FOSS Backstage 2024

Celeste Horgan

Celeste is a Developer Educator at Aiven, where we deploy and help you manage your open source data stack. At Aiven she focuses on advocating for our open source projects. Prior to this, Celeste worked at Stripe and at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, where she supported the CNCF’s hundreds of open source projects with documentation and developer experience. Her work on diversity and inclusion in software has been featured in the New York Times. She lives in Berlin, Germany and is originally from Vancouver, Canada.


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Session

03-05
11:35
30min
More than developers: growing your maintainer community
Celeste Horgan

As projects grow, they need roles like QA, docs, and more… but most full time contributors are devs. What should we do?! This talk is about strategy: how to incentivize non-developers to contribute, how for-profit companies can support open source, and what projects need upstream communities.

Governance & Community
Stage Wintergarten