Why open-source projects are essential for large businesses

The famous line from Marc Andreesen that “software is eating the world” has become part and parcel of modern technology’s canon and it continues to act as a rallying cry for the industry as a whole.

Why open-source projects are essential for large businesses - PostHog

The famous line from Marc Andreesen that “software is eating the world” has become part and parcel of modern technology’s canon and it continues to…

How we share SLIs across engineering departments

At GitLab everyone can contribute to GitLab.com’s availability. We measure the availability using several Service Level Indicators (SLIs) But it’s not always easy to see how the features you’re building are performing. GitLab’s features are divided amongst development groups, and every group has their own dashboard displaying an availability score.

How we share SLIs across engineering departments | GitLab

The Scalability team engages with the Development department for collaborating on SLIs. The first post in this series explains how we made available information accessible for development groups.

Open source creates value, but how do you measure it? | The GitHub Blog

When digital infrastructure is overlooked by governments, it isn’t just a missed opportunity: policies may inadvertently endanger open source collaboration.

Open source creates value, but how do you measure it? | The GitHub Blog

When digital infrastructure is overlooked by governments, it isn’t just a missed opportunity: policies may inadvertently endanger open source collaboration.

20VC: Gitlab CEO Sid Sijbrandij on Why You Are Not Allowed to Present in Meetings at Gitlab

Listen to this episode from The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch on Spotify. Sid Sijbrandij is the Co-founder & CEO @ GitLab. GitLab’s single application helps organizations deliver software faster and more efficiently while strengthening their security and compliance. Prior to their IPO last year, Sid raised funding from some of the best including ICONIQ, GV, Tiger, Coatue and D1 to name a few. Under his leadership, the company has grown to over 1,500 employees and over 30 million registered users. If that was not enough, Sid is also an active angel and sits on the board of Meltano, a spinout of Gitlab that allows you to manage all the data tools in your stack.

20VC: Gitlab CEO Sid Sijbrandij on Why You Are Not Allowed to Present in Meetings at Gitlab, Why it is a Pipedream We Will Go Back to Offices and What is the Future of Work & CEO Coaches; What Makes The Best, When To Have Them and When To Change Them - The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch on Spotify. Sid Sijbrandij is the Co-founder & CEO @ GitLab. GitLab’s single application helps organizations deliver software faster and more efficiently while strengthening their security and compliance. Prior to their IPO last year, Sid raised funding from some of the best including ICONIQ, GV, Tiger, Coatue and D1 to name a few. Under his leadership, the company has grown to over 1,500 employees and over 30 million registered users. If that was not enough, Sid is also an active angel and sits on the board of Meltano, a spinout of Gitlab that allows you to manage all the data tools in your stack. In Today’s Episode with Sid Sijbrandij You Will Learn: 1.) The Founding of Gitlab: How did Sid make his way into the world of tech and startups? What was it about Gitlab as a project that excited Sid so much from Day 1? How did Sid convince his co-founder to turn Gitlab from a project into a company? 2.) The Future of Work: Why does Sid believe it is a fallacy that everyone will go back to the office? What are the 1-2 most important things for companies to do when moving to a remote work environment? Where does Sid see many make mistakes? What have Gitlab done to create a remote working environment so successfully? What have they tried that has not worked? What stage of company building does remote work best for? When is it most challenging? 3.) Sid: The Leader How has Sid changed and evolved as a leader over the Gitlab journey? How does Sid look to get as much feedback as possible on his leadership? How does Sid create an environment of safety where everyone feels they can provide feedback? How does Sid work with his CEO coach? Should every CEO have one? What should one look for in them? How do you know when you need to change your CEO coach? 4.) Sid: The Board Member: What have been Sid’s biggest lessons on what makes successful board management? In prep for the meeting, what materials does Sid provide? When does he send them? Does he present to the board? What mistakes do founders make in boards? From being on the other side as a board member, what does Sid believe the best members do? What would Sid most like to change about board meetings today? Item’s Mentioned In Today’s Episode with Sid Sijbrandij Sid’s Favourite Book: High Output Management

💬 Ask HN: Marketing, DevRel and Evangelism working for Open-source

Why is it so difficult to find a space to communicate your open-source project to drive adoption at scale? To recruit new people inside a new company, it’s not easy to explain the open-source workflow to not-tech people, so most often, great open-source projects have lousy communication.

Evangelism, like GitLab said (Developer Evangelist - UTMs for URL tagging and tracking), is essential. That’s sure. But how to scale up a team to grow that skill inside the company?

Is it better to grow it internally (logically, a founder is the best person to communicate his project)? But how a tech person can develop marketing and communication skills?

Or the best way is to recruit a skilled DevRel person or instead of a marketing person and collaborate in creating great content?

How to Attract non code contributions to your Open Source project

0:00 - Start5:12 - Intros7:46 - Non Code contributions to open source projects10:15 - The arc of contributing12:23 - Understanding personal motivations to co…

COSS Weekly #72

💰 COSS Funding: $390

• Astronomer, building tools for data orchestration, announced their $213M Series C led by Insight Ventures. Link
• Island, makers of an enterprise browser, announced their $115M Series B led by Insight Partners. Link
• SpectroCloud, makers of a Kubernetes management platform, announced their $40M Series B led by Stripes. Link
• Unleash, makers of feature management tools, announced their $14M Series A led by Spark Capital. Link
• SignalWire, founders and maintainers of FreeSWITCH, announced that TMobile has joined their Series B round with an investment. Link
• Tea, a new open source funding initiative created and launched by Max Howell, the original engineer behind Homebrew, announced an $8M Seed investment led by Binance Labs. Link

💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)

• COSS Community 🌏: “Congrats to @chaosnative on joining @harnessio 👏🏼 https://t.co/wslcMXJABv” Link
• Joseph Jacks (JJ) 🇺🇦: “✨ Since 2015, >$100B in COSS value shifted to public equity, in tandem w/ >$400B created in private markets: @Kaltura @cloudera @Instructure @ProgressSW @rapid7 @jfrog @WANdisco @ForgeRock @couchbase @elastic @SUSE @theqtcompany @HashiCorp @confluentinc @fastly @gitlab @MongoDB https://t.co/G6bgCPen7E” Link
• Julien Le Dem: “Exciting news! Today is the day we announce that Datakin joined forces with Astronomer. This is really exciting as it accelerates both companies’ complementary visions. 👇🏻 https://t.co/86cIuS4j3q” Link