Wolfgang Gehring: Why actively contributing to Open Source benefits you twice! #FOSSBack
Channel: Plain Schwarz
Date: 2023-08-29

In his talk at FOSS Backstage 2023 Dr. Wolfgang Gehring (FOSS Ambassador at Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovations) gave an introduction to how Mercedes-Benz is using and contributing to Free and Open Source Software.

Full video: https://youtu.be/6uHJodpllpA

At Mercedes-Benz, we decided that we don’t want to “just use FOSS”, but to fully embrace all aspects of it. This means we needed a dedicated Open (and Inner) Source strategy and an Open Source Program Office – but first we had to define what it really means to “embrace FOSS”. Come with me on our journey which we started about 6 years ago. Let me show you what we learned, what the crucial points were in implementing the strategy, and what we wish we had already known at the beginning.

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