Community: Blog posts format of “Meet Our Contributors”

[idealhack]

We had the initiative to have another "meet our contributors" streaming for APAC regions (https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/4086) and have started talking to people about it.

During the discussion back in KubeCon San Diego and several meetings of APAC planning in SIG Contributor Experience, we got the idea that some contributors might be too shy to be on a live video session, and maybe we could start with blog posts or podcasts first. This will also help us get the word out and have more active contributors from APAC regions.

We might want to focus on countries/regions per post, also it would be great to have one about contributors from or in India during the Kubernetes forums in Bengaluru and Delhi in mid-Feb.

A discussion with SIG Docs blog subproject owners is needed too, of course.

Some 5W1H questions would be like:

• who are you and what do you do?
• how did you get started with Kubernetes?
• when and why did you start contributing?
• who did you meet in the community and what did you learn?
• what were some best memories when you work in the community?
• what has happened in your career since your first contribution?
• do you encourage other people to join the community, why?

I'll update this issue to include more tasks as the planning goes.

/assign
/sig contributor-experience

[idealhack]

cc @kubernetes/sig-contributor-experience-apac-coordinators

[parispittman]

@idealhack we are building a marketing team and will have bloggers assigned so we can help! we've got some guidelines that we are bootstrapping and sig-docs folks are involved as well. #4459

notes from the meeting https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IlHAJ131akGhI5ffF4OoVW0PrsVY4C0BB8l-UyQaQVo/edit

[tao12345666333]

SGTM!

blog posts will be a good start.

[nikhita]

From April 23 APAC meeting, @idealhack to create a google doc to start collaborating on questions we can ask on the blog post.

We'll also be using the doc to draw a list of folks who would like to help out with the blog posts (per country/region) and folks we'd like to interview. This should help us with estimating timelines for scheduling the blog posts (thanks @palnabarun for the idea!)

[idealhack]

thanks for all the discussions today, the doc is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zB-FOvfbnKbiWlGgInnDB06hDfLsTQuuKsXQCqc-lL0/edit

[palnabarun]

/assign

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[palnabarun]

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[nikhita]

Deadlines/milestones planned (osting from last meeting's notes):

Collection of responses - October 8th
Collating responses and writing the blogs - October 22nd
Publishing the series - November 15th

[mbbroberg]

Hey @Pensu, did this happen? If so, link up the posts here and we'll close this out! Else, we can push to 1.21. Thanks!

[palnabarun]

Hi @mbbroberg 👋🏽, we are still collecting responses. We have a meeting in a few hours to discuss the progress of the blog series. On that note, I think it is better to be pushed to 1.21.

/milestone v1.21

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Ah! I am not a member of @kubernetes/community-milestone-maintainers. 😅

@mbbroberg Please feel free to milestone this issue to v1.21.

[mbbroberg]

You bet @palnabarun! Thanks for what you're doing 👋

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We have few responses and it is still under discussion on how to start posting those.