Organizational Adoption and Governance of Open Source Software
Speaker (s):
Anthony I. (Tony) Wasserman
Principal
Software Methods and Tools
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17 October 2023, Tuesday
2:00pm – 3:00pm
School of Economics/School of Computing
& Information Systems 2 (SOE/SCIS 2)
Level 2, Seminar Room 2-6
Singapore Management University
90 Stamford Road, Singapore 178903
Please register by 15 October 2023.
We look forward to seeing you at this research seminar.
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About the Talk
As companies and organizations increase their use of open source software and their participation in open source projects, they must also develop policies and procedures for coordinating and governing these activities across the organization. This coordination can be achieved through the creation of an Open Source Project Office (OSPO).
Among the typical activities of an OSPO are maintenance of an inventory of open source software used within an organization, compliance with open source licenses, management of contributions to various open source projects, and promotion of open source use within the organization.
This talk presents more details on the role of an Open Source Project Office, including the process of creating one, and draws upon the experiences of several large companies in that process.
About the Speaker
Anthony I. (Tony) Wasserman has divided his career between academia and industry. He is currently Principal of Software Methods and Tools, which provides consulting services and executive coaching to software companies. He was previously a Professor in the Software Management program at Carnegie Mellon University - Silicon Valley, teaching courses on software product definition, software product strategy, open source software, and more, with a research focus on evaluation and adoption of open source software.
Earlier, Tony was founder and CEO of Interactive Development Environments (IDE), creator of the innovative multiuser Software through Pictures development platform, and one of the first 100 dot-coms. Tony then led an early mobile app development team at Bluestone Software, and held executive positions at several startups.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the ACM, and IFIP, honored for his contributions to integrated software engineering environments. His professional service includes roles in organizing many technical conferences, most recently serving as Program Chair for the Software Product Management Summit 2023 North America. He served two terms as a Director of the Open Source Initiative (2012-2016). He was a co-founder and first elected Chair of ACM's SIG on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT).
Tony has published nearly 100 reviewed papers and edited 13 books. He currently serves as an Advisor at UC Berkeley's SkyDeck accelerator. Tony has a Ph.D. in computer sciences from University of Wisconsin - Madison and a B.A. in mathematics and physics from the University of California, Berkeley.
He has had the good fortune to travel to more than 75 countries, and posts many of his photos on Flickr.
