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Description
For more than 30 years, The Open Group has served as a steward and champion of open source technologies, helping companies achieve business objectives through open technological standards.
The Open Group recently joined the GitLab Open Source Partners community, and Bryan Behrenshausen (Senior Open Source Program Manager at GitLab) sat down with two of the group's team members—Andras Szakal, Vice President and CTO of The Open Group, and David Diederich, The Open Group's GitLab Administrator—to hear how using GitLab helps them achieve their group's mission.
*Learn more*
The Open Group: https://www.opengroup.org/
GitLab Open Source Partners: https://go.gitlab.com/030Ue3
B
C
A
Great
well,
it's
a
just
great
to
have
you
both
on
the
call
and
I
really
thank
you
for
making
the
time
today,
let's
start
at
the
very
beginning
for
for
viewers
who
may
be
hearing
about
the
open
group
for
the
first
time.
Well,
who
is
the
open
group
and
what's
your
mission?
What
are
you
all
about?
Yeah.
B
I
mean
you
know
after
you,
crawl
out
from
under
a
rock
has
been
around
for
30
plus
years,
and
we
are
a
global
consortia
that
enables
the
achievement
of
business
objectives
through
technology
standards
and
we
have
membership
of
more
than
900
organizations.
So
those
are
companies
or
groups
of
individuals
and
we
focus
on
end
users
and
solution,
suppliers
and
tooling
vendors
integrators
Academia.
B
We
have
a
research
division
that
actually
reports
up
through
us
me
and
and
consultants,
and
and
we're
very
focused
on
industry
verticals,
because
there's
a
lot
of
work
to
do
digital
transformation.
Oh
digital
transformation,
that's
another
area
where
we're
most
certainly
involved
with
yeah,
go
check
out
our
website
opengroup.org
and
learn
a
little
more
great.
A
B
Part
of
your
work-
yeah
I
mean
you
know
you
might.
You
might
have
recognized
the
open
group
because
of
Unix.
That's,
you
know
the
probably
one
of
the
most
popular
standards
and
togaf
togaf,
also
with
the
architecture,
methodology
and
framework,
so
I.
Actually
before
joining
the
open
group
as
a
staff
member
was
a
member
through
one
of
our
Platinum
sponsors.
B
You
know,
standards
as
software
executable
standards
and
the
development
of
Standards
themselves,
as
as
Dave
will
speak
to
in
a
few
seconds,
so
we've
been
using
it
for
about
five
years
and
and
that
was
kind
of
the
evolution
as
kind
of
we.
We
came
into
this.
You
know
kind
of
from
more
of
a
traditional
standards
approach
into
the
open
source.
You
know
software
development
kind
of
approach,
and
that's
that's
how
we
ended
up
with
gitlab.
A
Fascinating
thanks
for
that.
Well,
let's,
let's
dive
a
little
deeper
into
that,
so
we
can
hear
from
David
too.
You
know
why
why
you
know
why
choose
gitlab
Andreas,
just
mentioned
mentioned
that
you
know
there
were
a
number
of
a
number
of
challenges
that
helped
you
overcome
I'd
love
to
hear
more
about
sort
of
your
rationale.
There.
C
Yeah,
so
one
of
the
things
we
really
liked
was
the
integration
of
the
CI
and
the
issues.
Boards
kind
of
pulling
everything
together
into
one
tool
was
very
useful,
and
your
CI
system
was
very
flexible
and
being
able
to
set
up
a
bunch
of
scalable
Runners,
because
this
open
source
project
that
we
were
trying
to
to
kick
things
off
with
has
a
lot
of
CI
needs.
C
It
needs
a
lot
of
a
lot
of
computation
time,
so
we
need
to
span
it
across
a
lot
and
I
really
like
the
way
the
runner
setup
worked
with
gitlab,
so
that
was
really
cool
yeah.
They
also
wanted
a
lot
of
analysis
tools.
Some
like
static
analysis,
dependency,
analysis,
things
like
that,
and
all
of
that
stuff
came
right
out
of
the
box
with
gitlab.
There
wasn't
a
bunch
of
finding
other
tools
figuring
out
how
to
integrate
everything,
just
kind
of
worked
together.
A
C
A
B
I
mean
I
well,
first
off
I
think
it's
a
journey.
You
know
open
source
development
and
the
integration
of
standardization,
and
this
idea
of
digital
transformation,
it's
all
kind
of
evolving
and
we're
using
gitlab
at
the
core
and
Dave
will
kind
of
jump
into
that
here
in
a
second.
But
one
of
the
things
I'd
like
to
highlight
is
that
you
know
from
an
industry
digital
transformation,
point
of
view.
