02 — Capability · BC-1280
Open Source & Community
Decide what the company publishes as open source and how it stewards those projects, govern the open source it consumes, and grow the community of users and contributors around the product so adoption, feedback and goodwill compound outside the sales motion.
- Open Source Program
- OSPO
- Community Management
- Developer Community
In scope
- Releasing, licensing and maintaining the company's own open source projects
- Governing inbound open source use, licenses and contributions by employees
- Community programs — forums, events, champions and contributor recognition
- Standards bodies and foundation participation
Out of scope
- License compliance for internally used software and the corporate application estate (see BC-720 and BC-140)
- Developer documentation, SDKs and the API program (see BC-1240)
- Brand campaigns and paid marketing to the community (see BC-420)
Realized by · 0
- No product in the catalog yet.
Used in · 1
- Commit-to-Production · 01 Commit & Build via BC-1280.30
Build it · 1
- pattern Inner Source via BC-1280.30.30
Decomposes into · 5
- BC-1280.10Open Source Strategy & LicensingDecide what the company open sources and why, choose licenses that match that intent, and keep the open core and the commercial product honest with each other.
- BC-1280.20Project StewardshipMaintain the company's published projects well — responsive to issues, clear in governance, safe to depend on — because a neglected repository costs more trust than never publishing it.
- BC-1280.30Inbound Open Source GovernanceKnow what open source the product depends on, under which licenses, and keep use and contribution within the company's policy so a license term never becomes a surprise at due diligence.
- BC-1280.40Community ProgramsBuild and sustain the community of users, contributors and advocates — the forums, events and recognition that make people feel part of the product rather than customers of it.
- BC-1280.50Standards & Foundation ParticipationRepresent the company in the standards bodies and foundations that shape its market, so the specifications the product depends on are influenced rather than merely followed.