Uncovering The Black Magic of an Open Source Community While the many advantages of open source software are obvious these days, to many it is still a mystery how open source communities are formed and how they function. In this talk we will discuss the different elements of successful open source communities, the different possible structures and how to interact with them as an individual and as a company. In this talk Arthur and Nir will cover the following topics: What are the different types of open source communities? Why and How to start a new open source software community? What are the possible types of communities, and what are the pros and cons for each? How should an organization and an individual interact and contribute to an open source community? Arthur Berezin - Arthur is the Co-Founder of JovianX Anything-As-A-Service(XaaS) Platform, in his previous role as Dir. Product Management at Cloudify Arthur formed the Apache ARIA-TOSCA community under the Apache Software Foundation, Prior to that Arthur was Sr. Technical Product Manager for OpenStack at Red Hat. Nir Yechiel - Nir is a Principal Product Manager at Red Hat concentrating on networking technologies for Red Hat OpenStack Platform. He has vast experience with open source communities, including OpenStack, Open vSwitch, OVN, DPDK and OpenDaylight.