Dr. Ibrahim Haddad, Head of Open Source Group, Samsung Research America, talks about Samsung's focus on improving it's open source leadership through contribution to key projects used in it's products.

1. SamsungandthePathtoOpenSource
Leadership!
Ibrahim
Haddad,
Ph.D.
Open
Source
Innova8on
Group
Samsung
Research
America
–
Silicon
Valley
@IbrahimAtLinux

2. A
Historical
Perspec/ve

3. Gettingataste
ofOpenSource
(EmbeddedLinux)!
2002
2005
2008
2013 2014
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4. 2002
Samsung
vs.
Other
Players
[same
8me
period]
04/2001!
CarrierGrade !
LinuxSystems

5. 2002
2005
2008
2013 2014
Increased
Adoption!
• Primary
Advantages:
– Development
Environment
– Common
PlaLorm

6. 2002
2005
2008
2013 2014
Proliferation!
• Increased
importance
of
OSS
• Large
scale
adop8on:
More
products
shipped
with
OSS

7. 2002
2005
2008
2013 2014
Increased
Contributions!

8. Increased
Contribu8ons
(Linux
Kernel)
April
2007
à
Jan
2012
Source:
The
Linux
Founda8on
Kernel
Development
Sta/s/cs:
2.6.3
-­‐>
3.2
Overall
Rank
#27

9. Increased
Contribu8ons
(Linux
Kernel)
Source:
The
Linux
Founda8on
(Kernel
Report
2013)
Source:
LWN.NET
March
2014

10. 2002
2005
2008
2013 2014
Creationofthe!
OpenSourceGroup!

11. The
Open
Source
Group
• A
dedicated
Open
Source
organiza8on
across
Samsung
Electronics
whose
goals
are
to:
– Build
&
grow
open
source
talent
within
Samsung
in
specific
tech
areas
– Drive
contribu8ons
upstream
via
a
dedicated
team
– Build
a
strong
open
source
and
contributor
image
via
contribu8ons
– Manage
rela8onships
with
open
source
organiza8ons
– Help
product
teams
in
specific
exper8se
area
Twiber:
@SamsungOSG
SlideShare:
Slideshare.net/SamsungOSG

12. On
a
path,
with
a
mission!

13. Practice
!+
!Desire!

14. Following
a
Natural
Path
Consumer!
Contributor!
Leader!
(Desired
Goal)!
Motivation!
ActiveParticipation (Practice)!
ContinuousStreamofContributions(Persistence)!

15. Open
Source
Leadership,
Why?

16. 1.
Product
Dependency
on
Open
Source
Technologies

17. 2.
Faster
Path
to
Innova=on
Open
source
soeware
raises
everyone’s
game!
Commodi8zing
and
freely
sharing
lower-­‐level
undifferen8ated
components
of
the
stack
is
a
beber
way
of
building
products.
When
you
do
this
you
will
force
the
business
to
differen8ate
at
higher
levels
of
the
stack
in
more
innova8ve
ways
(including
new
business
models).

18. 3.
Open
Source
is
Ea=ng
the
So@ware
World
“If you are going to master software you must
master open source. It is hard to build something
without open source code.”
Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation
Collaboration Summit Keynote 2013

19. 4.
Towards
a
So@ware
Driven
Company
More
emphasis
on
soeware
innova8on.

20. Challenges
“No
one
said
it’s
gonna
be
easy”

21. Challenges
• Culture
• Educa8on
• Infrastructure
• Honorary
men4on:
Open
source
compliance
(industrial
scale)

22. Learned
Open
Source
Success
Factors

23. #5
Understand
Contribu8on
Rules
Each
open
source
community
is
different.

24. #4
Understand
Community
Mo8vators
Successful
communi8es
are
powered
by
mo8vated
people.

25. #3
Avoid
Custom
Licenses
Gaining
contributors/momentum
requires
low
barriers
to
entry.

26. #2
Communi8es
Need
Nurturing
Pos8ng
code
to
public
sites
is
not
collabora8on.
Community
par8cipa8on
is
a
cycle.

27. #1
Be
Humble,
But
Bold
Community
leadership
is
earned,
not
granted.
Humble
Bold

28. What
to
expect
from
us
w.r.t.
Open
Source?

29. Thank you to all the open sourcedevelopers-not just for the source
codebut also for inventing a better way tocreate software.!
OpenCollaborationChangesEverything!