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Kubernetes Upstream Mentoring Programs

Kubernetes Upstream Mentoring Programs

This folder will be used for all mentoring initiatives for contributing to Kubernetes. Check out KubeCon and other CNCF events and programs for end user training and learning.

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We understand that everyone has different learning styles and we want to support as many of those as possible. Mentoring is vital to the growth of an individual and organization of every kind. For Kubernetes, the larger the project becomes , it's necessary to keep a continuous pipeline of quality contributors and we want you to hang around!

Current mentoring activities:

Please reach out to #sig-contribex on slack or come to a mentoring meeting to get involved in planning //TODO add contribex README when this is updated

Mentors On Demand

• Meet Our Contributors

Long Term Contributor Ladder Growth

• Through Group Mentoring Cohorts

Specific topics and activities

• The 1:1 Hour

Role based shadow programs

• List of programs

Students

• Google Summer of Code

Groups Traditionally Underrepresented in Tech

• Outreachy

In person

• [New Contributor Workshop] //TODO link to something that talks about these
• Pod Mentoring! aka group mentoring

Inspiration and Thanks

This is not an out of the box program but was largely inspired by the following:

• Ada Developer Academy
• Apache Mentoring Programme
• exercism.io
• Google Summer of Code
• Outreachy
• OpenStack Mentoring

Thanks to:

• the many contributors who reviewed and participated in brainstorming,
• founding mentees for their willingness to try this out,
• founding mentors (@chrislovecnm, @luxas, @kow3ns, @nikhita)

We welcome PRs, suggestions, and help!