Open source work is work
summary
Spotify measures its GitHub history and finds over 2,500 direct dependencies and ~30,000 transitive ones, more than half of OSS work happening outside paid time so it sets policies and metrics to treat open source as business work. It assigns owners to 50% of repos, publishes 90 fewer projects, archives 100, and cuts out‑of‑hours contributions to 36% within working hours. It funds nine long‑tail projects via a FOSS fund, uses Backstage and a Postgres GitHub mirror, and commercializes Backstage donated to CNCF with ~40 paid staff.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:31Metrics
- 6:26Beliefs
- 9:38Equal terms
- 13:20What happened
- 15:17Funding dependencies
- 18:47Impact
- 22:20Backstage
- 23:13Funding
- 24:22Revenue
- 25:44Questions
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