Investing in Ember
summary
Argues that paying engineers to work on OSS produces measurable business returns, citing a hospital case with 4.75 million euro first‑year savings and 8.17 million euro over five years, plus a 4.15M imaging saving and €100k email cut; recommends upstream bug fixes for quick product wins, externalizing internals as open addons for midterm quality and branding, and a 20% time policy that simplabs uses to produce tools like ember-simple-auth and improve hiring, retention and developer skill transfer.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Start
- 13:31Open Source Integration
- 17:43Open Source Integrated Talent Strategy
- 30:58Contributing To Open Source
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