 Okay. Welcome to College to Cloud Native, the students introduction to KubeCon Cloud NativeCon. I'm Bill Mulligan and I work at the CNCF. I'm super to happy to have you here today. Welcome to everyone saying hi in the chat. Please feel free to introduce yourself or ask any questions you have along the way there. That's what this session is for, is to help answer your questions and get you introduced to the conference. With me today, I have. Hey, everyone. My name is Savita. I work at the Red Hat and I have been involved with the Kubernetes upstream community for about two years now. So I'm here to share all the experiences and answer any questions and just be a friendly place faced to everyone. So yeah, thanks for joining me today. So you're in LA with me right now. Is that right? That's right, Billy. We are just in the same portal. Of course, different hopefully we'll meet up later today. But also for all the people that are joining virtually, I know you're going to have a great event too. And we're super excited to have you. So I guess the first question that I think a lot of people have is, even though they're here, like what is KubeCon CognitiveCon or like what would you describe it as? So when I think about KubeCon, so it's just not about Kubernetes, it's also about the entire. So once a little step back, so when I first went to my KubeCon and I thought it's all about KubeCon, but like Kubernetes, but that's not true. So they're all like cool, located events for other cloud native projects and stuff for a couple of days. And then the main event focuses on Kubernetes and things around Kubernetes like platform infrastructure, how to provision this in various environments, air gap, government, how does NASA uses Kubernetes to do some of the processing stuff and it's for developers, it's for end users, it's for open source contributors. It's for anyone who wanna learn and share their, whatever that they have learned through all their way. It's about sharing experiences. So that's how I see it. That's how I see KubeCon. That's the main reason that I'm here. I wanna meet my friends and I wanna meet the community and I wanna share anything and everything I know. Yeah, absolutely. And kind of going back for the last couple of KubeCons, do you have like a favorite experience that you wanna share kind of that like other students might look forward to or get inspired by? Oh yes, definitely. So this was my first KubeCon in 2018 Seattle and that's the first time that a little while ago I started using Kubernetes for my work project and then I stumbled upon lots of issues and that's how I got into the Kubernetes Slack channel and I saw these amazing people helping me out. So at my first KubeCon, right? And there was this concept of a speed mentoring session and I was like super interested. So I registered for it. I went there and then I got to know, I got to meet so many people. They were mentors and I was a mentee. So I asked them like, how can I start? Where can I start? I feel overwhelmed, I don't know what to do but I wanna give back. I just don't know where to go and what to do. And I got a boatload of information and I came back. I diligently went to single release meetings for six months. I just lugged around. I never spoke up because I was so shy and I was still grasping what was going on. And then it started. My contributor journey started and since then every KubeCon virtual or in-person, I try and give back the things that I got from the community. I try and mentor, I sign up to be a mentor so that I can do my part. So that is my favorite, favorite experience. In addition to meeting all the amazing people which still makes me go like, oh, like that. That is my like the best memory that I have. Wow. Yeah. That sounds awesome. A great way to jump in. I remember my first KubeCon in Copenhagen and it was the same thing. I showed up and I was like, wow, this is an awesome event. There's so many cool people doing awesome things here. Like this is the place to be. So we're happy to have everybody joining us here in-person and virtually too. And so it's like, I know a lot of students are joining us virtually. So I thought maybe it'd be good to kind of jump in to like the platform and walk them through like the different features and functionalities and where they need to look for things. So I'm just gonna share my screen. That would be awesome. Quick and let's see what we can find. So this is the like welcome screen that we have here as you jump in. If you added things to your schedule and schedule, then it'll actually show up here. So you can see the things I'm attending today. Obviously the call to cloud native session because we're here right now. Got some marketing office hours later as part of my job and the cloud native TV daily recap, which is if you're watching this right now, you're also watching cloud native TV. So you're already in the right place for all of these things. You have a little like intro video here. Another important thing for like CNCF is our code of conduct. We want to make sure this is a welcoming and safe environment for everybody. So like please be sure to follow code of conduct and you have any problems or don't feel comfortable with the event. Like the events team is there to help you and please feel free to reach out to them. It's that you feel like this is a safe place for you too. Beyond that, I know a lot of things happening today