Open Source Best Practices and Building Open Source Communities from Scratch – Sujata Tibrewala
Open Source Best Practices and Building Open Source Communities from Scratch – Sujata Tibrewala, ByteDance
Working in Open source and creating a community for a fledgling open-source project is more than just throwing code off the wall. You may have the best code in the world but if the developers a) don’t know about it, b) feel safe and heard in the community, and c) are confident about the long-term sustainability of the project, your code may just end up being open source, but little else, with you being the lone steward, begging for outside contributors and maintainers. Based on our experience of growing various open-source communities from scratch we will talk about creating frameworks where developers from competing organizations not just feel safe but also welcome and are given due credit and limelight commensurate to their contribution. Working and leading in open source is really a test of leadership skills where you have no influence or authority other than your merit and your ability to listen, understand, and problem-solve while keeping the developer’s interest at the center of everything. In this new world customers seldom care about proprietary solutions since they all want flexibility, and hence navigating the world of open source while also ensuring the business keeps getting customers and keeps making money is always a challenge. This Bird of Feather would encourage discussion on experience in corporate and open-source grassroots managing competing priorities.
by The Linux Foundation
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