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#BlackTechTwitter // Head of @CiscoOpen // #OpenSource Strategy @Cisco // @OpenSSF Governing Board // Bluesky:
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Allow me to reintroduce myself.
My name is Stephen Augustus.
Engineering Director.
Incoming (and first!) Head of
#OpenSource
at
@Cisco
.
#WeAreCisco
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Next week will be my last at VMware.
Across CoreOS, Red Hat, and here, I've consistently had the honor of working with some of the best in
#opensource
.
As they say: same team, different company.
Can't wait to tell you all what's next!
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The first
#Kubernetes
Party Proposal (KPP):
title:
#KubeCon
Karaoke
location: "Weekend" - Carrer de la Diputació, 365, 08009 Barcelona L'Eixample
time: 2200
No reservations, we're just going to swarm the place.
#KubeKhan
#WrathofKubeKhan
cc:
@kivashch
@idvoretskyi
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"Distinguished Engineers are just three raccoons in a trenchcoat like the rest of us" --
@IanColdwater
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Apparently, it's World Password Day, so uhhhh... drop your passwords in the replies!
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O HAI.
GED holder.
College dropout.
Engineering Director.
🤯 RT this if you’re an engineer working on OS, compilers, APIs, algorithms without an engineering degree! 💅
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I'm trying to say this in the nicest way possible, but seriously, what is wrong with some of you?
I've seen several tweets with people being salty about getting KubeCon talks rejected and gotten multiple reports about Program Committee members being accosted in DMs or meetings.
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Completely over the moon to announce that I'll be serving as a Program Co-Chair for
#KubeCon
/
#CloudNativeCon
, along with
@ccaramanolis
, starting at KubeCon Shanghai 2020.
This community and the people in it mean the world to me, so I'm truly humbled by the opportunity!
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I have a joke about Coronavirus response, and it's America.
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I CAN GUARANTEE YOUR PROPOSAL GETS YEETED INTO THE SUN IF I SEE THIS.
If you call your talk "Make XYZ Great Again" you get deducted a million CFP points. I'm just saying
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Whoa, this is wild!!
The sound of Jello being shredded is definately not what I was expecting ...
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I'm like, officially like, a
#Kubernetes
Release Manager now. So cool!
Giving you that piping hot Kubernetes every quarter!
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*taps into Twitter mic*
What you’re referring to as Docker, is in fact, `dockershim` (a module which implements CRI support for Docker), or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, "being deprecated in
#Kubernetes
v1.20, but not removed until multiple releases later".
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#tfw
your friend sends you celebration cake for putting on a conference for tens of thousands of people. 😍
Love you bunches,
@IanColdwater
!
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Today, we have the honor of welcoming long-time
#opensource
contributors and leaders to
@Cisco
.
To
@danwendlandt
,
@tgraf__
,
@lizrice
, and the
@Isovalent
team, we are so excited for all that we'll accomplish together!
Same team, different company!
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We're all in this tweet.
Coworker Who Slacked You ‘I’ll take a look at your PR soon!’ Awarded Pulitzer Prize In Fiction
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Who run the
#Kubernetes
1.17 Release Team?
WOMEN!
@guincodes
is taking the helm next cycle, with
@alenkacz
leading CI Signal,
@Daminisatya
leading Docs, and Claire Laurence as our Emeritus Adviser!
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I am deeply honored and humbled to be elected to the
#Kubernetes
Steering Committee, alongside
@pythomit
, and two fabulous returning members,
@ParisInBmore
and
@tophee
.
Thank you to the community for putting your faith in us!
...we won't steer you wrong. 😜
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How do y'all attend meetings AND send emails?!
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As a new manager, I can believe I have to say this, but:
1. Check in on the people who report to you.
2. Check in on your non-male reports IMMEDIATELY.
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Hey. Yeah, YOU.
Stop trying to please everyone.
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Honestly, this is one of the best issue titles I've ever seen! 🤣
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You ever sit down and think, "Wait, am I actually boring?"?
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Does everyone just need a hug right now?
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The proposal to modify the
#Kubernetes
release cadence to three releases a year has merged!
Thank you to everyone in the community who provided feedback!
How many
#Kubernetes
minor releases should we have every year?
