Open source lessons from the TODO Group
Members of the TODO Groupan open group of companies who collaborate on practices, tools, and other ways to run successful and effective open source projects and programsdiscuss why they started open source offices in their respective companies (Twitter, Netflix, Box, Google, Microsoft, and SanDisk) and share the lessons they learned along the way.
| Talk Title | Open source lessons from the TODO Group |
| Speakers | Chris Aniszczyk (Cloud Native Computing Foundation), Nithya Ruff (Comcast), Jeff McAffer (Microsoft), Chris DiBona (Google), Benjamin VanEvery (Simon Data, Inc.), Andrew Spyker (Netflix) |
| Conference | O’Reilly Open Source Convention |
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| Location | Austin, Texas |
| Date | May 16-19, 2016 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
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The Black Duck and North Bridge 2015 Future of Open Source survey recently showed that 64% of companies participate in open source projects and over 78% run (at least in part) on open source software. There are common challenges when companies start adopting open source, from how to contribute to what projects to open source. A growing trend is that companies like Box, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Paypal, and SanDisk are creating in-house open source offices to maximize the value of open source collaboration. Members of the TODO Group—an open group of companies who collaborate on practices, tools, and other ways to run successful and effective open source projects and programs—discuss why they started open source offices in their respective companies (Twitter, Netflix, Box, Google, Microsoft, and SanDisk) and share the lessons they learned along the way, some of which have been featured on the TODO blog. You’ll walk away with an idea on how to start an open source office.
