Why Community Matters

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1. 1 #GitLabCommit Why Community Matters Tim Hockin Google Cloud
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4. 4 #GitLabCommit • Started in 2013 • Announced in 2014 • 1.0 in 2015 • Probably the largest Go project in the world • One of the most active OSS projects in history Kubernetes
5. 5 #GitLabCommit Oh, THAT kubernetes...
6. 6 #GitLabCommit SPOILER ALERT!
7. 7 #GitLabCommit This project WOULD NOT have become what it is today without the community In fact - it might not have been a success at all
8. 8 #GitLabCommit You may have heard me or other Kubernetes people pontificate about community before That’s not going to stop me from doing it again today!
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10. 10 #GitLabCommit “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." --Henry Ford
11. 11 #GitLabCommit This was probably the smartest thing Google did for Kubernetes It was not always easy, but it was worth it Radical Openness
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14. 14 #GitLabCommit Started accumulating contributors Mostly scratching their own itches Some were company sponsored Many just wanted to help, to be part of it 5+ years later - many are still with the project! The First Months
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18. 18 #GitLabCommit v1.0 (1 year): ~500 contributors v1.4 (1 year later): > 1000 contributors Growth
19. 19 #GitLabCommit Got a bunch of pull requests for ARM support Why? Unexpected
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21. 21 #GitLabCommit Got a bunch of pull requests for ARM support Surprise #1: A Kube cluster of Raspberry Pi machines! Unexpected
22. 22 #GitLabCommit Got a bunch of pull requests for ARM support Surprise #1: A Kube cluster of Raspberry Pi machines! Surprise #2: Contributor was 15 years old! Unexpected
23. 23 #GitLabCommit Got a bunch of pull requests for ARM support Surprise #1: A Kube cluster of Raspberry Pi machines! Surprise #2: Contributor was 15 years old! We eventually made him a maintainer Unexpected
24. 24 #GitLabCommit Got a bunch of pull requests for ARM support Surprise #1: A Kube cluster of Raspberry Pi machines! Surprise #2: Contributor was 15 years old! We eventually made him a maintainer Lesson: You NEVER KNOW where your community will come from Unexpected
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26. 26 #GitLabCommit As a developer platform, docs are CRITICAL Software engineers wrote the first docs...yikes Do you know how hard it is to write, organize, and curate good technical docs? Docs
27. 27 #GitLabCommit HARD HARD DOCS
28. 28 #GitLabCommit We all know how important it is But we don’t always act that way Our testing SIG keeps us all sane Testing
29. 29 #GitLabCommit We merge dozens to hundreds of PRs every day We cut a release every 3 months Our release team is community They have a robust shadowing program, too! Release Engineering
30. 30 #GitLabCommit We have teams that runs our: • GitHub • Slack • Website • DNS • Bots Heck, we even have a community-driven community management team!! Infrastructure
31. 31 #GitLabCommit Now imagine Kubernetes without the community...
32. 32 #GitLabCommit The project would not work.
33. 33 #GitLabCommit The project would not work. At all.
34. 34 #GitLabCommit It’s not just the people. It’s the stuff between the people. And it makes all the difference
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