Paris is a Program Manager in Google's Open Source Programs Office focusing on the upstream Kubernetes Community. She is a member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee, co-chair of the special interest group for Contributor Experience, and an organizer of Bay Area Kubernetes Meetup with 4,000 members. She has 16 years of professional experience in community management, attracting and retaining engineering talent for open source organizations, and technical event planning. She has been organizing communities in one form or another for over 20 years, and at one point ran enough meetups to subsist solely on the free pizza.

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Not Your Average Mentoring Talk

Mentoring still stands as one of the most requested programs in open source and across industries. The traditional 1:1 approach doesn’t scale yet it’s the status quo – why? We can build systems that have the weight of the world but we have problems building our own people up. In this talk, Paris and Josh will talk about examples of mentoring programs that Kubernetes has built – both successfully and lessons learned in a large 26000 person contributor community.

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