SWOD8wgFTeEWhen a company relies heavily on open source, it is a common practice to develop strategies and long term goals to manage the relationship between the company’s products and the open source ecosystem. We created the Open Source Program Office to:
Make sure the important open source projects for Sauce are in a healthy state
Motivate all Sauce Labs employees to consume and contribute to OSS in a simple, secure and healthy way
Facilitate communication between product and the open source ecosystem
Bring developers closer to the community to enable innovation and product obsession
Shape and build important standards for Sauce Labs, such as WebDriver, in collaboration with other open source groups
This talk will show how we are doing all this in small steps, planning for the long run and involving all teams to increase the sense of belonging of OSS. And more importantly, it will show why having an open source strategy matters, and how can this benefit everyone in the long term.
Key Takeaways
Why Sauce Labs created the Open Source Program Office, current projects and vision for the future
Why having a healthy open source ecosystem matters and how that can help your organization down the road
How open source can motivate teams to develop a product obsession
About the Speakers
Christian Bromann
STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEERChristian is a member of the Open Source Program Office at Sauce Labs and is working on various open source projects related to test automation and Node.js. He represents the company as Advisory Committee representative at the W3C and the WebdriverIO project as core contributor in the OpenJS Foundation Cross-Project Council.
Diego Molina
STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEERDiego is a Software Engineer and a Selenium core committer. He loves enabling testers by creating helpful testing tools and infrastructure and delivering versatile Selenium trainings and workshops.
