Chris Aniszczyk

Whether it is "Open Core", the Mongo SSPL or the Common Clause, the core ethos of open source has been under attack for some time. As those parties who seek to limit the promise of free software enjoys more and more success, the community will need stronger and more forceful tools to defend ourselves. Presenters: Michael Cheng (Facebook), Max Sills (Google), Chris Aniszczyk (Linux Foundation)

Other people: Max Sills Michael Cheng

Five of our speakers from the Legal and Policy Issues devroom have agreed to participate in a governance best practices roundtable. These practices may touch on contribution policy, review boards, policy manuals, licensing tools, trademark guidelines, etc.

Questions will be asked of the panelists to start the roundtable and the audience will also be encouraged to participate in order to have more interaction with the panelists. Karen Sandler will be the moderator.

Other people: Stefano Zacchiroli Karen Sandler Christopher Webber Eileen Evans Tom Callaway

In 2011, Twitter embarked on creating an open source office. Since there's no real book out there when it comes to starting an open source office, we have a lot of interesting/hilarious lessons and stories to tell about the experience.

From how we handle open source compliance issues to starting an open data program to our attitudes towards open source, there's lessons to share. In particular, we will share our views on:

• open source licenses: strong copyleft versus weak copyleft
• scalable open source policies for engineers
• open source foundations vs. github
• practical open data