The document discusses the importance of open source collaboration in solving complex problems, particularly accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which drives industries to adopt open source solutions. It highlights trends such as the rise of software foundations, the need for formal governance, and the concept of innersourcing within organizations to enhance software development. Overall, it emphasizes the growing relevance and impact of open source in the future, encouraging collaboration and agility in problem-solving.

1. Open Collaboration in a Digital World
Find your place in the future
Deborah Bryant
Senior Director, Open Source Program Office
Office of the CTO
Presented at Digital India
2020 Global Technology Summit
Workshop: The Future of Open Source Architectures
December 14, 2020

2. Solving highly complex
problems will require the
successful collaboration of
partners who might not
otherwise work together.

3. COVID-19 Forces Future’s Hand in Open Source
Economic Pressure
● Drives industry to use open source solutions to
reduce costs, increase speed
● This while reducing investments in R&D AND
accelerating digital transformation initiatives
already underway
Getting Urgent Things Done
● Development model, tools and platforms for
virtual global collaboration, low friction to solution
puts OSS at the heart of solutions
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4. The Future of Open Source Architectures
Values & Attributes Will Remain Constant
● Openness and Accessibility
● Open Standards and Interoperability
● Collaboration and Transparency
Adoption and Influence Will Continue to Grow
● The gold standard for collaboration
● Increased intersectionality with other domains;
science, civil, humanitarian and more.

5. And now for something useful.

6. Shifts in the Open Source Ecosystem
Rise of Software Foundations
● Accelerated growth
● More focus on vertical markets
● Formal governance for large scale projects
Perceived Value Evolves in Industry
● Innovation now a major attractor
● Cost factors, flexibility remain interesting

7. Carnagie India Global Technology Summit 2020
The Rise of Open Source Software Foundations
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Source:
Foundations public web sites
Wikipedia

8. Useful Trends for Formalizing Open Source Strategies
Creating an Open Source Program Office
● Speeds education, cultural change, operational
governance, and alignment with company goals
● Increasing literature and talks publicly available
on the subject over the past 18 months
Innersourcing
● Adopting OSS methods tools and culture to
develop internal software inside large
organizations (cross-team cross-business)
● May be used as a bridge strategy to participate in
open source (public projects)
● Does not provide the full benefits of open source
but requires a similar level of effort

9. Collaboration
Open Source development is designed for collaboration.
Agility
Open source development allows for rapid iteration
and problem solving in urgent times
Organizational Readiness
Leading IT organizations will not go it alone and will find
partners with common challenges to meet in the open source
ecosystem.
Summary
Open Source will
continue to grow in
relevance and impact
in the coming years.

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11. Additional Resources
& References

12. Open Source Program Offices and Innersourcing
Creating an Open Source Program Office
How to create an open source program office TODO Group guide
What does an OSPO do? Brian Proffitt, Red Hat
Innersourcing
Introduction to Innersourcing GitHub
Innersource Commons non-profit organization

13. Open Source Community Knowledge
General Best Practices
Red Hat Public Resource Library references
The Open Source Way
Essential Books
The Art of Community by Jono Bacon
Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel
Open Innovation by Henry Chesbrough
Licenses
The Open Source Initiative (OSI)
Free Software Foundation
TL;DR Legal
Software Foundations
Key summary
Academic Research on the role of foundations in projects