are like the co-located events. So did you go to any co-located events yesterday or today that you liked? So there wasn't an unofficial one, the contributor submit. That's why there was that I got canceled kind of because there weren't like enough sign up. So we just met and we did a docs sprint. So we wanted to improve the contributor documentation. There was a thing that I went to and there was this event after that where I got to meet other fellow contributors. Today I am planning to go to OpenShift Commons. There is a co-located day even for that. So that's what I'm planning to go to. Just to meet my peers. I recently switched to a new company, Red Hat. So I'm like, oh, this is the best place where I could go see people and say, hi. So that's probably the main reason to meet and connect with people. Yeah, so that's one of the sponsor hosted co-located events. So jumping over there. Cool, and then yeah. There are like so many interesting ones that I'm like, I want to go here. I want to go there. I do want to do this. And then the only thing that keeping me like seeing is okay, this content is so interesting and I will be able to watch it later if we need to and it will be later available on YouTube. So I'm like, okay, that is the only comforting thing because everything is so interesting. Yeah, there's so many sessions I want to attend to. Like if I jump over to my agenda, like I know there's already like some things that are like overlapping. Like if I jump into like Wednesday, like right here, like two talks at the same time. Luckily in the platform, even if you're in different places around the world, once the session is passed, you can go back at any point and re-watch the session. So if I can't watch both of these at the same time, obviously tomorrow, so I can watch one of them and then I can come back like in the evening and check it out later. So the events or the videos will always be like live on the platform when you're recording. So, or like after the session is done. So really cool feature of the virtual platform. Another thing is like the solutions showcase. So I know that we have a bunch of really great sponsors that are making this event happen. Obviously, red hat being one of them. But this is a great way to like dive in and see which companies are new kind of like growing and coming in the cloud native space or potentially if you're looking for like a job or an internship, some of them might be hiring too. So you should check out the solutions showcase and see what you can find here. I know if like we can just like dive in, say to the Cystig booth, we can learn a little bit about the company, find out when they have live office hours, but it looks like they have you and have some jobs and offers over here. So lots of great stuff in all the booths if you're trying to learn about different companies in the ecosystem too. Let's see, what else? There are the project pavilion. So this is, if you want to learn more about like the CNCF, I know we have, I think it's 113 projects now under CNCF. Kubernetes being just one of them, which is already a massive project. So if you are new to the ecosystem and trying to find your way around like what are all the different projects and things like that, you should check out some of the project booths and dive into them, right? So we have Kubernetes here, we have some incubating projects and also lots and lots of sandbox projects too. So beyond that, a really important thing is the Slack. So it's the CNCF Slack and I'll just type a link to it, slack.cncf.io and put it in the chat. And these are a couple of channels that you want to join as you're going through. So the announcements help if you need anything, probably nothing for the sponsors, the keynotes if you want to chat different channels for all the different both tracks and co-located events. Then there also is a KubeCon students track. So if your student highly encourage you to jump in there and join us, lots of different ways for like interactive things too. And then probably my favorite is the hallway mix and mingle. Have you gone on this from a week before? Maybe you want to give a little taste of it? I was actually going to mention that highlighted that, oh, there is also another track, which is like amazing issue. Like if you want to just hang around meet amazing people, that is a Slack channel. And actually that when that started, when the pandemic started, when we moved all the KubeCon to virtual and then we were all missing all our friends and meeting new community members. And that hallway track was really, really awesome. And there are like, I hopped on to some Zoom meetings last time. This time I haven't had the chance to actually hop into any of the meetings that's been probably I, I hope there are like virtual meetings that's going on throughout the day. So you can open and say hi, chat about a few stuff and you can hop off. No pressure. It's not like you have to stay all the way like because you joined the call, it's not like that. It's super friendly. It's like just bumping into someone, your friends and then like, hey, I'm here. What's new and what's happening and just making sure that everyone's okay. Like your friends are doing okay and you're doing good. So it's a nice way to de-stress, relax, meet new people. So yes, that is my favorite, but I haven't hopped on to any of the calls because I'm trying to meet people in person. I might