Open Source For Business OpenTeams

Today I talked with Tobie Langel, the Founder of UnlockOpen.

UnlockOpen helps companies understand and leverage open source to recruit, retain and foster top software engineering talent. In this podcast, Tobie dived deep into open source contribution policy best practices. For those listening, you’re probably thinking - “I already have an open source contribution policy.” But I promise, you will learn a lot from this podcast about how you can make yours better.

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Today I talked with Johannes Tigges, the Assistant Secretary at InnerSource Commons Foundation.

Johannes provided a lot of insight into what inner source is and how it can benefit organizations. We dived even deeper into something he is an expert in - remote work and how we can learn a lot from open source software communities.

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Today I talked with Dawn Foster, the Director of Open Source Community Strategy at VMWare.

Dawn and I had a lot of fun talking through the many lessons she’s learned over the past 20 years working with open source communities. For anyone who’s interested in assessing the risks and evaluating open source projects that your company uses, then you must listen to this podcast - I promise you will learn A LOT!

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Today I talked with James McLeod, the Director of Community at FINOS.

James has a lot of experience from both the developer side and the community side of open source. We dive deep into open source communities and enterprise involvement within those communities. Some of the topics we cover include:


What is an open source readiness program and why should enterprises have one in place?

Open source program offices and and the benefits of contributing to open source communities


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Today I talked with Javier Perez, the former Director of Product Management at RedHat.

In this podcast, we dive deep into what his current role entails as an Open Source Program Strategist at IBM and discuss best practices IBM adopts within their open source program office. Javier is an expert when it comes to open source security, so it was only natural that we went into detail about why so many security vulnerabilities exist within open source and what developers should do about it.

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Today I talked with Jeffrey Borek who’s the word-wide Program Director for Open Technology & Developer Advocacy at IBM.

Jeff has worked in open source for the past 20 years and is currently the head of IBM’s open source program office. Needless to say, he has seen firsthand how open source has evolved. In this episode, Jeff covers the four waves of evolution for open source software and talks about open source business models and how IBM is monetizing open source today.

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