Open Source Summit + AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit  + Automotive Linux Summit Japan 2025: OTel Me How To Get My Open Source Community Taken Seriously: Lessons Learned as an OTel Maintainer

CONFERENCE TALK

Open Source Summit + AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit  + Automotive Linux Summit Japan 2025: OTel Me How To Get My Open Source Community Taken Seriously: Lessons Learned as an OTel Maintainer

Joshua Lee and Adriana Villela are presenting the talk “OTel Me How To Get My Open Source Community Taken Seriously: Lessons Learned as an OTel Maintainer” at the Open Source Summit + AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit  + Automotive Linux Summit Japan 2025 Conference. The 2025 conference will be held December 7-8.

One of the core parts of any open source project is community – after all, you need people to write the code, and people to use the code. However, you also need people to: raise awareness about the project, drive the adoption and implementation of the project, and to connect these intersecting groups.

There are, of course, many ways to do this and build a thriving project community. In this session, Josh and Adriana will share how they support and help build the OpenTelemetry (OTel) community through their work as a Maintainer of the End User SIG, including:
* Improving the project via collaborations with other OTel SIGs
* Driving contributions to the project
* Demonstrating business value to end users
* Driving adoption through connecting end users and contributors

Josh and Adriana will also share some of the misadventures that happened along the way, and make sure attendees leave equipped with strategies they can implement today to build and grow their open source communities.

About the Presenters

Joshua Lee – Open Source Developer Advocate at Altinity

Whether it’s operators or observability, agile or accessibility, his expertise shines because he is passionate about all of it. He’s been building software for more than a decade and he loves sharing experiences via public speaking. He is currently a Developer Advocate for Altinity where he helps create educational content about ClickHouse® and OpenTelemetry, and he is a contributor to the OpenTelemetry project.

Adriana Villela – Principal Developer Advocate at Dynatrace

Adriana Villela is a Principal Developer Advocate, helping companies achieve reliability greatness through Observability, SRE, & DevOps practices. Previously, she managed a Platform Engineering team & an Observability Practices team at Tucows. Adriana has worked at various large-scale enterprises, as an individual contributor and leader, including Bank of Montreal, Ceridian, and Accenture. Adriana is a blogger, host of the Geeking Out Podcast, CNCF Ambassador, and HashiCorp Ambassador.