Running a business like an open source project, Dj Walker Morgan -- OFB 2016
Channel: British Computer Society Open Source Specialists
Date: 2020-04-02

Presented by: Dj Walker-Morgan (Technical Content Curator, Compose)

In this talk, you’ll learn how one company took the agility of open source development and applied its principles to running the business. Compose (acquired by IBM in 2015), began life as a company delivering open source databases on demand. It’s not just about how you handle open source as part of the development process though, even though that will be discussed. The virtues of open source collaboration can be translated into how a company operates with remote working, transparency and self-tasking employees. And all of this enabled by fluid communication across the organisation using tools that are open source too. Because that’s how Open Source development works.

Dj Walker-Morgan is currently the Technical Content Curator at Compose. He’s previously been the editor of The H, a publication specialising in open source and security, run his own technology news blog (codescaling.com), been a regular columnist for PC Pro and PCW (as David Evnull), been a software developer working with commercial and open source software, has written and released various projects as open source and he curates HackWimbledon.