Application Development Webinars
Netflix: Building Up and Scaling Out on Open Source
Don’t miss insights around how Netflix uses open source to meet the dynamic needs of its rapidly growing subscriber base.
Date: Tuesday, June 18th
Time: 2:00pm EDT - What time is this for me?
To consumers, Netflix is the world’s leading internet subscription service, offering unlimited movies and instant streaming. But to developers and technology leaders, Netflix is at the forefront of open source and the associated advances in cloud, big data and mobile innovations.
With over 30 million global subscribers to support, Netflix relies on the open source tools it contributes to and develops, for the scalability and availability that its native cloud architecture and web servers require.
Join us for this webinar with Netflix Cloud Architect, Adrian Cockcroft, sharing:
- An introduction to Netflix OSS
- Why Netflix is taking an open source approach
- How all the parts fit together
- What is coming next for Netflix OSS
Can't attend? All registrants will receive a follow-up email with a copy of the slides and the full recording within 2-3 business days of the broadcast.
Enhancing Your Open Source Management and Compliance Processes for Embedded Software
Date: Tuesday, June 11th
Time: 11:30am EDT – What time is this for me?
Increasingly, open source components are an important element in developing embedded systems. Linux-based systems, including specialized distributions like GENIVI and Yocto, are the foundation for systems being built today. The innovation and productivity benefits of using open software components developed and maintained by a community are huge. But as with any third party code, systems vendors need to carefully manage the licensing of the software inside the products they ship.
Wind River has a wealth of experience in developing, delivering, and managing OSS internally in support of its market leading open operating environments; Black Duck is the market leader in providing products and services to companies developing embedded systems, enabling them to manage their open source software and ensure compliance throughout the development lifecycle.
This webinar will provide concrete use cases about how the best companies manage their use of open source and how SPDX licensing data can be leveraged to improve compliance and increase efficiency in a supply chain.
Can't attend? All registrants will receive a follow-up email with a copy of the slides and the full recording within 2-3 business days of the broadcast.
2013 Future of Open Source Survey Results Revealed
The annual Future of Open Source Survey provides a report on the state of the open source industry and analysis of future trends. Now in its seventh year, this annual survey was supported by 30 open source software industry leaders and collaborating organizations, and compiles results from hundreds of respondents from the open source community.
For the first time ever, the Future of Open Source Survey sponsors Black Duck Software and North Bridge Venture Partners, will host a live panel discussion revealing this year’s survey results with unique, real world insights from the following industry experts:
- Tim Yeaton, CEO and President, Black Duck
- Michael Skok, General Partner at North Bridge Venture Partners
- Jeffrey Hammond, VP, Principal Analyst Serving Application Development & Delivery Professionals, Forrester Research
- Rob Bearden, CEO at Hortonworks
- Ed Tilford, Head of Open Source Governance at Thomson Reuters
Follow the 2013 Future of Open Source discussion on Twitter with the hashtag #FutureOSS and read the results announcement here.
Inner-Source Fundamentals: Egalitarianism, Meritocracy and Measuring Success
This is the third in a series of webinars (Inner-Sourcing: Community Development Practices in Corporate IT and Understanding Inner-Source Fundamentals: Transparency, Collaboration and Self-Organization) covering the inner-sourcing concept of using open source community-style development methods and best practices in internal development organizations. In this installment, Guy Martin from Red Hat and Andrew Aitken from Olliance Consulting, a division of Black Duck, will discuss successful inner-source efforts including:
- Egalitarianism, the value of creating and providing open project access regardless of rank/position
- Meritocracy, the benefits of promoting the idea that developers’ contributions determine their level of influence and role within the project
Additionally, this webinar will cover the challenging task of defining “success” in inner-source communities by suggesting the necessary elements which must be incorporated into quantitative and qualitative metrics.
Code Reuse Made Easy: Uncovering the Hidden Gems of Corporate and Open Source Software
With 100’s of millions of lines of code running in most large companies and billions of lines of code available in the world of open source, a significant opportunity exists to reuse code written by others in your next application. Sounds easy, but finding the right code and evaluating it for reuse can be a daunting task – one that often causes people to start from scratch.
Join Dave Gruber and Randy DeFauw as they demonstrate how Black Duck and Perforce Version Management can help you discover, track and reuse software components from both your internal code bases and the world of open source.
Learn concrete steps for:
- Managing open source and internal components
- Consuming or forking these components in your projects
- And coming to grips with open source libraries hosted in public Git repositories
Understanding Inner-Source Fundamentals: Transparency, Collaboration and Self-Organization
Building upon our first webinar, which provided an overview of the inner-sourcing concept, Guy Martin from Red Hat and Andrew Aitken from Olliance Consulting focus in on foundational elements of building successful inner-source communities. In this installment, they will cover:
- Transparency (making project/technical decisions in the open)
- Collaboration (working effectively together across team boundaries)
- Self-Organization (cultivating effective team and governance structures)
Explanations of each element will also be accompanied by practical tips for how to successfully implement these concepts inside an enterprise development environment.
