Supporting your open source community at every scale
Creating an open source project is one challenge. Building an enduring open source community, one that covers everything from setting clear expectations and empowering members with mentorship opportunities to establishing governance structures and formalizing fiscal sponsorship, is another challenge.
At Common Room, we believe that community is where growth happens, and that growth is faster, healthier, and more enduring when it’s centered on community members. Our incredible open source customers share this belief. That’s why, while we’re excited to sponsor All Things Open and talk about the platform we’ve built that makes it easy for open source community leaders and the companies that support them to educate, empower, and enable their communities of developers, we’re even more excited to highlight the work and deep experience of one of our customers, Temporal Technologies.
Temporal is a developer-first, open source platform that allows developers to write code as workflows to ensure the successful execution of services and applications. For Temporal, their commitment to their developer community is in their headline: developer-first. As Temporal’s community scales, their business scales, and vice versa. The two are interconnected—it’s why Temporal invests in their community and the Developer Advocates that support it.
Those Developer Advocates, like Rain Leander, who you’ll hear from at ATO on November 2, know that scaling the community in a lasting way takes way more than a repository, an open source license, and a friendly readme—it takes a thoughtful and methodical commitment to building with and for their community. It requires managing and moderating documentation, code, people policies, community development opportunities, conflict mitigation, rules enforcement, leadership and governance structures, metrics, and, often, legal considerations. What started with a license and a readme can suddenly feel dauntingly unnavigable. But it doesn’t have to be! That’s why we’re excited to bring you a candid discussion with Rain about their work with, and for, communities across the open source space—when you leave our session you should have a clearer mission, map, and understanding of what you’ll do next for your community and how you’ll get there.
Learn more about Common Room and what we build for communities and the people and companies that support them: We’re proud to work with an inspiring array of open source customers, DevRel leaders like Tessa Kriesel and Jono Bacon, and partners that collaborate with us to produce free community-based reports like our 2022 Developer Relations Compensation Report. Keen to convene? Come say hello at ATO!
The Featured Blog Posts series will highlight posts from partners and members of the All Things Open community leading up to the conference in the fall.