How The Linux Foundation Builds Sustainable Open Source Communities
Making an open source project is easy: just publish code under an open source license. But making a sustainable open source community, where honest, neutral technical collaboration is valued and enabl …
| Talk Title | How The Linux Foundation Builds Sustainable Open Source Communities |
| Speakers | Steve Winslow (Director of Strategic Programs, The Linux Foundation) |
| Conference | Open FinTech Forum |
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| Location | New York, NY, USA |
| Date | Dec 9, 2019 |
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| Slides | Talk Slides |
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Making an open source project is easy: just publish code under an open source license. But making a sustainable open source community, where honest, neutral technical collaboration is valued and enabled, requires more than just publishing code. Through its experience in building and supporting hundreds of open source project communities, The Linux Foundation has developed best practices for all the ingredients that go into the mix to enable this collaboration.In this talk, we will walk through the ways that the LF helps its open source projects to achieve their own goals. We will describe the best practices – governance structures, legal approaches and community decision-making processes – that have emerged through seeing the real-world problems that projects encounter. We will demonstrate how these practices result in better ecosystems, better collaboration and better code.
