Name: 101 on Getting Your Customers To Contribute - Nick Veenhof, GitLab
Start: 2025-08-25T13:30:00+0200
End: 2025-08-25T14:10:00+0200

25-27, August 2025
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Monday August 25, 2025 13:30 - 14:10 CEST

Auditorium

In heavily regulated financial services, automotive industries or other large enterprise institutions, developers can transform from open source "takers" to strategic "makers."

This presentation showcases GitLab's Co-Create program as a proven contribution framework for organizations. We'll also teach oyu how to reproduce this program for your OSS project or company.

This is not a product pitch. Rather, Nick is drawing from 15+ years in open source communities and experience as an OSS foundation board member, he will present a model that could inspire other open source projects to engage regulated industries often excluded from contribution ecosystems.

Attendees will discover how structured onboarding, engineering collaboration, CLA frameworks, and maintenance-free contributions create sustainable participation models that maintain regulatory compliance while driving innovation.

Through case studies from Thales (where "two developers saved time for 30 million users" in just two months), Siemens, Scania, and a FinOS member, I'll demonstrate how structured contribution programs deliver measurable value while addressing the unique compliance, security, and innovation challenges.

Speakers

Nick Veenhof

Director, Contributor Success, GitLab

Nick Veenhof is Director of Contributor Success at GitLab, where he leads initiatives to enhance open source participation. With 15+ years in open source ecosystems, Nick brings expertise in building contribution frameworks that deliver business value in regulated environments... Read More →

Monday August 25, 2025 13:30 - 14:10 CEST
Auditorium

Open Source Leadership

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

Open Source Summit Europe 2025

Nick Veenhof

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