Open source contribution policies are long, boring, overlooked documents, that generally suck. They're designed to protect the company at all costs. But in the process, end up hurting engineering productivity, and morale. Sometimes they even unknowingly put corporate IP at risk.
But that's not inevitable.
It's possible to write open source contribution policies that make engineers lives easier, boost morale and productivity, reduce attrition, and attract new talent. And it's possible to do so while reducing the company's IP risk, not increasing it.
In this talk, we'll look at the general structure of contribution policies, examples in the wild, and tactics to make them suck less.
We'll also look at how to turn these policies into self-service software, preventing the tedious email back and forth between engineering and legal in most cases and making open source contribution a breeze. Presentation by Tobbie Langel, UnLockOpen.
Open Source Contribution Policies That Don't SuckTobie Langel
Open source contribution policies are long, boring, overlooked documents, that generally suck. They're designed to protect the company at all costs. But in the process, end up hurting engineering productivity, and morale. Sometimes they even unknowingly put corporate IP at risk.
But that's not inevitable.
It's possible to write open source contribution policies that make engineers lives easier, boost morale and productivity, reduce attrition, and attract new talent. And it's possible to do so while reducing the company's IP risk, not increasing it.
In this talk, we'll look at the general structure of contribution policies, examples in the wild, and tactics to make them suck less.
We'll also look at how to turn these policies into self-service software, preventing the tedious email back and forth between engineering and legal in most cases and making open source contribution a breeze.
Pathways to Technology Transfer and Adoption: Achievements and ChallengesTao Xie
Dongmei Zhang and Tao Xie. Pathways to Technology Transfer and Adoption: Achievements and Challenges. In Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013), Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), Mini-Tutorial, San Francisco, CA, May 2013. http://people.engr.ncsu.edu/txie/publications/icse13seip-techtransfer.pdf
How To (Not) Open Source - Javazone, Oslo 2014gdusbabek
Releasing an open source project while maintaining a shipping product is hard! Different behaviors, attitudes and actions can help or hinder your cause; and they are not always obvious.
The Blueflood distributed metrics engine was released as open source software by Rackspace in August 2012. In the succeeding months the team had to strike a manageable balance between the challenges of growing a community, being good open source stewards, and maintaining a shipping product for Rackspace. Find out what worked, what did not work, and the lessons that can be applied as you endeavor to take your project out into the open.
In this presentation you will learn about strategies for releasing open source products, pitfalls to avoid, and the potential benefits of moving more of your development out in the open.
We have also made a few realizations about the community growing up around metrics. It is still young, and there are problems that come with that youth. I'll talk about some things we can do to make a better software ecosystem.
When you are considering lab informatics and automation projects, someone is going to ask “what is the return on the investment you’re asking for?”. How do you answer them? That is the purpose of this webinar, the second in this series entitled “A Guide for Management: Successfully Applying Laboratory Systems to Your Organization’s Work…”.
The introduction of informatics/automation technologies into laboratory work will require larger investments than typical lab bench spending and involves people from outside support groups. It also touches on knowledge and intellectual property management, an increasingly important corporate topic. Your ability to address these points with the Return On Investment conversation will have a direct impact on the approval of your projects. Join us as we begin to look into these considerations.
"What have the techies ever done for us?"Can technology help lawyers lead a h...Ethien
Ethien's presentation to the Law Society In-house Division annual conference June 2016 attempts to answer these questions and gives tips on how in-house legal teams can get the best out of technology.
The Elusive Nature of Context: Why We Need It and Were We Might Find ItGail Murphy
Keynote at CASCON 2016. Describes the need for software to support the work patterns of humans so that the software works for humans instead of humans working for the software.
Open Source Contribution Policies That Don't SuckTobie Langel
Open source contribution policies are long, boring, overlooked documents, that generally suck. They're designed to protect the company at all costs. But in the process, end up hurting engineering productivity, and morale. Sometimes they even unknowingly put corporate IP at risk.
But that's not inevitable.
It's possible to write open source contribution policies that make engineers lives easier, boost morale and productivity, reduce attrition, and attract new talent. And it's possible to do so while reducing the company's IP risk, not increasing it.
In this talk, we'll look at the general structure of contribution policies, examples in the wild, and tactics to make them suck less.
We'll also look at how to turn these policies into self-service software, preventing the tedious email back and forth between engineering and legal in most cases and making open source contribution a breeze.
Pathways to Technology Transfer and Adoption: Achievements and ChallengesTao Xie
Dongmei Zhang and Tao Xie. Pathways to Technology Transfer and Adoption: Achievements and Challenges. In Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013), Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP), Mini-Tutorial, San Francisco, CA, May 2013. http://people.engr.ncsu.edu/txie/publications/icse13seip-techtransfer.pdf
How To (Not) Open Source - Javazone, Oslo 2014gdusbabek
Releasing an open source project while maintaining a shipping product is hard! Different behaviors, attitudes and actions can help or hinder your cause; and they are not always obvious.
The Blueflood distributed metrics engine was released as open source software by Rackspace in August 2012. In the succeeding months the team had to strike a manageable balance between the challenges of growing a community, being good open source stewards, and maintaining a shipping product for Rackspace. Find out what worked, what did not work, and the lessons that can be applied as you endeavor to take your project out into the open.