The
energy
Community
really
needed
a
way
to
create
a
a
data
platform
form
that
allow
them
to
monetize
data.
B
So,
for
example,
oil
companies
or
energy
companies
would
do
exploration.
They
would
have
a
mountain
of
data,
some
of
it
would
be
useful
to
them,
and
some
of
it
would
not,
and
then
they
would
like
to
make
that
data
fungible
right.
So
the
one
thing
that
that
they
were
looking
to
do
is
actually
create
a
single,
unified,
open
source
implementation.
B
You
know
standards-based
technology,
agnostic
data
platform
for
their
community.
That
simulated,
you
know,
stimulates
the
Innovation
and
partnership,
because
you
know
this
is
a
siled
industry
and
they
wanted
to
break
those
borders
down,
especially
now
that
alternative
industry
and
carbon
footprint
is
very,
you
know
important
globally,.
B
A
C
C
They
have
different
groups
that
have
to
work
on
different
parts
of
them
and
evolve
them
separately,
and
then
we
want
to
make
sure
everybody's
had
a
chance
to
review
it
and
go
through
approval
processes,
and
so
we've
been
able
to
make
that
happen
using
gitlab
with
forks
and
branches.
The
merge
requests,
the
approval
flows,
there's
a
fairly
sophisticated
approval
flow
that
you
can
put
on
a
merge
request
in
gitlab.
So
we've
been
able
to
leverage
that.
Oh
that's.
C
A
C
Well,
you're
right,
yeah,
devops
philosophy
is
actually
all
throughout
the
gitlab.
That's
definitely
true.
The
gitlab
pages
server
is
very
useful
to
us.
The
the
output
of
that
digital
portfolio
is
a
static
HTML,
okay,
okay,
so
after
it
compiles
it
creates
that
we
need
a
way
to
host
that
and
not
just
host
it
once
but
host
it
on
different
branches
on
different
different
Forks,
all
that
stuff
and
all
that
stuff
is
configured
by
Pages.
We
don't
have
to
have
an
IT
professional
setting
up
multiple
web
servers
and
controlling
access
cool.
B
And
integration
with
other
tools,
like
aha
I,
mean
you
know
we're
always
looking
for
you
know
integration
with
that
and
slack,
and
you
know
it's
just
the
flexibility
of
gitlab
to
to
actually
be
the
core
engine,
for
you
know
managing
our
source,
our
devops
pipeline,
but
then
integrating
with
all
the
other
tools
that
we
got
to
use.
That's
really,
you
know
key
yeah
yeah,
absolutely.
A
B
We
see
that
you
know
standards
as
software
and
standardization
is
really
going
to
kind
of
be
very
blurry
and
git
lab
will
continue
to
be
an
important
element
of
that.
We're
going
to
expand
our
open
source
support
for
the
individual
and
Community
within
the
open
group,
so
allowing
for
into
visuals
to
create
open
source
projects
or
facilitate
I
should
say,
facilitate
the
implementation
of
Open
Source
projects
by
our
greater
membership.
B
C
Yeah,
the
antora,
that
is,
the
digital
portfolio,
the
tool
that
we
use
for
that
that
takes
an
ASCII,
doc
Source
input,
and
that
translates
that
over
into
a
static
HTML.
But
that
makes
it
sound
very
simple.
But
it's
actually
a
fairly
complicated
that
it
could.
It
can
pull
in
multiple
tags
and
branches
from
multiple
repos
and
assemble
them
together
into
a
single
output
which,
which
makes
it
a
fairly
powerful
tool
for
us.
We
really
liked
that
and
the
evolution
of
it
cool.
A
Yeah,
it
sounds
great
I'm
going
to
want
to
play
with
that
I'm
going
to
get
that
link
from
you
after
the
after
the
interview,
yeah
yeah
yeah,
that's
pretty
cool!
Well,
thanks
for
that
and
best
of
luck
with
it
all
what's
the
best
way.
For
you
know
anyone
interested
in
your
mission,
your
vision,
the
work
that
you're
doing
what's
the
best
way
for
them
to
connect
with
you
and
collaborate
with
you
and.
B
Of
ways
that
people
can
get
involved,
you
don't
necessarily
have
to
be
a
member
of
the
open
group.
Everything
we
do
is
open.
All
of
our
standards
are
available
to
anybody
and
published
on
through
our.
You
know
what
we
call
the
open
group
shop
or
store,
and
you
can
download
all
of
our
standards
you
can
get
involved
in,
for
example,
the
osdu
and
other
open
source
communities
that
are
hosted
out
of
the
open
group
and
contribute
code
and
be
a
contributor
and
an
easy
way
to
start
is
just
go
to
www.opengroup.org.