Your goal is to detail your open source strategy in a document that everyone from engineering and legal, to marketing and the C-suite can reference. Let’s start with the end goal first, and then explain how to get there. Ibrahim Haddad, Vice President of R&D and the Head of the Open Source Lab at Samsung “If you do not start with that high-level consensus, driving agreement on the details of the policy and on investments in the process tends to be very hard, if not impossible.” Clarify where your company invests in community-driven, external R&D and where your company will focus on its value added differentiation.Explain your company’s approach to open source and support of its use.Help build a healthy community around inventions.Help individuals and inventors make better decisions.Facilitate decision-making in diffuse, multi-departmental organizations.Obtain buy-in at various levels within the company.This will help you maximize the benefits your organization gets from open source, while keeping you out of trouble that can arise from mistakes such as picking the wrong licenses or failing to maintain code properly.
The critical first step in increasing your open source investment is to create a strategy document. Whether or not you have set a business strategy around your open source efforts, you likely already know that this is important.
Formalizing your organization’s approach to open source management and strategy creates guidelines that boost efficiency and minimize risks.
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