04-17, 11:00–11:30 (Europe/Amsterdam), The Warehouse
In an open source environment, how do you get your competitors to work with you and not against you? How do you collaborate with said competitors? And how do you contribute to the project while ensuring the voice of its end users is heard?
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 increasing adoption of and improvement to the project.
Join our panel talk to learn how to balance competing business and project interests, design guardrails around community structures to ensure shared values, and how these can be applied to working on your open source projects and within your organization.
Austin Parker has been creating problems with computers for the majority of his life. In a stunning face turn, he instead has spent the past five years helping others solve the problems that computers create. Formerly an SRE and DevOps Engineer, he now focuses on observability topics and shitposting on the internet. He is an OpenTelemetry maintainer and community manager, an author, event organizer, public speaker, and general bon vivant.
Rynn Mancuso is the developer community manager at Honeycomb.io, one of the leaders of OpenTelemetry’s End User Working Group, and a CNCF Ambassador. Before joining Honeycomb, they led developer communities at New Relic, Tidelift, Mozilla and Wikimedia. They also actively contribute to the Organization for Ethical Source.
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Adriana Villela is a Sr. Developer Advocate at Lightstep, with over 20 years of experience in technology. She focuses on helping companies achieve reliability greatness by leveraging Observability, SRE, and DevOps practices. Before Lightstep, she was a Sr. Manager at Tucows, running both a Platform Engineering team, and an Observability Practices team. Adriana has also worked at various large-scale enterprises, in both individual contributor and leadership roles, including Bank of Montreal, Ceridian, and Accenture. Adriana has a popular technical blog on Medium, co-leads the OpenTelemetry End-User Working Group, is a HashiCorp Ambassador, and co-host of the On-Call Me Maybe Podcast (oncallmemaybe.com). You can find her on Twitter at @adrianamvillela to talk all things tech.
Reese Lee joined the OpenTelemetry team at New Relic in 2021, bringing along her enthusiasm for providing quality technical support and enablement for observability end users. She primarily works in the OpenTelemetry End User Working Group to help increase awareness and adoption of the software, including running the monthly End User Discussion Group. She has spoken on topics related to the project, and is excited to contribute more to the OpenTelemetry community.