Your Company Cares About Open Source Sustainability. But Are You Measuring and Encouraging Upstream Contributions?
You will encourage the behavior that you measure. If you want your company to be involved in sustaining open source projects you depend on, you need to start by measuring how your employees are partic …
| Talk Title | Your Company Cares About Open Source Sustainability. But Are You Measuring and Encouraging Upstream Contributions? |
| Speakers | Danielle Gellis (Software Engineer, Open Source Team, Indeed) |
| Conference | Open Source Summit + ELC North America |
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| Location | San Diego, CA, USA |
| Date | Aug 19-23, 2019 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
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You will encourage the behavior that you measure. If you want your company to be involved in sustaining open source projects you depend on, you need to start by measuring how your employees are participating in those projects.How many of your engineers are contributing to projects your company consumes? Are they only opening issues, or are they contributing code? Are they part of the conversation? Are your non-engineers also involved in the open source community?In this talk, Dani will demonstrate how Indeed uses open source tools to measure the velocity of open source contributions made by employees, and how they decided on those tools. She will also talk about some exciting initiatives they are running to promote sustainable contributions, show the dashboards they built for contributors, and talk about the effects.You will leave with a better understanding of how your company can measure and improve the velocity of contributions to the open source projects on which you depend.
