Open source movement and much more
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The document discusses the importance and benefits of the open source movement, specifically focusing on Intuit's engagement with open source software. It outlines the principles of open source, the framework for contributing to it, and the impact on innovation, collaboration, and hiring. Additionally, it emphasizes the need for a strategic approach to open sourcing projects and the interplay between open and inner source practices within organizations.
Open source movement and much more
- 1. Open Source Movement and Much More Michael Kalika Chief Architect, Intuit Israel October 28, 2020
- 2. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 2 Trying to attract a new talent? Or find a new channel for selling your products or services?
- 3. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 3 About me - Chief Architect of Intuit Israel - Innovation Catalyst at Intuit - Vice President of IASA Israel - Background in development, operations, and management - Astronomer and astrophotographer - Father of three https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelkalika Michael Kalika Rishon LeZion, Israel
- 4. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 4 What is open source? Why open source? What does it take? How is it done at Intuit? Agenda
- 6. Founded by Scott Cook & Tom Proulx 1983 Went public on Nasdaq 1993 20 locations, 9 countries Locations 9,000+50M ~$6.8B FY19 Revenue Customers worldwide Employees worldwide Who we are
- 7. 2004 - 2019 Most Admired: Computer Software 2002 - 2019 100 Best Companies to Work For 2019 Most Innovative Companies 2019 Companies Best Positioned For Breakout Growth Recognized as one of the world’s leading companies 2017 - 2019 Best High Tech Companies to work for
- 8. What is open source?
- 9. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 9 1940 Approx. invention of modern computer 1974 Invention of First PC 1983 GNU started 1991 Linux project started 1998 Open Source Initiative (OSI) started 2005 Git project started Hardware Software Open Source
- 10. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 10 Open Source Freedom Principles aka “4 Freedoms” 02 0304 01 The freedom to run the software for any purpose The freedom to study the software and alter its behaviour The freedom to make and distribute copies of the software The freedom to release your modified versions of the software to the public
- 11. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 11 ● Freely accessed and used ● Freely altered and redistributed ● No discrimination against persons, groups, fields and endeavours ● Technology Neutral ● No vendor lock-in More details: https://opensource.org/osd-annotated
- 12. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 12 People behind Open Source Movement Richard Stallman Linus Torvalds Brian Behlendorf
- 13. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 13 Who creates Open Source software?
- 14. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 14 Open Source ≠ Free
- 15. Why open source?
- 16. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 16 Closed Software is built like cathedrals, carefully crafted by individual wizards or small bands of mages working in splendid isolation. — Eric Raymond, “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”, 1997 Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 16
- 17. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 17 Open Software seems to resemble a great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches. — Eric Raymond, “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”, 1997 Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 17
- 18. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 18 This accelerates innovation across the industry and facilitates adoption of services and products you offer. When an open source project becomes popular, you benefit from a massive influx of outside contributors, so the project and the ecosystem evolve more rapidly.
- 19. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 19 Cooperating is not a zero sum game and by working together all participants may yield higher returns than the investment they make — John Nash’s, Cooperative Games Theory Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 19
- 20. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 20 Engineering Playground Some engineers have playgrounds. Playgrounds are the perfect place to try out new concepts and patterns and when a project is open source, it’s easy to get feedback from other highly skilled professionals. Attract the Best, Personal Development and Morale Building Open-source contribution during office hours is a perk that can help a lot when hiring. Internal Collaboration Increases collaboration between business units, remote sites and teams fffffff More benefits
- 21. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 21 Speed, Flexibility and Lower Costs are Top Open Source Benefits Source: TODO, Talk Openly Develop Openly, Annual Survey: https://github.com/todogroup/survey TODO = Talk Openly, Develop Openly, https://todogroup.org/
- 22. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 22 What to Open Source? ● Eat your own dog food and build for an end-user case - the product is used internally in production at scale ● The product solves a specific problem in a unique way ● The product is modularised and can be used easily ● Does NOT represent core business ● No platform or vendor lock-in
- 23. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 23 The number one reason to NOT open source a project is that it includes, or links to your company’s “secret sauce” or sensitive data because doing so can create security issues or erode competitive advantage. Why not Open Source?
- 24. What does it take?
