Extrospective OSPOs: Working on 3rd Party OSS
Talkat Open Source Summit North America 2022 · on Friday, 2022-06-24· at 12:00· Room 301/302 (Level 3), JW Marriott Austin, 110 E 2nd Street Austin, TX 78701·
summary
Aiven runs an extrospective OSPO that turns external critical dependencies into internal responsibilities, focused on Kafka Flink Postgres OpenSearch and more, with a team of 10 people organized into project chapters. It measures individual impact by issues worked on, patches reviewed and community engagement, uses transparent company-email commits, pays outside-time contributors via the Plankton program, and plans to double headcount. Results take months not quarters and success looks like more maintainers, faster incident response, and tangible merged contributions to third‑party projects.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 2:50Outbound characteristics
- 6:10Working towards ensuring
- 11:13Our principles
- 13:09Oddities
- 25:281. New toolset
- 29:54A proposal
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