Why, What to Open Source and What Not, and How. I believe that every enterprise can and should benefit from not only using open-source technology but also contributing. This presentation describes why bother to open source, what to open source and what NOT to open-source and how to promote your project.

1. OPEN-SOURCING
FOR ENTERPRISES
What to Open Source
and What Not

2. BENEFITS OF OPEN-SOURCING FOR AN ENTERPRISE
Motivate/Retain Engineers!
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Attract Top Technical Talent
Reduce Development Costs
# Increase Product Quality
$ Good Public Relations
Active community develops
and submits new features
“Peer pressure” improves code
quality and documentation
Community will find bugs and
even fix them
Builds credibility among
technical community
Helps establish company as
an innovative technology led
organization
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3. ACTIVELY OPEN-SOURCING COMPANIES
100+
200+
100+
100+
30+
40+
100+
30+
900+
20+
40+
20+

4. WHAT TO OPEN-SOURCE
• Various Platform Components
• Development Libraries
• Engineering Tools and Utilities
• Deployment Tools
• Monitoring Tools
• Database Clients and Tools
• Testing Frameworks
GENERIC
CAPABILITIES
THAT ARE
NOT SPECIFIC
TO YOUR LINE
OF BUSINESS

5. WHAT NOT TO OPEN-SOURCE
• Internal Business Applications
• Business Logic Services
• Data Services
• Data
• Anything related to core business
CAPABILITIES
THAT PROVIDE A
COMPETITIVE
ADVANTAGE

6. OPEN-SOURCE PROJECT PROMOTION
Engineering Blog
e.g. http://techblog.netflix.com/
Engineering Twitter Handle (@<Company>Tech)
Tech Meetups
Presenting
Hosting
Posts to
Hacker News”
(Y-Combinator
news platform)
Twitter LinkedIn Groups
Groups Google+
Communities
Reddit
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7. Thank you.