Zeroth draft of a /companies section. #216
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| ## [Benefits to Companies](/companies/benefits.html) | ||
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| Active participation in open source projects provides significant strategic and operational benefits to companies, from talent acquisition to technology innovation and market positioning. |
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| Active participation in open source projects provides significant strategic and operational benefits to companies, from talent acquisition to technology innovation and market positioning. | |
| Active participation in open source projects provides significant strategic and operational benefits to companies, from talent acquisition to technology innovation and market positioning. | |
| Such cooperation works in both directions - when maintainers see company that is actively participating in the project, they are eager to help and solve problems that individuals from the company are raising. | |
| Personal relationships with maintainers also makes it possible to save even weeks of going in a wrong direction in your deployments, because maintainers will know your context and will be able to help to make better decisions. |
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This is covered in the sub-page. The _index.md page is intentionally as terse as possible, with expansion on the sub-pages.
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I think this chapter shold have few things that are "corporate speak" - mentioning direct savings companies might have by dedicating the peoople to open-source is crucial. Almost no company will be incentivised in investing in something that will make "industry better" - we need to find ways to explain it in terms of "direct savings" for those who are supposed to invest their money.
It is a very unappreciated effect of "being" in the open-source community, that you start to be respected by those who know most and can more eagerly share their knowledge. I have a great customer, that I work with for almost 4 years, and I literally saved weeks of their whole team's time by a weekly hour conversation with them. We need to make companies aware that their teams will be far more efficient if they will be respected by the community and recognised as contributors. It's not obvious, but very real in my opinion.
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This is covered in the sub-page. The _index.md page is intentionally as terse as possible, with expansion on the sub-pages.
Sure I can suggest it in the sub-page
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| ## Ways to contribute | ||
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| There are three primary ways that companies can engage with ASF |
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| There are three primary ways that companies can engage with ASF | |
| There are several primary ways that companies can engage with ASF |
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I fall victim of that far too often - specifying a number of things listed below is just very prone to get wrong when the list grows or shrinks.
| ### [Employ Contributors](/companies/employ.html) | ||
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| The most impactful way companies support open source is by employing developers and other professionals who contribute to projects. This includes not just code contributions, but documentation, community management, testing, design, and advocacy work. | ||
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| ### [Employ Contributors](/companies/employ.html) | |
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| The most impactful way companies support open source is by employing developers and other professionals who contribute to projects. This includes not just code contributions, but documentation, community management, testing, design, and advocacy work. | |
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| ### [Employ Contributors](/companies/employ.html) | |
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| The impactful way companies support open source is by employing developers and other professionals who contribute to projects. This includes not just code contributions, but documentation, community management, testing, design, and advocacy work. | |
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| ### [Support individual contributors](/companies/support.html) | |
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| Another impactful way companies support open source is by financially supporting individual maintainers who maintain the projects. Maintainership often means a lot of work that is not easily classified as "new features" or "bug fixes" - there is a lot of thankless but necessary work needed in successful projects that maintainers do - making releases in a smooth and predictable way, continuous update of dependencies, reacting to security vulnerabilities, mentoring and "recruiting" new contributors, spreading the word about the project, triaging issues, reviewing PRs, improving documentation and a lot more. | |
| Supporting people financially (via B2B contracts, Individual Sponsorships, Fellowships) makes it possible for the Open Source community to keep their projects healthy and proactively addresss issues before they even happen. Think of regular checkups at the doctor being far more effective than going to the doctor when you start experiencing problems. | |
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Happy to move some of the description to "support.html" - I just think it should be created first so that I can comment on it in the PR.
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| [](/companies/sponsor.html) | ||
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| Companies can provide crucial financial support through ASF sponsorship, in-kind donation of services, Community Over Code conference sponsorship, local meetup support, and direct contributor sponsorship programs. |
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Yes, I know that "direct contributor sponsorship" is here, but I think it's a very different thing for both contributors and companies, and it deserves a separate entry, because it introduces "maintainership" concept. Companies do not understand that OSS project need "maintenance". They only think in terms of "bugs" and "features". But "maintainership" is so much more and different than that and we need to be very precise - I think - on educating companies that it exists - not as the last point in the "Sponsor" part - especially that "supporting maintainers" is very different from "sponsoring".
| # Benefits of ASF Participation | ||
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| Companies that actively participate in ASF projects realize significant strategic and operational advantages that extend far beyond cost savings. It's important to think strategically about how, where, and why you will participate and measure impact. It can be challenging to justify these benefits to management, as many of them are long-term. And these benefits will vary greatly depending on the nature of your business. | ||
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I moved the comments here. The first chapter is somewhat discouraging about the "short-term" gains, so I think it's worth to mention specific "short-term" gains the companies can have by establishing relationship with maintainers.
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I think some of those are listed below *establishing relationships" - but those are a bit "slogans" and if someone reads it, I think it should be clear what is the actual "gain" they have. I believe the first chapnter is the one that wil be read by somoene in the companies - to make quick decisions, the "details" below are nice but they do not show "what do I have" - for example "establishing relationship" does not ring "I save money" for corporate user. While "saving weeks of work" for your team "through establishing relationships" does.
| Companies that actively participate in ASF projects realize significant strategic and operational advantages that extend far beyond cost savings. It's important to think strategically about how, where, and why you will participate and measure impact. It can be challenging to justify these benefits to management, as many of them are long-term. And these benefits will vary greatly depending on the nature of your business. | ||
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| Companies that actively participate in ASF projects realize significant strategic and operational advantages that extend far beyond cost savings. It's important to think strategically about how, where, and why you will participate and measure impact. It can be challenging to justify these benefits to management, as many of them are long-term. And these benefits will vary greatly depending on the nature of your business. | |
| Companies that actively participate in ASF projects realize significant strategic and operational advantages that extend far beyond cost savings. It's important to think strategically about how, where, and why you will participate and measure impact. It can be challenging to justify these benefits to management, as many of them are long-term. And these benefits will vary greatly depending on the nature of your business. | |
| However, such cooperation works in both directions and some of them are short term - when maintainers see company that is actively participating in the project, they are eager to help and solve problems that individuals from the company are raising. | |
| Personal relationships with maintainers also makes it possible to save even weeks of going in a wrong direction in your deployments, because maintainers will know your context and will be able to help to make better decisions. | |
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This is far, far, far from complete, or even a first draft. Just making it public so that people can see what I'm working on.