LinuxCon + CloudOpen + ELC-E Europe 2014

This is a repeat of the initial presentation that some attendees were unable to see due to limited seating (and fire regulations).

Many companies struggle with contributing to Open Source projects. This talk will identify key difficulties that many large companies face in making contributions, and provide tips and lessons learned for overcoming these obstacles. Some of the difficulties discussed will be: version gap, expertise problems (an example of which is the "proxy problem"), wrongly-abstracted code, process mismatch, and social and attitudinal barriers. This will not be yet another talk on CodingStyle, but a more high-level look at structural problems inside companies and the industry that prevent meaningful engagement within the open source community.

The goal of this talk is to help individual developers and companies identify and implement practices that will accelerate their participation in open source, so that they can enjoy more of the value of open source besides just the open code base.