Today I presented No C, No Opaque AI: Watch Your First Fluent Bit Contribution Happen Live in the Fireside Room at SteepleJack Brewing. Live fork, live branch, live commit, live PR against a real tracked issue in the Fluent Bit docs. No slides pretending to be a terminal, because most of tonight happens in an actual one.
Below are the slides as promised, for the part of the evening that isn't a terminal.
No C, No Opaque AI: Watch Your First Fluent Bit Contribution Happen Live
Contributing to a CNCF graduated project feels out of reach until someone shows you exactly how it happens. In this session, that someone is on stage doing it in real time, spotting a gap between what the Fluent Bit codebase actually does and what the docs say, opening a branch on a live fork, running the project's prose linter, writing a properly signed commit, and pushing a pull request that closes a real tracked issue. Every step, no shortcuts, no slides pretending to be a terminal. You will leave knowing the two-repo mental model that makes Fluent Bit doc contributions work, the git habits that signal credibility to maintainers, and the AI guardrails that keep your name attached to work you actually stand behind. Your first PR does not require deep C knowledge. It requires knowing where to look, how to show your work, and when to keep your hands on the wheel.
Date: Wed, 16 September 2026
Time: 18:00 to 20:00 PDT
Location: SteepleJack Brewing, Fireside Room, 2400 NE Broadway, Portland
Thanks to all that attended and it was fun to live demo my life as a maintainer!
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