Olivier Jacques

Biography

Olivier Jacques is a Distinguished Technologist at HP, working to provide corporate and worldwide solutions for application development, test and deployment. Strong advocate of modern ways to develop and release applications through methods such as Agile and DevOps and applying it to big enterprises, Olivier has also seeded multiple Open Source projects such as SIPp, Forj and Seagull and contributed to many others, experiencing hands Open Source patterns in an enterprise environment.

Présentations

FORJ: how an internal need in HP became a larger open source project, with Enalean as the first external partner

Track: When Open Source Fosters Open Innovation

You have an internal project which you consider releasing in Open Source. Why would you bother? Why investing time and money in an effort which is not your core business? We did it to take control back of our destiny and we want to share our experience.

In this talk, we will share our journey in releasing an internal project - Forj.io - in public Open Source. After a quick intro on what the project is about - powering application development teams with pre-integrated continuous integration and delivery environments from a catalog, we will share the criteria which we used to move forward with a public Open Source approach. We will share our recipes to attract contributors and be able to partner with other companies / big or small, on this very lightweight organization which is an Open Source project. We will share the benefits which we expected as well as unexpected benefits we have already seen. Finally, we'll share 5 practical advices if you want to release your own private project in public Open Source and collaborate with other companies on a project which was solely your own problem before.