2023 UCSC Open Source for Business

A twelve lecture version of the same-name seminar.

The OSPO at UC Santa Cruz is pleased to be hosting the third Summer Seminar Series for our affiliated researchers, students and industry partners facilitated by Dr. Dirk Riehle, Professor of Open Source Software at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg.

The seminar entitled Open Source for Business consists of 12 lectures addressing everything you need to understand open source and to develop a corporate open source strategy.

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Module 1: Open source software

July 10th, 2023 - Lecture 1: Open-source software

July 12th, 2023 - Lecture 2: The software supply chain

July 13th, 2023 - Lecture 3: Compliance and security

Module 2: Supply chain economics

July 17th, 2023 - Lecture 4: Community open source projects

July 19th, 2023 - Lecture 5: Software supply chain economics

July 21th, 2023* - Lecture 6: Open source foundations and consortia note date change from original schedule

Module 3: Commercial open source

July 24th, 2023 - Lecture 7: Commercial open source business models

July 26th, 2023 - Lecture 8: The new proprietary open source

July 27th, 2023 - Lecture 9: Intellectual property strategies

Module 4: Open source strategy

July 31th, 2023 - Lecture 10: The open source program office

Aug 1st, 2023 - Lecture 11: Open source risk management

Aug 2nd, 2023 - Lecture 12: The corporate open source strategy

Stephanie Lieggi
Stephanie Lieggi
Executive Director of OSPO, Executive Director of CROSS, UC Santa Cruz
Carlos Maltzahn
Carlos Maltzahn
Retired Adjunct Professor, Sage Weil Presidential Chair for Open Source Software, Founder & Director of CROSS, OSPO

My research interests include programmable storage systems, big data storage & processing, scalable data management, distributed systems performance management, and practical reproducible research.