Collaborative Leadership: Governance Beyond Company Affiliation
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 Virtual · on Friday, 2020-11-20· at 15:10· Intrado Virtual Event Platform,·
summary
Argues that contributing projects into neutral foundations reduces vendor lock‑in using concrete examples: Kubernetes in the CNCF enabled multi‑vendor enterprise distributions; VMware moves projects like Harbor and Contour into CNCF and Tern into the Linux Foundation. Recommends specific governance artifacts—LICENSE, CODE_OF_CONDUCT, CONTRIBUTING, SECURITY.md, CLA vs DCO—and tools like dependabot; points to CNCF maturity stages sandbox → incubating → graduated and CHAOSS metrics for measuring diversity and health.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:41About me
- 1:57Who controls an open source project
- 2:24Is a foundation neutral
- 4:03Examples of neutral foundations
- 5:18Open source risks
- 6:36Contributing to neutral foundations
- 9:09Governance best practices
- 9:30What is governance
- 11:35Documentation
- 14:59Security
- 16:32Leadership
- 21:08Evolution of Governance
- 22:42The Big Picture
- 23:36Resources
- 24:29Questions
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