Name: Navigating the Waters: Balancing Open Source Activities in Corporate Environments - Kim McMahon, Sidero Labs & Amanda Katona, NetApp Instaclustr
Start: 2025-04-02T14:30:00+0100
End: 2025-04-02T15:00:00+0100

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1-4 April 2025
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Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Achieving a balance between corporate goals and open source activities is essential for organizations that offer and rely on both commercial and open source technologies. This balance can be hard to achieve when you have goals, needed results, and resource constraints all pulling in different directions.

In this session, open source industry veterans Amanda and Kim will share best practices built from a decade in the Linux, Kubernetes, Apache, and open source operating system communities. Key topics will include:
* How to take organizational goals and craft a plan to support both open source and corporate products.
* How to take users on a journey to determine the technologies (open source or otherwise) that are best for them.
* How to communicate to your leadership and organization what you do, why you are doing it, and what you hope to accomplish.

Speakers

Amanda Katona

Director of Developer and Open Source Engagement, NetApp Instaclustr

Amanda is a driven community and partnership builder. She creates, and nurtures end-to-end ecosystems that support some of the most innovative technologies on the market. She oversaw Harbor, Contour, and Antrea Sandbox donations, and Harbor's promotion to Graduated. She's also provided... Read More →

Kim McMahon

Head of Marketing, Sidero Labs

Kim McMahon is well-known in the open source and cloud native ecosystem as a marketer of open source and growing healthy and productive communities. She led the marketing and community activities at several Linux Foundation projects including CNCF and RISC-V, building member participation... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

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