The Linux Foundation Member Summit 2020

Do you know what your company's open source contribution policies are? Are they written down? Are they complete -- or even /too/ complete? And whose interests do they consider? If you don't have one at all, why should you bother?

In 2019, Red Hat moved from a largely unwritten policy that amounted to "just contribute" to a formal written policy. It was created through collaboration with the entire company, without changing the "just contribute" spirit or restricting our employees. In fact, we don't even call it a policy -- we call it our contribution guidelines. In this talk, you'll learn how and why we did it after 26 years.

Join Ruth Suehle to look at all the things that you should consider when creating (or amending) your own company's contribution policy and some examples outside of Red Hat.