In this presentation you will learn about strategies for releasing open source products, pitfalls to avoid, and the potential benefits of moving more of your development out in the open.
We have also made a few realizations about the community growing up around metrics. It is still young, and there are problems that come with that youth. I'll talk about some things we can do to make a better software ecosystem.
When you are considering lab informatics and automation projects, someone is going to ask “what is the return on the investment you’re asking for?”. How do you answer them? That is the purpose of this webinar, the second in this series entitled “A Guide for Management: Successfully Applying Laboratory Systems to Your Organization’s Work…”.
The introduction of informatics/automation technologies into laboratory work will require larger investments than typical lab bench spending and involves people from outside support groups. It also touches on knowledge and intellectual property management, an increasingly important corporate topic. Your ability to address these points with the Return On Investment conversation will have a direct impact on the approval of your projects. Join us as we begin to look into these considerations.
"What have the techies ever done for us?"Can technology help lawyers lead a h...Ethien
Ethien's presentation to the Law Society In-house Division annual conference June 2016 attempts to answer these questions and gives tips on how in-house legal teams can get the best out of technology.
The Elusive Nature of Context: Why We Need It and Were We Might Find ItGail Murphy
Keynote at CASCON 2016. Describes the need for software to support the work patterns of humans so that the software works for humans instead of humans working for the software.
Global Complex Project - How to deliver efficiently.Sunny Menon
In a complex world of technology, with lack of resources and technological challenges and because of disruptive technology erupting, enterprises are struggling to deliver in a timely and cost effective way. This presentation addresses those challenges and attempts to solve the crisis.
Publishing Strategic Technology for Association of Catholic PublishersCraig Miller
Association of Catholic Publishers presentation on best practice approach to technology application to the publishing enterprise. Relevant to all organizations for whom technology is a service.
We don't always think of it this way, but your metrics *are* your culture... Your metrics shape behavior and incentives, which really is the heart of culture.
We have a lot to do on the cybersecurity side, and we are almost always lacking people, or budget, or both. Can we take lessons and approaches from entrepreneurship to apply to our cybersecurity programs? Can we do more with what we have, or for each addition can we make sure it has a large impact?
We’ll explore some entrepreneurship principles and then dive into some ways to improve security without large increases in headcount or budget.
You are a young researcher on your first independent position. What can you do to get your research work funded? How do you frame your work, find the right partners, address the funding body?
Slides from Andreas Zeller's presentation at the New Faculty Symposium at ICSE 2017, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
DOES SFO 2016 - Kaimar Karu - ITIL. You keep using that word. I don't think i...Gene Kim
Let’s get this straight. ITIL is not about implementing dozens of processes, or about establishing a CAB to review every change request, or about the never-ending story of creating a CMDB. The ITIL framework has been designed to help IT organizations to move from being a black box technology provider – often viewed as a disposable cost centre – to becoming a service provider, and a true partner for the rest of the business. We know – we own the framework.
Unless your customer can achieve their objectives with the technology you run, and can get assistance when needed, no-one cares whether your architecture is built on a monolith, uses microservices, or can brag about being serverless. Agile as a mind-set covers the whole value chain, but common practices are limited to development only. DevOps as a philosophy covers the whole value chain, but common practices are limited to the deployment-focused intersection of development and operations only. Understanding the organisation's strategy, developing the product strategy, and dealing with customer issues are expected to be taken care of by someone else, as if by magic. Because of this, DevOps faces a risk of becoming the largest local optimisation exercise ever undertaken for way too many organisations
In tens of thousands of companies around the world, ITIL has helped to develop an organizational capability that has provided them with a competitive advantage. More than three million people have been certified, and ten times as many trained over the years. Yet, we have all heard the horror stories, too. So what is it that separates a successful adoption of ITIL from an unsuccessful attempt at implementing the framework? What are the common problematic practices and anti-patterns we have seen in the wild, and what does the guidance in ITIL really say? How can you move from a broken approach to IT Service Management to one that delivers value. Can you still use ITIL in the DevOps world? Do you even need to? Or, perhaps, the questions is whether DevOps can survive (in the enterprise) without embracing the service mind-set.
Managing international software projects interactively using scrumPeter Horsten
Too many projects are not (fully) successful. In many cases this is caused by issues in the management approach. Clients want to know what they get for a fixed budget. But we all know it's almost impossible to fully specify what you need.
An Agile software approach proved to work for us. After implementing Scrum our projects went more smooth and we were more often delivering the right results on time.
It took time to get this working. For developers it was a bit scary and for our clients it meant they really had to trust us. Today we can see our effort pays off. We wouldn't like to go back to waterfall times anymore.
Is your nonprofit looking to incorporate more design thinking in its projects? Are you confused about what a design thinking approach entails? This recording will help you learn the ins and outs of design thinking.
How to get what you really want from Testing' with Michael BoltonTEST Huddle
EuroSTAR Conferences, with the support of ISA Software Skillnet, Irish Software Innovation Network and SoftTest, were delighted to bring you a half-day software testing masterclass with Michael Bolton
In this session, Michael Bolton (who has extensive experience as a tester, as a programmer, and as a project manager) explained the role of skilled software testers, and why you might not want to think of testing as "quality assurance".