just hop into one of the meetings later just to say hi to people on virtual. Yeah, definitely. I think I'll have to jump into the Zoom at some point too. So I see that we have a couple of questions in the chat about like how to get started. So any suggestions on useful resources to begin with learning process? Any suggestions on how to become a contributor? Yeah, so a couple of things. I know Dim has a really great like Kubernetes resources like repo and it has lots of different resources in there on like how to get started learning and joining the cloud native community, learning about Kubernetes and other things like that. There's also two, if you wanna start contributing, there's two websites that I'd probably want to, point you to one is contribute.cncf.io and the Kubernetes one is k8s.dev. And so those are good places to get started to. There's also another question. Are these Slack channels active beyond the KubeCon period? Yeah, they're probably active for like a week or two afterwards and then they're gonna be archived until the next KubeCon too. But don't worry, there's lots of other Slack channels in CNCF. So even if the KubeCon ones come to an end, there's other ones that you can join and chat in too. So. And there is also another thing that I want to highlight. So this time the in-person or the co-located contributors of my didn't happen. That means that there's gonna be a contributor celebration that will be happening soon. So if folks want to be a part of it, just keep an eye out. I think the invite or the communication about it would go to KDEV mailing list mainly. And it will be like Twitter and I think I bet the, if you watch a couple of CNCF related official handles, I think the CNCF students and CNCF shared a retweet whenever the celebration is up and running. That would also be a great place. And there might be like sessions on new contributor workshop. I don't know if that's gonna happen this time, but it's also a great place to get started, meet people and get started with contributions. Yeah, absolutely. So current following communities on Twitter yet, go and follow them, because that'll be announced there. There's also questions. What's the Zoom session for Mix and Mingle and related to that, How Can We Network with new people in virtual mode? You can join the hallway track Zoom session. I just dropped the link to that in the chat and you'll also find the info for all that and ways to meet new people in the hallway Mix and Mingle channel. So I would check out that. We also have another question. So where did you start your journey since there's so much out there? Like how did you first start in Kubernetes? I know we covered a little bit at the beginning, but maybe do you wanna re-hash it? Yeah, so my journey started with attending a speed mentoring session. And it's just not, like when I came back home, it was still overwhelming for me. I went to the meetings. I didn't know what to do and where to start with. Then I shifted my focus a little bit towards sick docs, because documentation was something that was very easy to understand and easy to start with. And that's where I started. I fixed the 404 URL. That's how everything started. That sounds so simple and easy. And they gave me a lot of motivation. Once you see the PR get merged, it's like it gives you just the right amount of confidence boost. And you can start that. I started doing like little bigger ones. And then I applied to be a part of the Kubernetes release team. And I got rejected a couple of times first. And then I got selected after that. I've been a part of the release team since 1.18. Eventually I got to lead 1.22 release. And that was like really awesome. I learned a lot of people's skills. I developed how to be more empathetic and I learned how to be a good leader. It's like listening to all your peers and your team makes you an awesome person, awesome lead. It's not like you have to do all by yourself. So I learned how to ask for help. And that was like a big deal. So these are few little things in addition to knowing about the technology, in addition to learning more about Kubernetes, these are like the extra skills that I picked up along the way. So from there, I also started leading one of these security sub-projects, which is called security documentation. So I make sure that, like I help people come together and make the Kubernetes website documentation related to security up to date and add more content to it. So that's one of the things that's going on. And I also, I'm a new membership coordinator and that is like a feather in my cap because I really love it because I get to say hi to all the new org members whoever wants to be a new org member and when I am, if I'm doing the PR around the time when I say like, hi, welcome to the Kubernetes community. And that's like a feather in my cap. So far this has been my journey and I'm hoping I could do more. I wanna, when Billy and Kunal was talking about the student CNC of student initiative, I was like super happy because when I was a student, I did not have all these means. I didn't know many of these things 10 years ago and this is like a great platform. And then this is like amazing when you were, people can ask questions without having to think twice. So I just want to help with students initiative in any way possible. So that's my future goal. It's all from me. I think I kept talking for a while now. Well, that's