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Ensuring user focus of open source development: Case MariaDB Server

Ensuring user focus of open source development: Case MariaDB Server

Encouraging and conducting external evaluation of activities

Track: Community devroom
Room: D.community
Day: Sunday
Start: 12:05
End: 12:30
Video with Q&A: D.community
Video only: D.community
Chat: Join the conversation!

Even a large Open Source project is at risk to have a too internal focus. Listening to users does not come by itself. This presentation describes the logic behind the user engagement of the MariaDB Foundation, which has been complemented during 2020 by "MariaDB Server Fests", virtual events reaching nearly 20.000 users.