Hello everyone, this is Trista. I'm the Sophie X co founder and the CTO. So actually I really experienced the precise from the open source part to the open source commercial part. And then now we have our open source commercial company, Sophie Ex. But today I will just focus on how to foster or develop your community, especially the tech open source community. Make it become active or healthy. So maybe one day that you found you really like your community and your community become broader and active and also maybe for the next step for your commercial company or monetization. Right? So that's the background of myself. Like I said, I'm the Sophia has co founder and CTO. Actually I started my commercial journey from the developer. Because I'm a developer, I really put my lot of time in the tech area and open source areas, especially about the approaches software foundation there. Actually I joined there and learn what's the open source and how CTO make your open source become so active and to know the rules of the rani or open source community. Therefore Apache, Shirley and Sophia become the top leopard jet of Approaches foundation. And also I become the incubator approaches incubator mentor to provide more help to other open source tech community. All right, so actually if you interested in me or my post or articles, you can give a look on my twitter or linking and see you there, right? So today, that's the structure of today's talk. First we need to give the definition what's the health and active open source tech community? And then we have the definition, we want to make our community become that. Then we need to take some actions, right? Then we need to have some the actions, the steps to reach that goal. Therefore, you can see were we will talk each of the atoms how to reach the death goal, how to make your community become that liable, right? So how do you understand what's the open source tech community? Actually, when people give the evaluation, different people from different perspectives have different idea about it. In general, if we want to evaluate open source community, we have the following metrics. First, about the project or coding quality. Second, it's license and copyright. And also about a document about the articles. And also does this project provide a platform for people to talk about it or give the feedback or reason? My issue. And then that part is so important about the people because you need to know that it's not the one person single person project, it's the community, right? So if the community, that means there are so many people there, maybe they're user, they're evangelist, they're contributor or committer. So how to invite more people to stay here to contributors to this community. So that's more important. The key point then if we want to make each of the mattress looks nice or decent women, you take some actions, the actions I give all of them here, this mind map. And later on I will use this mind map to introduce each of them. So let's get started. Okay, so today I will take our project as an example, because this project actually at the beginning have zero star on GitHub. But now you can see here if we want to use our metrics to evaluate this project is healthy or not, is active or not. We can use all of the metrics here. For example, what's up about having Sophia here on his homepage you can see sharding Sophia is the ecosystem to help to transfer your monolithic database. For example MySQL or postgresql to become a having architecture, right? And also can provide, make it become the distributed database and enhance this system with a lot of user features, for example data automatically encryption or decryption and SQL audits or auto scaling on the Kubernetes, right? And so you can see here women of the metrics on the GitHub and it's already received, that's more than 17,000 stars and have a lot of forks. That means people want to host it and create their features based on this ripo. And also it's already released for more than 15 times. It's so big and it's mature because there are so many release. And also it have a lot of GitHub actions to guarantee the coding quality and the feature quality, the stateability. Plus you can see here it used the Apache license that is in the commercial friendly and forward and users or for other companies to consider it have the more than 400 people contributors towards here. So we use the previous matches to evaluate as example. And now if you want CTO, make your open source tech community become that or better than that. What should we do? Okay, oh, forget about that. Apart from the Matrix on GitHub, you can see here many people or many foundations are talking about this project. You can see here a lot of conference people talk about it, Infoq or VC or the CNCF foundation, right? So I will introduce them specific steps or actions or strategies to make your community become that or better than that. First you need to consider, you need to consider the key values of your project. And that's the first important questions for you. Because you know that why people want to give attention to this community. CTO this project because they want CTO use it. They found it interesting. It's in the channeling, right? So if you, your community or your project can really help people to solve their issues, and can really help most of the people to solve the most of their production issues, that means people want to use it. It's useful for people. So that creates the potential for your community to become larger and larger. And if this community can really help people or help the mature people to solve their issue, that means you have the more potential to become the larger than others. Because for example here I gave this example diagrams, right? Most of the people will use it to draw