Women in Open Source & Presto – Getting started in the Presto open source ecosystem

Women in Open Source & Presto – Getting started in the Presto open source ecosystem

Women in Open Source & Presto – Getting Started in the Presto Open Source Ecosystem – Neha Pawar, Startree; Rebecca Schlussel, Meta; RongRong Zhong, Celonis & Moderated By Dipti Borkar, Microsoft Among GitHub users with at least ten contributions, a mere 6% were women. This is way less than the ratio of women in tech that various research shows at 26%. Given the amount of investment going into and the growth / success of companies based on open source as well as the enormous demand for developers in open source, it is a ratio we need to strive to improve for women. In this panel, we will discuss a few areas: – The journey of each panelist into open source projects – The benefits they have seen by participating in open source projects particularly Presto – The challenges women face in male-dominated open source communities – Ideas, suggestions and guidance to budding engineers on getting started with open source including Presto.

Building the Presto Open Source Community – Ahana Round Table

Building the Presto Open Source Community – Ahana Round Table

In this round table moderated by Eric Kavanagh of The Bloor Group, panelists from Uber, Facebook, Ahana, and Alibaba will discuss all aspects of building a thriving open source community around PrestoDB including why Presto is so popular & the problems it solves, the open source model the foundation follows, why governance and transparency are so important to an open source community, and what the community looks for in open source projects.