Panel Discussion: Landing Among the Stars: How Community... - Adriana & Austin, Rynn, Reese, Libby
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 2023-05-25

Panel Discussion: Landing Among the Stars: How Community Powers the Adoption of OpenTelemetry - Adriana Villela & Austin Parker, Lightstep; Rynn Mancuso, Honeycomb.io; Reese Lee, New Relic; Libby Meren, Independent

Since the first commit in 2019, OpenTelemetry has become the third largest project in the Linux Foundation overall according to the CNCF's velocity reports, with hundreds of contributors and thousands of end-users. While many cloud-native projects bring together contributors from competing businesses, OpenTelemetry is notable because its meteoric growth has been fueled by a spirit of agreeable collaboration among competitors. Each company in the space contributes code, education, and event organizing towards a common goal of driving more end-user adoption and community participation. In this panel, developer advocates Adriana Villela, Rynn Mancuso, Reese Lee, and Libby Meren, together with panel moderator Austin Parker, will share lessons learned about building community structures for OpenTelemetry through online and offline events, user research, surveys, communication tools. Attendees will learn to balance competing business and project interests, design guardrails around community structures to ensure shared values, and reflect on how these can be applied to working within their projects & their companies.