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    The Living Map: How to Balance Hands-On Community Contributions with Product Integrity

    Actionable insights from Waze on balancing community-led product contributions with technical integrity and user trust.

    The Living Map: How to Balance Hands-On Community Contributions with Product Integrity
    Published
    8 May 2026
    Topics
    London Community Week 2025

    In this session, Adrian Singer explores how Waze grew through community-powered mapping, balancing user contributions with product integrity using permissions, Super Users, and guardrails that enable scalable, real-world problem solving.

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