Open Source Leadership Summit 2018

Community based open source projects are a critical part of our industry, and most people agree that they are key enablers to innovation. What is more difficult to reconcile is how to support these projects when their maintainers have split responsibilities between the project and their regular 'day job'. When expectations are missed the results can be ugly. When expectations are clear,  maintainers can be powerful forces for good within an organization.

A community project maintainer turned engineering manager will walk you through strategies that teams have implemented to successfully support maintainers in continuing community based work, while leveraging their expertise to deliver critical business value for their products. Expect to be able to take these strategies home and use them with your own teams to support the open source community, and the business, at the same time.