Online Presentations

Accelerate Software Development Through the Use of Open Source  (58 minutes)
By Bill McQuaide, EVP of Product Development at Black Duck Software

Development managers face the challenge of guiding software engineers to the appropriate components to use. Does the component have any known security vulnerability? Is there active support for the component? Is the component mature enough? These pressures are layered on top of organizations that, in many cases, lack policies and mechanisms for component management throughout the software development lifecycle. Until recently, there have not been efficient tools to address these challenges but Black Duck Software offer a solution that can safely accelerate the use of open source.

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An Open Source Panel Discussion (67 minutes)
By Doug Levin, Chief Executive Officer of Black Duck Software

Join Chris Nadan, Senior Director and Deputy General Counsel, Sun Microsystems, Mark F. Radcliffe, Partner & Co-Chair, Technology and Sourcing Practice Group, DLA Piper, General Counsel, Open Source Initiative and Larry Rosen, Founding Partner, Rosenlaw & Einschlag, specializing in intellectual property protection for a thoughtful discussion of current and future trends in software licensing.

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Best Practices for Managing Code Reuse (51minutes)
By Palle Pedersen, Advisor to Black Duck Software

Black Duck Software has developed best practices that will help organizations develop a way to manage code reuse within their organization. Careful management of code reuse will allow companies to decrease development costs and time while mitigating business risks.

Join Palle Pedersen, Advisor to Black Duck Software, in an educational webinar that will provide a technical perspective on managing code reuse.

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Creating an Open Source Policy (57 minutes)
By Bernard Golden, CEO of Navica

This presentation covers a five step process detailing how companies can implement an open source policy in their own environment. We discuss how to mitigate risk in the implementation process, an overview of how companies save money through accelerating a product's time to market and how to implement higher-quality software solutions through the use of open source.

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Know Your Code: Due Diligence Preparedness (31 minutes)
By Karen Faulds Copenhaver, Esq., Partner, Choate, Hall & Stewart

This presentation covers how to be prepared for any Due Diligence event, including what to expect in a software asset Due Diligence process, how to manage your code review and what you need to do to make Due Diligence work for you.

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The Financial Benefits of Using Open Source  (47 minutes)
By Raven Zachery, Research Director, 451 Group

There are many reasons why companies have adopted open source policies. Raven will provide the financial analysis for using open source including important information such as adoption drivers, financial elements of implementation and best practices in the industry.

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The Open Source Genome (59 minutes)
By Palle Pedersen, Chief Technology Officer, Black Duck Software

Palle will provide an overview of how the “open source genome” concept can be useful in understanding the origin and history of your code.

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Using Open Source to Accelerate Embedded Application Development (45 minutes)
By Thomas Fletcher, QNX Software Systems

In this Webinar, you will learn how QNX Software Systems, faced with the challenge of a new hybrid-development model, developed and implemented an open source policy, to safely accelerate development. Thomas Fletcher, Senior Architect at QNX, will explain how the company controls which open source licenses are included as part of the development process.

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What You Need To Know About GPLv3 (55 mins)
By Kat McCabe

There are many questions regarding the terms of GPLv3. To help shed some light on GPLv3, Kat McCabe will go over the key terms of GPLv3, how it's compatible with other licenses and how it impacts patent portfolios.

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  Black Duck and IBM Rational
  Solutions for governing the process of software development
  (1 hour)
  Palle Pedersen, CTO of Black Duck Software, & Colin Devonport, Program Manager for IBM Rational Offerings including Governance and Risk Management.

Software development has changed radically over the past ten years. Routinely, third party and open source components are used to boost productivity. However, using open source and third-party code brings new business issues and licensing concerns that can put software projects at risk.

Black Duck Software extends the IBM Rational Software Deployment Platform with solutions to help companies govern how their software assets are created, managed, and licensed. We allow developers to make informed choices about what components may be used in projects, and how to integrate source code builds with project analysis.

Join us for a discussion about the business issues of compliance and lifecycle management, along with a demonstration of the joint solutions that can help you govern your software development. 

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