When direct contribution brings too much friction within your company, you might need a temporary intermediate layer as an interface. See how this evolution helps organizations maximize value flow and ROI when contributing to open source. 1. Introduction: Evolving the Model In the inaugural post of this series, "The Virtuous Open Source Cycle: Model Description", … Continue reading Part 3: Evolving the Model by adding a company-driven open source project
Introducing the SPDX Cryptographic Algorithm List: a Personal View
The SPDX community is now creating a new list — similar to the SPDX License List — but focused on cryptographic algorithms. This post shares how this effort started, its current status, the next steps, and a final call for participation.
Open Source Communities Are Outstanding Learning Environments
Open source communities are outstanding learning environments. By contributing, you learn actively, get real feedback, and grow faster than in most companies. If you want to take control of your career, start with open source.
Why Business Intelligence is Key to Software Production
Business Intelligence (BI) is essential to understand and improve the production of software-defined products, yet its application is still immature. By building trust, involving engineers in defining metrics, and starting with small end-to-end use cases, companies can turn BI into a powerful driver of decision-making and continuous improvement.
From Theory to Practice: Leveraging the Virtuous Open Source Cycle for Long-Term Success
Learn how to apply the virtuous open source cycle model in practice. Learn to design contribution and return paths, measure value, reduce friction, and sustain open source investment successfully. 1. Introduction This is the second article in a series about the virtuous open source cycle model. The first article explained the basic model, showing how … Continue reading From Theory to Practice: Leveraging the Virtuous Open Source Cycle for Long-Term Success
The virtuous open source cycle: model description
This article introduces a simple, repeatable model to track how companies can contribute to open source projects and realize benefits in return
A frenetic week, from Software Heritage Symposium to FOSDEM 2025
The last few days of January and the first days of February were intense. I participated in several events leading up to FOSDEM 2025.
Empowering Engineers as Ambassadors: A Strategic Business Investment
Equipping engineers to represent your company in open source is more than a nice-to-have — it's a strategic investment with long-term business impact.
Minimise branding-related risks when your company has a commercial and an open source profile
I am not a branding expert, but my journey through numerous long-term open-source projects and collaborations with marketing departments and professionals has allowed me to learn some simple but valuable lessons in this field. I would like to describe some of them in this blog post. So, what exactly is a brand and how do … Continue reading Minimise branding-related risks when your company has a commercial and an open source profile
La Palma Tech Summer 2024 meetup: summary
San Miguel de La Palma Tech Lovers, the meetup group As you probably know, I am the organiser of the meetup group San Miguel de La Palma Tech Lovers, a attempt to bring together the local tech community, remote workers located in the island and digital nomads visiting it. These two last groups are coordinated … Continue reading La Palma Tech Summer 2024 meetup: summary
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