cool. Also, was your first PR also like a 404? Yeah. Cause that's what it was for me too, only enough. Yeah, I was like, there's a broken link. I need to fix this. So yeah, it's a good place to start. And yeah, so check out SIG docs if you haven't already. If you wanna start contributing to Kubernetes really great place to start. Both the people on the stream today started in SIG docs and you can too. We have a question a while back from Anne Glassman. Do you have a home lab set up? For Kubernetes. Yeah. I just have a couple of pies, raspberry pies. I try to tinker around, but mostly for anything that I wanna do, I just use a kind that is amazing. You can do many of the things that you want to learn, Kubernetes is kind. And I just use AWS subscription for anything else that I want. I don't have anything like full-fledged, crazy home lab set up going on. I do have like few raspberry pies and I wanna build a nice cage to keep them safe and not get them heated up to like a mini site project that's going on, but it's not completed. I do have guides though. So if anyone is looking forward to build their own like mini setup, raspberry pies, I have a couple of bookmarked articles that I can share later. It's in my personal computer. I don't have it right now, but I will be happy to post it later. It's very detailed. Cool. Yeah, I think that would be great for all the students joining us today. So jumping back into the platform, another thing that we really care about in the Kubernetes community is your wellness, your safety, like how you're feeling. So we have a whole bunch of like interactive experiences and wellness experiences, like physical wellbeing, emotional wellbeing, social wellbeing. So if you ever need a break from the conference, feel free to jump in here. And there's lots of great experiences that you can take advantage of. Beyond that, another big thing is like diversity and inclusion, a lot of great things going on here. So the empower us from allies, the partners about inclusive leadership and the diversity inclusion workshop and also the peer mentoring and career networking. I think this is probably similar to the speed networking that you first started out. Yeah, it has become like a pod mentoring right now. So initially it was actually you just move around the tables and you get like 15 minutes and then you talk to others in your table and then you talk to the mentor as well. Now it's more on like, there are like career oriented, they are like contribution related and there is like a tech, like pure core Kubernetes tech mentoring tables too so that you can actually pick what you want to. And that's how it has been for the past few virtual events after the pandemic had started. And I don't know how the in-person is this time. So I bet that's gonna be awesome. Yeah, hopefully I wanna swing by there too because I think it's always helped new people get into the ecosystem too. Next thing is in the virtual event platform, there's lots of badges and you can get and there's also prizes too. So if you collect a lot of different points here, you can get a virtual or a gift card to the CNCF store. I know a lot of people like getting swag and this is one way that you can get swag by wanting through all the different things in the platform. So definitely check out that one too. If you want to try out like different games, I know Red Hat also sponsored this too, a bunch of like source games. So either you can both play them and you can contribute to them too. So quite cool. Then there's some virtual giveaways. This is like similar to the sponsored booth where different like coloring books, I don't know, e-gaming sets, like different things to download here, lots of information from the different companies. So yeah, like lots of really interesting things happening on the virtual event platform. So cool. Is there anything else you wanted to go through on the event platform that I missed? No, I think you pretty much covered everything and I also want to mention one other thing. So the sessions on the live, even platform will be active. I think until the next QCon, probably it's you or until then, last time I took a lot of advantage of that. I know the sessions are always available on the YouTube but having access to the event platform was like a little bit different experience for me. Both are one and the same if you ask me, but then it felt like you have the access for a month before the sessions get uploaded in the YouTube. So I took full advantage of that. So if any one of you are feeling that you have exams, you're preparing for interviews, you're job hunting and you don't have time to cover stuff, don't worry. These things, all the sessions are gonna be there. So you can come back and you can learn about them anytime that you want. And you can also get the contacts of the presenters and you can reach out to them if they have shared their contact publicly in the slides. Otherwise feel free to post a question in community Slack or Twitter or somewhere and definitely someone or the other would be there to help out. Yeah, absolutely. So next thing is you said that you're speaking on the student track. Can you tell me a little bit about the student track? Cause I know this is the first time that we've had this at QCon and I'm super excited for it. I am really, really excited and thank you for making this happen. So this, it's a panel session on, it's mainly