Going Open Source Tales of a (ex-) closed source company Uri Cohen Head of Product @ GigaSpaces @uri1803 Nir (dont call me "Devops") Cohen Prospers@Gigaspaces @thinkops http://www.slideshare.net/uri1803/alef-event-going-open-source

What This Talk Wont Cover

How to Manage an Open Source Project

When / What to Open Source https://www.madison.k12.wi.us/files/Calendar_0.jpg

Which License to Choose

And I wont say Software is eating the world Really, I Promise

What I Will Talk about Our Journey as a company, moving from closed to open source

Some Background

Why Open Source? Aside from the obvious reasons, its become a precondition

Why Open Source? It makes your software better

So Heres What You Shouldnt Do

This Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers

Put It on Github and Think Youre Done http://octodex.github.com/hipster-partycat/

Have a Community Guy that Handles All This OSS Stuff

Check the Mailing Lists Once a Week http://www.cetofnc.com/images/2009/angry_user.jpg

What Worked for Us

Get Everyone Involved Its not a developer thing, its a company mindset

Know Your Eco-System

Make It Easy to Consume

Cut the Bureaucracy, Make It Easy for People to Contribute

Be Transparent

Adapt Your Skill Set

Go Linux

Adopt a Community

Some of the Projects We Own/Contribute to

Cloudify

Packman

pylog

OpenStack

jclouds

libcloud

Flask to Swagger

References Cloudify: getcloudify.org Cloudify on github: github.com/cloudify-cosmo Packman: packman.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ Pylog: pylog.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Thank You!