# Upstream Marketing

The Upstream Marketing Contributor Communications team (Contributor Comms for short) is part of the `community-management` subproject in
[Contributor Experience]. View our [charter] to learn more about us.

## Purpose

To better inform the Kubernetes contributor community and highlight their work to the broader ecosystem.

| Area & Handbook Link | Team | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Marketing Council] Program Lead | @mbbroberg, shadow: @JasonMorgan,|  advisors: @parispittman, @chris-short |
| [Marketing Council] Promotion Lead |@kaslin, shadow: @Debanitrkl |  advisors: @parispittman, @chris-short |
| [Marketing Council] Liaison Lead | @rajula96reddy, shadow: `OPEN` |  Shadow role is available. |
| Liaisons | release: @rajula96reddy, docs: `OPEN` | Are you a SIG that wants support from Contributor Comms? Ping the liaison lead! |
| [Storytellers] & other members | @kunal-kushwaha, @gkarthiks, @dewan-ahmed, @joelbyronbarker, Sladyn Nunes | New to Contributor Comms? Add your name here!

## Contact Us!

- Reach out to an individual above via Slack
  - Ping the whole team: @contributor-comms in #sig-contribex on slack
- Tag us in an issue in [kubernetes/community] with the label [area/contributor-comms]
  - Set a marketing issue template in [kubernetes/community]
- Follow us on @K8sContributors on [Twitter]

## Join us!

We are always open to being a home for contributors to Kubernetes whether you code or not. 

* Come to one of our [meetings] (Every Friday at 8am PT). See the [calendar] to add it to your own calendar.
* Join our [mailing-list], and/or reach out to us on the #sig-contribex channel on the Kubernetes slack ([slack.k8s.io](http://slack.k8s.io)).

Let us know you are interested and if you have any questions.

[meetings]: /sig-contributor-experience#contributor-comms
[calendar]: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r/customday?eid=NmU5MjFnYWwwMzIwNjVwamFvNmszZHBuYzhfMjAyMDEyMDRUMTYwMDAwWiBjYWxlbmRhckBrdWJlcm5ldGVzLmlv&ctz=America/Los_Angeles&sf=true
[mailing-list]: https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-sig-contribex
[charter]: ./CHARTER.md
[Could be you!]: #could-be-you
[Contributor Experience]: /sig-contributor-experience
[Marketing Council]: ./role-handbooks/editor.md
[Internal Communications]: ./role-handbooks/internal-marketing.md
[Social Media]: ./role-handbooks/social-media.md
[Storytellers]: ./role-handbooks/storytellers.md
[Designer]: ./role-handbooks/wip-roles.md
[kubernetes/community]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues
[area/contributor-comms]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aarea%2Fcontributor-comms
[Twitter]: https://twitter.com/K8sContributors/