The Value of Metrics to Drive Your OSPO Plans Ni Nithya Ruff, - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

The Value of Metrics to Drive Your OSPO Plans Ni Nithya Ruff, @nithyaruff Head Head, Op Open en Sou ource e Prog ogram am Of Offic fice

Mother, Technology Strategist, Pragmatist Passionate about Open Innovation & Collaboration; Advocate for Women in Technology Women of Color, She, Her

Topics • Comcast History in OSS • Role of OSPO • Why measure? • What to measure? • How We Went About it? • Takeaways

Our Open Source ce Journey - OSPO created - Contributions to Apache - OSS consumption - OSAC (Open Source - Traffic Control open sourced - Joined LF, Yocto, HttpComponents Advisory Counsel formed) - Top contributors to OpenStack OpenChain, ONAP, CNCF - Signed CCLA with ASF - Signed CCLA for OpenStack - Won OpenStack SuperUser - Launched comcast.github.io Award - Signed Cloud Foundry CLA 2016 2018 2010 2012 2014 2011 2006 2013 2015 2017 - Contributed caching module - 1 st Philly OS Conference - Launched 1 st 2 OSS projects - Contributed IPv6 functionality - Traffic Control enters to Apache HttpClient - 50M RDK DLs, 30 PB content on github.com/comcast to OpenStack Apache Incubator through ATC daily - Start of CDN project - Joined ASF - Launched OSFP (Open Source Fellowship Pilot) - 164 contributions this year - Won 1 st ever Cloud Foundry Community Champion award

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Wh Why do we need to to quant ntify the wo work?

Wh What to mea measure? e?

OSPO Effectiveness Response to Developer Requests and Questions Contributions License Questions Navigating community

Project Effectiveness Project health metrics can help us determine which projects are thriving.

Communities We Depend On Which projects are we contributing to? Are people outside of Comcast contributing to our projects? Which developers are actively contributing to open source projects? Which Comcast projects have an active community?

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Project health metrics can help us determine which ones may need attention.

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Ca Career r Growt wth 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 .

Engagement External GitHub Blogs Events Sponsorships Memberships

How? It was time to cross-collaborate.

Metrics • Use to showcase our work and activity in open source to leadership • Involvement in CHAOSS community • Presented our work at 2 nd annual conference in Vancouver (co- located with the Open Source Summit NA)

Still Hard To Measure Business Impact Takeaways Rewarding the Right Behaviors Measuring Diversity is Important Qualitative is Important

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