How to Be a Responsible Open Source Citizen

Have you ever worked on a project that didn't use any open source tools, libraries, or products? 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? In this session, I will go through some aspects of being a responsible open source citizen. There may even be a couple of pointers on how to make a career in open source.

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1. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
   How to Be a Responsible
   Open Source Citizen
   Ivar Grimstad

   Jakarta EE Developer Advocate
   Eclipse Foundation
   

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2. @ivar_grimstad
   https://github.com/ivargrimstad
   https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivargrimstad
   @ivar_grimstad@mastadon.social
   ivargrimstad_of
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3. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
   Introduction
   Consume Responsibly
   Contribute Responsibly
   Summary
   

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5. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
   

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9. Jakarta EE 10 Platform
   Updated
   Not Updated
   New
   Authorization 2.1
   Activation 2.1
   Batch 2.1
   Connectors 2.1
   Mail 2.1
   Messaging 3.1
   Enterprise Beans 4.0
   RESTful Web Services 3.1
   JSON Processing 2.1
   JSON Binding 3.0
   Annotations 2.1
   CDI Lite 4.0
   Interceptors 2.1
   Dependency Injection 2.0
   Servlet 6.0
   Server Pages 3.1
   Expression Language 5.0
   Debugging Support 2.0
   Standard Tag Libraries 3.0
   Faces 4.0
   WebSocket 2.1
   Enterprise Beans Lite 4.0
   Persistence 3.1
   Transactions 2.0
   Managed Beans 2.0
   CDI 4.0
   Authentication 3.0
   Concurrency 3.0
   Security 3.0
   Bean Validation 3.0
   

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10. RESTful Web Services 4.0
    JSON Processing 2.1
    JSON Binding 3.0
    Annotations 3.0
    CDI Lite 4.1
    Interceptors 2.2
    Dependency Injection 2.0
    Servlet 6.1
    Pages 4.0
    Expression Language 6.0
    Debugging Support 2.0
    Standard Tag Libraries 3.0
    Faces 5.0
    WebSocket 2.2
    Enterprise Beans Lite 4.0
    Persistence 3.2
    Transactions 2.0
    CDI 4.1
    Authentication 3.1
    Concurrency 3.1
    Security 4.0
    Validation 3.1
    Data 1.0
    Authorization 3.0
    Activation 2.1
    Batch 2.1
    Connectors 2.1
    Mail 2.1
    Messaging 3.1
    Enterprise Beans 4.0
    Jakarta EE 11 Platform
    Jakarta EE 11 Web Pro
    fi
    Updated
    Not Updated
    New
    

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    Open Source
    

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17. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    Open Source Principles
    

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    Transparency
    Collaboration
    Release Early
    and Often
    Inclusive
    Meritocracy
    Community
    

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19. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    Open Source Licenses
    

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20. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    Open Source Initiative
    https://opensource.org/licenses
    

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21. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    Open Source
    vs
    Source Available
    

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22. #JakartaEE COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) @ivar_grimstad
    Consume Responsibly
    

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23. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    Open Source Projects
    

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24. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    Solo Single Vendor Community Foundation
    

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25. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, 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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26. Solo
    

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    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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28. Single Vendor
    

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    Community
    Description
    Signi
    fi
    cant number of contributors,
    usually democratic
    Contributing
    Generally welcoming, no formal
    process
    Support
    Participation in the social process
    required
    Examples
    PostgreSQL
    OpenJDK
    mockito
    

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30. Community
    

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    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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33. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    Security
    

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35. https://slsa.dev/
    

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    Evolving Expectations
    

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    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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39. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    Regulations
    

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40. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    European Cyber Resiliency Act
    (CRA)
    

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41. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    Product Liability Directive
    (PLD)
    

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42. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    Blog posts about PLD and
    CRA by Mike Milinkowich
    

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45. #JakartaEE COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) @ivar_grimstad
    Contribute Responsibly
    

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46. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, 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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47. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    Contribute!
    

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48. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    How to Get Started?
    

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49. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    Convince my Boss?
    

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51. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    Improve the Software
    YOU Rely On
    

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52. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    Why Contribute?
    

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53. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    Improve YOUR Skills
    

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54. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, 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
    

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55. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    Where to Contribute?
    

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56. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, 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
    

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57. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, 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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59. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    My Journey
    

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60. https://www.scala-lang.org/docu/
    fi
    les/ScalaTutorial-no_NO.pdf
    

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61. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    Solo Single Vendor Community Foundation
    Apache NetBeans
    

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63. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    How to Contribute?
    

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65. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    Show Your SUPPORT
    

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66. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    Contribute Responsibly
    

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    Summary
    

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70. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0)
    Solo Single Vendor Community Foundation
    

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71. COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, 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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72. Eclipse Foundation

    https://eclipse.org
    Jakarta EE
    https://jakarta.ee
    Get Involved
    https://jakarta.ee/community/get-involved/
    Blog
    https://www.agilejava.eu
    

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73. #JakartaEE COPYRIGHT (C) 2023, ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, INC. | THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE (CC BY 4.0) @ivar_grimstad
    Thank You!
    

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