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Episode 220: FOSSY 2023 with Angie Byron

Feb 16, 2024

Angie Byron, Director of Community at Aiven, discusses overseeing 11 open source projects, prioritizing tasks by impact, and using a 'start at the end' goal-setting exercise. She highlights challenges of transparency in open source projects and the importance of involving community members. The podcast also delves into strategies for corporate involvement in open source, decision-making processes, and promoting meetups for learning about technologies like Kafka and Postgres.

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Aiven offers managed services for open source data projects, emphasizing the importance of prioritizing initiatives with community impact.

Transparency challenges in open source projects require clear communication of internal priorities and involvement of stakeholders in decision-making.

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The Role of Community Managers in Open Source

Angie Byron, the director of community at Ivan, discusses her role as a meta community manager and the challenges of working with multiple open source projects. She highlights the importance of prioritizing initiatives that drive community growth and ownership. For example, Ivan aims to expand their meetups program to involve customers in different areas and topics of interest. Angie emphasizes the need to involve the community in setting goals and making decisions, as well as the significance of building trust and mitigating risks to ensure customer satisfaction and revenue growth.

Introduction

2min

Balancing Responsibilities and Building Community Ownership

3min

Strategic Decision-Making Process

5min

Internalizing Achievement and Facilitating Growth

2min

Community Efforts in Open Source Data Infrastructure and Conference Promotion

2min

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Angie Byron

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Richard Littauer

Show Notes

Hello and welcome to Sustain! Richard is in Portland at FOSSY, the Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference that is held by the Software Freedom Conservancy. In this episode, we’re joined by Angie Byron, the Director of Community at Aiven, a leading open source data platform. Angie brings us insights from her role overseeing 11 open source projects, explaining how they provide managed services and security updates for several data projects, and highlighting the importance of prioritizing by impact. She also gives us a peek into their “start at the end” exercise used for goal setting and talks about the challenges of transparency and confidentiality in open source projects. Tune in now and download this episode to hear more!

[00:00:39] Angie explains that Aiven is an open source data platform that provides managed services and security updates for several open source data projects such as Apache Kafka, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, and Grafana.

[00:01:30] Angie shares that she’s the Director of Community at Aiven and has been there for a couple of months. She talks about her role as a meta community manager, overseeing 11 open source projects with a small team.

[00:02:32] There’s a discussion by Angie on the importance of prioritizing by impact and empowering community members, and she explains the “start at the end” exercise she uses for setting their goals, and she explains using the Open Practice Library, which is a division of Red Hat.

[00:07:17] Richard asks about the challenges of balancing transparency and confidentiality in open source projects. Angie shares that they’re working on a public-facing version of a roadmap with an ideation system.

[00:08:23] Angie discusses three main goals of their work: increasing revenue, reducing costs, and mitigating risk.

[00:09:59] Angie explains that she internalizes achievement by helping others grow, thrive, and accomplish their goals, with her success and that of her team tied to the success of others.

[00:11:24] Find out where you can learn more about Aiven’s community efforts, and where you can learn more about Angie online.

Credits

Produced by Richard Littauer
Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound
Show notes by DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound

Special Guest: Angie Byron.

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Episode 220: FOSSY 2023 with Angie Byron

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The Role of Community Managers in Open Source

The Importance of Transparency in Open Source

Measuring Success and Finding Satisfaction

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