Why contribute to open source?
Julia Meinwald outlines a few effective ways Two Sigma has identified to support the unseen labor maintaining a healthy open source ecosystem and details how the companys thinking on this topic has evolved.
Talk Title | Why contribute to open source? |
Speakers | Julia Meinwald (Two Sigma Investments) |
Conference | JupyterCon in New York 2018 |
Conf Tag | The Official Jupyter Conference |
Location | New York, New York |
Date | August 22-24, 2018 |
URL | Talk Page |
Slides | Talk Slides |
Video | Talk Video |
Two Sigma is one of a large number of organizations that relies daily on open source software. Like any forward-looking business, the company needs to be confident that the ecosystem it depends on will still be functional far into the future. The public digital infrastructure that it relies on is not free nor invulnerable. Julia Meinwald outlines a few effective ways Two Sigma has identified to support the unseen labor maintaining a healthy open source ecosystem and details how the company’s thinking on this topic has evolved.