Keynote: Supporting the Community – So Open Source Projects Can Grow and Thrive

The presentation discusses the challenges of building open source communities and how Kasten by Veeam is addressing them through initiatives such as providing time for contribution, having a clear vision, offering training resources, and adopting the philosophy of open source first.

• Open source projects rely on community members for adoption, feedback, and contribution
• Challenges for contributors include finding work to do, ensuring work is impactful, and getting on board
• Kasten by Veeam addresses these challenges through initiatives such as providing time for contribution, having a clear vision with project governance and contributing guidelines, offering training resources, and adopting the philosophy of open source first
• Concrete results of these initiatives include an increased number of external contributors and collaboration between internal and external teams
• Canister, an open source project at Kasten, focuses on community improvement through inclusivity and support

Canister, an open source project at Kasten, has seen concrete results from implementing initiatives such as having a clear vision. They have experienced an increased number of external contributors and collaboration between internal and external teams, resulting in the development of a blueprint for a production application that is now available for anyone to use.

Modern software is built on open source projects, and in turn, the success of any open source project hinges on its community members and their contributions. So how do we create communities with active contributors and ensure our open source projects benefit from their innovative ideas? At Kasten by Veeam, we are working to build an open source community whose members contribute often, and in meaningful ways to our open source cloud native projects. During this session, a member of the technical staff from Kasten, Le Tran will share some insights on our journey to build an open source community, including the benefits and challenges that come with creating a contributing culture in an organization.Click here to view captioning/translation in the MeetingPlay platform!