Panel Discussion: A How-to Guide for Contributing to Open Source as an Employee
Panelat Open Source Summit North America 2022 · on Tuesday, 2022-06-21· at 12:00· Room 301/302 (Level 3), JW Marriott Austin, 110 E 2nd Street Austin, TX 78701·
summary
Panel lays out a concrete plan: a working group captures six principles (start early, transparent motivations, respect, end gracefully, etc.) and publishes a GitHub guide and ReadTheDocs page so companies can make public commitments and build internal policy. It documents real harms (companies sending 10–30 engineers then abandoning projects), recommends exit runways proportional to project size, and frames the guide as a corporate-side counterpart to project codes of conduct. The guide is live but only half finished, open for contributions.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 0:52The Principles of Authentic Participation
- 6:20Transparent Motivations
- 7:05Enforcing Respect at all Levels and To Really Adhere to a Community Established Codes of Conduct and Then To End Gracefully
- 10:38Resources
- 15:34Principles for Authentic Participation in Open Source
- 40:02What's Our Exit Strategy for these Projects
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