Core initiatives and corporate roadmaps — Lessons running an initiative
summary
Five years of running the Workflow Initiative shows corporate-backed core work is possible but hard: governance and roadmaps provide the clarity companies need, product management and designers are essential, and paying and contracting contributors inside large firms creates serious overhead. Proposal: a telemetry initiative that collects opt‑in, anonymized usage and click metrics (GDPR/Matomo compliant) and shares them exclusively with core initiatives under NDA, bundled with coordinated funding via Open Collective (webpack raised nearly half a million dollars that way).
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:37Outline
- 2:16My personal point-of-view
- 4:12Core governance works
- 5:53It's all about optics
- 7:33#3 Ship a great product (cont.)
- 10:38Reduce reputational risk
- 12:28Get organised
- 14:22Make paying for it easy
- 16:53The perfect initiative
- 21:19Telemetry Initiative (cont. I)
- 24:20Core Initiatives through Open Collective
- 26:16Some ideas (#2940737)
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