Fireside Chat with Rick Riobol, Nithya Ruff, & Mike Crisafulli
summary
Comcast describes a multi-year shift from a cable operator to a product and customer-experience company that used Cloud Foundry and other open source stacks to change development culture, move from 13 contributions in 2013 to 165 contributions last year, and publish 150 open-sourced projects including Apache Traffic Control and the RDK stack while running inner-source efforts like Vinyl DNS; scale and culture — 10,000+ developers, 1,500 Slack contributors — surface as the hardest problems, solved by platforms, grassroots adoption, and creating an open source program office that legal initiated.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:30Comcast’s transformation journey
- 4:47Open source’s role in culture
- 7:14Bridging leadership and technology
- 10:45Open source as core product
- 14:34Internal community engagement
- 17:00Overcoming organizational obstacles
- 21:17Starting an open source program
- 24:08Strategic value of open source
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