Summary

This chapter focused on many of the basics of a company going down the open source road the first time. Every major company that has been involved in open source has gone through this, and there is a fair amount of learning an organization has to go through to be successful with open source. Fortunately, there are great groups out there, such as the TODO Group, which is a group of leaders from OSPOs along many different verticals and horizontals, who can be resources for seeing how to be successful.

Getting an open source project off the ground is one thing, and indeed a feat to be proud of. But running one...that’s another fun challenge. In the next chapter, we will build from the launch of an open source project and learn about how to best govern it based on the community and industry you are working in.