Creating and Nurturing the Open Source Virtuous Cycle at your Company
Creating and nurturing an Open Source Virtuous Cycle inside a large complex corporation is all about understanding the cycle never ends, and the company only truly wins when all parties to the cycle s …
| Talk Title | Creating and Nurturing the Open Source Virtuous Cycle at your Company |
| Speakers | Kevin Nelson (Sr. Director, Open Source Program Office, UnitedHealth Group/Optum) |
| Conference | Open Source Summit + ELC North America |
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| Location | San Diego, CA, USA |
| Date | Aug 19-23, 2019 |
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Creating and nurturing an Open Source Virtuous Cycle inside a large complex corporation is all about understanding the cycle never ends, and the company only truly wins when all parties to the cycle succeed. Organizations typically have open source strategies which revolve around cost reduction, managing technical debt and increasing speed to market. The natural evolution of such efforts begins with streamlining open source consumption practices, but value realized can quickly plateau if the company does not quickly learn to support its engineering team with a complementary robust contribution path. Contribution efforts soon turn to open source community involvement and sponsorship which completes the cycle leading back to consumption of strategic projects. Kevin will walk attendees through the UHG Open Source Story and how the virtuous cycle has begun to play a key role in engineering success for a Fortune 5 company with a technology team over 28K members strong.
