Enabling Community Driven Development
A presentation at OSCON in in Portland, OR, USA by fen aldrich
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👋 Hi OSCON! • I’m Aaron Aldrich • Community Advocate @ Elastic • Find me: 🐦: @Crayzeigh 📧: aaron.aldrich@elastic.co 🌠: noti.st/crayzeigh !2 #OSCON @CrayZeigh
The Elastic Stack try it now: elastic.co APM App Search Site Search Beats Business Analytics Elasticsearch Logs Logstash Metrics Kibana check out the code: github.com/elastic !3 Security Enterprise Search @CrayZeigh
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Feedback is Foundational !12 @CrayZeigh
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…Dogfooding is not enough… you need to observe, understand and study how real engineers outside your company use your tool… —John Allspaw, Monitorama PDX 2019 14
Who is the community? 15 #OSCON @CrayZeigh
200,000+ members 16 #OSCON @CrayZeigh
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Our Community Social Forums Github 31,500 Twitter 70,000 users 6,000 Reddit on discuss.elastic.co 23,000 Linkedin 90,000 Facebook 1500 Contributors IRL Attending roughly 1 conference every 2.5 days *All numbers approximate and out of date !18 @CrayZeigh
It’s all community !19 #OSCON @CrayZeigh
Community is your most valuable asset —Me, and also lots of people 20
The Elastic journey 21 #OSCON @CrayZeigh
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LEGO your code 27 #OSCON @CrayZeigh
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Modules Modules Parsers Metricsets Filesets Packetbeat Metricbeat Heartbeat Auditbeat Winlogbeat Filebeat Functionbeat Libbeat !29 #OSCON @CrayZeigh
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L’eggo your code 32 #OSCON @CrayZeigh
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Results from opening X-pack User Experience • Easier to use • Increased Awareness • Adoption & Stickiness 40 #OSCON @CrayZeigh
Results from opening X-pack User Experience Code visibility on Github • Easier to use • Open Source • Increased Awareness • Free • Adoption & Stickiness • Paid • All available for public view 41 #OSCON @CrayZeigh
Results from opening X-pack User Experience Code visibility on Github • Easier to use • Open Source • Increased Awareness • Free • Adoption & Stickiness • Paid • All available for public view 42 Community • Issues/Decisions now in public • Issues and PR can be created for all code • All Community can interact #OSCON @CrayZeigh
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Let me sum up… 1 Build something together — invite your community to help shape their future 2 No gatekeeping — help outsiders join your community 3 LEGO code — building modular pieces helps make new changes 4 Make contribution easy — Lower barriers to sharing new ideas 5 Default to open — Share as much as you can, make decisions publicly, close feedback loops 44 #OSCON @CrayZeigh
Thanks! Talk Feedback: qrco.de/bbBt2m 30-Day Cloud Trial: ela.st/aaron-aldrich-trial 45 Elastic Meetups: ela.st/meetups #OSCON @CrayZeigh
The most successful products always seem to drive towards what their industry is after. Elastic exemplifies this with the Elasticsearch, built, you know, for search, but being used as the core of many other successful products.
How can companies know what their audience cares about the most? Is that crystal-ball-like insight achievable without eldritch magicks?
Aaron Aldrich focuses on what successful open source projects leverage for their future to convince you that a strong community is the most valuable asset to your product. Along the way, he shares concrete examples of how Elastic has partnered with its community for greater success together and ideas for how you can foster community for your own products.
