2 APR 2024 · Laura Santamaria sits down with Benazir Khan, Community Program Manager at Microsoft, to talk about the Cloud Native Rejekts conference (happens before KubeCon), community conference organizing, and all of the work that happens behind the scenes. Sign up for the event if you’re headed to Paris! Links: - https://cloud-native.rejekts.io/

5 MAR 2024 · Kat Cosgrove chats with Christoph Blecker, Service Delivery Architect at Red Hat, about his many roles within the Kubernetes project over time, what all of those roles really involve, and how others can grow from contributor, to code owner, to open source governance in Kubernetes and beyond.

5 MAR 2024 · Kat Cosgrove is joined by Robert Reeves, VP of Strategic Partnerships at the Linux Foundation. We talk about the various moving parts of an open source foundation as large as the Linux Foundation, how they help build communities, and the tools and resources they provide for projects to get them off the ground, help them thrive, and eventually change the world.

5 MAR 2024 · Kat Cosgrove is joined by Rey Lejano, Cloud Native Solutions Architect at Suse, to talk about Kubernetes documentation. We cover how SIG Docs works alongside the release team, the hurdles involved from both a people and a technology standpoint, and the many ways you can get involved in contributing back to Kubernetes whether you’re an organization member or not!

26 FEB 2024 · Kat Cosgrove and Laura Santamaria sit down with Natali Vlatko, open source architect at Cisco, to talk about psychological safety in working in open source and in group environments and how to let people know it’s okay to ask for help. Links: - Dungeons and Deployments talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CPrDLFM1Aw&t=0s - Kubernetes SIG Docs talk: https://youtu.be/R4RDZ-rLNJo?si=0ZaF3ByebhWN0VWB

22 FEB 2024 · At Kubecon NA 2023 in Chicago, Tim Banks sits down with Amy Tobey of Equinix to talk about competition, contributing, open source and more. Links: - Equinix Metal - Bare Metal Server & Dedicated Cloud Provider - Dell Technologies Developer Learn more: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbHZWeTR1aXAtOWlkVFNPRGlELVp3MWt6enY0QXxBQ3Jtc0tsYXhIR0pyQ2xPZ1VpN0d5YkV3bDEtV1VFc3dfa2lIWG9vUDlLelNLOGNLQW5NR19KWG5YQXRYb1RzNVBQNno5bVVSN243MDBpczRnNnV1a3B2OG1vMXYzS2EtMEtiUzNNZDJmMnNFd2xpRWtCVGhVQQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.dell.com%2F&v=XmEwVuooOF0

22 FEB 2024 · Laura Santamaria chats with Matt Butcher, CEO at Fermyon Technologies, about WebAssembly, its fit in the overall ecosystem, the huge maturity leap that WebAssembly has made, security with WASM, and more. Join us for our chat about how 2023 was the first big year for WebAssembly, and share some thoughts with us! Links: - https://webassembly.org/ - https://www.fermyon.com/ - https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime - https://developer.fermyon.com/spin/v2/index

22 FEB 2024 · Laura Santamaria chatted with Katherine Druckman and Ezequiel Lanza, Open Source Evangelists at Intel, about open source, artificial intelligence (AI), and security. They talked about how generative AI is changing the technology landscape, open source, DevOps, and security. Links: - https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/topic-technology/open/overview.html - https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/topic-technology/open/podcast.html

22 FEB 2024 · At Kubecon NA Barton George sat down with Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. Jim takes us through the LF’s 20-year history and how they went from housing one project to over 1000. Jim reveals how the LFs attack on Microsoft back in the day was really a way to neutralize Sun Microsystems and why Google made the strategic move to contribute the code for Kubernetes to the community and why they chose the Linux Foundation as stewards. Learn more: - https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbVZ0Sk04Z29idEVKbTJiZllzbi01QlRCVk0tUXxBQ3Jtc0tuT0hBQWx3dW1sM3NmWEY3NnI1MGhEZjBhd3QwYzFQdzlfUU1oWjJUeHVGQWRXUWw0dW1xd0Q5VHJ1ZFdCYkw0Unh4TzRPMmM1NzI2OEVsV2w5RTNUUXN1ZHJlNUZLaDRJM1FNcmtzeGRBZHN5U0lyTQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dell.com%2F9viDQU3gmzQ&v=9viDQU3gmzQ - Video of this interview posted https://youtu.be/9viDQU3gmzQ?si=nWB2u6yWNPLMC0C1

20 FEB 2024 · Kat Cosgrove and Laura Santamaria chats with Paris Pittman, Senior Program Manager in the Open Source Programs Office at Apple, live at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2023 about organizational design of, mentoring in, leadership transitions for, and community strategy in open source projects.Links: - https://www.swift.org/documentation/server/ - https://www.swift.org/blog/evolving-swift-project-workgroups/ - https://github.com/swift-server