Open source in the corporate world is often counterintuitive, since the norms, practices and processes are very different, or at least they seem like. But it doesn't have to be that scary and complicated as it looks.

In this episode of the My Open Source Experience podcast, guests talk about their experience with making open source work within a company, to the extent of working upstream. Topics cover management layers, corporate structure, change management and how individuals experience participating in open source communities.

Hear more from:

- Stormy Peters on (the lack of) social norms, open source champions and the maintenance lock-in of proprietary code within companies

- Magnus Buhrgard on the fears middle layer management has about open source and landing OSS code in a product

- Samson Goddy on the importance of speaking the business language and the challenge with corporate company structures when it comes to open source

- Tom Sadler on what motivates or keeps individuals back from contributing to open source

- Austen Bryan on how to succeed with implementing changes in an organization

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In life, in industry and sometimes in open source, we keep re-inventing and re-implementing things. If all software development happened behind closed doors we didn't have any other choice but to do duplicative work and slow down innovation.

In this episode of the My Open Source Experience podcast Stormy Peters shares how the desire to avoid wasteful practices in software development drove her to open source. Her career has been revolving around OSS and she put her passion and growing experience into good use by helping companies, big and small, to build structure, processes and practices to be able to invest and engage in open source.

Learn more about:

- How to enable a company to rely and engage with open source

- Challenges with open source licenses and copyright

- Building an OSPO

- Company acquisition and how to approach that from an OSPO

- Tools that help investing in and working with open source

- The concepts of an old and a young OSPO

- The evolution of an OSPO

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Open source can be intimidating, and sometimes hiding in plain sight.

In the past decade the telecommunications industry has been going through their open source transformation journey, which is bumpy at times. This is an industry segment that is highly regulated and standardized, which can clash with the fast-paced and flexible nature of open source.

In this My Open Source Experience podcast episode, Magnus Buhrgard shares some of his insights about the telecommunications industry, and its relationship to open source.

Learn more about:

- Open source initiatives and projects in the telecommunications industry

- Why mostly telecom operators are the ones who start new open source projects

- What middle-layer management dislikes about open source

- Business reasons and value to adopt and invest in open source

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