OTel Me How To Get My Open Source Community Taken Seriously: Lessons...
Talkat Open Source Summit Japan + AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit + Automotive Linux Summit 2025 · 2025-12-08..12-10·
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Maintains the OpenTelemetry End User SIG with concrete outputs: 75+ biweekly meetings since 2023, 888 Slack members, and 29 webinars, plus public end‑user surveys with raw CSVs that feed maintainer roadmaps. Builds channels that work — livestreams (“What’s New in OTEL”), interview series, an OTel observatory booth and office hours — and measures adoption (>90% survey respondents in production, hundreds of GitHub contributors). Emphasizes transparency, lowered contribution barriers, vendor neutrality, and consistent presence to keep momentum.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Open source community building
- 1:04What is OpenTelemetry
- 8:22Community values
- 10:29End User SIG origin
- 17:28End User SIG activities
- 22:43End user feedback
- 26:21In-person conferences
- 29:54Growing the community
- 32:03Open source entropy
- 38:19Sustaining communities
- 40:26Get involved
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