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Maximizing Open Source Investment to Drive Business Innovation

on YouTube 30m
Talkat Open Source Strategy Forum London 2021 · 2021-10-04..10-05· [open-source, engineering-leadership]

speaker

name:Traci Robinson-Williams
links:none on file

resources

video:https://youtu.be/bdAYmFgNrbk
slides:none on file

summary

Claim: open source becomes a revenue and innovation engine when treated as a program not an afterthought — GitLab reports ~50 community contributions per release with 2,400+ active contributors and an open core business model driving subscriptions. Concrete steps are defining ROI metrics (community influence, developer retention, licensing compliance), creating an open source program office, embedding inner source practices and minimal viable changes, and contributing upstream and running projects with the right infrastructure.

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chapters (9)

  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 1:12Why adopt open source
  3. 4:09Demonstrating value
  4. 8:57Embedding culture
  5. 11:40Gitlab background
  6. 13:32Gitlab culture
  7. 21:56Champion the open source cycle
  8. 25:51Threepronged approach to drive innovation
  9. 28:33Resources

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