Bridging the Divide Between Community & Corporate
summary
Works inside corporate marketing while embedded with upstream teams, builds an internal onboarding deck and runs Community Central at Red Hat Summit to map projects to products, persuades events leadership that Flock grew from 300 to 8,000 so booths and noncommercial norms must stay, documents that Fedora contributors are mostly outside Red Hat, argues community delivers irreplaceable credibility and testimonials, and wins recurring educational sessions to translate community value into product and sales conversations.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:28About me
- 2:03Community vs Corporate
- 4:00fable of the elephant
- 5:28missing the obvious
- 9:29example
- 10:54intangible value
- 12:39challenge
- 13:54questions
- 14:12information
- 14:52partners
- 17:57curiosity
- 19:57corporate perspective
- 21:11challenges for community
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