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Hacking the corporate backplane for open source

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How do you get your organization to sustainably support an open source project?

Learn how to hack the system inside your org: discover and work with the processes in your org (the "backplane"); start and complete necessary discussions; simplify and amplify your message to get where it needs to go. You walk away with a flexible, lightweight model that draws upon the speaker's experience working bottom-up, top-down, and side-to-side stitching together sponsorship and recognition at Red Hat.

This session covers stories and lessons from a Red Hat community architect who has walked this path several times, successfully and (in some cases) not yet for: the Fedora Project (upstream documentation), the CentOS Project (making friends), and community infrastructure for open source projects.

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Learn how to hack the system & increase your chances for successful support for open source projects 


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Maybe as a panel?