Rise of Open Source Programs

ÉDITION 2016 | 16&17 NOVEMBRE
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Rise of Open Source Programs
Chris Aniszczyk (@cra)
COO, CNCF.io

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• Trends in the Industry / Open Source
• Rise of Open Source Programs
• Introducing the TODO Group
• The Linux Foundation Way
• Concluding Thoughts / Q&A
Agenda

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• Every company is becoming a software company and must now understand software in
order to survive! (“software is eating the world”)
• Advances will come out of companies you don’t think of as tech: autos, airlines, medical etc...
http://fortune.com/2016/04/07/toyota-ai-robotics-cars/
http://aicenter.stanford.edu/
http://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304450904579369283869192124
https://www.polarsys.org/airbus
Trend: Software is Eating the World

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• “78% of companies are using open source… 63% are participating… ” (https://www.blackducksoftware.com/future-of-open-source)
Trend: Open Source is Eating the World
http://www4.mercedes-benz.com/manual-cars/ba/foss/content/en/assets/FOSS_licences.pdfiOS: General->About->Legal->Legal Notices https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you

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• More services/things are being connected to to the internet and generating data that will help
companies optimize their business:http://www.kpcb.com/blog/2016-internet-trends-report
• Cost to store data is getting much cheaper
Trend: Data Growth is Rising

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• Software is a means to an end for internet/web scale companies
– Google, Facebook, Netflix, Twitter, etc…
• Google: Kubernetes, Tensorflow
• Facebook: OpenCompute, HHVM, OpenCellular
• Twitter: Mesos/Aurora/Parquet/Heron
• Netflix: NetflixOSS Suite (https://netflix.github.io/)
Trend: Web Scale Companies Open Up

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• Over time, infrastructure has moved from single-vendor closed
ecosystems to multiple cross-vendor open ecosystems
• Infrastructure is one example, happening in other areas too!
Trend: Closed to Open Ecosystems
Containers
Cloud
Native
Open
Source
IaaS
PaaS
Open
Source
PaaS
Virtualiza-
tion
2000 2001 2006 2009 2010 2011
Non-
Virtualized
Hardware
2013 2015
IaaS

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• Companies are using open
source aggressively to set
industry direction...
• Open source is forcing
companies to compete faster…
see AI...
• AI and Automation will evolve
fast over the next several years
and affect everything
Trend: AI + Open Source Competition
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-21/google-sprints-ahead-in-ai-building-blocks-leaving-rivals-war
y

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• every company is re-imagining itself as a software
company to evolve and survive
• theory: companies will become more like
“internet/web scale” companies to adapt over time!
(think Google, Facebook, Netflix)
What do these trends mean?

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Rise of Open Source Programs

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• Google: https://developers.google.com/open-source/
– “…tasked with maintaining a healthy relationship with the open source software development community"
• Facebook: https://code.facebook.com/opensource
– “…we’re keen users and publishers of open software. We'll keep you up-to-date with our new projects…”
• Intel: https://01.org/ (“…international team dedicated to working within open communities.”)
• Samsung: http://commit101.org/
– “The Open Source Group was formed in 2013 to do the following: Help guide the company in effective
consumption, collaboration, and development of open source software. Provide advocacy on behalf of Samsung
in external open source communities….
• Sandisk (Western Digital): https://opensource.sandisk.com
– “…committed to open source and open standards through open source based innovation, contributions and
memberships in consortia that support and nurture rapid innovation.”
Trend: Companies + OS Programs

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• Box: http://opensource.box.com/ & http://todogroup.org/blog/creating-an-open-source-office-box/
– “we give back to the open source community whenever possible, by contributing code to outside projects and
sharing projects that we've developed internally”
• Dropbox: https://opensource.dropbox.com/
– “Dropbox loves open source! We participate in the open source community by using open source software
internally and open sourcing our own projects”
• Uber: https://uber.github.io/
– “Uber loves open source and contributing to the open source community”
• GitHub: http://todogroup.org/blog/why-we-run-an-open-source-program-github
• Twitter: http://todogroup.org/blog/why-we-run-an-open-source-program-twitter/
Trend: Startups + OS Programs

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https://microsoft.com/opensource
‣ “Microsoft’s commitment to openness and collaboration
is ingrained… These collaborations have enabled new
scenarios for customers and partners to take open
source software and integrate it with a Microsoft
platform.”
‣ http://todogroup.org/blog/why-we-run-an-open-sou
rce-program-microsoft/
...even Microsoft!

