Advance Your Career with Open Source

Have you ever worked on a project that didn't use any open source tools, libraries, or products? Didn't think so...Using open source has been such an integral part of our daily work life that we don't even think about it. We just expect it to be available, secure, stable, and bug-free. But how many of you are actually contributing back to an open source project?

This session will go through a couple of the aspects to consider when you are starting your open source journey. We will also look at how this can help your career whether you want to build a career in open source, or how it can help as a stepping stone to boost your existing career path.

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1. Ivar Grimstad
 Jakarta EE Developer Advocate Eclipse Foundation Advance Your Career with Open Source
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3. https://jakarta.ee
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9. COPYRIGHT (C) 2025, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Transparency Collaboration Release Early and Often Inclusive Meritocracy Community
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15. COPYRIGHT (C) 2025, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Solo Description One or two programmers control code, decisions, support Contributing Either extremely easy or extremely hard Support Usually very responsive or abandoned Examples Byte Buddy SnoopEE
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17. COPYRIGHT (C) 2025, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Single Vendor Description Open sourced by a company, employees as contributors Contributing Usually dif fi cult Support Reliable support obtained through support contracts with sponsoring company Examples Quarkus Spring Framework Gradle
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21. COPYRIGHT (C) 2025, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Foundation Description Formal organisation open source projects. Often projects critical to several large companies. Contributing Formal process, meritocracy Support Sponsoring companies providing paid support Unpaid support similar as communities Examples Eclipse Jetty Apache Maven Kubernetes
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25. COPYRIGHT (C) 2025, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Evolving Expectations
26. COPYRIGHT (C) 2025, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Is this license compatible with your project license? Will you assign a CVE? How do you handle vulnerabilities? Does the open source project follow an OpenChain conformant process? Is the project REUSE compliant? Where is your Software Bill of Materials? Does the license allow me to do X?
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31. https://orcwg.org
32. COPYRIGHT (C) 2025, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Open Source and YOU
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35. COPYRIGHT (C) 2025, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) What to Contribute?
36. COPYRIGHT (C) 2025, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Does Not Need to be CODE
37. COPYRIGHT (C) 2025, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Follow Your Passion
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43. COPYRIGHT (C) 2025, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Why Contribute?
44. COPYRIGHT (C) 2025, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Build Your Reputation and Career
46. COPYRIGHT (C) 2025, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Improve YOUR Skills
47. COPYRIGHT (C) 2025, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) https://skillab-project.eu
48. Copyright © 2022 The Linux Foundation | June 2022. This report is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License O PE N S O U RC E H I R I N G of hiring managers say hiring open source talent is a priority for 2022. 86% O PE N S O U RC E TAL E NT of organizations are growing their use of cloud/container technologies. 77% O PE N S O U RC E TAL E NT of hiring managers report difficulty finding professionals with the needed open source experience. 93% 58% managers have given higher salary increases to retain open source talent. of hiring TAL E NT ACQ U ISITI O N AN D R ETE NTI O N O PE N S O U RC E H I R I N G technologies. 78% of hiring managers are hiring the same or more open source professionals compared to 2021. O PE N S O U RC E TAL E NT of professionals work on open source projects related to Linux. 76% 90% of hiring managers are willing to pay for certifications TRAI N I N G & C E RTI FI CATI O N 73% of open source professionals believe it would be easy to find a ne position TAL E NT ACQ U ISITI O N AN D R ETE NTI O N 69% TRAI N I N G & C E RTI FI CATI O N of hiring managers are more likely to hire certified open source professionals. DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION 62% of organizations employing open source professionals encourage diversity in hiring. 67% of hiring managers seek open source professionals with architectural skills. THE VALUE OF ARCHITECTING of open DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION 48% source professionals and hiring managers rate their employer di ersity e orts as good or excellent. The 10th Annual Open Source Jobs Report
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51. COPYRIGHT (C) 2025, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) My Journey
52. https://www.scala-lang.org/docu/ fi les/ScalaTutorial-no_NO.pdf
53. Solo Single Vendor Community Foundation Apache NetBeans
54. COPYRIGHT (C) 2025, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) First Rule of Contributing to Open Source
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56. Solo Single Vendor Foundation Community Commercial
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60. COPYRIGHT (C) 2025, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) First Rule of Contributing to Open Source Remember
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62. Eclipse Foundation
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63. COPYRIGHT (C) 2025, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) Research@Eclipse Foundation Sunday at 12:30 Rosaria Rossini, PhD Senior Research Program Manager Eclipse Foundation
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