The Recipe to Getting Attendees to your Open Source Events

With the growth of open source comes the need for more conferences, meetups and hackathons - you name it! These events give community members the opportunity to interact face-to-face to solve problems, come up with new ideas, or even just to chat and get to know each other better. But, the question is – how do we get developers, users and contributors from open source communities to these events? In this session, we’ll learn useful tips and best practices on how to get attendees to your open source conferences and meetups. Karen will go over a 3-step process; how to setup your events, how to promote the events and what to do after the events. 

Bio

Karen is the Principal Open Source Program Manager at Citrix and an Apache CloudStack committer. She started her career in Marketing (specifically in organizing events in corporate Marketing). After exploring and coming across open source at Citrix, she’s been organizing the CloudStack Silicon Valley User Group, working with the Apache CloudStack community on CloudStack Collaboration Conferences and CloudStack Days and supporting the presence of Open@Citrix at various open source conferences. She wants to help members from other open source communities round up more attendees to their conferences and meetups with tips and best practices learned from her experience working with open source events. On the weekends, you can find Karen backpacking in the different forests of Northern California, cycling on Highway 1 or bungee jumping off bridges.