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We recently completed our first New Contributor Summit in China, at the first KubeCon in China. It was very exciting to see all of the Chinese and Asian developers (plus a few folks from around the world) interested in becoming contributors. Over the course of a long day, they learned how, why, and where to contribute to Kubernetes, created pull requests, attended a panel of current contributors, and got their CLAs signed.
This was our second New Contributor Workshop (NCW), building on the one created and led by SIG Contributor Experience members in Copenhagen. Because of the audience, it was held in both Chinese and English, taking advantage of the superb simultaneous interpretation services the CNCF sponsored. Likewise, the NCW team included both English and Chinese-speaking members of the community: Yang Li, XiangPeng Zhao, Puja Abbassi, Noah Abrahams, Tim Pepper, Zach Corleissen, Sen Lu, and Josh Berkus. In addition to presenting and helping students, the bilingual members of the team translated all of the slides into Chinese. Fifty-one students attended.
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这是我们的第二届新贡献者工作坊（NCW），它由前一次贡献者体验 SIG 成员创建和领导的哥本哈根研讨会延伸而来。根据受众情况，本次活动采用了中英文两种语言，充分利用了 CNCF 赞助的一流的同声传译服务。同样，NCW 团队由社区成员组成，既有说英语的，也有说汉语的：Yang Li、XiangPeng Zhao、Puja Abbassi、Noah Abrahams、Tim Pepper、Zach Corleissen、Sen Lu 和 Josh Berkus。除了演讲和帮助学员外，团队的双语成员还将所有幻灯片翻译成了中文。共有五十一名学员参加。
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The NCW takes participants through the stages of contributing to Kubernetes, starting from deciding where to contribute, followed by an introduction to the SIG system and our repository structure. We also have "guest speakers" from Docs and Test Infrastructure who cover contributing in those areas. We finally wind up with some hands-on exercises in filing issues and creating and approving PRs.
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NCW 让参与者完成了为 Kubernetes 作出贡献的各个阶段，从决定在哪里作出贡献开始，接着介绍了 SIG 系统和我们的代码仓库结构。我们还有来自文档和测试基础设施领域的「客座讲者」，他们负责讲解有关的贡献。最后，我们在创建 issue、提交并批准 PR 的实践练习后，结束了工作坊。
Those hands-on exercises use a repository known as [the contributor playground](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/contributor-playground), created by SIG Contributor Experience as a place for new contributors to try out performing various actions on a Kubernetes repo. It has modified Prow and Tide automation, uses Owners files like in the real repositories. This lets students learn how the mechanics of contributing to our repositories work without disrupting normal development.
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Both the "Great Firewall" and the language barrier prevent contributing Kubernetes from China from being straightforward. What's more, because open source business models are not mature in China, the time for employees work on open source projects is limited.
Chinese engineers are eager to participate in the development of Kubernetes, but many of them don't know where to start since Kubernetes is such a large project. With this workshop, we hope to help those who want to contribute, whether they wish to fix some bugs they encountered, improve or localize documentation, or they need to work with Kubernetes at their work. We are glad to see more and more Chinese contributors joining the community in the past few years, and we hope to see more of them in the future.
"I have been participating in the Kubernetes community for about three years," said XiangPeng Zhao. "In the community, I notice that more and more Chinese developers are showing their interest in contributing to Kubernetes. However, it's not easy to start contributing to such a project. I tried my best to help those who I met in the community, but I think there might still be some new contributors leaving the community due to not knowing where to get help when in trouble. Fortunately, the community initiated NCW at KubeCon Copenhagen and held a second one at KubeCon Shanghai. I was so excited to be invited by Josh Berkus to help organize this workshop. During the workshop, I met community friends in person, mentored attendees in the exercises, and so on. All of this was a memorable experience for me. I also learned a lot as a contributor who already has years of contributing experience. I wish I had attended such a workshop when I started contributing to Kubernetes years ago."
The workshop ended with a panel of current contributors, featuring Lucas Käldström, Janet Kuo, Da Ma, Pengfei Ni, Zefeng Wang, and Chao Xu. The panel aimed to give both new and current contributors a look behind the scenes on the day-to-day of some of the most active contributors and maintainers, both from China and around the world. Panelists talked about where to begin your contributor's journey, but also how to interact with reviewers and maintainers. They further touched upon the main issues of contributing from China and gave attendees an outlook into exciting features they can look forward to in upcoming releases of Kubernetes.
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工作坊以现有贡献者圆桌讨论结束，嘉宾包括 Lucas Käldström、Janet Kuo、Da Ma、Pengfei Ni、Zefeng Wang 和 Chao Xu。这场圆桌讨论旨在让新的和现有的贡献者了解一些最活跃的贡献者和维护者的幕后日常工作，不论他们来自中国还是世界各地。嘉宾们讨论了从哪里开始贡献者的旅程，以及如何与评审者和维护者进行互动。他们进一步探讨了在中国参与贡献的主要问题，并向与会者预告了在 Kubernetes 的未来版本中可以期待的令人兴奋的功能。
After the workshop, XiangPeng Zhao chatted with some attendees on WeChat and Twitter about their experiences. They were very glad to have attended the NCW and had some suggestions on improving the workshop. One attendee, Mohammad, said, "I had a great time at the workshop and learned a lot about the entire process of k8s for a contributor." Another attendee, Jie Jia, said, "The workshop was wonderful. It systematically explained how to contribute to Kubernetes. The attendee could understand the process even if s/he knew nothing about that before. For those who were already contributors, they could also learn something new. Furthermore, I could make new friends from inside or outside of China in the workshop. It was awesome!"
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工作坊结束后，XiangPeng Zhao 和一些与会者就他们的经历在微信和 Twitter 上进行了交谈。他们很高兴参加了 NCW，并就改进工作坊提出了一些建议。一位名叫 Mohammad 的与会者说：「我在工作坊上玩得很开心，学习了参与 k8s 贡献的整个过程。」另一位与会者 Jie Jia 说：「工作坊非常精彩。它系统地解释了如何为 Kubernetes 做出贡献。即使参与者之前对此一无所知，他（她）也可以理解这个过程。对于那些已经是贡献者的人，他们也可以学习到新东西。此外，我还可以在工作坊上结识来自国内外的新朋友。真是棒极了！」
SIG Contributor Experience will continue to run New Contributor Workshops at each upcoming KubeCon, including Seattle, Barcelona, and the return to Shanghai in June 2019. If you failed to get into one this year, register for one at a future KubeCon. And, when you meet an NCW attendee, make sure to welcome them to the community.
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贡献者体验 SIG 将继续在未来的 KubeCon 上举办新贡献者工作坊，包括西雅图站、巴塞罗那站，然后在 2019 年六月回到上海。如果你今年未能参加，请在未来的 KubeCon 上注册。并且，如果你遇到工作坊的与会者，请务必欢迎他们加入社区。
* English versions of the slides: [PDF](https://gist.github.com/jberkus/889be25c234b01761ce44eccff816380#file-kubernetes-shanghai-english-pdf) or [Google Docs with speaker notes](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l5f_iAFsKg50LFq3N80KbZKUIEL_tyCaUoWPzSxColo/edit?usp=sharing)
* Chinese version of the slides: [PDF](https://gist.github.com/jberkus/889be25c234b01761ce44eccff816380#file-kubernetes-shanghai-cihinese-pdf)
