Sustainable open source contributions in your business
summary
Argues companies must pay for open source time and gives concrete policies: adopt a 20% rule / Fridays for OSS or set 32 billable hours per week so contributions are budgeted into rates; cites building PHPDocumentor guides at the company and running WeCamp events, translating Zend docs, and publishing a Rector rule to migrate Mockery to Prophecy as practical wins. Warns about single-maintainer risk (Flysystem example) and low corporate support for the PHP Foundation as reasons to fund maintenance.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Open source and business
- 6:32Abandoned projects risks
- 9:06Why companies should support open source
- 12:43Funding contribution rates
- 16:53Getting management buy-in
- 20:10Practical contribution ways
- 23:40Start small with contributions
- 27:28Choosing the right project
- 31:44Business benefits of contributing
- 36:28Why invest in open source
- 37:40Q&A on complexity
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