Open Source Leadership Summit 2017

An obvious tension that exists in commercial open source endeavors between the need for control and the need to build and sustain an open ecosystem. During this session we will look at it as a multi-variable optimization problem and talk about the decisions that can be made to balance the well being of the commercial OSS sponsor, with the health and well being of the general community. We will look through some of the decisions made during the early days of the Kubernetes project, talk about the issue at hand that drove those decisions and relate the outcomes of those decisions in terms of community health and vitality. Craig will also spend a few minutes talking in general about the philosophy of commercializing open source technology.

The Eclipse Foundation was the first open source foundation established as a 501(c)6 trade association, a model which has now become commonplace. Mike has been the Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation since its inception. In this presentation he will talk about the lessons that he has learned at Eclipse over the past 12 years. Those lessons range from running what is effectively a small business, to balancing the demands of the industry's largest players, to dealing with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

An independent analyst group Bitergia reported that women represented 9.9% of the population contributing to Linux kernel development and was responsible for 6.8% of the activity. Bitergia also reported that women contributed to 10.6% of the code commits and reviews into OpenStack.

A survey of a thousand female cloud professionals done by CloudNOW, a 503c non-profit reported that nearly one-third of the women surveyed believe they’ve been excluded from key opportunities because of their gender.

39 percent believe the estimated monetary impact of these compounded missed opportunities is more than $10,000 per year
25 percent do not feel that their company values the contributions of women

In this panel, we will be inviting Bitergia, Jocelyn de Gance, CEO of CloudNOW and others to share their point of view behind the data and the solutions underway and being proposed.

With Apache Hadoop turning 10 in 2016 and completing its journey through the Gartner Hype Cycle it presents a very telling case study of how to balance open source community interests, pace of technology innovation and enterprise adoption concerns. There is no denying that Apache Hadoop has earned the support of a large & diverse community, with significant interest from businesses, governments, academia & technology vendors. While the distributed data platform’s ecosystem continues to grow, there remains some debate about its ease of adoption & how a wide-range of users can gain business value from it. This talk will cover the experience of solution providers, app vendors & end users around deploying Apache Hadoop, the daily challenges they faced and how ODPi is working side-by-side with ASF on making sure that Hadoop's growth as a #1 big data platform doesn't slow down.

How Mesosphere works with an extremely diverse OSS ecosystem, while still supporting an enterprise software business. The new SDK enables stateful services to be developed on top of our platform, and has been used internally to update the services we offer, as well as externally by partners and developers. We can show how we came to the conclusion that an SDK was needed, how we structured the project to ensure the SDK supported our overall business strategy, and how we recruited internally and externally to drive adoption.

As collaborative development settles in it's place for technology development and strategy we should step back and measure the cost involved against the potential benefits. It is a commonly held belief that open source will help us find the future, however we need acknowledge that future is dependent on us providing the path.

In this presentation Chris will discuss the potential benefits and impact of the open source ecosystem on how we build and leverage networks and infrastructure today and counterbalance that with the cost and perseverance required to achieve these visionary highs.

Brandon Philips and Sarah Novotny discuss making community decisions, what is working, what isn’t working, and why, in the world of Kubernetes.

With open source playing a larger and larger role in companies, an interesting problem has presented itself. How do you connect your internal goals in your company with the external dynamics of an open source community? Get it right and you get great engineering, community relations, and growth. Get it wrong and you can alienate both your employees and community members.

In this new presentation from leading community strategist and manager, Jono Bacon, he will present a set of proven methodologies for getting this balance right. He will cover how to structure your teams for external engagement, building strategy in conjunction with community needs/drivers, gathering and acting on feedback effectively, building relationships both internally and externally, tracking the success of this work, and how to manage conflict, consternation, and coups.

Overall this presentation will provide a practical framework for getting this balance right, building trust in your employees and community members, and building a fruitful relationship for everyone involved.

There is no doubt that Github is the primary destination for open source development and distribution on the web. Over time though, it has become more than just a GUI on-top of Git, and the Github platform now offers many helpful and powerful services and features that can help maintainers of OSS projects provide a more useful, transparent, and open experience for their project and their community. This presentation will talk through some of the best practices that can help make an OSS project successful and inspire community participation and contribution.

CNCF is one of the newest Linux Foundation projects, but that has enabled to learn from others and try to crystallize a series of best practies. These range from separating the technical and business boards, to lowering prices to bring in more end users, to using marketing automation on email lists, into how we take a largely hands off approach to the governance of our individual projects. This talk will review those best practices, contrast them with other organizations --- including the Apache Software Foundation and OpenStack -- and discuss lessons learned.

What, or whom, does it take to run a successful open source project? The Linux Foundation lives on the forefront of collaboration in software development, and nowhere is this more evident than in the Foundation's Collaborative Projects. Balancing the principles of open source with resources from the corporate world, each project has a unique set of needs, resources, and values. The lineup of roles in each project is similar, but how those responsibilities are met is a puzzle.

I have worked with community managers in many different spheres and seen the puzzle take shape, often with leaders emerging from unexpected places. This presentation describes the basic responsibilities needed for open source projects, the roles that normally fill them, and the "gap filling" roles that also appear that can help point toward those emerging leaders.