The Rasa community has experienced significant growth over the past year, with an increase in forum members and community chapters in cities like NYC, Berlin, and San Francisco. Major initiatives include contributor programs and local events in Bangalore, Brasil, and China, showcasing innovative projects such as Rasa Hangman and SerpentBot. Moving forward, Rasa aims to expand its reach and impact with a new community manager and upcoming masterclass.

1. Rasa Community Updates and Outlook
Justina Petraitytė
Head of Developer Relations, Rasa
Rasa Developer Summit - 2019

2. Rasa community:
one year later

3. What has changed since last year?
Forum members Contributors
150+
300+
6.6k
1.2k
1.1K
6.7K
2018 20182019 2019
Downloads
2018
100K
1.5M
2019

4. Local community
chapters

5. We kicked-off the Rasa community chapters in NYC, Berlin and San Francisco

6. And you organized even more great Rasa events around the world!

7. Rasa Community Bangalore chapter
⭐Leader: Soumya Mukherjee
🚀Initiatives: Rasa meetups, workshops and tutorials
🗺Location: Bangalore, India

8. Rasa Community Brasil chapter
⭐Leader: Arthur Temporim
🚀Initiatives: code contributions, webinars
🗺Location: Brasil
⭐Leader: Matheus Matos
🚀Initiatives: talks, local facebook group, blog posts
🗺Location: Sao Paulo, Brasil

9. Rasa Community China chapter
⭐Leader: Xiaoquan Kong
🚀Initiatives: code contributions, talks, meetups,
local community platform
🗺Location: Beijing, China

10. Rasa project highlight

11. Rasa Hangman
Pushing the boundaries of what chatbots and
Rasa can be used for.
Built by our contributor Johannes le Roux.

12. Serpentbot
A Rasa chatbot for managing snake availability
and answering basic questions about inventory
Built by our hero contributor Brian Hopkins.

13. Fetchable
Information retrieval API for AI built by the
team of Fetchable.

14. Advanced Customer Service: Supporting a 10x larger customer base without
scaling human customer service

15. Community initiatives

16. We announced our first ever contributor program

17. And it looks like a lot of you really liked it so far

18. We created a Rasa contributor project board

19. And you all made some amazing contributions!

20. We hope this is just the beginning. Get involved!

21. What the future holds?

22. Premiere:
The Rasa Masterclass

24. Our team is growing: say hello to our new community manager Emma!

25. Or join the Rasa team as a new Developer Advocate :)

26. Thank You!