He present ideas about the relationship between management and testers, and about the service that testers really provide: making quality assurance possible by lighting the way of the project. For those of you who who attended this event, we really hope it was of use to you in your testing careers.
www.eurostarconferences.com
To Open Source or Not to Open Source...Where is the ROI?Ted Haeger
This presentation is from Evans Data Corp's 2009 Developer Relations Conference.
It is about how to approach code sharing (Open Source) to enable a developer community.
(We do not confuse Open Source with Free Software. You shouldn't Either.)
Global Complex Project - How to deliver efficiently.Sunny Menon
In a complex world of technology, with lack of resources and technological challenges and because of disruptive technology erupting, enterprises are struggling to deliver in a timely and cost effective way. This presentation addresses those challenges and attempts to solve the crisis.
Publishing Strategic Technology for Association of Catholic PublishersCraig Miller
Association of Catholic Publishers presentation on best practice approach to technology application to the publishing enterprise. Relevant to all organizations for whom technology is a service.
We don't always think of it this way, but your metrics *are* your culture... Your metrics shape behavior and incentives, which really is the heart of culture.
We have a lot to do on the cybersecurity side, and we are almost always lacking people, or budget, or both. Can we take lessons and approaches from entrepreneurship to apply to our cybersecurity programs? Can we do more with what we have, or for each addition can we make sure it has a large impact?
We’ll explore some entrepreneurship principles and then dive into some ways to improve security without large increases in headcount or budget.
You are a young researcher on your first independent position. What can you do to get your research work funded? How do you frame your work, find the right partners, address the funding body?
Slides from Andreas Zeller's presentation at the New Faculty Symposium at ICSE 2017, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
DOES SFO 2016 - Kaimar Karu - ITIL. You keep using that word. I don't think i...Gene Kim
Let’s get this straight. ITIL is not about implementing dozens of processes, or about establishing a CAB to review every change request, or about the never-ending story of creating a CMDB. The ITIL framework has been designed to help IT organizations to move from being a black box technology provider – often viewed as a disposable cost centre – to becoming a service provider, and a true partner for the rest of the business. We know – we own the framework.
Unless your customer can achieve their objectives with the technology you run, and can get assistance when needed, no-one cares whether your architecture is built on a monolith, uses microservices, or can brag about being serverless. Agile as a mind-set covers the whole value chain, but common practices are limited to development only. DevOps as a philosophy covers the whole value chain, but common practices are limited to the deployment-focused intersection of development and operations only. Understanding the organisation's strategy, developing the product strategy, and dealing with customer issues are expected to be taken care of by someone else, as if by magic. Because of this, DevOps faces a risk of becoming the largest local optimisation exercise ever undertaken for way too many organisations
In tens of thousands of companies around the world, ITIL has helped to develop an organizational capability that has provided them with a competitive advantage. More than three million people have been certified, and ten times as many trained over the years. Yet, we have all heard the horror stories, too. So what is it that separates a successful adoption of ITIL from an unsuccessful attempt at implementing the framework? What are the common problematic practices and anti-patterns we have seen in the wild, and what does the guidance in ITIL really say? How can you move from a broken approach to IT Service Management to one that delivers value. Can you still use ITIL in the DevOps world? Do you even need to? Or, perhaps, the questions is whether DevOps can survive (in the enterprise) without embracing the service mind-set.
Managing international software projects interactively using scrumPeter Horsten
Too many projects are not (fully) successful. In many cases this is caused by issues in the management approach. Clients want to know what they get for a fixed budget. But we all know it's almost impossible to fully specify what you need.
An Agile software approach proved to work for us. After implementing Scrum our projects went more smooth and we were more often delivering the right results on time.
It took time to get this working. For developers it was a bit scary and for our clients it meant they really had to trust us. Today we can see our effort pays off. We wouldn't like to go back to waterfall times anymore.
Is your nonprofit looking to incorporate more design thinking in its projects? Are you confused about what a design thinking approach entails? This recording will help you learn the ins and outs of design thinking.
How to get what you really want from Testing' with Michael BoltonTEST Huddle
EuroSTAR Conferences, with the support of ISA Software Skillnet, Irish Software Innovation Network and SoftTest, were delighted to bring you a half-day software testing masterclass with Michael Bolton
In this session, Michael Bolton (who has extensive experience as a tester, as a programmer, and as a project manager) explained the role of skilled software testers, and why you might not want to think of testing as "quality assurance".
He present ideas about the relationship between management and testers, and about the service that testers really provide: making quality assurance possible by lighting the way of the project. For those of you who who attended this event, we really hope it was of use to you in your testing careers.
www.eurostarconferences.com
To Open Source or Not to Open Source...Where is the ROI?Ted Haeger
This presentation is from Evans Data Corp's 2009 Developer Relations Conference.
It is about how to approach code sharing (Open Source) to enable a developer community.
(We do not confuse Open Source with Free Software. You shouldn't Either.)
