In this episode of the Hybrid Cloud Forecast series, Andre and Chris Ferris, IBM Fellow, CTO Open Technology, discuss Open Source Technologies. They talk about what constitutes an open source project - that its not just putting code in a public repo, but its about inviting others to collaborate on the project and building a community around it.    Andre and Chris discuss that open source is not just about putting a project out for people to use or contribute to - but to put it under open governance, Kubernetes as an example. Andre and Chris talk about the success criteria for open source projects, how it is a diverse set of projects and different committers rather than a single vendor.  Chris also talks about a survey that showed that 65% of developers believed that its more important to know the underlying opensource APIs rather than the vendor specific APIs as it allows them more flexibility in terms of career. Here is a link to the report: ibm.biz/oreilly-open-report.
Art by Jake Volz.