Kaushik Srinivasan
Kaushik Srinivasan is a geospatial software engineer at Bloomberg and a nascent open source contributor
Sessions
11-08
14:35
40min
Daunting to Doable: How Institutions can encourage Open Source Contributions
Kaushik Srinivasan
Open source is the backbone of many critical technologies worldwide, yet for newcomers, contributing to it can be a daunting challenge. Bloomberg understands the importance of open source, and has recently introduced a program that rewards the amount of hours an employee works on open source technologies with philanthropic donations to charities. This talk will explore how this program, and other such programs, can help newcomers begin their open source journeys.
Central Park East