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Member event
Open Source, Grafana, and How to Get Involved
- Date
- Fri 23 Oct 2026
- Time
- 18:30 – 20:30 · 2 hours
- Location
- The Net Value Srl Get directions →
About this event
A short introduction to open source, the Grafana project, and the Champion programme
Grafana is on a lot of screens, but far fewer people know where it came from or how to become part of it.
This first talk opens our first Grafana & Friends Cagliari meetup with the basics:
- what open source actually means in practice,
- how the Grafana project started and grew into the observability stack many of us use daily,
- what the Grafana Champion programme is and how people get involved in it.
The aim is to give everyone in the room a shared starting point and a concrete idea of how to contribute,whether that's your first issue, your first plugin, or simply turning up to the next meetup.
Who it's for: anyone curious about observability or open source.
No prior Grafana experience is assumed.Developers, SREs, platform and infrastructure engineers, students, and anyone who has used a dashboardand wondered who builds them will all find something here.
If you already run Grafana in production, thisone is more context than deep dive, but stay for the conversation afterwards.