Kris Freedain - Community Manager

                          

• Community Manager for the OpenSearch Project, OpenSearch Software Foundation, & technical steering committee
• OpenSearch Software Foundation Ambassador - page - announcement
• Member of the OpenSearch Project Leadership Committee - blog post - repo (Dec 2023 - Sep 2024)
• Come join the OpenSearch community
• Reach out to me on the OpenSearch Slack instance
• Pronouns: he/him
• Homepage krisfreedain.com
• Personal blog kris.haus
• Fosstodon.org Admin - the team - announcement - blog post
• Fosstodon Foundation Board Member - announcement
• Speaker bio and profile image.

Events I'll be at (2026)

• CHAOSScon Europe 2026 - Brussels, Belgium - January 29
  • Guided Discussion / BoF: Building a Global Open-Source User Group Program
• FOSDEM - Brussels, Belgium - January 31 & February 1
• Linux Foundation Member Summit - Napa, CA - February 24 & 25
  • OpenSearch Software Foundation: 1 Year of Open Governance
• Scale 23x - Pasadena, CA - March 5-8**
• OpenSearchCon China - Shanghai, China - March 17 & 18
  • Closing Keynote
• MCP Dev Summit - New York, New York - April 2 & 3
• OpenSearchCon Europe - Prague, Czechia - April 16 & 17
  • Running the Unconference again! Hope you will join us.
• TBD

Come say hello if you're at one of them!

Events I was at (2025)

• Archive on my travel page