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From YouTube: Keynote: Embracing Open Source to Beat the Great Reshuffle - Joe Sepi, Program Director of Open Tech

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Keynote: Embracing Open Source to Beat the Great Reshuffle - Joe Sepi, Program Director of Open Tech, IBM
JW Grand Ballroom 7 - 8

Speakers: Joe Sepi
Integrating open source at the core of your business makes good sense from a business perspective in a variety of ways. In this keynote, I will focus on the people part of the benefits, from talent to culture. Empowering employees to be authentically engaged in open source can provide access to an excellent hiring pipeline, help insulate companies against the “great reshuffling,” and bring you greater returns on your investment.

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I should have had a a better slide to start with the title and stuff, but uh you know um if you could bump up the font on my notes. That would be great, I'm just kidding. I don't have any notes, um we're gonna wing it today. I actually there was a really cool font here and I didn't uh submit my slides until about 1am, because I was picking a really good font, but it didn't show up.

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So um that's all right, um so uh my name is joseppi and um uh what was I gonna say so I I I couldn't get up on the stage and and not uh talk about something really briefly, so I hope you'll indulge me. um You know- and I wanted to just talk for a moment about the tragedy in uvalde.

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um My hotel room is up by the capitol and I walk past the photos of the kids on the steps every morning and it really kind of breaks my heart um and I'm just shocked and appalled that this sort of stuff keeps happening our children keep getting slaughtered in their classrooms.

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I um I have a 13 year old son, who is just a little bit younger than the kids that were murdered in um sandy hook, and I lived two towns over from newtown and uh you know that cloud still hangs over the community. It's it's!

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It's really uh such a tragedy, and I don't understand how this uh keeps happening. So I I hope that we're getting to a point where we're all pushing for change- and um you know I'm not up here to like talk politics or policies or thoughts and prayers or anything. I just want to encourage folks to see if they can figure out ways that make sense for them to try and make change on this. um I talked to a couple: people there's a place here locally, the austin justice coalition.

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If you want to donate there, um I'm gonna spend more time working with the sandy hook promise, um but I just couldn't get up here without mentioning it. It breaks my heart. um So thank you for indulging me on that for a moment.

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All right, I am going to uh try to transition to my talk now, but actually first, I want to thank the folks who put this event together uh at the open, jazz foundation, and um you know all the staff, and this is what happens when you put your slides together at 1am.

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We were having some fun with the logo when we first designed it- um and I was I wish julian- was here. My colombian friends tell him I say hi, uh but you know thanks to everyone who put the event together and um yes, I was a part of the group that helped with it. That just means I saw all the hard work that went into it firsthand. So thank you to them.

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It's so great to see all of the familiar faces that I haven't seen in a long time in person and folks from you know, video calls and new faces. So thank you all for coming out as well, and uh thank you to our sponsors, which is a good segue into what I'm here to talk to you about. um So I work in uh the open technology department at ibm and we're a big company. You know, I think, a little over 300 000 people last.

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I looked um so you know what I'm going to talk to you about here.

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In terms of us, largely avoiding the great resignation and the great reshuffling is, is particularly to our group, um and I think that that's part of I think part of that is because of the work that we do uh being involved in open source, which is very fulfilling uh feels great as an engineer to spend your time in the community, and I saw that at other places that I worked at previously like adobe, when we really were focused on focusing on open source.

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uh People were very happy and when they kind of scaled, that back people were a little less happy.

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But you know there are lots of reasons to get involved in open source and- and today I just want to talk to you a little bit about like the fulfillment that it gives for your engineers and what might keep them around longer uh when we have sorts of you know great reshuffling and whatnot a lot of what I'm going to pull is from ibm.com open source.

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So if you want to read some more uh that link in that blue box is uh like kind of our history of working in open source, because we've been doing it uh since before it was cool, and strangely every time I see that word cool. I think it's missing a b in the middle, which just is totally wrong, um but yeah we've been doing this for a long time and and we're usually behind the scenes, and so I don't think you know people know uh how involved we are and how long we've been involved.

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So every opportunity I get to talk about it. I try to so. They gave me a stage, and I said all right um so I'll give you a couple of uh historical bits um and then we'll talk more about what's going on these days.

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But uh for starters, you know in late 1990s uh we supported linux with uh patent pledges and a billion dollar investment in technical and other resources, and helped establish the the linux foundation, which is a host of the openjs foundation and all these other really uh amazing foundations, and that all happened back in the late 90s and 2000.

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uh We also helped to create the apache software foundation and, as founding members, we we helped shape the license and governance uh served in leadership roles and contributed to numerous projects. I I think it's important to point out too that a lot of times when I'm talking about open source, I'm also talking about open governance, and, I think that's you know super important as well. How we govern these open source projects is really uh integral to how successful uh they will be. uh Additionally, we we helped uh lead the creation of the eclipse foundation.

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You know, we've been very involved in java over the years. We also helped with the open jdk.

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We were deeply involved in cloud foundry as well, and you know that kind of brings us a little bit more current. uh We're involved in the open container initiative uh helped to spin up the cloud native uh computing foundation.

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My buddy todd moore was the chairperson of the board there for a while, not my buddy, my boss uh was was chair there for a while, and uh you know istio, k native. uh You know all of these uh amazing technologies that are um in open source and and uh in these foundations, and also uh I don't know if you all remember when iojs happened and the fork of node.

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um You know we were very involved in trying to heal that rift if you will and and bring the communities back together and out of that came the node.js foundation, um and then we continued that work uh to pull well. Actually there we go um to pull the js foundation and the node.js foundation together to create the um wow, I'm almost out of time ready, but that's fine um to create the openjs foundation, and uh we were a part of the small group that that worked to bring those two foundations together.

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um I feel very fortunate because when I was working on that uh with a few other ibmers like doing getting the work done, I was able to start a weekly meeting internally with with todd and uh my colleague, sam ruby, who was the president of the apache software foundation, uh my direct manager, daniel bandera, who was the president of the uh osgi alliance, um and so we were able to lean on all this and internal folks to to to make that merger uh be successful.

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You know, in addition to all the the help from the other folks in the community as well, uh but I feel very fortunate that we were able to pull that group together and really, you know, learn from past experience and how to how to make this work well and so now I am um a program director and I have a counterpart uh who also manages a team of open source engineers, we're working in kubernetes and istio k native tecton, um and you know our our folks are largely happy and uh we have been able to avoid.

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You know uh this sort of great resignation and great reshuffling. So I think you know there are lots of reasons why your company should be involved in open source, and this is the this is another angle to why it's so beneficial to to get involved in the community, because I think people really do get a lot of value out of uh being a part of that open source community.

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You learn lots of valuable skills to be working with other people. You know you don't have some manager who's going to sort things out. You guys have to work it out together. You folks have to work it out together. um So I think it's a really. It's been very helpful for us to uh to to keep our folks happy on the teams uh because of the work that we're doing so. I am right on time, which is fantastic.

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I am at uh the ibm booth. If you want to talk more about this and and the stuff that we're doing at ibm and um you'll notice, it's the booth with uh my face on it um and I'm happy to also talk about local birds. I I'm really curious about the birds you have in austin. uh Birds are wonderful, but yeah you'll see me, I'm I'll probably be standing right there next to me. uh So thanks for uh listening to my talk nice to see you all.