FOSS Makes a Difference, Even in the Military

10/22/24 • 51 min

Have you ever wished your company was moving faster with developing new solutions? Or, that maintaining software wasn't such a huge burden?

In this My Open Source Experience podcast episode Ildiko and Phil are talking to Wayne Starr. Wayne shares his experiences, related to open source throughout his career up until today. From discovering FOSS as a kid, through working for the U.S. Air Force to joining Defense Unicorns for the specific reason of working on open source software full time, which has been allowing him and his company to move faster, produce more reliable solutions and share knowledge more efficiently, all at the same time.

Using open source software is a great first step, but to gain all the benefits, one has to invest and get involved in the projects. Wayne shares tips and tricks on

how to advocate within your company for investing in and contributing to open source projects,

what to do when you face greater resistance than what you think you can handle

how to build and advocate for an open source project

and more!

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Have you ever wished your company was moving faster with developing new solutions? Or, that maintaining software wasn't such a huge burden?

Using open source software is a great first step, but to gain all the benefits, one has to invest and get involved in the projects. Wayne shares tips and tricks on

how to advocate within your company for investing in and contributing to open source projects,

what to do when you face greater resistance than what you think you can handle

how to build and advocate for an open source project

and more!

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Open, Collaborative SW Development, Why and How

Did you know that collaborative software development existed before the term 'open source'? Do you know what important role open source foundations play in the ecosystem? Do you understand the difference bewteen 'upstream project' and 'downstream product', and why it matters?

In this episode of the My Open Source Experience podcast, Stephen Walli talks about how software development, and the various industries depending on it, have been evolving. Stephen shares the process of creating an open source project, and then a community around it, how open source foundations protect open source porjects as well as the ecosystem around them, and shares a collaboration example from the Eclipse ecosystem. The group also touches on the importance and challenges of culture change within industries and companies alike.

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How to Successfully Argue for Open Source Investment

We can establish that if you are using any (semi-)modern digital infrastructure or applications, then you are depending on open source software. Have you ever thought about that as actual dependency? Considering that you are not neglecting the building blocks of the software solutions that you are creating and selling, why do you do that with your open source dependencies?

Learn more about why you have to invest in open source projects and how to decide what level of involvement you should have in each from Stephen Walli.

Find out what drives companies to open source projects that started out as InnerSource, without the intention to open them up to the world later, and what happens when you don't let your developers work on open source projects anymore from Clare Dillon.

Learn how to explain open source involvement to people who are fearful and sceptical about it from Wayne Starr. And listen to Wayne and Stephen to talk about how they and their companies are using SBOMs, and why you need to think more about using those for packages that you need to build, or hardware, before you apply the concept.

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