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YES, you can get the company you work for to contribute to Drupal

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George
Matthes
Technology Manager
Johnson and Johnson
Type
Talk
Experience level
Beginner
Duration
45 minutes
Room
3.03 germanium
Starts at
Ends at
Expertise topics
Summary

In order to spread the word that it is possible to get large enterprises to support Open Source software I will present a case study on how leadership within the company I work for was swayed to support the Drupal Association and get more involved in the Open Source communities in which they live and work.

Expected Outcome: For the people in the audience to be confident that they too can create a proper business case for their company to support Open Source projects

 

 

Description

This session will encourage the audience to create the business case for their company to contribute to Drupal. I will describe the business case I made, and journey I took to get my company to contribute and the models we are applying to open source.

The outline:

-  Recount the path I took to convince the company that it was the right thing to do
    - Engineering Management
    - Creating the Business Case (how to do so)
    - Getting Alignment 
        - Corporate Communications
        - The pitch to HR
        - Tallent Acquisition
        - Legal
        - IT Leadership Team
- The Open Source Participation model
    - Support the organization
    - Allow our developers to contribute
    - Maintain a presence in the communities in and around our development centers
- The Open Source Initiative
    - Publishing OpenSource Software 
        - Our lost github repository (tell the story)
        - Processes
        - Policies
    - The Model
        - Consume
        - Contribute
        - Colaborate
            - speaking

- Recounting the benefits for the company

Our Open Source initiative is still a work in progress, I hope inspire the confidence that with the proper business case they too can convince the company they work for to behave the same way. This is a charge to the audience to be Open Source Evangelists within their company.
 

 

 

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