- Perspectives from experience of Fedora, CentOS, & others
    - Dissect what we did that worked for CentOS
    - Failures and succeses in the Fedora Project providing learning
  - Lots of time for audience storytelling


== Proposed title

Organizational participation & how to not screw up an open source project

== Description (400 chars)

When an organization joins an open source project there is a very real risk the influx of paid developers will intentially or accidentally wrest control from community contributors and make the project open in name and license only. Learn why this is bad and how to avoid it with examples from early Fedora Linux years and how those lessons informed Red Hat's participation in the CentOS Project.

== Topic
The business of ...


== Secondary topic
Business
Techniques
Legal

== Type

40-min presentation

== Abstract (3- 6 para, bullets welcome)

There is a non-arbitrary yet flexible set of rules that are key ingredients in the success of open source software. You really must include radical transparency, full community participation, appropriately lowered barriers, open infrastructure of participation, and so forth. The practice of open source (the open source way) is the enabling technique to making better software, faster. If you skimp on the technique, you lose in the product/result.

However, these techniques that are key to making successful projects can be antithetical to a traditional business model. Even modern open organizations have significant reasons to obfuscate and maintain secrecy.

In this presentation we'll discuss how to be successful at connecting your corporation or other organization as contributors and sponsors of an open source project. The techniques are similar to what you'd follow in creating a new project from scratch, but there are additional considerations so that you don't destroy the existing community and vaporize a large part of the value to you.

We'll include how to map your paid on-staff contributors to the project, handling communication and other liaison duties, governance, and useful resources for training and convincing leadership of the value of practicing the open source way.

The presenter is a veteran of the early years of Fedora Linux, and helped apply lessons learned there as the architect behind Red Hat's recent participation in the CentOS Project.

== Tags

the open source way, transparency, open organization, 


== Audience takeaway

Learn how to participate confidently and respectfully as an organization in an open source project without screwing it up.

== Audience level

Non-technical

== Video URL

https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part101.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzCqzzd0l5k

== Speaker(s): biography and hi-res (minimum 1400px wide) headshot