Collaboration Breeds Creativity: How To Be A Good Corporate Citizen in Open Source - Dawn Foster, VM Ware

In this episode of the podcast, Grizz interviews Dawn Foster, Director Open Source Community Strategy at VMware.  This is the beginning of our series on the bedrock benefits of open source. Dawn and Grizz talk about how collaboration breeds creativity, how to be a good corporate citizen in open source, and also about Dawn's path, and how she's been able to turn her fascination in open source communities into a career. Dawn's Info | https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnfoster/ Dawn's OSFF London Talk | https://resources.finos.org/znglist/osff-london-2022-video-recordings/?c=cG9zdDoxNzE5 Dawn is Director of Open Source Community Strategy within VMware’s OSPO. She is a Governing Board member / maintainer for CHAOSS, Steering Committee member for the TODO Group, co-chair of the CNCF Contributor Strategy TAG, and OpenUK board member. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like Intel and Puppet with expertise in community building, strategy, open source software, governance, metrics, and more. Dawn holds a PhD from the University of Greenwich along with an MBA and a BS in Computer Science. She has spoken at over 100 industry events, including many Linux Foundation events, KubeCon, OSCON, SXSW, FOSDEM and more. In her spare time she enjoys reading science fiction, running, and traveling. CFP - submit your talks for OSFF NYC by September 12: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-finance-forum-new-york/program/cfp/ Register - Early bird ends September 14 (Members attend for free, but register early to be entered to win FINOS swag): https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-finance-forum-new-york/register/ OSFF London Videos & Pics: https://resources.finos.org/znglist/osff-london-2022-video-recordings/?c=cG9zdDo5OTA2MjA= Grizz's Info | https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarongriswold/ | [email protected] ►► Visit FINOS www.finos.org ►► Get In Touch: [email protected]