Presented by: Navyata Bawa Presented at the All Things Open 2021 Raleigh, NC, USA Raleigh Convention Center Abstract: This talk follows the stories of how five core values - move fast, be bold, focus on impact, be open, and build social value - powered Facebook to make significant contributions in some of the most widely used open source projects. Follow us as we explore how each of these values have motivated some of the world’s most used software frameworks - from open sourcing the ability to setup a modern web app with just one command to collaboratively bringing together competing vendors to break open the black box of proprietary IT infrastructure - we will discuss the thought process and motivations that drove the open sourcing of our projects. The open source projects covered in this talk include - Presto, the Open Compute Project, the Create React App, PyTorch, and Major League Hacking.

1. The Tale of Five
Projects:
A reflection on the motivations behind open
source at Facebook
October 18, 2021

2. Navyata Bawa
Developer Advocate at Facebook
Twitter : @NavyataBawa
LinkedIn : navyatabawa

6. Be Open

7. Photo by Akson on Unsplash

9. Technical Steering
Committee (TSC)
Governing Board
(GB)
Outreach
Committee

12. “At the end of the day, technology and
technical direction is what keeps a community
interested and the innovation going. We want
the project to be inclusive and the technical
roadmap to be fairly representative of the
community’s view.”
- Brian Hsieh, Uber Head of Open Source Program Office
and Presto Foundation Governing Board Chairperson

13. Be Open

14. Be Bold

15. Photo by Maja Kochanowska on Unsplash

18. Image Source: https://www.facebook.com/PrinevilleDataCenter/photos/a.10150447802192694/10158091223957694

19. Photo by American Public Power Association on Unsplash

20. Be Bold

21. Move Fast

22. Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

24. build system transpiler
directory
structure

27. Move Fast

28. Focus on
Impact

29. Photo by Prateek Katyal on Unsplash

32. “Farmers today face a huge challenge — feeding a
growing global population with less available land.
The world’s population is expected to grow to nearly
10 billion by 2050, increasing the global food demand
by 50%... The only way to produce more food while
using less resources is through smart machines that
can help farmers with difficult jobs, offering more
consistency, precision, and efficiency.”
- Chris Padwick, Director of Computer Vision and Machine Learning at Blue River
Technology

36. The ground truth, predictions and the difference between the
two. Crops are shown in green, while weeds are shown in red.

37. Photo by Dan Meyers on Unsplash

38. Focus on
Impact

39. Build Social
Value

40. Photo by Hannah Busing on Unsplash

42. Photo by Oxa Roxa on Unsplash

45. Image source: https://stories.mlh.io/mlh-fellowship-focuses-on-diversity-3ca75da32e8b

48. “The MLH Fellowship opened up a
lot of new possibilities for growth
and I’m really grateful to have
been part of a community that’s
always inspiring me to ‘level up’.”
-Grace Gao

50. Build Social
Value

51. Build Social Value
Focus on Impact
Be Bold
Be Open Move Fast

53. Thank you
Jessica Lin, Amit Chopra, Dharmesh
Jani, Steve Helvie, the PyTorch
team, Dan Abramov, Cami Williams,
Christine Abernathy, Dmitry Vinnik,
Jenni Grant, Audrey Van Belleghem,
and Kim Monsalve

54. Navyata Bawa
Developer Advocate at Facebook
Twitter : @NavyataBawa
LinkedIn : navyatabawa
Thank you