There’s no doubt we are in weird times. There are a lot of stressors, but the majority of the tech community has more opportunities than ever to do what we do working from home. Just last week Google and Twitter announced that employees can work from home for the rest of the year or even indefinitely. For The New Stack Publisher Alex Williams, there’s one resounding reason why — the internet is awesome. And what’s driving much of that awesomeness right now is no doubt Kubernetes and its highly distributed community.

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, Williams sits down, over Zoom, with two grounded frequent fliers — Diane Mueller, director of community development at Red Hat and co-chair of OKD, Red Hat’s distribution of Kubernetes, and Paris Pittman, developer relations program manager at Google and a leader in CNCF’s Kubernetes contributor strategy. They spoke fresh off of running a particularly successful, inclusive — and very big — Red Hat Summit.

“Now, because it’s virtual, there’s no reason for them not to participate. And so we saw like this phenomenal exponential growth of people coming and participating at Red Hat,” Mueller said.