(If you vote and you're comfortable with it, please take a moment to drop a reply about why you chose your answer.)
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p.s. yes, I'm going to retweet every damn tweet I see about
@bryanl
's promotion to Principal Engineer.
I'm proud as shit right now.
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Happy birthday to one of my favorite people and the bestest goose,
@IanColdwater
!!
Donuts on me at the next con! 💕
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@kstewart
@shanselman
Scott really Excels at these jokes.
I'm sure there'd be a positive Outlook if we called up a Publisher and asked him for a few notes.
...okay, maybe just One Note.
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I just said "a cohesive go-forward strategy" in an email and I think I'm going to have to look in the mirror tonight and ask myself what I've become.
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Why aren't we spending more time seeking to understand instead of assuming the worst of each other?
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Hello to my fellow neutral evil signers!
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I have a pretty small contingent of my family that I'm close with, so know when I call some of you my family, I truly mean that.
Thank you
#Kubernetes
for all of the new family members you've given me.
Thank you family for the birthday wishes!
Here's to 33!! 💕
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Industry: "We're creating some of the coolest tech in the world right now!"
Industry: "...but also, there's high school drama sometimes!"
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I've got friends who have been diagnosed with
#COVID19
and some who have passed, and a roommate who works for the MTA, where at least 6 people have succumbed to this recently.
I hope you are taking this seriously.
I hope you're spreading love from a distance.
#StayTheFuckHome
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Hey friendos,
I'm looking to hire the second member of
@Cisco
's OSPO (Open Source Program Office)!
Do you (or someone you know) want to do an
#opensource
with me?
Job req in the next week.
In the meantime, hit the DMs!
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I've been hinting at it, but I think I can just say it now!
Pretty excited to be working with
@gshipley
to build out
#Kubernetes
/ Cloud Native Community Advocacy, Evangelism, and OSS Tooling at
@VMware
!
If you're at
#KubeCon
and this sounds like it's up your alley, let's chat!
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A little well-deserved downtime after rocking the stage this week!
#KubeCon
+
#CloudNativeCon
(
#StephensLittleConf
)
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Today someone thanked me for mentoring them, but I didn't realize that that's what I was doing.
So, uhhhh, don't doubt your ability to impact people, y'all.
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Excited to have joined the
@VMwareTanzu
#Kubernetes
Grid team, focusing on our testing and release engineering efforts!
It's going to be a blast mentoring more people into upstream contribution and working on the same team as two of my faves,
@TheNikhita
and
@dims
!
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#Kubernetes
v1.24.0-alpha.1 has just been released!
And with it, we have the first release that completely removes dockerSHIM.
Please, for v1.24, it's important that you pay close attention to the release notes, help test, and report issues.
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I'm pretty easy-going and do my best to not get entangled with nonsense, but y'all are coming for my crew and it's completely disrespectful and insensitive.
Makes me wonder why we shift personal concerns, stress out, and work all-nighters to put on conferences for you.
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Hey. Yeah, YOU.
Stop doing work you're not recognized for.
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*slowly types "markdown to SharePoint" as tears stream down my face*
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Happy birthday to one of the bestest humans ever.
We will not not taking questions.
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Would be super cool if instead of shouting into the void and expecting maintainers to respond on Twitter, issues were filed in GitHub.
Like I don't mind a tweet with an issue attached, but Twitter is not a support forum.
Yes, this is a subtweet to everyone.
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#KubeKhan
is happening!!
Come hang out with your favorite kubies at the Marriott Marquis, Monday at 7pm, as we all warm up for the week ahead!
Thanks to the
@CloudNativeFdn
for coordinating and making us a little more official this
#KubeCon
!
#Kubernetes
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Code pro-tip: assume your reviewer has never seen this area of code, has no context about why the change is being made or its potential implications.
Then imagine you're a passerby and want to understand the change.
That's all the stuff that should be in your PR description.
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OH: Telling Stephen he won’t do something is kinda just challenging him to actually do it.
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I haven't been sick for a while and whewwwww, that J&J vaccine is making up for lost time.
Completely destroyed today.
(...but happy.)
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An important note
(with the disclaimer that this itself is an individual reflection):
Individual members of the
@kubernetesio
Steering Committee DO NOT speak for the committee or the community at large.
