Panel: Building together: How user communities drive open source data projects
Audra Montenegro, Community Program Manager @ CNCF
Bhavani Sudha Saktheeswaran, Software Engineer @ Onehouse
Priyanka Naik, Principal Software Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks
Neha Pawar, Head of Data Platform @ Startree
Our panel will explore how open-source communities drive project success, with Audra, Neha, Sudha, and Priyanka discussing ways to activate, maintain, and measure community engagement. They will share strategies for leveraging community resources, ensuring security in open-source solutions, and empowering organizational contributors. Using examples from projects like Apache Hudi and Apache Pinot and the perspective of those evaluating projects, the panel will highlight practical approaches for building and sustaining thriving open-source ecosystems.