InnerSource - Using open source best practices to help your companyEric Caron
Once a company has more than 1 department developing code, a problem inevitably arises: How do you share source code that's mutually used? There are many different thoughts on the matter, but one that's starting to gain a significant amount of attention is "InnerSource". PayPal defines InnerSource as:
"InnerSource takes the lessons learned from developing open source software and applies them to the way companies develop software internally. As developers have become accustomed to working on world class open source software, there is a strong desire to bring those practices back inside the firewall and apply them to software that companies may be reluctant to release. For companies building mostly closed source software, InnerSource can be a great tool to help break down silos, encourage internal collaboration, accelerate new engineer on-boarding, and identify opportunities to contribute software back to the open source world."
In this talk I cover how to get from where you are ("Hey, we've got some source code that multiple people find useful!"), where you're going ("Look, we're more popular than ReactJS"), and some hurdles along the way ("Oh shoot, it looks like there is already a library to convert FLAC to MP3s..."). I give real-world examples of doing it right, and leave with some takeaways that people can immediately implement at their own companies.
IDCEE 2013: How to do a successful company around open source - Michael Widen...IDCEE
http://idcee.org/p/michael-widenius-monty/
Monty is creator and original developer of MySQL, Founder of MySQL Ab.
He is an open source advocate with firsthand experience in creating and enhancing an open source community. A software architect and designer with experience in creating big complex applications alone and with a virtual team.
Currently, Monty is CTO of the MariaDB foundation. Previously to that, he was CEO & VP Community of Monty Program Ab, as well as Partner and owner of Open Ocean Capital (since 2009).
In 2008-2009, he was a MySQL Fellow and Sun DE at Sun Microsystems. He was working in Sun CTO Lab under Sun's CTO Greg Papadopoulos.
For 12 years (1983 – 1995) Monty was a Developer for Tranfor Data AB, Software Architect, TCX Datakonsult AB.
From 1981 to 1995 he was CEO of Monty Program Ab; CEO, Coder, architect and user of UNIREG (The origin of MySQL).
Pic's are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/idcee/sets/
More @ http://idcee.org
Follow us on:
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialIDCEEChannel
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IDCEE
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/IDCEE-3940138
Twitter: https://twitter.com/idcee_eu
Google+: http://gplus.to/idcee
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/idcee/collections/
Cannibis Program Webinar Series - Roman Arzhintar on Collaborative Product B...Vator
Innovation series by Kristin Karaoglu
March 1, 2020 | Comments | Edit | Edit images
(2 views)
Short URL: http://vator.tv/n/47af
Cannabis Program Webinar Series - Paul Armentano of Collaborative Product Building
Onboarding Freelancers LinkedIn Group Deck Business901
Would you contribute to empowering Freelancers in your work environment?
Please consider joining this LinkedIn Group:
https://lnkd.in/eRuGzsm
As the use of Freelancers proliferate across organizational departments new ways of thinking are required. We have created instances of success in employee onboarding but often we have similar expectations of Freelancers in very condensed cycles.
This group is intended first and foremost to create awareness of these issues and elaborate on ideas for enhancing the flow of work between the stakeholders.
Open Source Product Management with KEMP Tech's PMProduct School
In this talk Danny Rosen, Product Manager at KEMP Tech, talked to a non-technical audience about the magic and wonder of open source. He went over what open source is, why it's important, what it means to have an open source product and why it's important to customers.
From Technical Debt to Technical HealthDeclan Whelan
Everyone agrees that technical debt is a burden on software innovation that we would rather avoid, and certainly clean up whenever possible. However, in most organizations, people don't prevent technical debt nearly as much as they should, and they don't ever get the time to clean it up. Why, then, if there are clear incentives to deal with technical debt, is it a rampant problem?
In this session, we will focus on how to deal with technical debt on several levels, including the individual developer, the team, the software value stream, and the larger organization. While technical debt may manifest itself in a developer's IDE, the problem starts long before the developer decides to copy and paste some code, or creates an overly-complex and under-documented class. The pressures on teams and individuals to take on more debt than they should come from many sources. Therefore, the solutions to the technical debt problem must extend beyond the team.
OPEN SOURCE HORROR STORIES (AND LESSONS LEARNED)FINOS
Gil Yehuda, Oath: Open Source Horror Stories (and lessons learned).
Open Source is not just about unicorns and rainbows where nice developers give you free code and fix it for you. This talk will feature a few cringeworthy but real-world stories of open source situations gone bad. We’ll talk about cases where people published things they should not have, licenses with terms you’d never agree with, employees who forget who signs their paychecks, DMCA takedowns that kill your code, and situations where you now own someone else’s mistakes. Names and some details will be withheld to protect the innocent and guilty alike. But each case points to a policy which you should put in place to protect your projects and your interests in the world of open source. At the end of this talk you’ll see why many companies manage an open source program the way they do.
