{"id":65653,"date":"2018-11-29T14:22:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T14:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/29\/nithya-ruff-on-open-source-contributions-beyond-code\/"},"modified":"2018-11-29T14:22:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T14:22:50","slug":"nithya-ruff-on-open-source-contributions-beyond-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/29\/nithya-ruff-on-open-source-contributions-beyond-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Nithya Ruff on Open Source Contributions Beyond Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/nithya-ruff-on-open-source-contributions-beyond-code.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Sometimes when we think about open source, we focus on the code and forget that there are other equally important ways to contribute. Nithya Ruff, Senior Director, Open Source Practice at Comcast, knows that contributions can come in many forms. \u201cContribution can come in the form of code or in the form of a financial support for projects. It also comes in the form of evangelizing open source; It comes in form of sharing good practices with others,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Comcast, however, does contribute code. When I sat down with Ruff at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/events.linuxfoundation.org\/events\/open-source-summit-north-america-2018\/\">Open Source Summit<\/a>\u00a0to learn more, she made it clear that Comcast isn\u2019t just a consumer; it contributes a great deal to open source. \u201cOne way we contribute is that when we consume a project and a fix or enhancement is needed, we fix it and contribute back.\u201d The company has made roughly 150 such contributions this year alone.<\/p>\n<p>Comcast also releases its own software as open source. \u201cWe have created things internally to solve our own problems, but we realized they could solve someone else\u2019s problem, too. So, we released such internal projects as open source,\u201d said Ruff.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video interview at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linuxfoundation.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/nithya-ruff-on-open-source-contributions-beyond-code\/\">The Linux Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when we think about open source, we focus on the code and forget that there are other equally important ways to contribute. Nithya Ruff, Senior Director, Open Source Practice at Comcast, knows that contributions can come in many forms. \u201cContribution can come in the form of code or in the form of a financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux-freebsd-unix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}