Why Open Source is Important and What are We Doing About it?
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This document discusses the importance of open source software to companies like Samsung and their open source strategies. It notes that open source is important for product development, innovation, and hiring. The document outlines Samsung's open source journey since 2002 and their establishment of an Open Source Group in 2013. It provides details on Samsung's open source infrastructure, focus areas, contributions to upstream projects, and efforts to provide thought leadership in open source.
Why Open Source is Important and What are We Doing About it?
- 1. Why open source is important and what are we doing about it? Ibrahim Haddad, Ph.D. Vice President and Head of the Open Source Group Samsung Research America – Silicon Valley Korea Linux Forum 2015
- 2. Open Source is Collaborative, External R&D
- 3. Well known companies with dedicated open source organization
- 4. Why are companies increasing open source R&D? • Support Product Development • Support Product Innovation • Faster Time To Market • Better Hiring
- 5. Open source is a strategic asset 30% 80% Average Best in class Source: IDC Shift from smaller part to majority of code being open source across industries: Embedded, Supercomputing, Telecom, Banking, Healthcare, Automotive, etc.
- 6. Key dimensions to enterprise open source strategy Open Source Strategy Product Community Governance Culture
- 7. High engagement in open standards Portals Compliance Education Inventory Communication Internal External Training Guidelines Licenses New Employee Orientation Inventory Management Audit 3rd Party Code Usage Process + Policy Distribution Process + Policy Auditing Process + Policy Checklists Attribution Policy Documentation Policy Internal External Compliance part of development Compliance Team Scoreboard Contribution Process + Policy Open Standards Contributor Training Establish organization OSS Group Hire from OSS projects Open source proprietary code Support OSS foundations Host OSS events Involvment w/e OSS licensing Establish Internal OSS certification and career path Mentorship Program Independent IT Infra Increased scope of engagement Increased work with # of projects Oss reference implementation Executing the strategy: Enterprise open source infrastructure
- 8. Why aim for open source leadership?
- 9. 1/ Product dependency on open source software
- 10. 2/ Faster Path to Innovation • Commoditizing and freely sharing lower-level components of the platform proved to be a better way of building products. • When you do this, you are focused differentiating at higher levels of the stack, focusing your resources to innovate on your unique value add. This is a fundamental business advantage that Linux and open source enable.
- 11. 3/ Open Source is Eating the Software World 2011 2014 Open Source is Eating the Software World.
- 12. Needed skills to accelerate software innovation • More open collaboration • Better programming and development skills • Better architectural skills • Better software and system design skills • Better integration skills • Modular and scalable coding skills • Software re-use skills • Continuous testing and integration cycles • etc.
- 13. Samsung’s Open Source Journey
- 14. c 2002 Getting a taste of Open Source (Embedded Linux) 200 5 200 8 2013 20 14 Established the Open Source Group Increased Adoption 20 15 Proliferation
- 15. Why is open source important to Samsung?
- 16. Samsung Open Source Group (OSG) – Est. 02/2013 Open source leadership can’t be given. – You earn it by consistent participation and contribution. 오픈 소스 의 리더십 Open Source Leadership Open source leadership can be taken away. - You lose it by lack of participation and contribution.
- 17. We continue to build our open source infrastructure Open Source Group (multiple geographical locations) High number of maintainers, committers and reviewers Linux Foundation, Apache Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, GNOME , SFC, SFLC Korea Linux Forum, SOCON, Kernel Summit 2015, Internal Contributors Day (2x /year) Frontiership Program Tizen IoTivity W3C IoT Mentorship Program Open Source Mentorship Program Independent IT infra Open source IT infra: Our own servers + IRC + WIKI + VPN + Linux Laptops + IMAP support for Linux + Mailing Lists Server + git servers + file servers + etc. Heavily involved in dozens of projects used in our products Consumer + Basic Participant Infrastructure Advanced elements were established in 2013 & 2014.
- 18. OSG current focus areas Open Source Foundations Linux Foundation Software Freedom Law Center Software Conservancy Center GNOME Foundation Apache Foundation Mozilla Foundation OSS Compliance Advise R&D Teams on OSS Legal Compliance Support with Compliance Efforts + Help Resolve Inquiries Evangelism Strategy Community Launch new projects Sponsor + speak at conferences Organize community events Deliver internal training Mentor junior engineers Thought leadership Internal technical workshops Advise on community matters Media FFmpeg Gstreamer Standards Web/W3C (CSS, HTML5) IoT (Open Interconnect Consortium + IoTivity Project) Virtualization KVM QEMU Web Webkit Blink Graphics Wayland EFL Cairo System Linux Kernel Tizen Platform TechnicalNon-Technical
- 19. What do our open source developers do? • Upstream development. • Helping R&D and product teams on open source software. • Open source knowledge transfer internally. • Special projects and new ideas. • Internal and external thought leadership.
- 20. What’s our impact? (source code) • Goal: Quantify our contributions to key upstream projects. • gitdm – git data mining. • Survey 15 upstream projects: BlueZ, Wayland and Weston, GStreamer, Cairo, EFL and Enlightenme nt, Linux, FFmpeg, Clang, Blink, Servo, Caskbench, Skia, Webkit, X en, U-Boot. • Date: – Survey covers code committed from Jan 1, 2011 to Oct 10, 2015.
- 21. Development Community vs. Samsung (15 projects) 0 M 20 M 40 M 60 M 80 M 100 M 120 M 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Not Samsung Samsung 500+ companies Samsung: ~2.5% of total development efforts Oct 10 2015
- 22. A closer look at Samsung’s contributions 0 M 1 M 2 M 3 M 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Samsung Samsung OSG OSG Samsung Developers Oct 10 2015
- 23. OSG = Over 40% of Samsung’s upstream dev since its inception (Feb’13) 0 M 1 M 2 M 3 M 2013 2014 2015 Samsung Samsung OSG OSG Samsung Developers Oct 10, 2015 This is a great example to showcase the need for a dedicated open source team that gets engaged on open source projects critical to your company.
- 24. What’s our impact? (Thought Leadership)
- 25. Guiding principles 1. We can’t hire all the smart people in the world. We need to find a way to tap into their knowledge and influence favorable outcomes in external collaborative and R&D projects. 2. Open source R&D creates significant value. Internal R&D uses the results of open source R&D and claims portion of that value. 3. We don’t need to originate the research to use it or benefit from it. 4. We practice what we preach internally: openness and collaboration.
- 26. Closing Thoughts
- 27. Why Focus on Open Source R&D? Open Source R&D is a very important and a strategic innovation tool. • Share development on non diffrentiating software • Lower R&D cost • Accelerate product development • Influence on technologies used in products • Access to talent pool
- 28. Companies need to adapt to collaborative development (internally and externally) Development model Collaboration Transparency Meritocracy Team formation Hiring practices Contribution Governance Organizational Approvals Operational model IT infrastructure Development tools Metrics Knowledge sharing Code reuse Culture Processes Tools We’re on the right path; it will take time and perseverence.
- 29. #TheNextBigThing will be created with Open Source. Open Source is eating the software world. We can watch the show or be part of it. We chose to be part of it! @SamsungOSG
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