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Alef event - going open source
1. Going Open Source
Tales of a (ex-) closed source company
Uri Cohen
Head of Product @ GigaSpaces
@uri1803
Nir (don’t call me "Devops") Cohen
Prospers@Gigaspaces
@thinkops
http://www.slideshare.net/uri1803/alef-event-going-open-source
XAP, Why Cloudify, Java infra, geared for high perf, short detection times -->scales up to a few hundred of nodes legacy protocols
Componentize and generalize
It’s not just about the code, it’s about the way you run things
4 million projects on github, no one will know you’re there.
Support, devs, marketing, management
Daily standups include community status
Weekly meetings with marketing,
events,
blogs,
discussions all the way up to CEO about goals, hurdles etc.
devops - larger scales, dynamic languages, a lot of choices
Use github,
Small
Readme,
build,
dependencies,
changelog,
State maturity,
supported envs,
license,
docs,
tags,
announce,
milestones…
Contributor agreement
Pull request
License
Share Your Roadmap
Share Your Darkest Secrets
Move from windows mostly to linux mostly, eat our own dog food and use what are users will be using
devops - larger scales, dynamic languages, a lot of choices
OpenStack is here to stay, that’s why we’re all here. Most of the orgs we talked with have an openstack initiative, we wanted to be aligned with it, cactus/diablo
Options to get in: contribute to projects, donate code – stackforge or not