Beyond OSPOs - Build a Strategic Open Source Business Unit
Talkat Open Source Summit Europe 2023 · on Wednesday, 2023-09-20· at 15:55· Room 3A (Floor 3), Abandoibarra Etorb., 4, 48011 Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain·
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Company builds a dedicated open source business unit that mimics commercial product orgs, with 50 people including engineering, product management and go-to-market roles, owning upstream work for projects like OpenTelemetry semantic conventions and OpenFeature (the OpenFeature SDK reaches 1.0 in six months). Strategy ties open source to mission goals, measures success by customer telemetry volume and percentage of proper OpenTelemetry data, splits funding (about half from product teams), and reports concrete product impact rather than stars or contributions.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:12Open source at Din TR
- 8:29OSPO model challenges
- 10:12Open source canvas
- 14:03Corporate alignment goals
- 16:30OpenTelemetry case study
- 20:25OpenFeature case study
- 27:49Structuring OS unit
- 32:05Why OS teams independent
- 36:38Mindset in open source
- 38:46Independence vs alignment
- 40:09Open vs closed trade-offs
- 43:18Business models for OS
- 47:44Q&A
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