Download - Alef event - going open source
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- Going Open Source Tales of a (ex-) closed source company Uri Cohen Head of Product @ GigaSpaces @uri1803 Nir (dont call me "Devops") Cohen Prospers@Gigaspaces @thinkops http://www.slideshare.net/uri1803/alef-event-going-open-source
- What This Talk Wont Cover
- How to Manage an Open Source Project
- When / What to Open Source https://www.madison.k12.wi.us/files/Calendar_0.jpg
- Which License to Choose
- And I wont say Software is eating the world Really, I Promise
- What I Will Talk about Our Journey as a company, moving from closed to open source
- Some Background
- Why Open Source? Aside from the obvious reasons, its become a precondition
- Why Open Source? It makes your software better
- So Heres What You Shouldnt Do
- This Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers
- Put It on Github and Think Youre Done http://octodex.github.com/hipster-partycat/
- Have a Community Guy that Handles All This OSS Stuff
- Check the Mailing Lists Once a Week http://www.cetofnc.com/images/2009/angry_user.jpg
- What Worked for Us
- Get Everyone Involved Its not a developer thing, its a company mindset
- Know Your Eco-System
- Make It Easy to Consume
- Cut the Bureaucracy, Make It Easy for People to Contribute
- Be Transparent
- Adapt Your Skill Set
- Go Linux
- Adopt a Community
- Some of the Projects We Own/Contribute to
- Cloudify
- Packman
- pylog
- OpenStack
- jclouds
- libcloud
- Flask to Swagger
- References Cloudify: getcloudify.org Cloudify on github: github.com/cloudify-cosmo Packman: packman.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ Pylog: pylog.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
- Thank You!