Fund Projects and Change Company Culture with a FOSS Fund
summary
A concrete playbook: a FOSS Fund framework that assigns a company budget to projects via nomination and voting, quarterly volunteer time‑off events that already generate 350 volunteer hours after two runs toward a 500‑hour goal, and measured outputs — 100+ open source projects a year, named releases (cloudsplaining, ai_economist, best, generic sidecar injector, lightning web components), open‑sourcing marketing docs, and an “accidental maintainer” series on governance and inclusivity.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:25Agenda
- 0:46Meet Alyssa
- 1:41Why Salesforce cares about FOSS
- 3:43Salesforce FOSS Projects
- 6:34Giving Back
- 11:04Supporting FOSS
- 13:30Sales Force
- 18:04Questions
- 23:00What to look for in a project
- 25:00Examples of projects
- 28:50Volunteer events
- 30:53Goal of volunteer events
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