A Journey of Contribution and Collaboration in Open Source

Have you ever worked on a project that didn’t use any open source tools, libraries, or products? Didn’t think so…Using open source has been such an integral part of our daily work life that we don’t even think about it. We just expect it to be available, secure, stable, and bug-free. But how many of you are actually contributing back to an open source project?

This session will go through a couple of the aspects to consider when you are embarking on your open source journey. We will look at different kinds of open source projects, and what the open source foundations bring to the table.

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1. A Journey of Contribution and Collaboration in Open Source Ivar Grimstad
 Jakarta EE Developer Advocate Eclipse Foundation
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4. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
5. #JakartaEE COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) @ivar_grimstad Open Source
9. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Open Source Principles
10. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Transparency
11. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Transparency Collaboration
12. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Transparency Collaboration Release Early and Often
13. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Transparency Collaboration Release Early and Often Inclusive Meritocracy
14. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Transparency Collaboration Release Early and Often Inclusive Meritocracy Community
15. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Open Source Licenses
16. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Open Source Initiative https://opensource.org/licenses
17. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Open Source vs Source Available
18. #JakartaEE COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) @ivar_grimstad Consume Responsibly
19. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Open Source Projects
20. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Solo Single Vendor Community Foundation
21. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Solo Description One or two programmers control code, decisions, support Contributing Either extremely easy or extremely hard Support Usually very responsive or abandoned Examples Byte Buddy SnoopEE
22. Solo
23. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Single Vendor Description Open sourced by a company, employees as contributors Contributing Usually difficult Support Reliable support obtained through support contracts with sponsoring company Examples Spring Framework Gradle
24. Single Vendor
25. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Community Description Significant number of contributors, usually democratic Contributing Generally welcoming, no formal process Support Participation in the social process required Examples PostgreSQL OpenJDK mockito
26. Community
27. Community
28. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Foundation Description Formal organisation open source projects. Often projects critical to several large companies. Contributing Formal process, meritocracy Support Sponsoring companies providing paid support Unpaid support similar as communities Examples Eclipse Jetty Apache Maven Kubernetes
30. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Security
32. https://slsa.dev/
35. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Evolving Expectations
36. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Is this license compatible with your project license? Will you assign a CVE? How do you handle vulnerabilities? Does the open source project follow an OpenChain conformant process? Is the project REUSE compliant? Where is your Software Bill of Materials? Does the license allow me to do X?
37. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Regulations
38. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) European Cyber Resiliency Act (CRA)
39. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Product Liability Directive (PLD)
42. https://orcwg.org
43. #JakartaEE COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) @ivar_grimstad Contribute Responsibly
44. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) First Rule of Contributing to Open Source
45. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Contribute!
46. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) How to Get Started?
47. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Convince my Boss?
49. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Improve the Software YOU Rely On
50. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Why Contribute?
51. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Improve YOUR Skills
52. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Build Your Reputation and Career
53. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) What to Contribute?
54. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Does Not Need to be CODE
55. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Follow Your Passion
56. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Where to Contribute?
58. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) My Journey
59. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Solo Single Vendor Community Foundation
60. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Solo Single Vendor Community Foundation
61. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Solo Single Vendor Community Foundation
62. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Solo Single Vendor Community Foundation
63. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Solo Single Vendor Community Foundation
64. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Solo Single Vendor Community Foundation
65. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Solo Single Vendor Community Foundation Apache NetBeans
66. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Solo Single Vendor Community Foundation Apache NetBeans
67. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Solo Single Vendor Community Foundation Apache NetBeans
68. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
69. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
70. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) How to Contribute?
72. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Show Your SUPPORT
73. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Contribute Responsibly
76. #JakartaEE COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) @ivar_grimstad Summary
77. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Solo Single Vendor Community Foundation
78. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) First Rule of Contributing to Open Source
79. COPYRIGHT (C) 2024, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) First Rule of Contributing to Open Source Remember
80. Eclipse Foundation
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81. #JakartaEE COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) @ivar_grimstad Thank You!