2025 Annual Report: SIG Contributor Experience

Chairs: @kaslin @mfahlandt @palnabarun
Liaison: @ritazh

Actions for the chair/organizer of the community group:

• Consult your community group to complete draft of report
• If needed, consult with Steering Committee liaison on any private issues or concerns that arrise while completing report
• Submit PR to git.k8s.io/community repo with copy of report, assigning your Steering Committee liaison for review
• Steering Committee reviews report, and may make comments/ask questions
• Once all comments are addressed, Steering Committee will approve report to merge
• If needed, any follow up items may be brought to the "Chairs, Tech Leads, and Organizers" meeting in April

Once all the above items are complete, this issue may be /close'd

Key dates:

• Initial PR to community repo should be opened by February 14, 2026
• PR should be reviewed and merged by February 28, 2026

More detailed information on the annual reports process is available here.

Your group's report template is available here: https://git.k8s.io/community/sig-contributor-experience/annual-report-2025.md

If you have any questions or concerns about this process, you may reach the Steering Committee via the following methods:

• Slack/E-mail your liaison directly
• The public #steering-committee channel in Slack
• The public mailing list steering@kubernetes.io
• The private mailing list steering-private@kubernetes.io for any private or sensitive issues.

/assign @kaslin @mfahlandt @palnabarun
/sig contributor-experience
/committee steering
/area annual-reports