Ray is a Community Manager at PingCAP where he is helping to grow the TiDB community. Prior to PingCAP, Ray managed open source communities at Cube Dev, GitLab and the Linux Foundation. Ray has been a speaker at open source conferences such as All Things Open, Community Leadership Summit, FOSDEM, GitLab Commit, Open Source Summit, and SCaLE.

Ray lives in Sunnyvale, CA with his wife and daughter and all three are loyal season ticket holders of the Bay FC women's soccer team.

Presentations

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Are we being inclusive with our community recognitions?

Inclusiveness is vital for strengthening the sense of belonging. Community recognition thus needs to be more inclusive so that all community members, regardless of their background, interests, and skillset feel appreciated. Traditional recognition in open source tends to emphasize contributions in project repositories (or code), and we often miss valuable contributions from non-developers.

Ray will share his experience finding different contributions, community recognition examples (both good & bad), and feedback he received on community recognition programs over the years.

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Building a thriving community in (for-profit) open source projects

At first glance, it may seem impossible to build an open and authentic community for a company-based open source project when you need to balance the needs of the company with those of the community. In this talk, learn how to build a thriving community by understanding the intrinsic motivations of community members while providing opportunities for them to grow and have a voice in the community. There will also be a discussion on how diverse viewpoints and being responsive to contributions is beneficial to both  the community and the company.

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