Management,
Legal and
Developers:
One Big Happy
Open Source
Family
Red Hat Summit, June 29th
2016
Richard Fontana & Deb Nicholson
Who we are
@ baconandcoconut or
@ richardfontana
What we're
going to cover
Internal
Collaboration
Onboarding
The most
recent learner
Self-Help
Getting
Synced Up
Teamwork
makes
the dream
work
When stakes
are high
Best Practices
Limits
Sharing
timelines
External
Collaboration
Choose a Community
Robust?
Documentation++
Behavior
Legal & Governance
When to Make Contact
Understanding
your business
model
How much patching
are you doing?
A seat at the table
Best Practices
Upstream patching
saves time and money
Support
the community
Building
excitement
and
gaining
users
No need to
reinvent
every wheel
Honesty is still
the best policy
Community
Resources
Peer-to-Peer
Resources
For Management
Events like this,
TODO, OpenSource.com
Extra credit: attend a
community event with
members from each team!
For Developers
LinuxFests, DevOps days,
local meet-ups, language
cons, etc.
Extra credit: host or sponsor
meet-ups, local events,
DevOps days locally
For Legal
The Legal Networks,
Legal tracks at Scale,
FOSDEM and LinuxCon
Extra credit: organize a CLE on
FOSS licenses, Trademark
issues, and software patents
Picture Credits
CC.BY
Legal Pad by David Swart, PuppyDog! by Sarah McDevitt,
runrunrunrunrun by phil hearing, Listening Cat by
Zanastardust, Signed Jersey by Richard BH, Milestone by
Andrew Kuchling, Untitled (Clock) by Jeremy Seitz, bear by
gezzaweezer, Banana Pancake,The Basic of Samui by Mith
Huang, Industry Home Design West design chairs 27 by Ken
Hawkins, Old Wheel by Paul J Everett, P1000840 (smiling dog)
by Michael Condouris, Lama G's Cafe by Wonderlane, mostly
warm colors by waferboard, desk accessory by Robert Couse-
Baker, Sleepy Pandora by brown pau
CC.BY.SA
Three Yellow Labs by smerikal, Puppies by kitty green66,
Grumpy Cat Nature by DJ Andy Wdotcom, Excitement by
pawpaw67, Black Cat by Garry Knight
Fontana@sharpeleven.org
Deb@openinventionnetwork.com
Questions?

Management, Legal and Developers: One Big Happy Open Source Family