Exploring KubeEdge Graduation - Build a Diverse and Collaborative Open Source Community From Scratch

Join this 34-minute conference panel discussion to explore the journey of KubeEdge from its 2018 launch to achieving CNCF graduation, focusing on building diverse and collaborative open-source communities. Learn from industry experts Yue Bao and Fei Xu from Huawei, Hongbing Zhang from DaoCloud, Huan Wei from Hangzhou HarmonyCloud, and Benamin Huo from QingCloud as they share critical lessons about establishing proper governance structures and project teams during growth phases. Discover key strategies for technical planning, community governance, developer growth, and project maintenance that transformed KubeEdge from a small project into a multi-vendor, diverse open-source community. Gain insights into addressing vendor diversity and neutrality challenges that threaten project sustainability, understand how to build multi-vendor communities, and explore approaches for expanding cloud-native edge computing projects into different industries. The panel addresses the increasingly important topic of open-source project health and provides practical guidance for creating sustainable, collaborative communities in the cloud-native ecosystem.