Communication Platform Guidelines and Policies on Kubernetes Contributors

Calendar and Meeting Guidelines

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Project meetings are a life line of the Kubernetes project. Consistent calendaring is a challenge with many different clients, corporate policies, time zones and various iterations of Daylight Savings Time. This guide should help you navigate some of the common pitfalls and provide some tips & best practices.

Please feel free to PR in your favorite tips and tricks that may help others.

Calendar Guidelines

Establishing a New Meeting

“I’m a chair for a SIG or WG and need to set up a meeting.”

Community Survey Requests

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What’s a Community Survey?
Survey Request Process
Tips and Notes Around Surveys

Let us help you make your survey a success.

The Kubernetes project has access to the CNCF SurveyMonkey account for creating community surveys, and SIG-Contributor Experience includes people who can give advice on improving the quality of surveys, as well as promote them. As such, what follows is the process for requesting such a community survey, in order to maximize its reach and data quality.

Discuss Forum Guidelines

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Code of conduct
Privacy Policy
Admins
General communication guidelines
- PM (Private Message) conversations
- Escalating and/or reporting a problem
Moderation
- Moderator expectations and guidelines
- Other moderator responsibilities
  - Ingest queue
New category requests

Discuss (discuss.kubernetes.io), is the Kubernetes community forum backed by the Discourse discussion platform. It serves as the primary communication platform for Kubernetes users; replacing the kubernetes-users mailing list in September 2018.

Mailing List Guidelines

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The Kubernetes mailing list or Google Groups functions as the primary means of asynchronous communication for the project’s Special Interest Groups (SIG) , Working Groups (WG) , and large subprojects.

Code of conduct
Admins
- Mailing list owners
Moderation
- Moderator expectations and guidelines
  - New user posting queue
  - Annual permissions review
Mailing list creation
- Prerequisites for creating a mailing list
- Create the leads and members mailing lists
Set up shared calendars and meeting with a mailing list
Archive a mailing list

Code of conduct

The Kubernetes project adheres to the community Code of Conduct throughout all platforms and includes all communication mediums.

Moderation Rules and Responsibilities

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This page describes the rules and best practices for people chosen to moderate Kubernetes communications channels. This includes Github, Slack, forums, mailing lists, YouTube, Zoom, and any property listed in the SIG Contributor Experience charter .

Check the centralized list of administrators for contact information.
Some Kubernetes properties, like the Twitter account, are managed by the CNCF.

Selection of Moderators
- Moderators Pro Tempore
Rotation of Moderators
Roles and Responsibilities
Violations
Escalation Procedures
Platform Specific Guidelines
References and Resources

Selection of Moderators

Each Kubernetes property has a certain set of moderators who are responsible for keeping it safe and a fun place to participate.

Moderator list

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The following people are responsible for moderating/administrating Kubernetes communication channels and their home time zone. See our moderation guidelines for policies and recommendations.

Mailing Lists
- kubernetes-dev
GitHub
Discuss
- Administrators
- Regional Category Moderators
YouTube Channel
Slack
Zoom

Mailing Lists

kubernetes-dev

Administrators

SIG Contributor Experience Leads

Primary Moderators

Primary moderators seats: 6

Notification Management Best Practices

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The Kubernetes Mailing list or Google Groups functions as the primary means of asynchronous communication for the project’s Special Interest Groups (SIG) and Working Groups (WG) . That’s why you may want to set your filters in your email account to attain a good signal-to-noise ratio with regards to the mailing list messages and GitHub notifications. All the steps below are for Gmail users, however similar filters can be made in other email clients.

Slack Guidelines

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Slack serves as the main communication platform for the Kubernetes community outside of the mailing lists. It’s important that conversations stay on topic in each channel, and that everyone abides by the Code of Conduct . There are over 200,000 members who should all expect to have a positive experience. You are a part of building and keeping a positive community.

Chat is searchable and public. It’s best not to make comments that you would not say on a video recording or in another public space. Please be courteous to others.

YouTube Channel Guidelines

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YouTube serves as the primary means of distribution for recorded Kubernetes community content including Zoom recordings, official project workshops and Contributor Summit sessions.

Code of Conduct

Kubernetes adheres to the Kubernetes Code of Conduct throughout the project, and includes all communications such as YouTube.

Admins

Check the centralized list of administrators for contact information.
To contact the admin group in Slack, ping @youtube-admins in the #sig-contribex Slack channel.

Meeting Playlists

The Kubernetes YouTube Channel has separate playlists for each SIG or WG meeting recordings, as well as recordings of other recurring events such as the New Contributor Orientation .

Zoom Guidelines

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Zoom is the main video communication platform for Kubernetes. It is used for running the SIG/WG/Committee meetings , and many other Kubernetes online events. Since the Zoom meetings are open to the general public, a Zoom host or co-host must moderate in every sense of the word, from starting to stopping the meeting to address Kubernetes code of conduct issues.

These guidelines are meant as a tool to help Kubernetes members manage their Zoom resources.