 Hey everyone welcome again to community central. I hope y'all are having fun at the virtual summit so far My name is Lauren Pritchett and I am a strategist and editor for open source comm And I'm really excited to talk with y'all about who we are and how to get involved with the community So what is open source comm open source comm is a community driven publication of users of open source Software and tools we got started ten years ago with a small group of red-haters who were looking to elevate the open source Community at large outside of red hat Their goal was to publish one article per day that focused on open source beyond technology This began to bring in a diverse group of writers from different parts of the world and with various levels of technical expertise and interest in open source Now every month we connect dozens of art of dozens of authors with our two million readers So today I'm going to talk with y'all about how that community building and Relationship building is at the heart of what we do and at the end I'll share with y'all ways that you can get involved and we really hope that you do All right, so who is open source comm our editorial staff is made up of four red-haters Jen why keogre Matt Broberg Beth Kenlon and myself Lauren Pritchett and together we are Editors strategists community managers analysts and writers ourselves and then we also have a group called the Correspondents and they are a group of 28 and growing very active Contributors and we meet with them regularly to help us keep a pulse on what's happening in the open source community More on the correspondence a little bit later Before we get into that Let's talk about what type of content you'll see on open source comm So ten years ago. We published one article per day now We're publishing three or four articles a day and that adds up to an average about 80 to 90 articles per month And we cover a wide variety of open source topics to help people solve their problems in the real world So here right now you're looking at the top ten headlines of 2019 so you'll see that popular topics have to do with Linux Getting started with Python and other open source programming languages open source tools devops and a whole lot more You'll also see where those articles come from whether it come from a staff member a collaboration One of our correspondents But most of the time they come from the community at large which I will talk about next So where do our articles come from you our publication is Driven by the community. So you'll see that a majority of our articles come from the community in our Correspondence and then we also the editorial staff does write some articles And then we also really encourage red hatters to share their ideas right for open source comm We love to hear from red hatters All right, how does our community operate? So our community really starts with our readers two million monthly readers the first time you visit open source comm to learn about how to set up a raspberry pi project or Check out a bash scripts or research open source alternatives You become a member of the open source comm community and then our writers our writers are also our readers Last year in 2019. We welcomed 172 first-time writers In total though, we have nearly 500 contributors Contributors who are interested in actively brainstorming and writing articles for open source comm and then Digging a little deeper we have our correspondence and they again are our top contributors Who we nurture on a on a regular basis? And they write 10 or more articles a year and some are even writing 20 articles If they so choose we love to hear their stories So who are these? correspondents Out of those hundreds of contributors to open source comm we have these 28 people Who come from a diverse set of backgrounds? And they all come from different roles different levels of technical expertise different interests in open source So our staff communicates with the correspondents on a monthly basis with uh on one one to one conversations on video chat or email But we also have a weekly correspondent call where everybody can get together and we are able to Chat with the correspondents and the correspondents are able to chat with each other and that's really been great to see Them create friendships and relationships with one another and collaborate on articles but also learn from each other But generally our conversations are focused on how they're doing what they're passionate about And and what they're going to be writing next because our job is to help them become better writers and share those stories And you know bring those those readers to those stories. So We really love working with the correspondents Um, so how can you get involved, you know, we uh We want to encourage y'all to you know come check us out open source dot com read our articles You'll also find a way to subscribe to our weekly newsletter But then we also want you to think about writing an article If you've written for us in the past great, maybe it's time to to think of a new idea and contribute Um, we also welcome first time writers. Um, whether you haven't written before or you've Done technical writing. Um, we want to welcome you to write for Opensource comm as a publication and some common topics that we've seen for first time writers Our my linux story getting started with Python rest kubernetes any of your favorite open source tool and a lot more Um, and our staff will coach you through the editorial process So, um, you know, there's no need to be worried about If you've had experience writing or not, we're going to be there to Help make sure that it has the best angle for Your readers and we want to we want to be there for you to help polish that up So we welcome people of all levels of experience all interests in open source And we really hope to hear from you at open at open source dot com You can also come chat with us in the community central open source knowledge sharing chat room during summit Um, so we really look forward to connecting with y'all and see you soon. Thank you Bye