(PROJEKTURA) agileadria agile for corporationsRatko Mutavdzic
Most of the corporations already adopted some kind of formal project management that is aligned to the strict corporate policies and procedures of managing things. If you want to be treated seriously, you need to talk abot project plans, milestones, deadlines, deliverables, commitments etc. Right? Well, it depends. We spent several years explaining to the corp guys that even if you have printed project plan hanging on the wall of the project room it does not mean that things are happening as plan suggests. More often, reality is that most of the stuff is going somewhere else, and that we have totaly different way of looking at the projects. Meet Agile, still someting new and exotic in executive mindset, but approach that is giving better and more understandable results.
An intro to Open Source Product Management or "A PM’s primer on leftist software development models."
This presentation outlines Product Management in open source and outlines enterprise open source product management techniques, best practices in the space, licensing models and other topics that may be of interest to people working in software.
Whether it's for your company or your own professional development (or ideally both), everyone should have a technology roadmap. Unfortunately there is no easy path to pre-made wisdom here, but this talk opines on some ideas and approaches to help formulate a roadmap that is relevant, pragmatic and importantly, able to be communicated to others.
Presented at Mastering SAP Technologies 2016
All of us, as part of the technical sphere, have sometime or the other heard about the term 'open-source'. Even if we haven't, we have been using since the first time we learned an algorithm or downloaded a software for free from the internet. But for most of you, this term may still be shrouded in mystery. So DSC IIT Goa and InfoSec IIT Goa are here for the rescue.
In this introductory event, we will celebrate the existence of this ever-expanding and most welcoming open-source community. A brief overview of the topics we'll cover is as below:
1. Introduction to open-source and why is it so valuable?
2. Basics of Git, GitHub and how to make a Pull Request.
3. Everything you need to know before making your first contribution.
4. Challenges faced and how to resolve them.
5. How open-source brings a security mindset.
6. Guide to safe usage and contribution to the community.
7. Famous annual open-source events and how to participate in them.
This event will fully equip you make the most dashing entry into this amazing community.
CdCon + GitOpsCon 2023 in Vancouver Canada. Slidedeck for the talk on Scaling Software Delivery: A framework for developer enablement through devRel and outreach.
Similar to Open source contribution policies, OW2online, June 2020 (20)
OW2 and RIOS teaming up to boost the open source impact, Nov. 2022 in RomaOW2
This presentation is given by Stefano Pampaloni at the RIOS Open Source Week, Nov. 2022 in Roma.
Abstract: Established in 2007 as a non-profit organisation, OW2 is an independent community dedicated to promoting open source software for information systems and fostering their business ecosystems. OW2 federates 50+ organizations and 2500+ IT professionals worldwide. OW2 hosts 50+ technology Projects. RIOS is an Italian network of companies established in 2015 aiming to improve open source adoption and to build sustainable businesses around it
OW2 and RIOS are working together to foster collaboration between European open-source stakeholders.
The Open Source Good Governance Initiative presented at RIOS OS Week, Nov. 20...OW2
The Good Governance Initiative (GGI) proposes a methodological framework to assess open-source awareness, compliance and governance in any kind of organizations, helping them to structure and improve the use of FOSS towards an OSPO. The GGI was initiated by OW2 and is developed by the OSPO Alliance. This presentation will give an overview of the initiative, its organization, roadmap, first achievements and next steps.
GLPi v.10, les fonctionnalités principales et l'offre cloudOW2
Presentation de la solution open source GLPi lors de la session "Open cloud by OW2" dans la conférence Cloud Datacenter + infra des 29 et 30 juin 2022 à Paris.
Centreon: superviser le Cloud et le Legacy à partir d'une même plateforme, po...OW2
Presentation de la solution open source Centreon lors de la session "Open Cloud by OW2" à la conférence Cloud Datacenter+Infra des 29 et 30 juin à Paris.
FusionIAM : la gestion des identités et des accés open sourceOW2
La solution FusionIAM est présentée dans la session "Open Cloud by OW2", organisée lors de la conférence Cloud Datacenter + Infra les 29 et 30 juin 2022 à Paris.
OW2 Association Européenne aux racines grenobloises, transformer l'industrie ...OW2
Connaissez-vous OW2 ? Aventure commencée en 1999 à Grenoble sur la base d'un consortium industriel dédié au middleware open source, devenu association sans but lucratif d'échelle européenne en 2006 sous le nom d'OW2, nous agissons pour la diffusion du libre dans le monde professionnel depuis plus de 20 ans.
OW2 compte des adhérents de toute taille : 2.600 individuels en adhésion gratuite, et 30 institutionnels, de la TPE unipersonnelle à Orange, Microsoft ou Huawei, de l'Inria ou le Fraunhofer Fokus à la Gendarmerie Nationale ou la ville de Paris.
Nos projets sont plus célèbres que nous : ASM, Centreon, Lutece, PrestaShop, Sympa ou Rocket.Chat vous diront peut-être quelque chose ?
Philosophiquement, OW2 se trouve quelque part entre Eclipse et Apache : culture technique, infrastructure d'hébergement et d'assistance pour les projets, sur la ligne de crête entre l'esprit du libre et les contraintes du business, nous sommes un acteur de l'économie sociale, persuadé que l'open source est central dans une transformation sociétale nécessaire qui ne pourra se faire sans l'adhésion du monde industriel et académique.
