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The following are notes from the Software Freedom Day 2011 workshop on contributing to free software in your workplace. The ultimate goal is to produce an agreement between employees and their employer to allow upstream contribution to free software projects.

offload maintenance

central competence

consortium (positive vocabulary)

colaboration

social consience

build or existing tool

Output: Set of arguments to convince employers that contributing upstream is a good idea. Some points relate more generally to encouraging use of free software.

test the water first

multiple-sourcing, no vendor lock in

how to manage risk

OSIA, paid support

mitigate risk: bus factor and burden of maintenance

user acceptance and testing

wider/expert code review

success stories

attribution

Action items:

look for an existing guide

legal clause/addendum on contributing back code (on engagement contract)