The Open Source Way

In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with our guest Dr. Dawn Foster, PhD. from VMware about VMware’s open source strategy, and the importance of community and project health. Dawn explains project health metrics, how they contribute to improving projects, and how well-documented processes and governance help scale communities and keep them healthy. We also learn about Dawn’s impressive experience in the IT industry as she takes us through the various stages of her professional and academic career. Guest: Dr. Dawn Foster, PhD. has been working in open source for more than 20 years at companies like Intel and Puppet. At VMware, she leads the community strategy efforts within the Open Source Program Office. She is a Governing Board member and maintainer for the CHAOSS metrics project, a Steering Committee member for the TODO Group, and co-chair of the CNCF Contributor Strategy Technical Advisory Group. She is also on the board of OpenUK. Twitter: Dr. Dawn Foster (@geekygirldawn) / Twitter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnfoster Dawn’s website: http://fastwonderblog.com/ Show Notes: Links https://blogs.vmware.com/opensource/ https://chaoss.community/ https://twitter.com/vmwopensource SAP Open Source Program Office https://developers.sap.com/open-source.html SAP Open Source Twitter ospo@sap.com Additional Downloads: Download transcript as PDF file Hosted by Karsten Hohage – Product Expert in Technology and Innovation (T&I) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karsten-hohage-0180312/

Nell from Microsoft and Sebastian from SAP discuss ClearlyDefined as a data store for open-source licenses, open-source supply chain security, Microsoft's open source history, and SAP's engagement with open source projects. They explore SPDX identifiers, corporate transformations, and the evolution of SAP's open source journey, and Microsoft's approach to open source security with automated vulnerability scanning and securing web dependencies.

Head of Industry 4.0 at SAP, Nemrude Verzano, discusses open-source initiatives Gaia-X, Catena-X, IDS that enable secure data sharing. Collaboration between Fraunhofer Institute and SAP customers. Benefits of joining forces for data processing and management.

In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with our guests Wolfgang Gehring and Christian Wege about FOSS at Mercedes-Benz Group AG. Wolfgang and Christian explain how and why Mercedes-Benz enables their employees to become and stay active in open source, which open-source projects they are working on, and how they contribute to the open-source world outside of Mercedes-Benz. We also learn why a so-called driver’s license is essential for working on open-source projects as a Mercedes-Benz employee. Guests: Inspired by the InnerSource movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for InnerSource and open source and has been spreading the idea within Mercedes-Benz and its IT-subsidiary Daimler TSS. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to accelerate their open-source activities. Dr. Christian Wege has a background in informatics, leading the IT team of the Mercedes-Benz FOSS Center of Competence. Before this, he worked on FOSS topics at Mercedes-Benz Group AG for more than ten years and has been one of the initiators to propose FOSS as a strategic initiative. He strives to make the voice of the developer heard in the creation of the FOSS governance processes and to establish FOSS within Mercedes-Benz. Show Notes: Links https://opensource.mercedes-benz.com https://opensource.mercedes-benz.com/manifesto https://github.com/mercedes-benz https://www.linkedin.com/company/daimler-tss/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/mercedes-benz_ag/ SAP Open Source Program Office https://developers.sap.com/open-source.html SAP Open Source Twitter ospo@sap.com Additional Downloads: Download transcript as PDF file Hosted by Karsten Hohage – Product Expert in Technology and Innovation (T&I) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karsten-hohage-0180312/

In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with Yordan Pavlov and Dragomir Anachkov about the open-source projects Eclipse Dirigible, an application platform, and XSK, an environment compatible with SAP HANA Extended Application Services (XS). Yordan and Dragomir explain the projects, how they relate to each other, why they were open-sourced, and the benefits they offer. We also learn how they differ from similar projects out there and how to best contribute to them. Guests: Yordan Pavlov is project lead of Eclipse Dirigible and solution architect for the project XSK, both open-source projects. He is also one of the major contributors to the two GitHub repositories. Yordan joined SAP in 2013 and was part of the core teams working on what is now known as SAP BTP. Recently, he switched his focus mostly toward helping SAP customers and partners to migrate and develop their solutions to SAP BTP. SAP Community: https://people.sap.com/yordan.pavlovLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-pavlov/ Dragomir Anachkov has been a User Assistance Developer at SAP since 2016. Apart from writing documentation, he is also an avid video creator. He has been working on the Eclipse Dirigible project for the past four years by contributing to its documentation and YouTube channel. SAP Community: https://people.sap.com/dragomir.anachkovLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dragomir-anachkov-b45b098b/ Show Notes: Links Eclipse Dirigible official website: dirigible.io Eclipse Dirigible repository at GitHub: https://github.com/eclipse/dirigible/ Eclipse Dirigible YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/DirigibleIo/videos Eclipse Dirigible Microlearning openSAP channel: https://microlearning.opensap.com/channel/Dirigible/207614233 Twitter: https://twitter.com/dirigible_io Project “XSK” official website: https://www.xsk.io/ SAP Open Source Program Office https://developers.sap.com/open-source.html SAP Open Source Twitter ospo@sap.com Additional Downloads: Download transcript as PDF file Hosted by Karsten Hohage – Product Expert in Technology and Innovation (T&I) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karsten-hohage-0180312/

