Angie Byron
Senior Manager, Community and Advocacy @ Temporal
Vancouver, Canada
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Angie has been architecting and scaling developer communities for over 20 years, first cat herding thousands of Drupal contributors, then at MongoDB, and these days at Temporal.
Angie got their start in open source back in 2005 as a Google Summer of Code student, and since then has gone on to become a published author, and an empowerer of others who are on on their own open source contribution journeys.
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Lessons Learned From Scaling An Open Source Community By 10,000%
Drupal—an open source CMS—has grown from a small hobby project to an enterprise-grade digital experience platform running ~3% of the Internet. This talk will explore the many lessons learned (most of them the hard way ;)) in navigating an international open source developer community through various scalability challenges.
Topics covered will include:
* Contributor On-Boarding: Some clever and participatory ways to help new folks bootstrap quickly and feel included
* Community Health: How to account for—and encourage—contributors stepping away? How to develop new leadership to take their place?
* Project Sustainability: How to incentivize commercial sponsorship of open source contributions without selling your soul
* Governance: What pain points emerge as you scale, what strategies help solve them, how to “right size” your solutions at the right time?
* When Sh*t Hits The Fan: What if your project forks? What if you need to remove a high profile contributor? Been there, done that; let my trauma be your guide. ;)
* Community Bootstrapping: What if you’re *not* a project with 100K+ contributors and 2M+ users? How do you build your first 100 / 1,000 / 100K?
Connecting Supply Chain Security Projects to the Community - Exploring OpenSSF’s DevRel Mission
Under the hood of most software is a complex system of tooling, processes, and, ultimately, humans. Ensuring the system's integrity and hardening our software supply chain requires careful configuration at countless steps along the pipeline. Similarly, community efforts to develop standards, tools, and education also require contributions from a diverse group of technologists and communicators to keep projects, conversations, and outreach moving forward.
The new OpenSSF DevRel community was formed to advance the mission of the OpenSSF by evangelizing its projects. This panel of DevRel Community volunteers will share the many ways we leverage our varied experiences to fill the critical gap between code and communication. We will further outline the many values of non-code contributions in organizations like the OpenSSF and share tips for getting involved.
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