A un tournant de notre histoire, nous investissons le créneau de la qualité industrielle des projets avec notre méthodologie "Market readiness Levels", et la gouvernance de l'open-source comme membre fondateur de l'OSPO Alliance (ospo.zone) et éditeur du guide méthodologique "OSS Good Governance handbook".
Ne nous y trompons pas : OW2 est un acteur éminemment politique, porteur d'une vision fondée sur la transformation du monde professionnel et de ses valeurs par le code et la coopération. Et cette présentation, avec un survol de notre histoire, adhérents, initiatives et projets, est également l'occasion d'en débattre.
This presentation by Cedric Thomas (OW2 CEO) details three OW2 initiatives to engage with mainstream open source software users, including the H2020 ReachOut project, Market Readiness and Good Governance.
Towards a sustainable solution to open source sustainability, OW2online20, Ju...OW2
A few years ago, Heartbleed epitomized a massive open source sustainability problem for critical parts of the internet infrastructure. The bug, which affected the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library, notably compromised the confidentiality of 4.5 million US patient records and cost the industry an estimated $500M. It was soon revealed that the root cause of the issue was that OpenSSL was precariously understaffed. Open source sustainability became a major theme overnight. Stories of maintainer burn-out made the headlines. And tentative solutions started to emerge, most of them donation-based. In this talk we’ll explore a number of existing strategies to fund open source and make it more sustainable, from patronage to dedicated ad networks. And we’ll defend the idea that the best path to open source sustainability is to help companies understand the tangible business value they can get from contributing to open source.
Advanced proactive and polymorphing cloud application adaptation with MORPHEM...OW2
Presentation of the advanced optimization concepts for cloud computing application using open source Melodic/Morphemic platform. It will cover application architecture polymorphing and proactive adaptation based on forecasted applications needs.
Open Source governance and the Eclipse Foundation, OW2online, June 2020OW2
Presentation by Gael Blondelle, Managing Director at Eclipse Foundation.
Abstract:
In this talk, we will cover two complementary topics: The different Eclipse projects related to Open Source governance, like Eclipse SW360, SW360 Antenna, and Eclipse Steady, as well as the opportunity to leverage SW360 as the core of a larger Open Source governance initiative.
The Eclipse IP Process that has been applied to hundreds of Eclipse projects for more than 15 years and is going through a modernization process that involves both simplification from the developer point of view, and openness to new source of trusted data like Clearly Defined.
Software development at scale, pandemic lockdown and oss ecosystems, OW2onlin...OW2
Presentation by Jose Manrique, CEO at Bitergia.
Abstract: 2020 has started intense for many countries. It's been just a few months, but the things we have lived make us feel like it's been years. Covid-19 pandemic has hit everywhere and forced many people to work from home. If you were lucky enough to be in one of these modern companies that have adopted digital transformation years ago, would that be a problem? Many people have thought it wasn't, but it has really been. And what about the rest of the software developers involved in companies not ready for remote work at all?
It's been said that nothing has boosted more companies' digital transformation than covid-19. But, are their managers ready for such change? Managing software development at scale is not an easy task, and this pandemic has disrupted the way projects are being developed in many companies.
During this talk, I would like to share lessons learned from open source development at scale that might help companies to adapt to these changes. But more specifically, lessons about how software development analytics help managers to understand collaborative remote work.
Overview of the OpenChain Reference Tooling Work Group, OW2online20, June 2020OW2
Presentation by Olivier Fendt, Senior Manager Open Source Software at Siemens.
Abstract: The well-known OpenChain project launched in Sept 2019 a Tooling Group. The objective of this group is to realize a turn-key Open Source toolchain for Open Source Compliance, which is / can be easily integrated in the software development CI/CD pipelines. The Tooling Group uses open source principles to accomplish this, creating a meritocracy producing real world solutions for real world challenges, and sharing these results with all interested parties. The presentation gives an overview of the Tooling group its objectives, the areas of focus, the current state and future plans.
Open Source Compliance at Orange, OW2online, June 2020OW2
Presentation by Nicolas Toussaint, Software Architect, Orange.
Abstract: Orange and Orange Business Services have turned to full open source solutions to tackle the complex problem of respecting the open source legal compliance constraints.
This talk presents the journey undertaken the past few years to build and improve the existing tooling and processes to make compliance validation possible, as well as allow overseeing progresses.
Ideas, methods and tools for OSS Compliance assessment, OW2online, June 2020OW2
Presentation by Boris Baldassari, Consultant, Castalia Solutions.
Abstract: While Open Source Software has become mainstream, the understanding of its key principles, from ethics and collaboration to governance and community management, is gaining more interest and attention. There is a comprehensive volume of studies and reports backing up our individual and collective experience, yet we still cannot reliably measure these characteristics, and even less clearly define or assess them.
In an attempt to build up confidence and foster maturity in this area, this talk will look at the various existing models and metrics related to OSS compliance and governance, and build upon them to propose methods and tools for their evaluation and analysis. We will discuss the requirements and essential questions to ask, offer guidelines for implementation and suggest efficient ways to present results.
Intelligent package management with FASTEN, OW2online, June 2020OW2
Presentation by Amir Mir, TUDelft.
