SLIDE 1 The Value of Metrics to Drive Your OSPO Plans
Ni Nithya Ruff, @nithyaruff Head Head, Op Open en Sou
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Mother, Technology Strategist, Pragmatist Passionate about Open Innovation & Collaboration; Advocate for Women in Technology Women of Color, She, Her
SLIDE 3 Topics
- Comcast History in OSS
- Role of OSPO
- Why measure?
- What to measure?
- How We Went About it?
- Takeaways
SLIDE 4 2012
- Launched 1st 2 OSS projects
- n github.com/comcast
- Start of CDN project
2013
Advisory Counsel formed)
- Signed CCLA for OpenStack
2014
- Contributed IPv6 functionality
to OpenStack
Apache Incubator
Our Open Source ce Journey
- 1st Philly OS Conference
- 50M RDK DLs, 30 PB content
through ATC daily
(Open Source Fellowship Pilot)
- 164 contributions this year
- Won 1st ever Cloud Foundry
Community Champion award
2015
- Traffic Control open sourced
- Top contributors to OpenStack
- Won OpenStack SuperUser
Award
2011
HttpComponents
2016 2017
- OSPO created
- Joined LF, Yocto,
OpenChain, ONAP, CNCF
- Launched comcast.github.io
- Signed Cloud Foundry CLA
2018 2010
- Contributed caching module
to Apache HttpClient
2006
SLIDE 5 COMMUNICATE CONSUME CONTRIBUTE COLLABORATE CULTURE COMPLY
OPEN @ COMCAST
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Wh Why do we need to to quant ntify the wo work?
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Wh What to mea measure? e?
SLIDE 8 Response to Developer Requests and Questions Contributions License Questions Navigating community
OSPO Effectiveness
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Project health metrics can help us determine which projects are thriving. Project Effectiveness
SLIDE 10 Which projects are we contributing to? Are people outside of Comcast contributing to
Which developers are actively contributing to
Which Comcast projects have an active community?
Communities We Depend On
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co comca cast.github.io
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Project health metrics can help us determine which ones may need attention.
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According to Dice.com and The Linux Foundation’s 2018 Open Source Jobs Report: Open source ce jobs are in demand, mo more tha than ev ever
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If you treat new patents invented by your engineers as an important consideration for merit, promotions, & tenure, th the same same sho shoul uld d be be do done ne for open source ce co contributions.
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External GitHub Blogs Events Sponsorships Memberships
Engagement
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How? It was time to cross-collaborate.
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SLIDE 20 Metrics
- Use to showcase our work and activity in open source to leadership
- Involvement in CHAOSS community
- Presented our work at 2ndannual conference in Vancouver (co-
located with the Open Source Summit NA)
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Still Hard To Measure Business Impact Rewarding the Right Behaviors Measuring Diversity is Important Qualitative is Important
Takeaways
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