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WELCOME TO VALENCIA
Been there, Done that
Tales of Burnout from the Open Source World
Who we are
Divya Mohan
● Technical Writer with SUSE
● AWS Community Builder
● Documentation maintainer
○ Kubernetes
○ LitmusChaos
● CNCF Ambassador
Savitha Raghunathan
● Software Engineer @ Red Hat
● Active Kubernetes Contributor
○ SIG-Security Docs sub-project Owner
○ 1.22 Release Team Lead
Who we are NOT
Why are we speaking about burnout again?
Burnout
Biological?
Emotional?
Poor work life
balance?
Medical
condition
Physical/Emotional
Exhaustion
Psycho-social?
Compassion
Fatigue
Poor work life
balance?
Individual
Group
TL; DL (Too long, didn’t listen)
● Recovering from a pandemic & burnout
● God knows what’s next!
● More discussions = More perspectives & More awareness
○ More perspectives = better coping strategies
Credits: https://blog.worldline.tech/2018/12/19/FOSS-dimensions.html
Choose your own Adventure!
Perspective #1: Contributor
• OSS movement gaining traction = Lots of opportunities
• Global projects and communities
• Timezone and scheduling problems
• “Choose your own adventure”
• Signing up for one too many things
• Lack of structure
• Even with programs like GSoC, GSoD, LFX internships etc.
• GitHub = tech Instagram
• Every byline matters on the resume!
How did we get better?
• It’s not a sprint, but a marathon!
• Mental & compassion fatigue
• Inability to drive anything to completion
• Put the oxygen mask on yourself first!
• Reassessing priorities
• Self-care and vacays work, but are NOT the only solution.
Perspective #2: Maintainer
All About Expectations!
What happens when there is no north star?
Sustainability
★ Stepping down is NOT a step back
★ Distribute responsibilities
★ Provide opportunities to level up
Single maintainer problems
Perspective #3: Community Advocate
Move fast, but don’t break things!
★ What are we trying to change?
○ At what cost?
★ Rome wasn’t built in a day
★ Pause and Play!
See Something, Speak up!
See Something, Speak up!
★ Familiarize yourselves with burnout symptoms
★ CNCF Resources
○ Maintainers Circle
○ Slack channel - #burnout
○ Burnout Peer Support Group
THANK YOU :) :)

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