As recent events, such as the leftpad incident and the Equifax data breach, have demonstrated, dependencies on networks of external libraries can introduce projects to significant operational and compliance risks as well as difficult to assess security implications. FASTEN introduces fine-grained, method-level, tracking of dependencies on top of existing dependency management networks. In our talk, we will present how FASTEN works on top of the Rust/Cargo and Java/Maven ecosystems.
DECODER, a Smarter Environment for DevOps Teams , OW2online, June 2020OW2
The DECODER project simplifies software library and component reuse, while ensuring that they will behave as expected by the developer. The DECODER central database (PKM) stores code-related artifacts and establish bindings between them, notably by generating formal specification from informal requirements or semi-formal models from source code. Presentation by Virgile Prevosto, CEA List.
Enabling DevOps for IoT software development, powered by Open Source, OW2onli...OW2
Presentation by Hui Song, Senior Scientist, SINTEF. We would like to share our research journey towards enabling DevOps for IoT applications, and how Open Source makes the journey feasible and fun.
DevOps is widely adopted for developing cloud applications, which supports developers in continuously placing software changes directly to production. As companies are including IoT and Edge devices into their IT infrastructures, supporting DevOps for IoT is a must. However, IoT challenges some fundamental assumptions behind DevOps, such as the homogeneous infrastructure and centralized governance, and therefore, breaking-through research is needed. Funded by H2020, 30 people from 12 partners crossing academia and industry gathered to solve these fundamental challenges, which results in full-stack open source tools for automatic deployment, learning-based operation and security monitoring of IoT applications, and risk management of the development process. The tools are evaluated on industrial use cases in intelligent transportation, smart building, and eHealth.
The mass open source tools and communities around IoT development provides the sound foundation for this design research and the opportunities for the further exploitation of the results. In particular, we are proud of spinning off a start-up to commercialize the risk management services in the open source + SaaS model.
Upcoming Challenges in Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, OW2o...OW2
Artificial Intelligence is now smarter than ever, showing human-like abilities at complex tasks such as images classification or natural language processing.
But despite its recent advances, it's still not a silver bullet. This talk will present a few challenges in the research and development of artificial intelligence that slow down its progress and adoption. In particular, problems around fairness, the training of models and how to share them will be introduced as well as possible Free Software solutions. Presentation by Vincent Lequertier, PhD Student, Lyon UNiverversity.
Cacti and Big Data at Orange France, OW2online, June 2020OW2
We propose a walkthrough of current utilization of Open Source Software in capacity planning for the Orange network infrastructure.
The objective of our project is to have a platform that helps engineers to carefully plan the resources available to them as well as to correlate different incidents within remote parts of the infrastructure.
In order to achieve this we started using Cacti with the Spine collector which worked great, but Orange France is a very large company with many entities, each with its own governance, and so we began to see some limitations.
There was a need to centralize some information from different parts in Orange France as well as to integrate the equipment capacity and load values into BigData Orange.
In order to achieve this we developed the “Puits de donneés” platform completely based on Open Source Software.
The visualization and statistical analysis part is handled by Grafana while the ETL runs on Apache Software Foundation products like NiFi, Zookeeper and Ambari with a storage solution from MariaDB for which we did extensive performance tuning and customization due to the large amounts of data.
Open Source Geographic Information System at Orange, OW2online, June 2020OW2
We will present the platform, its component, and will discuss the challenges we met with its deployment.
Our platform is for engineer deploying Fiber to Home/Office , providing GIS capabilities among several layers on a Map. Developed by an Orange team of 30 people, half based in Lannion (Britany) and half in Tunis(Tunisia). components : Angular/OpenLayer, Springboot/PostgreSql(with Gis extensions)/GeoServer/QGIS, mapfishprint for PDF. Available on thin client or via APi.
The team was able to develop the platform according to business requirements, thanks to the technical support of our open source partner : Oslandia.
Moreover, Orange played the open source game by giving back to the community the evolutions on the components.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4
Open source contribution policies, OW2online, June 2020
1. Tobie Langel, Principal, UnlockOpen
tobie@unlockopen.com
Open source contribution
policies that don’t suck!
2. Do you have an open source policy?
No
48%
Don't know
13%
Yes
39%
< 250 employees
61%
11%
28%
> 10,000 employees
25%
10%
65%
Source: The New Stack & Linux Foundation/TODO
Group 2018 Open Source Program Management
Survey (https://github.com/todogroup/survey)
Remember this is a biased sample!
3. What does not having a policy mean?
Contrary to popular belief, it does not mean that you don’t have an
open source policy at all.
It means that you don’t have a written one.
You have a policy, whether it is written
down or not. It could range from “no
open source at all” to “anything goes.”
—Heather J. Meeker, Open Source Licensing Specialist,
author of Open Source for Business.
4. What does having a policy mean?
Think you’re in the right camp because you have an open source
contribution policy? Think again!
• You can have a very restrictive open source policy.
• You can have a very bureaucratic process to obtain approval.
• You can have a very opaque process to obtain approval.
None of these are fun!
6. What is a policy that doesn’t suck?
Engineering
perspective
Legal
perspective
Business
perspective
7. What is a policy that doesn’t suck?
Permissive. Allows open source contribution to be an
integral part of the company’s engineering culture and
best practices. Based on trust and autonomy.
