Hidden Infrastructure: The Foundations of Open Source – Joshua Simmons – Open Source 101
Joshua Simmons – President of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and Ecosystem Strategy Lead at Tidelift.
Hidden Infrastructure: The Foundations of Open Source
Joshua Simmons, President of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and Ecosystem Strategy Lead at Tidelift, delivered a keynote talk at Open Source 101 on Tuesday, March 30, 2021.
Talk Title: Hidden Infrastructure: The Foundations of Open Source
Abstract:
Modern software development wouldn’t be possible but for the work of countless nonprofits, yet we the benefactors of their work largely labor in blissful ignorance of this hidden infrastructure. I did too, for 15 years.
Linux, Git, Python, Drupal, Homebrew, Eclipse, Apache Web Server, and Kubernetes–these are just a few of the ubiquitous projects that rely on nonprofits. Even open-source licensing itself relies on a nonprofit!
In this talk, we’ll survey the nonprofit ecosystem that undergirds our industry. We’ll answer questions, including:
Who are these nonprofits?
What do they do?
Why does it matter?
We’ll explore why the future of open source, and our livelihoods, rests on the continued existence of these nonprofits. And lastly, we’ll answer the question: what is our role, as creators and consumers of open source software, in light of all this?”
Joshua Simmons on the internets:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/joshsimmons
Personal website: https://joshsimmons.com/
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