OpenDevRel: Tales of Developer Relations in Open Source
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Advocates for a company-backed open source presence by showing concrete actions: running Slack channels, GitHub discussions and weekly community calls; shipping SDKs, Docker images and Helm charts to improve developer experience; and maintaining a clear vendor vs project separation with a defined upgrade path to a managed product like OpenSearch’s hosted offering. Focus on a narrow niche inside massive ecosystems (OpenTelemetry is the CNCF’s second-most-active project) and provide non-code value too — documentation, search across thousands of repos, onboarding and org buy-in.
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