Name: OTel Me How To Get My Open Source Community Taken Seriously: Lessons Learned as an OTel Maintainer - Reese Lee, New Relic & Adriana Villela, Dynatrace
Start: 2025-04-03T16:45:00+0100
End: 2025-04-03T17:15:00+0100

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1-4 April 2025
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Thursday April 3, 2025 16:45 - 17:15 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

One of the core parts of any open source project is community – after all, you need people to write the code, and people to use the code. However, you also need people to: raise awareness about the project, drive the adoption and implementation of the project, and to connect these intersecting groups.

There are, of course, many ways to do this and build a thriving project community. In this session, Reese Lee and Adriana Vilella will share how they support and help build the OpenTelemetry (OTel) community through their work as a Maintainer of the End User SIG, including:
* Improving the project via collaborations with other OTel SIGs
* Driving contributions to the project
* Demonstrating business value to end users
* Driving adoption through connecting end users and contributors

Reese and Adriana will also share some of the misadventures that happened along the way, and make sure attendees leave equipped with strategies they can implement today to build and grow their open source communities.

Speakers

Reese Lee

Senior Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic

Reese Lee is a Senior Developer Relations Engineer at New Relic, where she is focused on enabling customers and colleagues on OSS via workshops, blog posts, and documentation. She enjoys figuring out solutions to technical problems, learning about interesting user stories and use... Read More →

Adriana Villela

Principal Developer Advocate, Dynatrace

Adriana Villela is a Principal Developer Advocate, helping companies achieve reliability greatness through Observability, SRE, & DevOps practices. Previously, she managed a Platform Engineering team & an Observability Practices team at Tucows. Adriana has worked at various large-scale... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 16:45 - 17:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

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