Community Leaders Tell All: Everything You Wanted to Know and Were Too Afraid to Ask

In this panel, community leaders Kim McMahon (Kyverno / Nirmata), Lisa-Marie Namphy (Cockroach Labs), Sharone Zitzman (RTFM Please Ltd), and moderator Bart Farrell (Consultant/Content Creator) discuss building healthy, inclusive, and sustainable open source communities. They share advice on inclusivity, empathy, the importance of listening, learning, and trying new things, and the challenges and rewards of community building. The discussion covers topics such as setting goals, measuring success, dealing with conflicts, and fostering new voices within communities. They also touch upon the role of developer relations and the importance of aligning community efforts with business goals.