Practical Steps to Encourage Community Growth

Rich Bowen

English Session 2022-07-30 09:00 GMT+8  #keynote

Building an enthusiastic contributor community is perhaps the hardest part of any open source project. But without it, your project will struggle to sustain itself long term. Although community growth is more art than science, there are some practical things that you can do to make it more likely that people will want to join in. Rich will share some lessons from 20+ years of community shepherding.

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Rich Bowen is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and is currently serving his seventh term as a Director. He's the VP Conferences, and a member of the Community Development PMC. He's an Open Source Evangelist at AWS.