Community Leaders Tell All: Everything You Wanted to Know and Were Too Afraid to Ask - Kim McMahon, Kyverno / Nirmata; Lisa

Panelists discuss community building and metrics at a conference presentation

• Establishing goals and metrics is important for community building
• Qualitative analysis is important in addition to quantitative analysis
• User zero and design partners zero are important for testing new features
• Community building takes a lot of work and can lead to burnout
• Building relationships with community members is important for building champions and ambassador programs

One panelist shared their experience of not doing qualitative analysis and only looking at numbers, which led to stress. They emphasized the importance of going out and talking to community members to build relationships and alleviate stress.

There is no doubt that community, visibility, and marketing is a key component to the health and growth of open source projects. There are many approaches you can choose, and of course many missteps can happen along the way to building your community tribe. The important thing is to listen, learn, and try new things. In this presentation, community leaders Kim McMahon, Lisa Marie-Namphy, Sharone Zitzman, and moderator Bart Farrell will share their top pieces of advice on how they have built inclusive, sustainable, and healthy communities. To give you a sneak peek… Inclusivity, empathy, and assume positive intent. The big tent and be ready to chop wood and carry water. There are no silver bullets. Community building is one user at a time with personal connections and attention to details. Metrics. Which ones matter and how to measure? Join us for this panel if you are looking to kickstart your own open source community, or are part of an open source community and would like to learn how to optimize and grow it, and make a greater impact.