OTel Me How To Get My Open Source Community Taken Seriously: Lessons Learned as an OTel Maintainer
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · on Thursday, 2025-04-03· at 16:45· Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H·
summary
Built an OTel End User SIG out of a 2021 working group, with its own GitHub, YouTube, and CNFC Slack channel; runs monthly OTel Me sessions (live‑streamed via Streamyard with Canva graphics), meetups, surveys (notably the Collector and contributor experience surveys) and Humans of OTel interviews. Surveys feed maintainers and influenced Collector roadmap decisions, contributor numbers rise, and the group now faces scaling and prioritization challenges as it formalizes processes.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:49OpenTelemetry project
- 5:45End user SIG origin
- 10:23Implementation strategies
- 21:44Community building strategies
- 26:20Resources and closing
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