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Embracing Community Open Source Development

Embracing Community Open Source Development. Ray O’Brien August 17, 2011. Embracing Community Open Source Development -- from the Perspective of a Project Manager. The Situation and Timing The Vision The Team The Environment (location, hours, the chairs) The Connections and the “Community”

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Embracing Community Open Source Development

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  1. Embracing Community Open Source Development Ray O’Brien August 17, 2011

  2. Embracing Community Open Source Development -- from the Perspective of a Project Manager • The Situation and Timing • The Vision • The Team • The Environment (location, hours, the chairs) • The Connections and the “Community” • The Challenges • The Rewards • Take-Aways Embracing Open Source --1--August 17, 2011

  3. Immersion Training – Learning about Community Open Source Development via Fire Hose: • Terminology • Methodology • Tools • Licensing • Governance models • Governing NASA policy and regulations • NASA software release approval process Embracing Open Source --2--August 17, 2011

  4. The Challenges • Learning that the existing NASA Open Source Agreement, NOSA, would likely hinder adoption by the targeted community of users and developers • Pursuit of a waiver to release Nebula under an Apache 2.0 license • Learning that the existing NASA software release policy did not address community open source development • Pursuit of a waiver to allow Nebula to engage in community open source development Embracing Open Source --3--August 17, 2011

  5. The Challenges (Cont’d) • Explaining: • Why the Nebula team wants to “release” software that is not yet complete outside of NASA • Why individuals not affiliated with NASA would want to help finish NASA’s incomplete software & why NASA would want to help others complete theirs • Why some parts of the NASA Software Engineering Procedural Requirements don’t map directly to community-based development processes (and best way to address) Embracing Open Source --4--August 17, 2011

  6. The Challenges (Cont’d) • Interpreting and understanding the concerns raised regarding Intellectual Property • Making the case that assessments for software release approval could be performed from pre-defined software development scope documents • Convincing a very motivated development team to be patient while we worked through the NASA software release approval process Embracing Open Source --5--August 17, 2011

  7. Ahh, But The Rewards • Turns out, the vision of a full community developed open source cloud solution was also shared by many outside of NASA • In July of 2010, NASA, together with Rackspace, provided the foundational components for Openstack • Since that time, Openstack has become one of the fastest growing open source cloud projects • The supporting community is in the drivers seat in developing the roadmap and is already influencing the direction of cloud Embracing Open Source --6--August 17, 2011

  8. Rewards (Cont’d) • NASA was able eliminate a significant Nebula development effort targeted at delivering object storage capability • NASA will be able to significantly reduce its Nebula development much earlier than planned • NASA will be able to focus its reduced Nebula development effort on differentiating features and capabilities that may be of value only to the Agency • NASA continues to receive very good public recognition as a leader in the development of cloud computing capabilities Embracing Open Source --7-- August 17, 2011

  9. Moving Forward • Interactions with others within NASA led to the finding that others had considered community open source development projects but had chosen not to pursue this approach due to policy challenges • The challenges described and the finding spawned NASA’s first Open Source Summit last March • The discussions and input will be used to influence the development of revised or new licensing and policy enabling community open source development Embracing Open Source --8--August 17, 2011

  10. Take-Aways • For certain projects, NASA’s involvement in community open source development, either as a project lead or contributor, could be a great fit • In the future, the path will likely be smoother for other projects • Community open source development provides a great vehicle for public-private collaboration and directly supports the Opengov tenets of transparency, collaboration, and participation • Inspired development communities can build great things and participation can be very rewarding Embracing Open Source --9--August 17, 2011

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