Avi Press, founder and CEO of Scarf, discusses how Scarf’s platform provides usage analytics for open source software, helping maintainers and businesses understand user engagement and geographic distribution. He announces Scarf’s partnership with the Linux Foundation and Common Room to integrate usage data with broader community metrics, aiming to reduce maintainer burnout and improve software development. Avi emphasizes the importance of data-driven development in the open source community and previews his upcoming talks on lessons learned from Scarf’s analytics and the hidden data within package and container registries.