their flowchart, right? Because most of the people they needed to draw the flowchart or mind map of the stuff. So that means this project can really help maturity planted people to solve their real issues. So you can see were many people connected or started because they think it's useful. And also another part, you need to consider that about training, because you know that a lot of the Apache Java project, for example Flink or PoSA, or for having Sophia or the other famous projects are considered how to move their infrastructure or their project into the cloud or into the Kubernetes. Because Kubernetes cloud is the future of the tech, right? So even though all of the wonderful projects were born in maybe five years or six years, but now in this point they needed to adopt the trending about the new infrastructure, make their project become modern at this point, right? So that means you needed to consider the future features of your project, make it evolved along with the time with the people's needs. I can give another example here actually approaches software foundation. They have a category called Attic. That means if your projects have no people, interesting, no people want to maintain it, then your project will be moved to the attic. That means frozen for some times. So all of the key values you need to consider and if you really help people to solve it, that means you have the chance to do the monetization. For example, Sharon Sophia it's very active and helpful for projects for people, especially in the database cloud databases area. So we have the chance to create our companies via ex. So another part lets us consider about the asset of your project. Because if you want to start from small, that means you need to create a lot of asset for this project to help your community or a project run housely, right? And then attract more people to join here. The first part is about the infrastructure, the kernel part, because you need to consider how to host your code base, how to do the CSCD, how to do the test and how to pick up the license copyright and how to create the platforms for people to talk about it. And people can give your feedback and gather help, right? So that's infrastructure for your open source community. Actually GitHub, it's not a pitch, it's a really good platform for me to recommend for you because you know that all of the issues, the questions or the infrastructure, they help you to create it. They have a lot of infrastructure templates for you to really kickstart your project or community. There are so much GitHub action or useful marketplace for you to pick up to create your coding base, tattoo, CI, CD license or issues platform, the issues trackers. So I think they're useful and recommend for you to give a look. And last part, you need to consider the programming language, because if you want to solve people issue, there are many ways, many developmental language for you to choose to pick up, you need to consider, because if you pick up the niche, I mean language for you to do the programming, that means that you can only find a small portion of people to become your potential contributors. Here I gave this programming language of the 2022. You can see here the python, Java. Oh, there's no the rust or the go, they are so popular recently. So I recommend use of the programming language to develop your project and to help people to solve their issues. Next part about another part is the shelf your project as the asset. Because even though you have a good infrastructure to guarantee your code quality, your testing, the stability, you also need a lot of documents to teach people how to use this project. And you also need to help people know that what is project, what's the issues this project can help me solve, right? So you need CTO document because you have no time to teach everyone and people cannot to read your code to know what this project. So you need to document another part about the articles to tell people that what the issues this project focus on, right? And also the code conduct because you need more people to help you to create this project, right? So if there is no code conduct, that means people just use their habits to programming. That means later on you found that the coding, it's out of the control and it's a mess for you to maintain it. So you need some the code conduct or rules or the policies to guarantee that everyone follow that rules, the policies and to make this the code base or make the feature introduction part looks decent and looks almost consistent, right? In the same style. It's a long term work. You need to spend one, two more, three years to create this code base for your articles, for your document, for Alpha sharing. Sophia, we actually spent three years, a lot of time to create our document base for people to use it. Another part, it's about the community documents. People always just focus on the user's document. But forget your community document. What that means? Community apartment. That means, for example, here, how to get involved. How do I become the contributors here? If I interested in some issues, how do I raise my first pull request here? Right? What's the part? I can be part of that. All the stuff. Because you need to tell people that, hey, we are so welcoming. We are an open community. We welcome our contributors to come here. CTo be part of this community. You know that your community, you are not a single person to remain it. So you need to pave the way for your contributors to come here. So you need the documents to tell them, right? So this part people not gave us too much attention, but so important. Okay, so, yeah, that's all cases that Shirley Sophie gave. And that part I need to talk about the people. I mean, because lifers, for example, the approaches soviet