Explicit. The decision making process is well documented
and transparent.
Informative. The policy explains the why an helps educate
engineers.
Frictionless. Avoid bureaucracy, red tape, lengthly back
and forth with legal, etc.
Engineering
perspective
8. What is a policy that doesn’t suck?
Minimizes risk. Avoid:
• giving away competitive advantage,
• giving away IP that can be used defensively (or—shudders
—offensively),
• reputational damages and accidental infringements.
Consistently followed across the company. Keep contribution
under your radar. Avoid compliance issues.
Savvy about written information. Sometimes you want a
paper-trail (e.g. compliance), sometimes you don’t.
Doesn’t drown critical problems in a sea of menial issues.
Legal
perspective*
* IANAL (I am not a lawyer).
Please talk to me if you are
and want to help me
improve this slide.
9. What is a policy that doesn’t suck?
Engineering to be happy and productive.
Risks minimized and well understood.
Good communication between legal and engineering.
Alignment with Business goals.
Business
perspective
10. At the heart is a tension
Legal wants to minimize risk.
Prefers oral communication.
Manager’s schedule.
Favors spectrum thinking.
Conservative role.
Engineering wants to maximize velocity.
Prefers written communication.
Maker’s schedule.
Favors binary thinking.
Innovative role.
11. Coming to agreement
Acknowledge that this tension is normal. It’s just checks and balances.
Listen to both sides.
Remind them that their role is to help achieve common business goals.
• Legal’s role is to minimize risk, but not at the expense of innovation.
• Engineering’s needs can’t be fulfilled at the expense of the company’s survival.
Find common ground. A good policy will improve the life of both sides.
Align your open source activity with your business goals. If you are a patent troll,
then don’t do open source.
Accept that your open source policy will change with your business.
13. Well understood problem, essentially:
• Using software with licenses that are compatible with your
current and future business model.
• Compliance.
Using open source
Tip: a common issue is missing licenses. Equip engineering with a process
(and issue or pull request templates) to request proper OSI-approved licenses.
16. Can employees contribute to open source on
their free time?
• Yes, without asking for permission.
• Yes, but must ask for permission. So that sometimes means “no”,
right?
• I don’t know.
• Nope.
Contributing outside of work
17. Other
4%
Don't know
37%
Must ask
12%
Yes!
47%
“How does your employer's IP agreement/policy affect your free-
time contributions to open source unrelated to your work?”
“Respondents were sampled randomly from traffic and qualifying
activity to licensed open source repositories on GitHub.com and invited
to complete the survey through a dialog box. A smaller sample was
recruited from open source communities sourced outside of GitHub, […]”
Contributing outside of work
Source: GitHub 2017 open source survey
(http://opensourcesurvey.org/2017/).
But again… this is a highly biased sample.
18. Contributing outside of work
Why so much confusion?
• Depends on the jurisdiction, but not uncommon, especially in the
USA, for companies to own employees’ production 24/7.
• Sometimes, extra criteria apply. For example, in California, IP
developed with company equipment—even outside of work—
belongs to the employer.
• This prevents employees from contributing to open source,
unless they ask for, and are granted permission to do so.
19. Contributing outside of work
The common solution: ask for permission
• Most companies have a process for this.
• Tends to focus on releasing open source or working on a limited set
of pre-approved projects.
• Breaks down when there’s a high number of dependencies (such as
for Node.js projects).
20. Contributing outside of work
The better solution: BEIPA
• Balanced Employee IP Agreement
• https://github.com/github/balanced-employee-ip-agreement
• Project created by GitHub, based on its own IP agreement.
• BEIPA only claims control of creations made for or relating to the
company's business.
23. Releasing open source at work
• Distinguish large open source projects you want to promote from
smaller "day to day” modules. (E.g. Google’s < 100 LoC rule.)
• Offer well oiled and well documented processes, checklists,
templates, and tooling (see: https://github.com/todogroup/policies).
• Offer help.
• Promote working in the open rather than releasing software once
it’s done. (Consider README-driven development to avoid scope creep.)
24. Patching open source at work
• By far the most common activity and the most important one.
• The experience must be as frictionless as possible for engineers.
• Surface the process by which decisions are made and trust
engineers to do the right thing. This let’s legal focus on the
difficult cases.
• Cache decisions (build approve- and deny- lists) so that the
process gets faster as time goes by.
26. Turn your policy into an app!
• Automatically approve requests that meet pre-established
requirements (e.g. patch an MIT-licensed open source project on
GitHub).
• Automatically reject requests that don’t meet your criteria (but
allow motivated appeals).
• Manually handle other requests and cache the decision so more
gets automated over time.
27. Using such a system, Adobe was able to shorten it’s review time
from 4.6 days to 4.6 hours.
Turn your policy into an app!
28. Using such a system, Adobe was able to shorten it’s review time
from 4.6 days to 4.6 hours.
But there’s more. The data collected can help:
• understand your open source activity,
• promote it,
• connect engineers unknowingly contributing to the same projects,
• etc.
Turn your policy into an app!