We're Building On Hollowed Foundations (...)
summary
Conference data shows widespread adoption: 78% of companies ran open source in 2015 and 60% report adding more in 2017; security failures like OpenSSL — Heartbleed exposed single maintainer fragility and a codebase study finding 64% of 133 projects with truck factor 1-2 make sustainability alarming. Practical fixes include employer-paid maintainer time, organized contributor workshops (Open Source Breeze), and new funding platforms such as Tidelift aiming to pay projects based on usage.
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chapters (33)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:05Shared Digital Infrastructure
- 7:32Black Duck Survey
- 14:08General Advice
- 15:03Heartbleed
- 16:34Steve Henson
- 17:10Steve Marcus
- 18:01Truck Factor
- 21:18Framebar Tools
- 22:36OpenSSL
- 23:05Python Software Foundation
- 24:15Ragequitting
- 24:31Ryan Big
- 28:11Summary
- 29:25What Can We Do
- 29:43Funding
- 30:54Personal labour subsidy
- 31:31Corporate labour subsidy
- 32:29Corporate patronage
- 33:34Corporate labor subsidies
- 35:50Opensource problems
- 37:21Opensource projects
- 39:00Its not easy
- 39:22Open Source Breeze
- 42:58GitHub Repository
- 44:02Sharing
- 44:17Casual Contributors
- 45:43Company Subsidy
- 47:23Mission
- 47:38New Model
- 49:12Conclusion
- 49:43Questions
- 53:38Laws
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