Open Source as a Product: Strategies for Building and Scaling Successful Open Source..
Talkat Open Source Summit Europe 2023 · on Wednesday, 2023-09-20· at 14:40· Room 3H (3JAUREGIA - Floor 3), Abandoibarra Etorb., 4, 48011 Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain·
summary
Frames open source as a managed product: a three‑year OSPO workflow that insists on business-aligned roadmaps, mirrored GitHub issues into internal ticketing, and tracked contributions by activity and governance role. Claims include top fifth contributor to OpenTelemetry and a deliberate incubated project strategy that produces OpenFeature in CNCF Sandbox with 60–80% vendor contributors. Teams assign dedicated maintainers (six–seven approvers who spend full time upstream), use metrics for adoption and retention, and require licenses, governance, and outreach before public release.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Open source as a product
- 3:32Strategic open source projects
- 6:22Contributing to open source
- 9:15Value creation in open source
- 13:52Building open source communities
- 18:26Real-world success stories and lessons learned
- 24:03Key takeaways
- 25:20Q&A: Community engagement
- 27:55Q&A: Project lifecycle
- 31:10Q&A: Community incentives
- 34:24Closing remarks
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