It's an important topic and dear to my heart. I joined the discourse thread and I am happy to share some of my feedback and anecdotes from the experience of an engineer working at a Software House that is hired by several customers to work on several Open Source projects (Apache Airflow, Apache Beam, recently Apache Flink and few others).
You can see a relevant story I shared recently at "Success of Apache" that touches the subject quite a bit https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/success-at-apache-welcoming-communities Also I wrote an article about it some time ago at my company's blog: https://www.polidea.com/blog/the-evolution-of-open-source-standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants/ Let me know if any of those seems relevant and interesting - and I am happy to expand some of the topics I mentioned there. I will read through the discourse thread (already signed up and marked my availability) and maybe I can come up with some stories during the next week or so. J. On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 12:02 AM Kevin P. Fleming (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEX) < kpflem...@bloomberg.net> wrote: > At the recent SustainOSS event in Brussels (right after FOSDEM), one of > the working groups formed to address corporate accountability and > transparency in open source projects. We've continued working since that > time, and have an initial draft out for public review and comment. > > First, the link: > > https://authentic-participation.readthedocs.io/ > > Second, the Discourse forum where discussion of the Principles themselves > has taken place: > > > https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/principles-of-authentic-participation-continuing-the-sustain-conversation/284 > > Now, why am I sending this to the comdev mailing list? I'm glad you asked > :-) > > The group which has been working on this project is interested in > gathering more input/feedback from communities who are the recipients of > corporate engagement, and clearly the Apache community has many projects > which receive significant contribution from corporations (and similar > organizations). I volunteered to reach out to the Apache community to bring > awareness of this project to those who might be interested, so there's the > answer! > > Realistically, I'm hoping for two types of results here: > > * Some members of the Apache community may be interested in joining the > working group and helping to craft, publish, and evangelize the Principles. > > * Some members of the Apache community may be interested in providing > feedback, anecdotes, or other indications of how the Principles could have > been valuable in the (recent) past in their projects or communities. > > For the first group, I encourage you to join the Discourse forum, and/or > join the regularly scheduled working sessions (times and links are posted > on the forum). > > For the second group, I'm happy to participate in a thread here, or in a > less-public email thread if that's relevant, or in additional threads in > the Discourse forum if that's preferable. > > Please note that we're not looking to name-and-shame anyone here, and > we're not looking for horror stories of bad engagement, but we are looking > for examples where having something like the Principles in place may have > been valuable when addressing issues in a community. The goal is to provide > a broad set of indicators to the open source community about how the > Principles could be valuable, and to encourage corporations and other > organizations to make pledges that they will abide by the Principles. > > Also, for those of you who don't know me I'm the head of open source > community engagement at Bloomberg, and I'm working on this project as both > a Bloomberg employee and in my personal capacity. I'm willing to discuss > this wearing either hat, as appropriate. > > Thanks in advance for your time, and I hope you find this project > interesting. -- +48 660 796 129