Driving Business Agility with the Use of Open Source Software
Watch this can't miss webinar featuring insights from IDC and Thomson Reuters! Software drives business optimization and innovation, yet managing a disparate array of application components deployed across a range of platforms is costly, inefficient, and inherently risky. Global 2000 organizations leverage code from a vast array of sources, and increasingly turn to open source. Open source software (OSS) provides tremendous opportunities for efficient code creation, yet organizational strategies to manage open source remain woefully inadequate. Executives, managers, and development teams must drive coordination and decision making in this complex, dynamic environment. But managing these software assets is challenging due to a variety of factors:
- Companies must oversee software development yet typically have little actual visibility into the origin and policy management of the code on which their businesses depend.
- Open source makes up 30% or more of the code at major G2000 organization and is increasingly looked to as a resource
- Complex sourcing with open source, offshoring, outsourcing, and geographically distributed internal development teams drives the need to collaborate well and manage dispersed software projects
- These disparate sources of software tend to be fractured organizationally and geographically.
- Islands of desktop, mobile, cloud and other platforms aggravate this coordination problem.
Gain real-world insights from the Head of Open Source Governance at Thomson Reuters, Ed Tilford, who will share how this industry leader governs and controls its use of open source software.
Our other guest speaker Melinda-Carol Ballou, Program Director for IDC's Application Life-Cycle Management and Executive Strategies Service, will highlight open source software strategies that enable business agility and nurture community culture. Don’t miss this discussion on techniques to improve code usage, as software creation evolves toward greater complexity and reliance on external code.
Open Source IP Compliance for Embedded Linux Systems
Proliferation of consumer devices from hand-held to those embedded in cars’ dashboards continues to drive adoption of Linux-based systems across Automotive, networking, mobile, digital media and entertainment industries. This growth of the embedded Linux market created a tremendous drive for an even broader adoption of Open Source Software (OSS) throughout supply chains, as R&D teams use multi-source approaches to increase rates of innovation while controlling costs.
Along with these opportunities for growth, faster development cycles and lower costs come risks associated with increased complexities in collaborative development, including challenges of OSS IP license compliance. With automotive IVI development as a case study, attendees of this webinar will learn from industry experts about the challenges and ways to resolve these through the use of industry standard platforms and compliance tools offerings.
What will you learn?
- Middleware from GENIVI Alliance or other industry players
- Approaches to validate your software stack
- Mitigating risks while moving through the design steps of an Infotainment system
Join Phil Odence, VP of Business Development at Black Duck, and Andrew Patterson, Business Development Director for Mentor Graphics, for these insights and more.
The Open Source Payoff: Assessing the Value of Strategic OSS Use
Developers love using open source, but can you measure the productivity gains and hard-dollar savings associated with its strategic use? In this 45-minute webinar, value assessment expert Doug Wetzel from IntelliCap will introduce you to a proven assessment model that will enable you to quantify the real benefits of automating the governance and management of open source and connect it your business’ bottom line.
The IntelliCap Value Assessment, a tangible, value-based assessment process based on a proven quantitative methodology and backed by a supporting financial model, was adapted in 2012 specifically to assess the potential value of automating the use, governance and management of OSS components.
In a Q&A format with Phil Marshall from Black Duck, Doug will discuss how IntelliCap models the productivity gains and hard-dollar savings of OSS. He will present a case study about a large financial services organization, and provide actionable advice for organizations wishing to conduct their own value assessment.
Inner-Sourcing: Community Development Practices in Corporate IT
Thanks to shifting consumer and customer demands, technology trends, resource constraints, and stiff competition, corporate IT organizations must find faster, more agile and efficient software development processes. To address this, many IT groups are looking to open source community-style collaborative development processes, or what Tim O'Reilly called "inner-sourcing."
But what is inner-sourcing, exactly? And how can the open source community's rapid pace of innovation (as demonstrated by mobile, cloud, big data, etc.) be translated to a corporate IT organization?
Topics covered and questions answered in this webinar include:
- Where it fits within IT development organizations
- How it enhances existing development methods such as agile
- Its benefits and unique characteristics
- Examples & case studies to illustrate the process & value
Our speakers are two experienced consultants from the open source community, Guy Martin, Managing Principal Architect, Red Hat, and Andrew Aitken, VP and GM of Olliance Consulting, a division of Black Duck.