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So glad we got to end our run as
#KubeCon
+
#CloudNativeCon
Program Chairs on stage, keynoting in front of a few thousand of our friends!
I'm tired and emotional, but completely humbled by this experience, the opportunity, and the impact we've had.
#StephensLittleConf
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To think, I dodged this wretched thing up until now.
If we hung out, cut loose, shot the breeze at
#OSSummit
, please take some time to test periodically and report to
@linuxfoundation
events staff, as requested.
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Just going to toss this one out there, since I'm not the only one thinking it...
Do we feel that any alliteration of "Kubernetes" is maybe a little too close to something, ummm... not great?
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Hey you.
Yeah, YOU.
Go crush it today! 💕
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I REALLY needed a message like this today.
Love my
#Kubernetes
and
#RelEngFam
, and I'm delighted that I get to work with phenomenal people like you all! 💕
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Also,
@IanColdwater
with the extremely casual "I got a new job" message on the
#KubeCon
+
#CloudNativeCon
keynote stage! 💅🏾
I'm sooooooo happy for you and
@twilio
is EXTREMELY lucky to have you as their new Director, DevSecOps!
MY FAVORITE GEESE ARE ON THE KEYNOTE STAGE FOR
#KUBECON
+
#CLOUDNATIVECON
!! 💕💕💕
@IanColdwater
@mauilion
@bradgeesaman
@raesene
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Remember: Same team, different company
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Happy birthday to
@mauilion
!!
One of my best buds, mentors, and one of the smartest, KinDest people I know!
Hope your day is awesome, brother! 💕
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You ever spend an unreasonable amount of time tip-toeing through and patching a system when maybe the answer is to tear it down?
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Blessing your timeline with baklava cheesecake!
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Today is the best, because one of my besties has joined
@CiscoOpen
!!!
Today is day 1 at
@CiscoOpen
!
I'm looking forward to getting through orientation, meeting the team, and getting started.
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O HAI.
I'm running for
#Kubernetes
Steering Committee!
...so umm, smash that like and subscribe?
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Proud to be in an
#OpenSource
community that supports me and happy that I got to work with the
#Kubernetes
Steering Committee on this.
Thanks to every single one of you that have been stepping up and consistently show up to support.
#BlackLivesMatter
We stand in solidarity with the Black community.
Racism is unacceptable.
It conflicts with the core values of the Kubernetes project and our community does not tolerate it.
#BlackLivesMatter
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The
#Kubernetes
Release Team really goes above and beyond to get you all a new release.
Thank you immensely
@guincodes
and team for working on Kubernetes 1.17! I'm a proud SIG Release Chair right now. 😃💕
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It's contributors all the way down!
Just wrapped our final day of the
#Kubernetes
Cluster API F2F meetings and we can't wait to show you what's cooking for v1alpha3!
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Look at this Emoji Kitchen masterpiece
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I was trying to find the right words for this and... 👇🏾
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Excited to announce two new
#Kubernetes
Release Manager Associates (and LOVELY people),
@maria_fibonacci
and
@markyjackson5
!!! 💕🎉
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Happy birthday to an awesome human, and one of my absolute favorite tech leaders,
@mipsytipsy
!! 💕🎉
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UPDATE: Changed my mind.
On the way,
#KubeCon
+
#CloudNativeCon
!
UPDATE: I live in the airport now. I've learned their customs. They're building a stage for me here.
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I swear all of the emails recently have been, "Hi, can you get me this thing that's due in three minutes?".
...and everyone on Slack is like, "My calendar is booked solid." or "Hi, I'm sick.".
Hugs to everyone. 💕
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We're all in this picture and we don't like it.
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In a rare
#FollowFriday
#FF
, I'd like to call out/thank a bunch of lovely folks who have given me crucial career advice over the last few months!
@bryanl
@mipsytipsy
@cra
@sarahnovotny
@kstewart
@lizrice
@IanColdwater
@cheddarmint
@danpopnyc
@andrewhurstdog
@jbeda
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Far from complete, but I did "an adult" this week!
Clap for me, please.
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Today seems like a big day for Open Source popcorn, but ummm...
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