upstream-marketing-process.md

Upstream Marketing Process

Idea Paths

There is no one way to get into the kubernetes blog. Below are some options:

The Kubernetes Upstream Marketing team under ContribEx can help you tell a kubernetes story. With Blog posts you can:

• Pitch idea to the meeting or Open a Contributor Comms Requests issue
• Create initial draft
  • Can be a
    • gdoc
    • markdown
    • hackmd
• Get assigned a pair
  • Via issue or meeting
• Work with the Upstream marketing team to polish, and format your blog
  • No current cannonical format document
  • Technical consideration provided by the k8s blog team
• Go to the kubernetes/website repo and send a PR
  • Upstream marketing will offer to have your pair help with the PR and shepherd it throught the k8s blog process

or if you already have everything you think you need you can simply

• Go to the kubernetes/website repo and send a PR
• There's a kubernetes blog team that will walk you through the process

Tips

Converting gdoc to markdown?

• go to: https://discuss.kubernetes.io/
• Open a new topic
• Paste gdoc into window
• Profit

Thought to add: how we tweet and share it further after