mentees are of
   Indian Origin
   50 %+
   

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7. Diving in the Community
   

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8. Community Groups
   

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9. Communication
   ● Mailing Lists
   ● Slack channels
   ● Meetings, Meeting Notes
   ● YouTube recordings
   

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10. India-specific Slack channels
    ● #in-dev - for contributors
    ● #in-users - for users
    ● #in-events - for events happening in India
    slack.k8s.io
    

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11. Understanding the codebase
    https://github.com/kubernetes/community
    Contributor Guide
    - Terminology
    - Best practices
    - How to find issues
    - GitHub workflow
    Developer Guide
    - Setting up development
    environment
    - API conventions
    - Release process
    - How to write and run tests
    

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12. Understanding the codebase
    Codebase tour videos on YouTube
    

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13. Find an issue
    

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14. Issue Triage
    

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15. Non-code contributions
    

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16. Shadowing on the release team
    

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17. Contributor Ladder
    

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