Exclusive interview with PMC member Liu Yu: female leadership in Apache pulsar community

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Often participate in Apache Pulsar Everyone on the community mailing list may be familiar with the protagonist of today's interview . Once as a Committer, Liu Yu actively discussed with everyone in the community how to optimize Pulsar Documents and websites , Is an active contributor to community documentation .

Non coder

With the most PMC The difference between the members is that , Liu Yu is a non code contributor . As a Technical Writer（ Technical documentation engineer ）, Liu Yu's main direction is to write for the project “ Instructions ”, Describe the content of technology development .Pulsar Documents that can be seen on the official website and some Pulsar Ecological documentation , Liu Yu's contribution and achievements are reflected in .

meanwhile , Liu Yu is also an active preacher . It ended years ago Pulsar Summit Asia 2021, Liu Yu held up his opening speech , To introduce Apache Pulsar Projects and communities . Liu Yu is also a very active open source person ： Communicate with other influential communities ; Initiate... In the community PIP; Communicate with community contributors from around the world ; Organize technical document engineers to share experience ; Participate in community operations ...... With outstanding contribution and community influence , Liu Yubei Apache Pulsar The project management committee nominated and voted for Apache Pulsar PMC member .

Liu Yu said that she would make use of PMC The influence and appeal of membership in the community , Build and actively cultivate in the community “documentation first” Culture 、 System and concept . At present, Liu Yu has led several initiatives in the community PIP To create a better document experience ： Such as PIP 98、PIP 116 yes Pulsar Document writing guide ;PIP 112 Designed to automatically generate release note;PIP 87 It's about updating and upgrading Pulsar Proposal for the framework of the website . In the discussion with everyone , Liu Yu also decided to work with the community to classify the documents by roles ： beginner 、 developer 、 Management （ user ） wait .

Believe in StreamNative, Believe in Pulsar

Prior to joining Pulsar Before the community , Liu Yu is already another Apache Top level project Committer 了 . Why have you achieved something in a project , Join in Pulsar The community starts from scratch ？ Liu Yu said that he started from scratch for two reasons ： One is to believe Pulsar This technology . Under the cloud native trend , The separation of storage and computing meets the needs of the enterprise ,Pulsar The two track system of message flow can solve the pain points of most enterprises .Pulsar It is the dark horse under the combination of technology frontier and distributed power flow .

Two is Believe in StreamNative.2019 year 5 month , Liu Yu met in the technology circle StreamNative CEO With co-founder guosijie , During the conversation, I felt that Si Jie was a pure technical person , Enthusiastic and pragmatic , No chicken soup 、 No brainwashing 、 Don't brag . Liu Yu found that ,StreamNative It is a serious technical team , I just want to do things well , Although the team had less than 10 personal , But it gradually propped up Apache Pulsar The rudiment of Chinese community , And it's growing fast , Liu Yu saw the ability and possibility of the team . stay Apache Pulsar The official GitHub In the warehouse , Si Jie practiced , Contribute code frequently 、 Participate in the development of RoadMap, It is a famous technology bull in the community , It is also the best boss in Liu Yu's eyes . With longing for the team and trust in sje , Liu Yu made a judgment ： Niu Ren has made a choice for her , There must be nothing wrong with what the technology boss approves ！

Build a diversified community

Liu Yu joins Apache Pulsar PMC The team , No doubt in Apache Pulsar An important contribution to the diversity of the community . As a member who has been actively building and participating in the community , Liu Yu also has his own suggestions and Thoughts on the construction of community diversity .

First A good community is embodied in content operation and activity operation ; In order to build a better community and Ecology , It's not just about training people 、 Optimize development , still more Cultivate a good open source concept and environment .

secondly , Non code farmers are also one of the main forces participating in the community . Many non code people are still waiting to see , That's not as good as True knowledge comes from practice , Only by taking the first step can we move towards a qualitative leap . And don't be limited by your expertise , Whether the project is in-depth or not, it has its own perspective ,issue And suggestions are of great value and significance .

English is poor ？ Confidence makes up for ！

Because the open source community has users and developers from all over the world , The community will discuss in English on the mailing list . In Liu Yu's opinion , English is not the reason that prevents people from participating in the community . Although English is not good and timid is normal , however “ In fact, other people's requirements for you will not be as harsh as you are for yourself , Lower your demands on yourself , Just be bold ”.

Tap the female power of the community

In Liu Yu's opinion , Women have this natural advantage over men ： Listen for 、 Empathy , High fault tolerance and strong flexibility . Therefore, the female role in the community is indispensable . The open source community pursues greater diversity 、 Interesting , Bring more perfect open source and good experience , Then we need to actively absorb the power of women , View projects from a multi gender perspective . Create a diversified community , Reach more women , Liu Yu suggested that we first try to explore the direction we are good at , At the same time, the community can also launch women's activities , For example, build a women's Forum 、 Set up a women's activity fund and so on , Encourage women to participate in open source .

Creating a personal rhythm StreamNative Culture

Just joined StreamNative When , Because I'm not in StreamNative Beijing Army , Liu Yu can only remote by himself . Not used to it at first , It leads to inefficiency , And loneliness 、 The fear of a decline in social skills comes with it . But Liu Yu gradually found her own rhythm in such a team culture , She will combine social and work , For example, participate in the activities of the open source community , Promote the company and the community , So as to communicate with others and learn more . later StreamNative Added some remote social ways , such as Donut（ The system is in working hours , Randomly pair up two people from different teams to chat ）、Cloud Drink（ Monthly team passes Zoom Yuntuanjian ）, It makes up for the lack of communication between colleagues outside of work .

StreamNative My little friends are a group of technical houses , Engineers make up a large proportion of the team , Most people are doing code , The working environment is very simple . Thank you for just mentioning the code in your work , Will be very talkative 、 Don't hesitate to share . But Liu Yu hopes everyone can be more talkative 、 More active outside the code , Satisfy the nature of a gossip expert .

For many reasons , Liu Yu can't meet the team frequently in reality . So in this interview , Liu Yu specially designed for HR made OKR： Hope to organize more online sharing , Such as book sharing meeting 、 Emotional life sharing meeting and other symposiums , Offer more 、 Richer communication opportunities .

In the life , Liu Yu also has many hobbies ： motion 、 Reading a book 、 Bake , yoga , These hobbies help her clear her mind , Cultivate your endurance . But in StreamNative, Liu Yu's most famous hobby is health preservation , take care of one's health 、 Study nutrition 、 time management 、 Liu Yu is very deep in emotion management and other aspects , And make unremitting efforts to StreamNative Punk health care members share practical health care tip.“ The best way to keep in good health is to have a good attitude , therefore Don't have any baggage 、 Write boldly 、 Express it ！”

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