Title: Open Source in Enterprise - The New Normal Corporations around the world are adopting open source code as well as the open source way of working. What are the business values of Open Source? During this session, Hong Phuc Dang will speak about the importance of Open Source, how companies like Zalando applied open source principles internally to foster code sharing and collaboration. She will also share some examples and lessons of how companies can improve their interaction with the open source community based on her many years of experience managing FOSSASIA and various open source projects.

2. Founder at FOSSASIA (Asia)
Board Director at Open Source
Initiative (America)
InnerSource @Zalando (Europe)
About Me

3. Founded FOSSASIA in 2009

4. Build a Better World with Open Technologies
by Connecting Progressive Community in
Asia with Global FOSS Developers

5. ➢ Merged Pull Request on average every 15 minutes
➢ 35,000+ developers on mailing lists + social media
➢ 4000 developers registered on our GitHub orgs
➢ Training 2000+ developers through coding programs annually
➢ Dozens of face to face meetings at developer events, hackathons
and workshops throughout Asia
➢ 100+ authors of tech blog articles

8. Open Source Event Management System

10. 2016

12. summit.fossasia.org >> Mar 19-22, 2020 Singapore

13. ➢ Open Source Ecosystem
➢ Open Source at Zalando
➢ Key Takeaways

14. Open Source Ecosystem

15. 1-The Communities
2010

16. 1-The Communities
2010

17. 1-The Communities
2010

18. 2-Businesses
2010

19. 2-Businesses
2010
950 total Interviews: 400 from US, 150 from UK,
250 from Latin America, 150 English-speaking
Asia Pacific
Source: A Red Hat Report (2019). The State of
Enterprise Open Source

20. 3-Industry Leaders
2010

21. 4-Governments
2010

22. 4-Governments
2010

23. 4-Governments
2010

24. 4-Governments
2010

25. 4-Governments
2010
A change in France’s technology procurement policy that required
government agencies to favor open source software (OSS) over
proprietary software.
❏ 0.6%–5.4% yearly increase in companies that use OSS,
❏ 9%–18% yearly increase in the number of IT-related startups
❏ 6.6%–14% yearly increase in the number of individuals
employed in IT related jobs
❏ 5%–16% yearly decrease in software-related patents.
Source: Nagle, F (2019). Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National
Competitiveness

26. Open Source at Zalando

27. Platform
> 200
development teams
> 1,700
developers

29. opensource.zalando.com/tech-radar

31. Internal Zalando Open Source Community
OPEN SOURCE
REVIEW GROUP
DIVERSITY
OPEN
SOURCE
GUILD
SECURITY
EMPLOYER
BRANDING
COMPLIANCE
MANAGEMENT

34. 2010
zLife

38. Key Takeaways

39. ➢ Set-up tools and infrastructure that are optimized for
collaboration
➢ Enable knowledge sharing and exchange: code sharing
platform, communication channels, cross-team
contribution models
➢ Central extendable documentation
➢ Reward best practices, good behaviors
➢ Hire FOSS people
Sharing and Collaboration Platform
2010

40. ➢ Allow engineers to consume open source software
➢ Make it the first approach to software development
➢ Adoption guideline (Techradar, Maturity Indicators)
➢ Onboarding training (License, Compliance)
➢ Pay for open source (cost analysis)
○ Enterprise version
○ Consultant services
○ Experts
Open Source Adoption
2010

41. ➢ Actively participate in the community
➢ Sponsor/host open source events and meetups
➢ Leverage existing programs, contests (CodeHeat)
➢ Encourage upstream contributions
➢ Support academic research
➢ Release your code
Community Engagement
2010

42. Thank you!
@hpdang
hp@fossasia.org