There is a broad group of companies working to make sure that Kubernetes works well for everyone, from individual developers to the largest companies in the cloud space. Kubernetes has an active global community of contributors, and a myriad of areas in which you can contribute. There are also dozens of projects that upstream Kubernetes who lean on features and functions to deliver value adds. In this panel, the community managers and project leads will discuss how to contribute to their Kubenetes work streams, their road maps and explain why you should work on their work streams. Sarah Novotny leads the Kubernetes Community Program for Google. She has long been an Open Source community champion and ran large scale technology infrastructures before web-scale had a name. In 2001, she co-founded Blue Gecko, a remote database administration company which was sold to DatAvail in 2012. She has curated teams, been a leader in customer communities focused on high availability web application and platform delivery and is a program chair emeritus for O’Reilly Media’s OSCON. Michael Henkel is a Senior Solutions Consultant and Enterprise Network Architect focusing on all the exciting and evolving new technologies such as Service Defined Networking (SDN), OpenFlow (OF) and OpenStack. He is evaluating how (and if) these technologies can play together with traditional networking concepts and technologies. As a big OpenSource fan, Michael really like the fact that most of these new developments were born in the OpenSource community and that a lot of people across competition boundaries are working together and pushing them.One of the most fascinating aspects of his work is turning this bleeding edge technology into production grade services which help customers to improve their infrastructures. Diane is the Community Lead for OpenShift Origin (http://openshift.org), the leading Open Source Paas that upstreams Kubernetes, supports Docker natively and runs on OpenStack (as well as AWS, GCP, Vmware, and bare metal). She also runs the OpenShift Commons (http://commons.openshift.org) and manages the cross-community collaboration with all the upstream projects and across the diverse and ever-expanding OpenShift eco-system. She has been coding and tinkering for over 30 years; and founded @GetMakered Labs to help connect underserved and remote communities to new technology in the Pacfic Northwest. She serves on the board of the SC Maker Faire (http://sunshinecoastminimakerfaire.com/). She was named one of the top 10 Women in Cloud in 2015. Alexis Richardson is the co-founder and CEO of Weaveworks and an on the CNCF TOC. Previously he was at Pivotal, as head of products for Spring, RabbitMQ, Redis, and vFabric. Alexis co-founded RabbitMQ, and was CEO of the Rabbit company acquired by VMware in 2010, where he worked on numerous cloud platforms. Rumours persist that he co-founded several other software companies including Cohesive Networks, after a career as a prop trader in fixed income derivatives, and a misspent youth studying and teaching mathematical logic. Thierry Carrez is the Director of Engineering at the OpenStack Foundation, helping ensure the long-term health of the OpenStack upstream open source project by coordinating the effort and facilitating collaboration between contributors. He is the elected chair of the OpenStack Technical Committee, in charge of the technical direction of the project. A Python Software Foundation fellow, he was previously the Technical lead for Ubuntu Server at Canonical, and an IT manager in various companies. Follow on Twitter: Sarah Novotny: https://twitter.com/sarahnovotny Diane Mueller: https://twitter.com/pythondj Thierry Carrez: https://twitter.com/tcarrez Alexis Richardson: https://twitter.com/monadic Kubernetes: https://twitter.com/kubernetesio KubeCon: https://twitter.com/kubeconio Weaveworks: https://twitter.com/weaveworks OpenShift: https://twitter.com/openshift Juniper Networks: https://twitter.com/JuniperNetworks OpenStack: https://twitter.com/OpenStack