focused on getting students started with open source contributions. So it's basically like OSS 101 introduction to open source for students. Here in that session, me and my fellow panelists, we discussed about like how to, where to start, which projects to choose, how to start contributing, what can you do, non-code contributions, how to overcome imposter syndrome and like a little bit of career advice too. So it's gonna be super interesting. So if anyone wants to learn more about it, I think it's happening on the 14th, October 14th and I don't know I, I don't know, like I think the folks are all over from the world. So I'm not sure if I have the time calculator to just, I'm always confused with the respective time. Right now I'm just trying to think like, what is the time in India? So. I'm dropping a link to your session in the chat right now. So I just pulled up and I'm sharing the screen. So this is the student track. There's a panel discussion. Oh wait, sorry. That was the wrong panel discussion. Yeah, that's the one. This is the correct link. Sorry, my mistake. So please use the second link, not the first one, but I would also encourage you to go to the first one too if you've got another good one. So in the student track we have, I know a lot of people are interested in like contributing to open source projects. One really great way to do that is through the internship and like mentorship programs that CNCF offers. We have four throughout the year, the biggest one being in the summer. We combine with Google summer of code, but we also, and Google summer of docs, we also do ones through LFX and Outreachy, like every single quarter. I would highly recommend going to this panel if you wanna learn about how to become a mentee with CNCF and not only is it a great way to increase your experience contributing to open source, but you also get paid for it too. So it's, I think a pretty sweet way to do it. Do you also offer it for non-students? Yes, the actual, the internships are also open to non-students too. Another one is getting involved in the Cades release shadow program. This one's about like, if you want to get like more into the Kubernetes ecosystem and you know, the time, the contributor ladder, it's a great way to learn about that. We already had introduction to open source for students, panel discussions, more code, how to rock out with non-code contributions. I know a big thing that we talk about is, it's not just about the people that are, you know, writing the code, there's so much more that makes, that needs to happen for the community to be successful. So this is a great one to know if you wanna learn about those other opportunities. I actually know somebody that went to that at the last KubeCon and she was so inspired by that, that she organized a Kubernetes community day in the UK and brought a bunch of people together across the UK to talk about Kubernetes and cloud native topics in their local time zone. So you can go there, get inspired, find out new ways to get involved in the community too. Yeah. And the last one is deciphering your way to the world of Golang. I know Golang is like a really big language in the Kubernetes and cloud native ecosystem. This is probably a good way to like, kind of get introduced to topics like that. So, yeah. Looks like we also have a couple more questions in the chat. Will it be just interactive via chats or do we have anything over video as well? Most of the stuff is just chat in the platform. If you want video, I'd suggest dropping into the hallway zoom and you can meet and chat with people there. Will all the sessions be on YouTube? Yes, they will all be on YouTube. It'll probably be like, it's similar like two to four weeks after the conference, but since you're already in the platform, you'll have access to them immediately as soon as they're done being shown. What is CNCF? Yeah, so CNCF is the cloud native computing foundation where the neutral home for all the projects. We're a nonprofit under the Linux Foundation umbrella and we help create and sustain the ecosystem around all of our projects. So we collect money from members and funnel it into resources for the projects. So paying for different things like the Kubernetes contributor summit here, at KubeCon, setting up and organizing KubeCon, different things like cloud credits, managing and organizing, like the Slack, the GitHub, running the Kubernetes Community Day program. So helping make the community around our open source projects become successful too. I also want to point one thing like some folks might think that Kubernetes is so big and it's a little bit like overwhelming, intimidating. There are like many, many CNCF projects with the same kind of experience. You would get the same kind of experience, but they are not as big. So they are like tightly knit community. Some of them are sandbox, some of them are like 20 contributors or like 30 contributors. So if you feel like a lot of like communities has like over 10,000 till date, I don't know. Like more than that, if that feels like a whole lot and it's such a big project and you want to start small, there are like many, many CNCF sandbox projects or incubating projects. They are like focused on one thing. They are small and you, it's scoped very like to one thing. So it might be like also a nice place to start. So just don't feel like you have to only start with Kubernetes and that is the only