[Openmind 2013] Samsung Research UK - Finland; European Open Source Group by Mika Kukkonen (Principal Software Engineer, Open Source, Samsung)

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1. Finland R&D
   OpenMind 2013
   Samsung Research UK - Finland
   (SRUK-FI)
   European Open Source Group
   Mika Kukkonen
   2nd October 2013
   

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2. Finland R&D
   • Open Source is everywhere in Samsung products!
   • And of course in the newest one:
   OpenMind 2013
   

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3. Finland R&D
   OpenMind 2013
   • Why Finland?
    Opportunity
    Location
    Size
    Culture
    ”Economic factors”
   • ”Sister” site in Silicon Valley, California, USA
   • Samsung R&D HQ in Suwon, South Korea
   • SRUK-FI officially opened 13th June 2013,
   located in Otaniemi, Espoo (north of Innopoli)
   • Current headcount around 20 and growing
   • Focus areas in SRUK-FI:
    Open Source Group (OSG)
    Tizen (https://www.tizen.org)
    Internal R&D support
   Talouselämä 17.8.2013
   Samsung R&D HQ in Suwon
   

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4. Finland R&D
   OpenMind 2013
   Open Source Group
   - Internal and external advocacy
   - Internal training and ”enablement”
   - Academic cooperation and research
   - Contributions to various Open Source projects:
   Tizen:
   Yes, I’m hiring too! ;-)
   

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5. Finland R&D
   And now a word from my sponsor!
   - i.e. the mandatory Tizen slide ;-)
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6. Finland R&D
   Tizen ... why Yet Another Linux Mobile Phone OS?
   - What is the one common thing with all three current Mobile OSes?
   - Control matters.
   OK, there are other reasons too, like HTML5 and flexibility
   Tizen is …
   - Standards-based, multi-category platform
   - Open Source under Linux Foundation
   - Excellent platform for:
    Diverse smart commercial devices
    Research and education
   Tizen Association
   - An industry consortium consisting of key
   service providers and device manufacturers,
   drives industry awareness and adoption of
   Tizen software platform
   https://www.tizenassociation.org/members/ :
   https://developer.tizen.org/downloads/tizen-sdk
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7. Finland R&D
   ”Lets do Open Source!”
   - OK, but what does that mean, really?
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8. Finland R&D
   In one word: ”Communication”
   In two words: ”Open communication”
   1. Timeframe
   a) Nearly instantenous (direct messaging)
   b) Very asynchronous (email)
   c) Archives ( = ”forever”; wiki)
   2. Type of communication
   a) 1-to-1 (direct messaging)
   b) 1-to-N (web pages)
   c) N-to-N (IRC)
   3. Geographical location
   a) Inside one campus
   b) Between company sites
   c) Between company and the rest of the world
   4. Confidentiality
   a) Personal development trees (on developer ’s computer)
   b) Company confidential development trees (on intranet)
   c) Open Source project repositories (in the Internet)
   5. Content
   a) One-line messages (”You reviewed my patch?”)
   b) Emails (patches, LKML ...)
   c) Git-based source code repositiories (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux)
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   Open communication
   feels scary ...
   But what are the
   company ”secrets”
   the developer
   knows?
   

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9. Finland R&D
   “When Worlds Collide – The
   Love & Hate Relationship of
   Academia and Businesses”
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   And now something very different ...
   

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10. Finland R&D
    Academia prefers money for free, while businesses want to see ROI
    The ”model”:
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    Knowledge
    Code
    People
    Innovation
    Publicity
    Tizen
    Recruits
    Startups
    Professors want to have their own (small) sandboxes <= BAD!
    How can we make Finland to become the innovation center of Europe?
    Samsung is considering to join COSS as a board member
    

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11. Finland R&D
    Thanks!
    Any questions?
    m.kukkonen@samsung.com
    OpenMind 2013
    

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