- 25. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 25 Open Source is NOT just sharing code at Github
- 26. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 26 Strategy What are our goals? What do we want to achieve? Engineering Time Investment and Commitment Feature Development, Issues, Pull Requests Reviews, Forums, Meetups, Blogging Education & Mentorship Education and Mentor about open source practices, clean code, community building, etc. Compliance Legal aspects, reviews and licensing Marketing & Communication How to get smartest professionals contributing to open source projects? Partnership building. Communication with external partners and communities. Open Source Program Management Coordination and management of the above Open Sourcing Requires an Investment in...
- 27. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 27 How to Measure? Area Measurements Project adoption • # Dependent internal products • # Visitors to GitHub repo • # Followers on GitHub • # Downloads • # Forks • # Stars in GitHub • # Mentions in social media • # Meetups, hackathons • # Contributing companies • # Dependent external products (need to track media & community for that) Activity • # Pull requests submitted, opened, accepted and rejected • # Issues submitted Contribution • Internal vs External contributors ratio • Ratio of commits per contributor - external vs. internal Productivity and Efficiency • Length of time pull requests remain open • Length of time issues remain open Investment • Time engineers spend on actual development of the project • Time spent on project promotion activities - engineers vs. non-engineers • Budget spent on project promotion, consultancy etc.
- 28. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 28 More guides https://todogroup.org/guides/
- 29. How is it done at Intuit?
- 30. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 30 There are 3 main reasons why it’s important to be an active player in the open source community: 1) it allows us to adopt advanced technologies that are robust, free and not tied to a vendor; furthermore, many critical new innovations are available first in open source; 2) it increases our tech profile, both internally and externally, and helps us with hiring; and 3) it helps our code stay fresh because there’s a whole community keeping it relevant and evolving it. — Marianna Tessel, Marianna's Thoughts - December 2019 Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 30
- 31. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 31 https://opensource.intuit.com/ Open Source
- 32. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 32 Argo - Get stuff done with Kubernetes! The Argo Project is a set of Kubernetes-native tools for deploying and running jobs and applications. It uses GitOps paradigms such as continuous delivery, progressive delivery and enables MLOps on Kubernetes. ● Argo Workflows - Container-native Workflow Engine ● Argo CD - Declarative GitOps Continuous Delivery ● Argo Rollouts - Declarative Progressive Delivery and Experimentation ● Argo Events - Event-based Dependency Manager ● https://github.com/argoproj ● 10,950+ GitHub stars ● 3,600+ Slack members ● 460+ contributors ● 4,600+ commits ● 170+ end user companies ● 250+ releases ● 60% contributions by non Intuit ● Part of CNCF incubator
- 33. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 33 Inner Source ● Inner Source takes the lessons learned from developing Open Source software and applies them to the way companies develop software internally. ● Inner Source is a priority at Intuit and a vital part of the vision for Intuit's Engineering Culture. More on this: ● http://innersourcecommons.org/ ● https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns
- 34. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 34 Gender Diversity in Open Source ● It’s a painful truth in the open source community that diversity in our ranks is worse than diversity in tech overall. ● According to TopTal’s study in Github ○ 6% of the randomly sampled profiles ○ 5.4% of profiles with over 10 contributions ● At Intuit, not only do we have women contributing to open source, we also have a number of women creating and maintaining amazing open source projects Belong to Women Source: https://medium.com/intuit-engineering/celebrating-intuits-women-open-source-maintainers-784a2ab60801
- 35. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 35 Principles & Guidelines ● The project has proved useful internally by at least another team (consider number of internal stars, contributions and adopters using it in production). ● The project solves a specific problem in a unique, new way. ● Your team will support the project for the foreseeable future, including by answering community questions and reviewing PRs in a timely manner. ● The project successfully completes four required reviews: 1. Technical Review 2. Business Review 3. Legal Review 4. Security Review
- 36. Intuit Confidential and Proprietary 36 Key Takeaways Open Source allows adopt new, robust & free technologies Open Source increases your company tech profile Open Source helps your code stay fresh Eat your own dog food and build for an end-user case Open Source is NOT just sharing code at Github Measure your Open Source initiatives Consider both - Open and Inner Source in your company 1 6 2 5 4 3 7
- 37. Thanks for joining! Questions? https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelkalika Chief Architect, Intuit Israel Innovation Catalyst