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• 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