foundation. They think that the community overcoat. That means the people overcoat. Because if you have a lot of people, that means you have a lot of the fellows to work with you. CTo make you feel fulfilled and make you feel that it's both in your effort to stay here. To help people. CTO solve their issue. People give their feedback, read the issues, read the poll request to help this community become decent, become better and people like it, right? That will encourage you to put more efforts to maintain this community, this project, right? So the encouragement from your community, from other people can become the incentive for you to stay here, to maintain here, right? So you need the contributors, you need the communities. So how to attract their attention? First, but you know that different community have different idea about this part. For me, I can give some the common ways. The general approaches for you to consider the first. And make your communication open. That means you cannot just talk women stuff only in a small group, right? Because you know that people want to know what is happening in this community. If you can make a community become open, that means people can have the chance to know more about it. And then maybe some part of your talk can attract their attention. And they want to be part of there, right? And second, that means the belongings. That means you need to create some system. Not so much like the hierarchy or system. But if you can give the path for the people, the growing path. It's like your career right at the beginning you are the junior programmer and then become the senior. And you know there is a clear career path for you to grow up and in community actually were the PMC that means the project management committee and the has libal is communities. The later on is contributor and the user. If you gave more efforts here and you have lost being about our professional knowledge about this community's project that means you know more about it and you will become. You can not control but can give more guidance to this community help more people and the people more trista your input or your idea or they want support you to hear, right? So that means you need to spend do a lot of contributors to this community. It's the hierarchy of the Apache Software foundation. Actually in Apache Charlie Sofia we also have the project management committee. We will vote our contributors to become the communities to really tell our community that hey, this guy is so experienced here and they really help this community CTO grow up. So we really sax and we also have the swags to give our contributors our committees to Saxford efforts. Because you know that people need the positive feedback that will give their more energy, give their more instill the atom to stay here, right? Because everyone need the positive encouraged. No matter it's in the school, in the company or here in the community. So how to join here or how to become the communities from the contributor I gave the following items but today I have no item enough time to talk more. But in the future if I can write some of the post on my twitter or linking later on. Oh, I can give a case here. This guy here is me. All this beautiful lady. It's me and this guy, it's our employee. It's a manager developer manager of Savior. Yes, our company actually we pick it up or we invited this guy to join our company because at the beginning he just the contributors of this shirt named Sophia. And we found he really did a good job. So we voted to become the PMC project manager committee of this project. And then we found hey, will you by him. Hey, you really did a good job ensuring Sophia. And now we have our Sophia's company. Do you want to join were and to make your women source become your career. And this guy said, wow, it's wonderful. I really like this chance. So he become the manager here. Yeah, that's a good case. Later on about you needed to create a lot of the cooperation with other media or other communicate to invite more people to join here or to know more about having about your community, about your projects. Right. So that's why we write this book. We wrote this book. We gave the talk on staff overflow and we give a lovely tad talk in different conference. Because I think this community is useful for people. So I want to share my experience because I really get a lot of help from the community. Now it's a good time for me to do the feedback, to share my experience. Maybe that will help someone, some of the audience that worlds be perfect. Right? Okay. Here. Because I wrote a lot of articles. Some guys saw my article and they think hey, they can use my article to quickly kick started their project in their production environment. So this guy come from the delivery hero. They use the hero the Korea branch and they use Apache having Sophia to solve their database, sharding and distributed issue in their real production and give us feedback. We feel so good. We think that we really did a lot of good job and our users think we are useful. So I think that this feeling is so good. Right. And also here the JD.com is the big online shopping company in China. And so they used the MySQl plus Apache having Sophia to create their sharding distributed system. So the mysql found this case. Everything is so good. So they connected it. Yeah. Then the last question I want to say that be patient with the progress, you know that everything small from the small. So we need to be patient with all the stuff and persist doing the routine, the common things and later on that will become the magic. And I believe if you really love open source women like the tech, technology or stem, I just want to share my experience and hope you can get something from my talk. And good luck. Yeah, see you next time.