Keynote: Supporting the Community – So Open Source Projects Can Grow and Thrive
summary
Describes four concrete initiatives that grow contributors: time, clear vision, training resources, and open source first. Provides specifics: developers get company time to contribute upstream to projects; Kanister is managed with project governance, contributing guidelines, a labeled roadmap and pull‑request process; onboarding includes README, YouTube demos, twice‑monthly community meetings and Slack; outcome: measurable increase in external contributors and a collaboratively built production blueprint published for anyone to use.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:25Building Open Source Community
- 0:58Consumer and Contributors
- 1:34Four initiatives
- 1:53Time
- 2:18Example
- 2:36Canister
- 3:03Clear Vision
- 3:35Roadmap
- 3:56Concrete Results
- 4:24Training Resources
- 4:37Documentation
- 4:52Community Space
- 5:09Open Source First
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