---
title: "Monki Gras 2017: Panel - Part 1 - Introduction"
date: 2017-03-17T10:40:47Z
modified: 2017-03-17T10:40:47Z
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wpid: 970
series:
  - Monki Gras 2017
channel:
  - RedMonk Tech Events
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timestamp: 2017-03-17T10:40:47Z
tags:
  - Monki Gras 2017
  - RedMonk Tech Events
---

In order to have a sustainable ecosystem of open source projects, you really need to have some kind of governance. That’s why at this years Monki Gras, we put together a group of open source foundations to discuss everything the challenges of managing projects and communities today. In this video, the panel introduces themselves and explains each of their roles.

The panel consists of:

Abby Kearns – Executive director at the Cloud Foundry Foundation

Alexis Richardson – Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Erica Brescia – Linux Foundation

Tracy Miranda – Representing the Eclipse Foundation