way to contribute to open source, that's not true. So there are like many projects within the CNCF umbrella that you can pick and choose. Yeah, absolutely. As I said before, there's 113 different projects. So if you don't want to get involved in Kubernetes, you have a lot of other choices too. So the sessions will be posted on YouTube. There will be, it'll be sent out on Twitter and also in the CNCF Slack when it's live. So just watch the CNCF Slack and it's probably the easiest one. We have some questions about imposter syndrome. Don't worry, I don't have any coding background and I work at the CNCF. So I get imposter syndrome all the time of what am I doing here? You know, we all just try to contribute and do our own part. If you are contributing with the community, you're doing it right. That's all I can say. Kubernetes so big, let's see. Yeah. Oh, people are asking for links to the CNCF projects. So let me just pull that up really quick because we don't allow sharing of links. So this is all the graduated and incubating projects. Well, info for non-traditional students. I'd actually recommend like a lot of the same resources. I don't think there's anything tied specifically to one particular university or curriculum just because university system is quite separate. Students, I guess, when you say students is more like people that are new to the ecosystem, like I'd even recommend a lot of the same resources to people that are just starting out that are maybe like even mid-career too. Everybody has to start at the beginning, you know? So cool. Some other tracks that students should look at that I can recommend is, so if we go back to our schedule here is the 101 track, everybody, if you're a student, you're probably new to the ecosystems, the 101 track is a great place to start. Things like how not to start with Kubernetes. I'm really interested in Noah Abrams, the safari of Kubernetes and its natural habitat. I know he, I think he's a dev advocate at Stormboard and he gives really great talks. Lots of other things going on here. The case release shadow program beyond Kubernetes security. I know Ellen and Tabitha gave a awesome talk at the last KubeCon, so this is definitely one you don't want to miss. Yeah, if you're a non-traditional student or learning about Minikube or maybe you need to Kubernetes Bootcamp, maybe this is the talk for you. Homeburning a Kubernetes Bootcamp sounds super interesting to you as a way to get, maybe your first job. So I think that would be a great one to check out. And then also another one, if we're marketers, if we can learn distributed systems in Kubernetes, so can you, probably an interesting one about people that are doing non-code contributions too. Yeah, beyond that, another one that would be good to check out is also the business value track. This is talking about the value of cloud native and Kubernetes in like actually dollars and cents for businesses bottom line. So things like cornering the business value of cloud native data management or water as a driving force in innovation, open source in the Dutch government. So I think a lot of really great talks here about being able to translate from the technical to the business side too. There are like a couple of questions, buddy. I didn't mean to stop you. So one is like, is there a talk or a panel related to Kubernetes release shadow program? I think there is one. It's by Divya, she has been a part of the release team for a few cycles and I had the pleasure to work with her. She's just awesome. And I know that clashes with the session that I am presenting, but I think both of them are gonna be great. So that one's there and there is one other question like how can I become a member of CNCF? Yeah, so one, sorry, if this wasn't clear, when we talk about like membership, it's actually like companies that join as member and they pay dues. If you wanna become a contributor to a CNCF projects, it's free. The only thing you have to do is submit your first pull request. So really there's no kind of like formal barriers. I guess Kubernetes might have a CLA, but if you check out the contributing side, it'll kind of like walk you through how to do that too. Yeah. Let's see other interesting tracks for students or new people to the ecosystem. Another good one is if you want to, one thing that we really hear is on community. So checking out the community track. So things about like taking the skills you learn from working in open source into practical experience. Talking about burnout, I know there is mentions of imposter syndrome. So burnout, I think that's your syndrome sometimes go hand in hand. So this would be a good one to check out. Measuring projects health, talking about your projects contributor experience. Man, there's like so many talks here. I like, I mark these on my schedule, but I forgot. I'm like so excited about all these. Yeah. Exciting things. How to build a successful open source community company. Okay. I'm like adding more to my session like as we're speaking, just because there's, this is so many great talks here. This is bad, the number of talks I need to see is growing and growing. Good question. Out of curiosity, what are some of the main roles of CNCF ambassadors? Yes, these are the people in the ecosystem that go out and promote all the projects and they do that in a variety of different ways. Some hosts like meetups or cognitive community groups around