Some of the challenges that open source projects face are organizing member contributions and increasing community involvement. During this talk, we will show you how PrestaShop, one of the leading open source e-commerce software platforms, addressed these challenges and strengthened its community in the last few years.

You will understand how the PrestaShop project evolved in recent years, and how new communication channels helped project members be better informed and get better involved. To go further, the project is working with contributors in a live environment, so discussions and communication can be kept with the community. We will show you how this has eased communication between members.

A new open source team has been put in place. You will better comprehend the influence it has had on the separation of the project from the company. You will also learn, through short use cases and examples, about the maturity of the PrestaShop project and how community pull requests more than doubled in 5 years. In the future, the project would like to open decision-making to the community, which will be discussed during the presentation.