[SGVLUG] Reminder: SGVLUG Meeting 5/11. Topic: Lawyers vs Developers, The Fight Over FOSS in the Enterprise

[Matthew Campbell via SGVLUG]

Good afternoon Lan,

Turns out I am back in town and can go to the meeting, see you tonight!

Matt

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Matthew Campbell
Architect Lead, Office of the CTO

Kaiser Permanente
Green Center 041R08
99 S. Oakland
Pasadena, CA 91101

626-564-7228 (office)
8-338-7228 (tie-line)
626-460-9781 (mobile)
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On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 8:00 PM, Lan Dang via SGVLUG <sgvlug at sgvlug.net> wrote:
> Reminder to RSVP on Meetup or with me.
>
> Also, please remember to prepare your Linux in the News and/or
> announcements.  I really don't want to run the meeting, so I'm leaving it up
> to the functional anarchy to make it work.
>
> Lan
>
> ________________________________
> From: Lan Dang <l.dang at ymail.com>
> To: SGVLUG Discussion List. <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
> Sent: Friday, May 5, 2017 1:56 AM
> Subject: Reminder: SGVLUG Meeting 5/11. Topic: Lawyers vs Developers, The
> Fight Over FOSS in the Enterprise
>
> Hi all,
>
> Reminder that we have an SGVLUG meeting next Thursday.  I need a volunteer
> to emcee and do Linux in the News as Jess is unavailable.
>
> This month, we'll be at OpenX.  Rami will be reprising the talk he gave at
> SCaLE on Open Source in enterprise.  Please forward this to anyone who you
> think will be interested.
>
> You know the drill.  Please RSVP on Meetup or with me, so I can populate the
> sign-in sheet.  And if you're new to OpenX, please check out the Meetup for
> parking directions.
>
>
> https://www.meetup.com/SGVTech/events/239471274/
>
>
>
> ---
> TIME: Thursday, March 11th, from 7pm to 9pm
> LOCATION: OpenX Technologies, 888 E Walnut St, Pasadena, CA 91101
> TOPIC:
> Lawyers vs Developers, The Fight Over FOSS in the Enterprise
>
> SPEAKER: Rami Al-Ghanmi
>
>
> TOPIC:
>
> Enterprises have learned that Open Source is the way to develop great and
> mature software. Leveraging open source tools and packages allows the
> enterprise to go to market faster and have stronger applications. Therefore,
> using Open Source tools is a no brainer for developers. The lawyers on the
> other hand don’t see it the same way.
>
> The speaker had the privilege of working with the Open Source approval and
> review process in a large security firm. In this UpSCaLE talk, he will share
> lessons learned from this process and some best practices that developers
> should do to make the Enterprise Lawyers happy as much as the developers
> are.
>
> Each organization that uses Open Source software – even in an unedited form
> – has a list of FOSS licenses that are acceptable and some that are not.
> Also, has strict requirements on how to handle the software and how to
> incorporate it in the distribution of the company’s products. In this
> UpSCaLE talk, we go through some of the lessons learned and pitfalls that
> some Open Source packages have, such as:
>
> 1. Not inserting a copyright clause in project code or homepage
>
> 2. Asking the user to alter the code in order to change the license from GPL
> to MIT, for example
>
> 3. Using dependencies that could be outdated or have CVE’s against it
>
> Not providing enough information to build the code from scratch
>
>
>
> BIO:
> Rami Al-Ghanmi is a Principal Software Engineer at Symantec Corporation.  He
>
> is the DevOps technical lead for Endpoint Protection Cloud products at
> Symantec Corporation where he works on building, deploying and managing
> security infrastructure and services on OpenStack and AWS-based platforms.
> Also, he is an outspoken advocate of Open Source Software, tools and
> practices within Symantec. The technology stack that Rami works with every
> day includes: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift and automation tools on AWS.
> Lan
>
>