Corporate Open Source and the Grassroots Success of DevOps Days by The New Stack Makers published on 2019-06-11T17:37:44Z How have open source communities changed over the years? Two decades ago, there were many open source projects, yet much of the code used in business still came from vendors. Those days, most all of the infrastructure — from the network stack to log analysis tools — is mostly open source. No longer is it only individual coders uploading their work, but the largest software companies are sharing their code as well. Some time over the past decade, the network effect kicked in and projects such as Linux or Kubernetes that were developed by communities around the world reached a level of sophistication that would be hard to watch even by the largest proprietary software vendor. Just ask Microsoft and Oracle, which both have been embracing open source for the past decade. In fact we did ask Microsoft and Oracle. For this newest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, we pow-wowed with Oracle Principal Member of Technical Staff Karthik Gaekwad, Oracle Solutions Architect Kaslin Fields, and Principal Cloud Developer Advocate Microsoft Bridget Kromhout to discuss how to best build and maintain open source software communities today. The podcast was live-streamed last month from Kubecon + CloudNativeConEU, held last month in Barcelona. The secret to open source success? People. Lots of people, doing lots of things, not just coding. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/LEwwCrUvolk Genre Technology Comment by The New Stack Makers How having clear offerings and clear collaboration makes the end user feel empowered 2019-06-11T17:41:18Z Comment by The New Stack Makers Is that a good rule of thumb for open source projects as well? 2019-06-11T17:40:36Z Comment by The New Stack Makers Getting new communities started by wearing a lot of hats and putting in the work to get these communities going 2019-06-11T17:40:10Z Comment by The New Stack Makers Advocacy roles and interacting with the community, and bringing insights from the community back into one’s company as part of open source 2019-06-11T17:39:43Z Comment by The New Stack Makers What is the value a company like Microsoft or Oracle brings to the end user and enterprise user for open source? 2019-06-11T17:39:10Z Comment by The New Stack Makers How would you characterise the current state of open source communities? How healthy are they? 2019-06-11T17:38:48Z
