Episode 220: FOSSY 2023 with Angie Byron

Guest Angie Byron Panelist 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.
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(https://openpracticelibrary.com/) Credits Produced by Richard
Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at
Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by
DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/)
Special Guest: Angie Byron.