Open Source Summit + ELC North America 2019

The era of the cloud has undoubtedly made open source software ubiquitous and more important than ever. Yet, the plethora of tech companies that use and contribute to open source has led to conflicting interests and politics amongst many open source communities. Though expected for large open source projects, this can make contributing to open source daunting and unapproachable, especially for new contributors.

Andrew, an active member of the Kubernetes community, will talk about how to embrace and maneuver through open source politics as a new contributor. Drawing from his experience working in the cloud-native ecosystem, he’ll provide practical steps towards building trust and credibility, managing trade-offs, and picking the right battles to become an effective open source contributor.