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title: Meet our Contributors
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description: |
  Meet Our Contributors gives you a monthly one-hour opportunity to ask questions
  about our upstream community, watch interviews with our contributors, and
  participate in peer code reviews.
---

# Program is on hiatus and may be brought back at a future date

# Meet Our Contributors - Ask Us Anything!

When Slack seems like it’s going too fast, and you just need a quick answer from
a human...

Meet Our Contributors gives you a monthly one-hour opportunity to ask questions
about our upstream community, watch interviews with our contributors, and
participate in peer code reviews.

## When:

Every first Wednesday of the month at the following times:
- 03:30pm UTC [Convert to your timezone].

## Where:

Follow along live: [Kubernetes YouTube Channel]

Ask questions: [#meet-our-contributors] Slack channel


To ask anonymously, direct message the host on Slack. They will ID at the start
of the show.

Watch past recordings:
Playlist of [previous Meet-Our-Contributors monthly meetings]


## What You'll Gain By Participating:

- An opportunity to learn more about how to get started contributing to K8s
- A chance to get your PRs reviewed by members of the community
- Peer code review that can help you get more eyes on your code, or learn more
about a part of the Kubernetes code that may have you struggling
- A deeper understanding of the unique role that our contributors occupy in the
Kubernetes ecosystem as a whole
- Practical advice and hands-on tips for how you can get started as a Kubernetes
contributor, become a member, or otherwise contribute to the project

## What’s on-topic:

- How our contributors got started with k8s
- Advice for getting attention on your PR
- GitHub tooling and automation
- Your first commit
- kubernetes/community
- Testing

## What’s off-topic:

- End-user questions (Check out [#office-hours] on Slack and details [here])

## Submitting questions and/or code for review/walk through:

### Questions:

- Day of on Twitter - use the hashtag [#k8smoc] after your question
- Slack - Ask your question in [#meet-our-contributors]

Questions will be on a first-come, first-served basis. The first half of the
discussion will be dedicated to questions for contributors and in the second
half, we will pick a problem (in advance) for peer code review.

### Code snip / PR for peer code review / Suggestion for part of codebase walk through:

- At least 24 hours before the session to Slack channel ([#meet-our-contributors])

Problems will be chosen based on time commitment needed, the skills of the reviewer,
and if a large amount are submitted, need for the project.

## Call for Mentor Panelists!

Expectations of mentors:
- Be online 5 minutes early. You can look at questions in the queue by joining
the #meet-our-contributors Slack channel to give yourself some time to prepare.
- Expect questions about the contribution process, membership, navigating the
Kubernetes seas, testing, and general questions about you and your path to open
source/Kubernetes. It's okay if you don't know the answer!
- We will be using video chat (Zoom, but livestreaming through YouTube) but
voice-only is fine if you are more comfortable with that.
- Be willing to provide suggestions and feedback to make this process & experience
better!



[#meet-our-contributors]: https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/meet-our-contributors
[Convert to your timezone]: https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/?t=03%3A30%20pm&tz=UTC&
[#meet-our-contributors]: https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/meet-our-contributors
[Kubernetes YouTube Channel]: https://www.youtube.com/c/KubernetesCommunity/live
[previous Meet-Our-Contributors monthly meetings]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL69nYSiGNLP3QpQrhZq_sLYo77BVKv09F
[#office-hours]: https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/office-hours
[#k8smoc]: https://twitter.com/hashtag/k8smoc
[#meet-our-contributors]: https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/meet-our-contributors
[here]: /events/office-hours.md