the world. Some people run different live streams. It's just kind of like well-known people on the ecosystem that are doing things to, you know, grow and sustain the community around our projects. A couple are also running Kubernetes community days. Shout out to Sergio, which has KCD Guatemala coming up in December. We have Feynman who's organizing a KCD in China. Actually this Saturday, right after KubeCon, so if you need more content, go out and sign up for that one. So the ambassadors are really, you know, people that are helping out all around the ecosystem. Yeah. I see schedules. Schedule syncs to the events. If I start a session in the event site, will it update schedule? I don't think so. I think it's like from schedule to the event. I have tried the other way around, but I have never tried this way, like add to your event and go check in the schedule. I have never done that. Yeah, I think this is probably the easier way just out of the schedule and then it'll add it. And then the last track that I would be very missed if I didn't mention is obviously you should go to the keynote sessions. These are, you know, kind of like the big talks. Like the welcoming remarks from Priyanka, talking about different kind of cloud native. You know, these are the talks that are gonna give you kind of like the overview of what's going on in the whole ecosystem. I know there's, yeah, I would say just to tell the keynotes they're all gonna be great. A lot of great people there. Any events geared towards community certs? Not specifically at KubeCon. I know some of the Kubernetes training partners are looking to put together something for next year, but if you're looking for something in the meantime, there is a show on cloud native TV called certs magic with Siam, where he walks through some of the different Kubernetes certification questions. Also talking about certs, you definitely don't wanna check out Priyanka's keynote. First thing on the first day, she has an exciting announcement for students around certification too. Yeah. Cool. A couple of things for like, and then I guess kind of like to round it out, like what to do after like KubeCon. So one is like, if you're looking for a job, check out the job site. Another one is we just put together and released a repo from four students on GitHub. And this is a lot of different ways what to do after KubeCon. So actually, let me just kind of share that one right now. We can kind of walk you through that so you can understand if you get excited from this event, kind of what to do afterwards. I think that's really nice of you that you put this together because after the event, it feels like I'm at the same place where I started. I do have a lot of information, but I still feel like what I'm gonna do with all the information. So this is like amazing. Thanks, Willy. Yeah, absolutely. So number two here is 10 KubeCon, Cloud NativeCon. Well, you're already in the right place. So, you know, you're already having a good success bright and early in the morning here on the West Coast or whatever time zone you're in. There is a lot of free resources that Linux Foundation offers on the edX platform. I'll scroll down to this in a minute. The big announcement is there'll be a new certification coming out, creating like a local community in your area or signing up to them, meeting some of the ambassadors apply for the mentorship programs that we were talking about earlier, diving deeper into technical concepts and prepare for certification exams, get certified and finding a job. So if you're looking for more things like check out kind of all the links that are posted in here. It'd be great to have you kind of utilize this resource. Also, this is an open source repo. So if you think there's other resources that people should know about that should be added here, please feel free to add them into. I'm just like checking through the chat. The keynote stones to be mentioned online virtual. But yeah, they won't be streaming here on Cognitive TV. They'll be streaming in the meeting play platform. The streaming is like in, you should have gotten an email about it, but it's just all, I guess I'll drop a link to the platform to in the chat for people that need help finding it. So even I've signed a CLA and contributed to Kubernetes, but I can't attend the CNCF end user partner summit because they can't RSVP. So the end user partner summit is for people that are employed at end user companies. So these are companies like Spotify, like Intuit, like Lyft, like Capital One that are using cloud native technologies, but don't actually sell products or services around them. If you're a student, if you're not employed, then you don't work for a company, so you don't work for an end user company. Join one of these companies, get hired by them. I know there are probably a bunch of them are hiring and then you can join the end user summit at the next KubeCon. Cool. What other things do we have left? We already dropped like the different resources. I know we've kind of like gone through everything that I've had so far. I guess, do you have any more recommendations, advice? Do people have questions? Like what else do people want to chat about? I think that is a comprehensive list of things that we went through. And I hope we provided just enough information. Through all the session, I do want to mention one other unofficial. I think it's unofficial because there