Building an Open Source Community to Achieve Innovation-Through-Openness - Jonas Rosland
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Builds an enterprise open source program that grows a public 6,000-member Slack launched June 2015, runs a legal-backed dev high-five onboarding path for open sourcing internal projects, and runs Code Catalyst with 38 members from 26 organizations in 10 countries. Reports a successful project (RexRay) and measurable community outputs but admits early failures: no initial plan and no metrics until after launch. Emphasizes code of conduct enforcement, multi-channel communication, documentation, and closing the loop between questions and developers.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Start
- 0:42Agenda
- 2:17Why Participate in Open-Source
- 5:31Management Buy-In
- 6:22Have some Well-Defined Goals
- 7:37Being a Good Open-Source Citizen
- 7:55Contributing To Open Source and Contributing to the Open Source Community
- 8:35Promotion of Amazing People and Projects
- 12:28Writing Code
- 13:07Building Your Credibility and Being a Positive Contributor
- 14:34Leadership in the Ecosystem
- 19:05Overarching Code Community
- 20:07Code Community
- 22:29Slack Best Practices
- 23:46Private Channel Creation
- 25:26Code of Conduct
- 27:55The Code Catalyst Program
- 28:35Code Catalyst Interviews
- 29:18Code Assemblies
- 30:04Failures and Learnings
- 32:00Metrics
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