Strategies for Determining an Open Sourcing Policy
Business and Strategy
The purpose of this track is two-fold - one angle helps you to understand the advantages of Drupal from an organizational leadership angle and the other is to highlight the great Drupal sites and projects you're working on and to show what's possible. These sessions are business focused, and will be non-technical.
The decision to open source a set of code is easy when the owner of that code is an individual, but when the owner of the code is an organization the decision is more complicated. Advance planning to clarify the organization's open sourcing goals, the procedures by which code must be reviewed prior to release, and the expectations of maintainership post-release can help avoid problems and result in greater success in the long run.
This presentation will cover the steps to establish an organizational open sourcing policy which provides a flexible framework for deciding what to release, where to release it to, and how to maintain it post-release. The speakers will present from a background of open sourcing in the context of federal government, but the same questions should factor into the open sourcing policy of any organization, be it governmental, NGO, or private sector.