was a Kube, in the community slack there was a channel for carriers and where people are posting all the jobs that the companies are hiring. I know they were actually archiving the channel in favor of jobs.cncf.io that Billie had shared before. Then there was like enough push to bring the channel back. So watch, I would say watch both the places because even the Kubernetes careers channel gets a lot of posts for job entry level internship or like any level of job. And you can also actually go and say hi and post your resume and ask for jobs offer. Jobs or like you can ask for offers or stuff like that. So I've seen both, I've seen the channel very interactive because it goes both ways. So that's one of the thank you, thank you Billie. I was gonna, I was gonna like, okay, I've finished talking, I'm gonna go and look like. I got it for you, no worries. So that's one thing that I wanted to add. And another that we have covered pretty much all the things in the contributor Kdev site. I just want to highlight it again. That's a very, very great place to start if you want to start contributing because there are like one or two questions that I saw like how do I get started? So go to that Kdev site and then you will, Kdev site and you will find a lot of information there be it a code related or non-code related, right? You don't have to always jump and then do code related stuff to be a contributor. You can start doing other stuff like help run a meeting. That's a great thing. We are always in need of some volunteer who can take notes and that is the best way that you would learn by taking notes in a meeting. It's one of the best opportunities. And these are not highlighted other places, but once you join the meetings and start participating in them, this is how we would learn what is happening in that sake or what is happening in that area and how can I contribute or... It gives you both like soft skills experience and as well as like technical experience because you will be diving deeper into that area. So that's one thing that I want to say. Yeah, awesome. There's a couple more questions. Any idea if the sketch event page will be accessible and definitely, yes, it's like open for like a very long time if you need to like refer back to it and see what was there. Where are the recordings posted? So this one will be on Twitch for the next like two weeks then it'll be on YouTube. All the sessions after they're done will be live in the meeting play platforms. You can watch them at any point. And then a couple of weeks after the show, all the sessions will also be posted to YouTube. So a variety of different ways to watch them depending on where you want to do it. But ultimately at the end of the day it'll all be on YouTube. I have a question due to the pandemic scenario I only have virtual experience of KubeCon. Could you please share some insights on how college students can attend KubeCon in person providing the pandemic situation is in control. That's actually a great question. So CNCF offers a lot of scholarships. So both diversity and need-based scholarships for people to come and attend KubeCon when they can. I know it's like hundreds of thousands of dollars every single year to help you get new people to the community here to the conference. I know a lot of great people have actually started their careers on like diversity scholarships. So like one is like Nikita. And she's now on the community steering community. So a great way to find that is to go to the scholarship sections on the KubeCon website and you can find more information there. Can you tell us about the diversity scholarships? Yeah. So it's like full scholarship to attend both like your flights and like airfare. I can drop a link to like the one for the current one. Like obviously it's closed for right now. Sorry. But you can find out more information there. Another question. Yeah. So if you have any questions also feel free to reach out to me. I'm happy to answer any questions you can find. My Twitter handle there in the chat or just email me. Also how to obtain a Kubernetes certification discount. So you do get 50% off by attending KubeCon. So that's a great way to get a discount already. So you're already getting a discount. Yeah. I guess there are more questions that people have in the chat. And you need like final thoughts. I know we need to wrap it up here in about like three minutes. So yeah. Last questions. Three, two, one. OK. Well, thanks everyone for joining us today. Oh, fun question. How can you instantly within seconds provide links in this chat? Do it in the background. After spending two years on Zoom meetings I'm very good at doing things in the background when I need to. So that's my hack. Yeah. Cool. Any closing remarks? Thanks for having me in this session. It was great interacting with you and answering all the great questions. Please feel free to reach out to me if you need like any hub. And if you want to get started with the contributions or like just to talk about anything related to open source, I will be always happy to help. And also like if you are not getting a response immediately, that's because that I'm here at KubeCon. So many responses might be delayed a little bit. But I will definitely get back. It was all nice meeting you all. And please take care. Stay safe. Yeah, thanks everyone for joining today. See you at the rest of the conference. Bye. Sounds good. Bye.