Other foundations like @CloudNativeFdn and @OpenStack invest a huge amount of time in this. Is it worth it? I think paying attention to the *outcomes* is most important.
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Fwiw, yes.
@mjasay publishes a report about top OSS contributors every quarter, and, having been at two companies that care about OSS a lot, that report gets traction. It also helps to call out freeriders :)2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@filmaj also has one running. I don't think it's about vanity metrics, however imperfect they may be. I think it's impossible to deliver "quality" without significant "quantity", too1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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I'm crunching numbers for final months of 2018 as we speak. Hope to have some data for Matt next week
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Everyone is undercounted. There is no way around it as there are good reasons that developers prefer not to advertise their employer affiliation. I don't think any one company gets underrepresented (percentage wise) than another
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There are companies that are *much* more systematic about making sure affiliations are always set, data files are updated, etc. But who can show that open source actually is better off for all this tallying?
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Well, I would be happy to show you (in a private chat) how much better my company is doing bc we tally. We tally to push ourselves to do more. I think that's very healthy and, because we do more, open source is richer for it.
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And, as I suggested earlier, I've been at Amazon, Google and, now, Microsoft, and I can assure you that at all places the reports on who is contributing what are passed around A LOT and they drive behavior.
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Yes, Amazon is a big company. I suggest that folks at AWS might be thinking about open source differently from how Amazon Local did in 2013.
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Even in 2013 Amazon Web Services joined the Linux foundation to be a founding member of the new Xen collaborative project because we identified it as an investment need in the sustainability of Xen.
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