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title: " The K8sPort: Engaging Kubernetes Community One Activity at a Time "
date: 2017-03-24
slug: k8sport-engaging-the-kubernetes-community
url: /blog/2017/03/K8Sport-Engaging-The-Kubernetes-Community
author: >
Ryan Quackenbush (Apprenda)
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The [**K8sPort**](http://k8sport.org/) is a hub designed to help you, the Kubernetes community, earn credit for the hard work you’re putting forth in making this one of the most successful open source projects ever. Back at KubeCon Seattle in November, I [presented](https://youtu.be/LwViH5eLoOI) a lightning talk of a preview of K8sPort.
This hub, and our intentions in helping to drive this initiative in the community, grew out of a desire to help cultivate an engaged community of Kubernetes advocates. This is done through gamification in a community hub full of different activities called “challenges,” which are activities meant to help direct members of the community to attend various events and meetings, share and provide feedback on important content, answer questions posed on sites like Stack Overflow, and more.
By completing these challenges, you collect points and can redeem them for different types of rewards and experiences, examples of which include charitable donations, gift certificates, conference tickets and more. As advocates complete challenges and gain points, they’ll earn performance-related badges, move up in community tiers and participate in a fun community leaderboard.
My presentation at KubeCon, simply put, was a call for early signups. Those who’ve been piloting the program have, for the most part, had positive things to say about their experiences.
> I know I'm the only one playing with [@K8sPort](https://twitter.com/K8sPort) but it may be the most important thing the [#Kubernetes](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kubernetes?src=hash) community has.
>
> — Justin Garrison (@rothgar) [November 22, 2016](https://twitter.com/rothgar/status/800941707558670336)
- _“Great way of improving the community and documentation. The gamification of Kubernetes gave me more insight into the stack as well.”_
- Jonas Kint, Devops Engineer at Showpad
- _“A great way to engage with the kubernetes project and also help the community. Fun stuff.” _
- Kevin Duane, Systems Engineer at The Walt Disney Company
- _“K8sPort seems like an awesome idea for incentivising giving back to the community in a way that will hopefully cause more valuable help from more people than might usually be helping.”_
- William Stewart, Site Reliability Engineer at Superbalist
Today I am pleased to announce that the [Cloud Native Computing Foundation](https://www.cncf.io/) (CNCF) is making the K8sPort generally available to the entire contributing community! We’ve simplified the signup process by allowing would-be advocates to authenticate and register through the use of their existing GitHub accounts.
