Comcast has embraced open source as a crucial component of its digital transformation, evolving from merely consuming open source software to actively creating and contributing to it. The company has leveraged open source to innovate across various technologies, resulting in significant advancements in its services, such as the X1 entertainment operating system. Comcast's commitment to fostering an open development culture aims to enhance customer service and advance the future of media and technology.

1. HOW COMCAST
EMBRACED OPEN
December, 6, 2017

2. 2
SHILLA SAEBI
OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY LEAD, COMCAST
@SHILLASAEBI
NITHYA RUFF
SR. DIRECTOR, OPEN SOURCE PRACTICE, COMCAST
@NITHYARUFF
WHO WE ARE

3. WHY IS COMCAST
HERE AT SPRINGONE?

4. Digital Transformation Impacting All Industries
Competition New Models Connected Worlds

5. Open Source Development is Accelerating and
Abundant
23M+
Open Source
Developers
64M+
Repositories on
GitHub
41B+
Lines of Code
1,100
New Projects a
Day
10,000+
NewVersions
per Day

6. Platform For Innovation
IN MANY AREAS OF TECHNOLOGY
IoT Mobile AIBig Data Cloud BlockChain

7. Open Source Is
No Longer Optional
OF COMPANIES
RUN ON OPEN SOURCE
LESS THAN 3%
DON’T USE OSS IN ANY WAY
2015 Future Of Open Source Study results; @blackduck

8. Comcast Journey

9. Our TransformationInto Being a Software Organization
PRODUCT
CONSUMER
Some Open
Source
CONSUMING
COMMERCIAL
MORE
OPEN SOURCE
CONSUMING
CREATING CONTRIBUTING
LEADING
Open Source
2000 2006 2017
@nithyaruff

10. Comcast has transformed the way people watch TV
X1
entertainment
operating
system
launched
1st live streaming
app launched
30B on demand
videos watched
2012 2013 2015
Delivering fastest
broadband speeds to
the most American
homes with Gigabit
Pro
2017
Multi-platform, multi-tenant, cloud
based application platform, and
managed IP broadcast grade video
delivery platform
@nithyaruff

11. Practice
Brand
Culture

12. COMMUNICATE
CONSUME
CONTRIBUTE
COLLABORATE
CREATE
COMPETENCY
COMPLY
OPEN @
COMCAST

13. OSPOs Drive Key Changes in the Company
Compliance OSS Critical
to Business
Talent
Acquisition
Scale Process Open
Innovation
and
Development
Culture

14. COMMUNITY

15. 1 5
What is Community?
Groups of individuals
sharing common interests,
& goals
Open design
Open development
Inclusive and transparent
San Francisco, California August 2016

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Raise awareness
Streamline processes
Foster inclusiveness
Internal training
Generate reports
Recognize & reward
Influence Upstream Contributions

18. Recruiting Talent
Company
Brand
Cool
Projects
Development
Experience
Open Source
Policy

19. Comcast OS Portal – Comcast.github.io
Use or contribute to
projects
Check out what we
have open sourced
Come Join Us
Contact Us

20. Working on culture transformation to better serve our customers
Innovation
Reliability
Security
Digital Transformation Requires A Culture Transformation

22. Make it Easy to Use OS to Advance
the Future of Media and Technology