The Power of Open Source Community
summary
Open source delivers concrete results: projects use Jenkins and Kubernetes as core tooling, DeployHub open-sourced two years ago and the team is actively recruiting contributors (especially women) to an Ortillius project, community mentorship turns noncoders into committers, and COVID accelerates participation through virtual meetups and Zoom happy hours. Governance versus project work produce different challenges, and commercial impact is real — Rancher scales from about $30M to $600M with SUSE — while communities build careers, resumes and lasting networks.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to panel
- 0:42Why open source matters
- 1:26Tracy’s devops journey
- 6:02Marky’s early coding story
- 8:29Jacqueline’s personal journey
- 10:35COVID’s impact on community
- 12:18Building open source during pandemic
- 14:24First open source contributions
- 16:54Why keep contributing
- 19:44Closing and call to action
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