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## Open Source contributions
### Strategic advantage
for small teams like <span><!-- .element: class="fragment highlight-red"-->Drupal</span>
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Konstantinos Samaras-Tsakiris
#### **IT-CDA-WF**
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### Open Source projects
# community
## not just code
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[Vicky Brasseur](https://cds.cern.ch/record/2697287)
## Sustainability
> It's not all about the money:
<span><!-- .element: class="fragment highlight-red"-->_Time Talent Treasure_</span>
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## Sustainability in Open Source
1. Identify strategically important projects
2. What do they need?
3. Time Talent Treasure
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## Advantages?
- Risk management
- Knowledge transfer
- Talent acquisition & engagement
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### Gaining
# community
## stakes
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## OpenStack (IT-CM)
Data center infrastructure
- Large investment
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## Major Contributions
[Stackalytics](https://www.stackalytics.com/?company=cern): 2240 reviews
[OpenStack Day CERN](https://indico.cern.ch/event/776411/contributions/)
[OpenStack in Production](https://superuser.openstack.org/articles/openstack-production-cern-lightning-talk/) -- [Blog](https://openstack-in-production.blogspot.com/2018/03/hardware-burn-in-in-cern-datacenter.html)
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**CERN**
upstream listens to our needs
affect project direction
</span>
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# Scaling down
Advantage for small teams, less strategic projects?
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## Drupal Automatic Updates
### European Commission
Small team: ~10 people
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## IT-CDA
(Drupal)
Small teams: 0.5-5 people per service
- No forks of upstream
- Hard to have such high stakes
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|CDA Project|Target Project|PR|State|
|------------|--------------|--|-|
|CodiMD |[CodiMD](https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd)|[#784](https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd/pull/784)|:white_check_mark:
|CodiMD |[CodiMD](https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd)|[#785](https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd/pull/785)|:white_check_mark:
|Webcast|[redux-api-middleware](https://github.com/agraboso/redux-api-middleware)|[#190](https://github.com/agraboso/redux-api-middleware/pull/190)|:white_check_mark:
|Indico|[semantic-ui-react](https://github.com/Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI-React/)|[#2890](https://github.com/Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI-React/pull/2890)|:white_check_mark:
|Indico|[semantic-ui-react](https://github.com/Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI-React/)|[#2992](https://github.com/Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI-React/pull/2992)|:white_check_mark:
|REANA|[cwltool](https://github.com/common-workflow-language/cwltool)|[#995](https://github.com/common-workflow-language/cwltool/pull/995)|:white_check_mark:
|REANA|[cwltool](https://github.com/common-workflow-language/cwltool)|[#1082](https://github.com/common-workflow-language/cwltool/pull/1082)|:white_check_mark:
|Invenio|[celery](https://github.com/celery/celery)|[#4813](https://github.com/celery/celery/pull/4813)|:clock1:|
and [more...](https://codimd.web.cern.ch/MG5VXtOSSUyAEX8GbYS5vw?view)
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# Promoting our tools
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## Deciding on a tool is hard
CERN's decisions are trustworthy
- scientific communities
- local communities
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## Campus Biotech & REANA
CERN software under consideration for neuroimaging platform
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## Suisse Romande Drupal group
UN -- Red Cross -- Inovae -- Happy coding
Technical forum for Drupal expertise
Outreach for new Drupal infrastructure
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## Promoting our tools is valuable
to them
to us
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### Exposing more stakeholders
new Makers, long-term stability
risk management
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### Exposing more stakeholders
new Makers, long-term stability
risk management
### Talent acquisition
demonstrated issues in sourcing Drupal talent
higher incentives with industry standards
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### Exposing more stakeholders
new Makers, long-term stability
risk management
### Talent acquisition
demonstrated issues in sourcing Drupal talent
higher incentives with industry standards
### Knowledge transfer
a CERN goal
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