The State of the Community

This talk was presented at the inaugural Elastic{ON} conference, http://elasticon.com

Session Abstract:
in this presentation, you'll hear from our Director of Developer Relations on all things community & the ELK Stack. You'll learn where your fellow users are, how they are contributing and and plans for the community's future. Plus, we'll show some amazing stats using our community metrics ELK dashboards.

You'll leave this session with a solid understanding of how you can contribute to the ELK community and how you - and your company - can benefit from doing so.

Transcript

1. The State of the Community Leslie Hawthorn, Director of Developer Relations
2. { } CC-BY-ND 4.0 Your Developer Advocate Team 2 David  Pilato   France Jun  Ohtani   Japan Robyn  Bergeron   United  States
3. { } CC-BY-ND 4.0 3
4. { } CC-BY-ND 4.0 Quick Demo: Meetups Dashboard Drinking Our Own Champagne 4
5. { } CC-BY-ND 4.0 How You’re Using Elasticsearch & ELK From curing cancer and alerting first responders to earthquakes based on Tweets to monitoring network security and social media analytics 5
6. { } CC-BY-ND 4.0 Community Health Metrics 6 Elasticsearch Users’ List Logstash Users’ List Mailing lists, IRC & more
7. { } CC-BY-ND 4.0 Contributor Statistics 7 Courtesy of Open Hub Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana
8. { } CC-BY-ND 4.0 On Code Contributions • Elasticsearch • 7% of top 30 committers are members of wider community • Plugins are a rich source of community contributions • Logstash • 40% of top 10 committers • Plugins now easier to manage with the recent release of 1.5 branch • Kibana • 20% of top 10 committers • Easier to extend & contribute due to changes to K4 architecture 8 A look at commits & committers
9. { } CC-BY-ND 4.0 Other Ways We’re Learning from the Community •Make Newbie Night Every Night •Networking is Better When You Open Space It •Don’t Just Meetup, Hack the Planet Cloud 9 Some meetup best practices
10. { } CC-BY-ND 4.0 What’s Next? •Make Information More Discoverable •All new website •Project roadmaps •Take in Even More Feedback •Logstash community survey •More to follow! •Localize All the Things 10 We’re listening…
11. { } CC-BY-ND 4.0 Even More What’s Next •More How-To, Tutorial & Onramping Content •Increased Support for User Groups •More Developer Events Worldwide 11
12. { } CC-BY-ND 4.0 Getting Involved 12 • Submit Bug Reports & Pull Requests on GitHub • Support your Fellow Users on List or IRC • Write Tutorial Content or Guest Blog Posts • Speak at a Meetup or Conference • Mentor at a Hackathon http://elastic.co/community/
13. { } CC-BY-ND 4.0 Your Developer Advocate Team 13 David  Pilato   France Jun  Ohtani   Japan Robyn  Bergeron   United  States
14. { } Thank you for attending! leslie.hawthorn@elastic.co / @lhawthorn / lh on Freenode http://elastic.co/community/
15. { } CC-BY-ND 4.0 Photo Credits • Idea bulb: https://www.flickr.com/photos/qisur/4351196974/ • Meetup Logo: The Meetup logo is a registered trademark of Meetup and is used with permission. Logo available on their site at http://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/ event/4/2/6/highres_147421062.jpeg • Listen photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/qwrrty/13072167803/ • Road photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/82955120@N05/15765886180/ • Stop sign photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/midgetbusdriver/3662945409/ Many thanks to these Flickr users for sharing their photos! 15
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