Lay the groundwork for going open source

How does an organisation need to prepare in order to “open source” their product or software?

Twitter @OpenCharityOrg
Hashtag: #OpenCharity
Website: opencharityuk.org
Facebook page: facebook.com/opencharityorg

Guest speakers, Q&A, Lightning talks, food and refreshments.

Agenda

6:30pm: Arrive, mingle, get some food and drink

Note that upon arrival you will be asked to sign a non-disclosure for our hosts, Deliveroo.

7:00pm: Introduction

7:10pm: Speaker 1, including Q&A

Clare Young, Senior Agile Delivery Manager, Comic Relief

"What we learned when making our codebase open source"

Clare will share some of the experiences and lessons learned by the Comic Relief team when they made their codebase open-source. Including some top tips for stakeholder buy-in and pitfalls to avoid.

7:40pm: Speaker 2, including Q&A

Dama Sathianathan (Bethnal Green Ventures, EmpowerHack)

"How to lay the groundwork to go open source and not die"

EmpowerHack are a group of volunteers working on sustainable humanitarian tech. Through a co-design approach and running hackathons they have developed a culture where open source tech and principles play an important role. This talk will centre around getting partners onboard, who might otherwise not opt for open source and some practical tips on how to convince them.

8:10pm Lightning Talks or questions / peer-support on a relevant theme

8:30pm Networking, nibbles and refreshments

9:00pm End. Note: We must be out of the building by 9pm.

General

Whether you’ve been to our meetings before or are completely new to the group, you are welcome to join us to learn, talk and share your ideas.

Venue is the gorgeous Deliveroo offices inside the Cannon Street Station area.

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Pizza and beverages (including beer and wine) will be provided by our sponsor, Deliveroo.

Please RSVP on this page to let us know you are coming.

About our sponsor (and host), Deliveroo

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Since 2014, Deliveroo has expanded from a tiny little space in central London to hundreds of cities in twelve countries, and the tech team has grown at a similar rate. Part of what makes this growth sustainable is our belief in an open culture and proactive knowledge-sharing across the organization. This culture influences our use of shared libraries, our choice in communication tools (such as Slack and Facebook Workplace) - we even hired one of our developers thanks to their contribution to our open source engineering blog!

We are excited to host the Open Charity initiative and meet like-minded technologists who embrace these same values to build innovative and meaningful products.