The TODO Group is thrilled to announce the first Open Source Program Management Survey for 2018 (in partnership with The New Stack) that examines the prevalence and outcomes of open source programs among the Global Fortune 2000, including the key benefits and barriers to adoption. We have open sourced all of our survey results and graphics.
Key findings include:
Open source use has become commonplace among tech and non-tech companies alike with 72% of companies frequently using open source for non-commercial or internal reasons and 55% using open source for commercial products.
Last year, the TODO Group published an initial set of guides focused on the art of open source program management. This year, we plan to continue to update and publish new guides to help our peers in industry to scale out their open source programs and learn from our lesson. Today we are happy to publish a guide on what happens when you are faced with setting an open source strategy for your organization.
Almost every developer uses open source code. But not every organization has an open source policy or a formal program to manage how it is used or produced. The TODO Group has partnered with The Newstack to build the first ever open source programs survey.
Some of the questions we ask include:
If your organization does not have an open source program, why not? What are the challenges and benefits of an open source program?
Last year, the TODO Group published an initial set of guides focused on the art of open source program management. This year, we plan to continue to update and publish new guides to help our peers in industry to scale out their open source programs and learn from our lesson. Today we are happy to publish a guide on what happens when you are faced with building leadership in your open source community.
Last year we launched our Open Source Program Guides and as part of that launch, we mentioned we will be actively publishing open source program case studies. We started with Comcast, Dropbox, Facebook, Microsoft, Red Hat and Salesforce, this month we’re happy to add the Capital One open source program:
Capital One: Open Source in a Regulated Environment Lessons Learned on Our Open Source Journey at Capital One Most people know Capital One as one of the largest credit card companies in the U.
Last year we launched our Open Source Program Guides and as part of that launch, we mentioned we will be actively publishing open source program case studies. We started with Comcast, Dropbox, Facebook, Red Hat and Salesforce, this month we’re happy to add the Microsoft open source program:
The Open Source Program at Microsoft: How Open Source Thrives Microsoft is now an accepted big player in the open source space, but just a few years ago such a role for the software giant, seemed inconceivable.
We have decided to open up our Slack community to everyone to increase knowledge sharing. You can join our Slack community here.
We look forward to having conversations with everyone and spreading the best practices of open source program management.
Last year we launched our Open Source Program Guides and as part of that launch, we mentioned we will be actively publishing open source program case studies. We started with Comcast, Dropbox, Facebook and Salesforce, this month we’re happy to add the Red Hat open source program:
Red Hat Open Source and Standards Team: How Red Hat Measures Open Source Success Red Hat is, by its very nature, a deviation from the norm in this series of profiles.
Last year, the TODO Group published an initial set of guides focused on the art of open source program management. This year, we plan to continue to update and publish new guides to help our peers in industry to scale out their open source programs and learn from our lesson. Today we are happy to publish a guide on what happens when you are faced with winding down an open source project.
Last year we launched our Open Source Program Guides and as part of that launch, we mentioned we will be actively publishing open source program case studies. We started with Comcast, Dropbox, Facebook and Salesforce, this month we’re happy to add the Oath open source program:
Oath For seven years and counting, Gil Yehuda, Senior Director of Open Source at Oath Inc. (which owns the Yahoo and AOL brands), has led the open source program at Yahoo.
