potiuk commented on code in PR #216: URL: https://github.com/apache/comdev-site/pull/216#discussion_r2658461044
########## source/companies/benefits.md: ########## @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ +--- +title: Benefits of Open Source Participation +url: /companies/benefits.html +tags: ["companies", "benefits", "business value"] +--- + +# Benefits of ASF Participation + +Companies that actively participate in ASF projects realize significant strategic and operational advantages that extend far beyond cost savings. It's important to think strategically about how, where, and why you will participate and measure impact. It can be challenging to justify these benefits to management, as many of them are long-term. And these benefits will vary greatly depending on the nature of your business. + Review Comment: I feel that for us (ASF) far greater benefit is to establish relationships between people - (for example employees of a company and maintainers). I do not want to introduce any intermediary, but to explain that companies can benefit for making their employees having good relationships with maintainers - even if they are not maintainers themselves. This is how it works in Airflow for example. As maintainers - we have great personal relationships with Amazon employees who contribute to Airflow, also with their management who contributes to the Airflow Summit. And we work closely with those Amazon employees mainly because we have great relationship with them - not because they are Amazon employees. Same with Astronomer and Google. We (PMC) vaalue Amazon, Astronomer and Google as stakeholders and we are grateful for them spending their energy and effort on Airflow. but we are not even supposed (as a PMC) to have relation with Amazon, Google or Astronomer. The best those companies can do (in relation to PMC) is to align incentives of their employees who are contributors and PMC members. I think saying that `PMC` can have any "project direction" relationship directly with the companies - would be IMHO quite contradicting a lot of the "Vendor independence" in ASF. In ASF such relation should only be done **through** individuals who might or might not be employees, or even contractors of those companies. And I think we should be very clear about it. > This feels like you are advocating some sort of intermediary to broker such connections with projects. Not sure what kind of intermediary we are talking about. PMC <-> individual contributor relationship is clear. PMC <> company relationship is essentially "should not happen". So if we are talking about PMC <> individual contributor <> Company relationship - the individual is intermediary. I do not see any other intermediaries here. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