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https://gds.blog.gov.uk/about/
‣ “We now want to build on that work with a more
concerted approach to open source (and “inner
source”), building collaboration and reuse
internally and making higher impact contributions
to the wider open source community.”
‣ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/20/gds_
recruiting_open_source_chief/
‣ https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/16966992
4
...even Governments!?

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Companies are hiring executive open source leads...
‣ “As VMware broadens its ecosystem from traditional
engagements in the data center space to areas such as
software-defined networking and Cloud Native and mobile app
technologies, we have been releasing more and more of our
new offerings as open source software," said Ray O'Farrell,
executive vice president and Chief Technology Officer, VMware.
"Dirk brings a new level of leadership, best practices and
creativity to help us drive these open source contributions and
projects."
‣ http://thenewstack.io/makers-dirk-hohndel-vmware-
role-open-source-commercial-software/
Trend: Chief Open Source Officers!?

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The TODO Group
https://todogroup.org

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• Many of us who ran open source program offices shared a
private mailing list to commiserate…
• It was an avenue to discuss issues in private and even find
ways to collaborate on open source projects…
• Focused on Silicon Valley companies initially
• In 2014 we had an idea of scaling and opening up the the
community more…
• Announced the TODO Group @Scale 2014 conference!
Origins of The TODO Group

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• TODO Group is a group of companies who want to
– collaborate on best practices on running open source program offices
– share open source policies and training material
– codify quality criteria for well-run open source projects and communities
– build and share tools to maintain those quality standards
• As we scaled our open source programs, we realized we all built
similar tools for the purposes of corporate scale open source…
• What is corporate scale open source?
What is the TODO Group?

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• Corporate participants in open source have a number of unique concerns ranging from:
– scale (i.e., Google and Microsoft have thousands of open source projects)
– insights
– cultural
– legal / governance
• Companies doing open source generally want to be good community citizens, to be open
and inclusive, to operate meritocracies. They also need to run a business and be aware of
responsibilities to their employees, shareholders and the broader community.
Corporate Scale Open Source

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• GitHub has won for now wasn’t designed for
corporate large scale open source so there are
considerable feature gaps… the TODO Group is
helping identify and fill those gaps (i.e., multiple
org management, CLAs, community metrics)
• We also work with GitHub as a “product council”
to help improve their platform that we
continued to depend on (e.g., improved org
management and required commit status
features)
TODO Group + GitHub

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TODO Group + Tooling
https://github.com/Azure/azure-oss-portal
https://github.com/facebook/mention-bot
https://github.com/Netflix/osstracker
http://ghtorrent.org

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• To establish the TODO Group as a
legitimate legal entity, we partnered
with the Linux Foundation to make
the TODO Group an official
collaborative project!
• The LF helps with legal paperwork,
running events and gives the TODO
Group access to its 650+ members
TODO Group + Linux Foundation

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• 50+ open source “collaborative projects” / 650+ members spanning various industries
• The LF helps build neutral collaborative ecosystems; foundation in a box; runs events
Why Linux Foundation?

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• What is an ecosystem A rich developer
community whose code is productized
in commercial products that profit
businesses who in turn reinvest back
into the projects
• Organizations that don’t harvest this
shared innovation will be unable to
compete: they will be late to
market, waste R&D funds, and
unable to innovate alone.
LF Builds Ecosystems PROJECTS
PROFITS PRODUCTS
PARTICIPATION
DEVELOPER
COMMUNITY
MARKETS
TECHNOLOGY
PRO
DUCTS

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Conclusion / Q&A

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• Open source will continue to eat new industries (i.e., world)
– You will see more open source foundations around industries/problem areas
• OpenAI, OpenCelluar
• Every company will become a software company
– They will also act more like internet-scale companies like Google, Facebook etc..
– They will establish open source programs and hire open source leads
• Contribution brings influence and is the currency in open
source… contribute or lose relevancy!
Concluding Thoughts

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• http://todogroup.org/join/
• https://linuxfoundation.org/members/join
• https://cncf.io/join
Come collaborate, join us!

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Thank You / Q&A
Chris Aniszczyk (@cra)

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