In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with our guests Christoph Langer and Thomas Stüfe about SapMachine, an SAP-distributed version of OpenJDK. Christoph and Thomas explain what SapMachine is, how it came to be and evolved, and why SAP contributes to the OpenJDK. We also learn about the difference between SapMachine, OpenJDK, and SAP JVM, and how to best get involved. Guests: Thomas joined SAP in 2000. He spent a lot of his career writing and optimizing low-level C/C++ software and porting it to strange architectures. Having joined the JVM team in 2004, he worked on the VM Container, the SAP JVM, and the SapMachine. He is passionate about JVM technology and the OpenJDK project, and a significant contributor to the latter. Homepage: https://stuefe.de Christoph is an SAP Development Manager heading the SapMachine team. He is also a committer and reviewer in the OpenJDK project, and a maintainer of JDK Update releases. He started his professional career with porting SAP solutions to IBM platforms and got in touch with several Java Virtual Machines during this time. Later, he joined the SAP JVM team as a support engineer and from there developed into an allrounder in the JDK space. Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealclanger Show Notes: Links OpenJDK: http://openjdk.java.net/ SapMachine: https://sapmachine.io Features contributed to the OpenJDK by SAP: https://github.com/SAP/SapMachine/wiki/Features-Contributed-by-SAP SAP JVM: https://help.sap.com/viewer/a0f332f9d5dd495a9543d620e9b084d2/LATEST/en-US/47dc90b4ef17452289f9128b8c2bbd77.html  SAP Open Source Program Office https://developers.sap.com/open-source.html SAP Open Source Twitter ospo@sap.com Additional Downloads: Download transcript as PDF file Hosted by Karsten Hohage – Product Expert in Technology and Innovation (T&I) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karsten-hohage-0180312/

In this episode, Karsten Hohage talks with our guests DJ Adams and Jens Haley about the Open Documentation Initiative, an initiative to make the documentation of SAP Business Technology Platform content collaborative and interactive. DJ and Jens explain the project’s current status, where it’s heading, and what makes it so unique. We also learn how to get involved and what the different types of collaboration are. Guests: Jens Haley:Jens is a User Assistance Development Architect at SAP and has been with SAP for more than 20 years. After having worked as an author, he was later responsible for coordinating the delivery of bigger documentation projects. He is the workstream lead for the technical implementation of the Open Documentation Initiative. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jens-haley-34889942/ DJ Adams: DJ is a Developer Advocate at SAP and has been working in the SAP technical ecosphere since 1987. He studied Ancient Greek, Latin and Philology at University and has written books for O’Reilly and SAP Press. He is the community lead for the Open Documentation Initiative. Website: https://qmacro.org Show Notes: Links https://www.linkedin.com/in/djadams/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jens-haley-34889942/ https://blogs.sap.com/2021/05/20/introducing-the-open-documentation-initiative/ https://github.com/SAP-docs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7dbOpsquSg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwxrZ6ET3Yc SAP Open Source Program Office https://developers.sap.com/open-source.html SAP Open Source Twitter ospo@sap.com Additional Downloads: Download transcript as PDF file Hosted by Karsten Hohage – Product Expert in Technology and Innovation (T&I) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karsten-hohage-0180312/

