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Opening up our Slack Community

We have decided to open up our Slack community to everyone to increase knowledge sharing. You can join our Slack community here. We look forward to having conversations with everyone and spreading the best practices of open source program management.

Open Source Program Case Studies: Red Hat

Last year we launched our Open Source Program Guides and as part of that launch, we mentioned we will be actively publishing open source program case studies. We started with Comcast, Dropbox, Facebook and Salesforce, this month we’re happy to add the Red Hat open source program: Red Hat Open Source and Standards Team: How Red Hat Measures Open Source Success Red Hat is, by its very nature, a deviation from the norm in this series of profiles.

Open Source Program Guide: Shutting Down An Open Source Project

Last year, the TODO Group published an initial set of guides focused on the art of open source program management. This year, we plan to continue to update and publish new guides to help our peers in industry to scale out their open source programs and learn from our lesson. Today we are happy to publish a guide on what happens when you are faced with winding down an open source project.

Open Source Program Case Studies: Oath

Last year we launched our Open Source Program Guides and as part of that launch, we mentioned we will be actively publishing open source program case studies. We started with Comcast, Dropbox, Facebook and Salesforce, this month we’re happy to add the Oath open source program: Oath For seven years and counting, Gil Yehuda, Senior Director of Open Source at Oath Inc. (which owns the Yahoo and AOL brands), has led the open source program at Yahoo.

Open Source Program Case Studies: Dropbox

A little over a few months we launched our Open Source Program Guides and as part of that launch, we mentioned we will be actively publishing open source program case studies. We started with Comcast, Facebook and Salesforce, this month we’re happy to add the Dropbox open source program: Dropbox The open source program at Dropbox was initially just a mailing list, where some interested engineers wanted to open source projects and develop with open source.

Open Source Program Case Studies: Autodesk

A couple of months we launched our Open Source Program Guides and as part of that launch, we mentioned we will be actively publishing open source program case studies. We started with Comcast, Facebook and Salesforce, this month we’re happy to add the Autodesk open source program: Autodesk Autodesk is undergoing a company-wide shift to open source and inner source. And that’s on top of the culture change that both development methods require.

Open Source Program Case Studies: Facebook

Last month we launched our Open Source Program Guides and as part of that launch, we mentioned we will be actively publishing open source program case studies. We started with Comcast and Salesforce, this month we’re happy to add the Facebook open source program: Facebook Facebook’s open source team was “formally” created in 2009, but the company has built with open source from its inception. Facebook.com was originally built on top of the LAMP (Linux/ Apache/ MySQL/ PHP) stack.

TODO Open Source Program Guides

Last March we held a TODO Group track at Open Source Leadership Summit focused entirely on sharing best practices for businesses managing and building out open source programs. More than a dozen open source program leads and other leaders from companies shared their tips and best practices at the event. Furthermore in the last year or so, we have seen companies like AWS build out an open source program via @AWSOpen and even companies like VMWare hired their first Chief Open Source Officer.

TODO Tools Hackathon June 2017

We recently held a TODO Tools Working Group hackathon at Microsoft. There were about a dozen people from half a dozen different organizations. We ended up with three groupings of hacking around: repository linting, GitHub portal and GitHub data/crawling. Below is a summary of the work that was done and some next steps. Repo Linter (https://github.com/todogroup/repolinter) Repo Linter is a a simple linter to check for open source quality: https://github.com/todogroup/repolinter. We initially evaluated using https://github.

TODO at Open Source Leadership Summit

Last month, the TODO Group led a track at the Open Source Leadership Summit (OSLS) which featured a variety of talks dedicated to open source program management: Listed below are some of slides from the TODO track at the OSLS: The True Cost of Open Source by Patrick Steele-Idem (eBay) M&A Deal Diligence and its Open Source Benefits by Nithya Ruff and Gil Yehuda How Walmart is Building a Successful Open Source Culture by Andrew Mitry and Megan Rossetti (Walmart) We’re from Capital One and we’re here to help: the experience of contributing to open source at a large corporation by Jonathan Bodner (Capital One) Make your Corporate CLA easy to use, please!