March 17, 2015
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Brandon Keepers
(GitHub)
This is the fourth in a series of blog posts from TODO Group members, explaining why each company is committed to open source software. This week, we feature Brandon Keepers (@bkeepers), who is heading up the open source efforts at GitHub.
From the very beginning, GitHub has been about open source. Scratching the itch of better code collaboration turned into a company built on and for open source; from the philosophies that founded the company, to the servers running the infrastructure, to the languages and libraries we use to build applications, to the millions of public repositories hosted on them.
March 10, 2015
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Benjamin VanEvery
(Box)
This is the third in a series of blog posts from TODO Group members, explaining why each company is committed to open source software. This week, we feature Benjamin VanEvery (@bvanevery) and Nicholas Zakas (@slicknet), who oversee the open source activities at Box.
We see running our open source program as being a logical extension to the type of work Boxers do every day. Like many tech companies, our technology stack includes open source projects.
March 3, 2015
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Gil Yehuda
(Verizon Media)
This is the second in a series of blog posts from TODO Group members, explaining why each company is committed to open source software. This week, we feature Gil Yehuda (@gyehuda), who’s in charge of open source at Yahoo!.
Since my company does not sell software, the choice to open source code is rather simple. Consider the alternative: keeping code a proprietary secret. Keeping secrets is expensive. Proprietary code needs to be maintained as other code dependencies often create the need to tweak things.
February 24, 2015
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Dion Almaer
(Walmart Labs)
Over the coming weeks, we are publishing a series of blog posts from TODO Group members, explaining why each company has decided to run programs to publish, use, and improve open source software - and the benefits that result. First up, Dion Almaer (@dalmaer) with Walmart Labs’ perspective.
Why would a company spend resources on an open source program, and why is it really needed? These are great questions, and my point of view has probably changed in some ways over time.
November 7, 2014
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Nicholas C. Zakas
(Box)
A little over a month ago we announced the formation of the TODO Group, a group of companies coming together to collaborate on practices, tools, and other ways to run successful and effective open source projects and programs. The response we received was overwhelmingly positive, and we’ve been working hard since that time to clarify our goals and objectives as well as determine a path forward that includes as many companies as possible.