In this episode, our host Karsten Hohage talks with our guests Jack Schueler and Sebastian Wolf about Watcom, a spinoff of the University of Waterloo from the 1980s. Jack, who is one of the founding employees of Watcom, talks about how the Watcom C/C++ project came to be, how it evolved over time, how it was open sourced in 2002, and what it is today. He also shares his personal journey and how he ultimately came to work at SAP. Along the way, we learn a lot about programming over the past five decades and how Watcom played an essential part in the development of Doom and Quake. Guests: Jack Schueler Jack has been a software developer since the 1970s. By virtue of successive acquisitions, he is now a senior software developer at SAP. Over the span of more than 40 years, Jack has been involved in the development of computer language compilers and interpreters, as well as SQL database software and related client tools and documentation. His current job is to support customers by investigating and resolving the tough issues and continually improving SAP software and documentation. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-schueler/ Sebastian Wolf Sebastian is a development architect and has been working for the SAP Open Source Program Office (OSPO) since the beginning of 2020. He first joined SAP back in 2003 as a student and has since worked in several development positions – for example at SAP SRM, ABAP Development Tools, the SAP Community Network, and Central Architecture. GitHub: https://github.com/WunderfitzTwitter: https://twitter.com/Ygriega Show Notes: Links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watcom https://open-watcom.github.io/ https://github.com/open-watcom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybase https://uwaterloo.ca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Graham SAP Open Source Program Office https://developers.sap.com/open-source.html SAP Open Source Twitter ospo@sap.com Additional Downloads: Download transcript as PDF file Hosted by Karsten Hohage – Product Expert in Technology and Innovation (T&I) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karsten-hohage-0180312/

In this episode Karsten Hohage talks with our guests Mladen Droshev and Fabian Tempel about the Fundamental Library, an open-source library created to help application developers align the user experience based on any web application framework with the SAP Fiori Design. Mladen and Fabian talk about their own Fundamental Library journey, explain the benefits of using it, and how to best get started. Guests: Mladen is the architect and product owner of Fundamental Library. He was part of UI5 for one year and then later joined Hybris, where they had free beer at the office. After the acquisition, he stayed at SAP Canada (even though they canceled the free beer!). People call him Deno. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/droshev/ Fabian Tempel is a senior frontend developer who focuses on HTML and CSS. He is also a web accessibility expert in the Cloud Integration Accelerators team and is known as a “CSS Guru” within SAP. He joined Fundamentals as a contributor. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabian-tempel/ Show Notes: Links https://sap.github.io/fundamental/ https://github.com/SAP/fundamental-styles https://github.com/SAP/fundamental-ngx https://github.com/SAP/fundamental-react https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/ https://twitter.com/fundamental_lib https://www.linkedin.com/company/sap-graph SAP Open Source Program Office https://developers.sap.com/open-source.html SAP Open Source Twitter ospo@sap.com Additional Downloads: Download transcript as PDF file. Hosted by Karsten Hohage – Product Expert in Technology and Innovation (T&I) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karsten-hohage-0180312/

In this episode Karsten Hohage talks with our guests André Borrmann and Philipp Degler about Rust, a programming language that was open-sourced from the start. Philipp and André talk about Rust’s evolution, explain its growing popularity within the community, and explore the possibilities it offers. We also learn why a strict compiler is better than a friendly one and why working with Rust can sometimes feel like raising a child. Guests: André celebrated his 10th anniversary at SAP last year. He started as an SAP Solution Manager consultant and ABAP developer and is now part of the Strategic Development Projects team as Full Stack Development Expert. He supports and drives strategic implementation projects and explores new technologies.Last year he started the SAP internal knowledge transfer series “Rust – What the Crab?” to spread the knowledge about Rust within SAP. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andr%C3%A9-borrmann-21434212/Xing: https://www.xing.com/profile/Andre_Borrmann Philipp is a professional C/C++ developer at day and a passionate Rust developer at night. He joined SAP in 1999. Since then he has worked in different areas, from high level ABAP application development to low level systems development. Currently, he works as a development expert in the ABAP language group. Together with André he runs the Rust@SAP community. XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Philipp_Degler Show Notes: Links https://www.rust-lang.org/ https://github.com/rust-lang https://crates.io/ https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/ https://arewegameyet.rs/ https://foundation.rust-lang.org/ SAP Open Source Program Office https://developers.sap.com/open-source.html SAP Open Source Twitter ospo@sap.com Additional Downloads: Download transcript as PDF file. Hosted by Karsten Hohage – Product Expert in Technology and Innovation (T&I) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karsten-hohage-0180312/