Against all odds - a team contributing full-time to Open Source projects in your company

Yes, you know this happens in quite a few cases. Like in companies that open source and contribute a significant part of what they create - think Google, Facebook, PayPal. Or like in companies with a primary focus on an open source product as Mozilla for example. Or like in companies that heavily use a specific open source platform - and decide to give back through contributing to its development. But…

…but what if the company you work for doesn’t fit in any of these open source friendly profiles?

I’ll share our first-hand experience on how we achieved this - against all odds - and I hope to convince and inspire you to try our approach for making a viable case your company would invest in.

Hear the story of how we established a full-time dev team contributing to openHAB and Eclipse SmartHome projects - and how we made it in a win-win-win scenario (company-team-community). Without our company having any “need” to do it, nor hardly any interest in using the results of the team work.