OSCON 2014 PayPal Panel: 'Racing Change'

From OSCON 2014: "Racing Change: Accelerating Innovation Through Radical Transparency." In February of this year, PayPal announced it had hired Danese Cooper as their first Head of Open Source. PayPal? And Open Source? In fact, Open Source is playing a key role in reinventing PayPal engineering as a place where innovation at scale is easy and fun -- especially if you like to work in Open Source. From involvement with Open Stack, Hadoop and Kafka to work in Python, Scala, Go! & Node to radical internal transformation using Agile and InnerSource, PayPal is racing Change.

This keynote is sponsored by PayPal

About Sarah Novotny (NGINX):

About Danese Cooper (PayPal):
Danese Cooper has an 22-year history in the software industry and has long been an advocate for transparent development methodologies. Ms. Cooper joined PayPal in February 2014, and has held many leadership roles within the computer science sector. She has managed teams at Symantec and Apple Inc. and for six years served as Chief Open Source Evangelist for Sun Microsystems before leaving to serve as Senior Director for Open Source Strategies at Intel. She advised on open source policy to the R community while at REvolution Computing (now Revolution Analytics), and she served from February 2010 to July 2011 as Chief Technical Officer for the Wikimedia Foundation. She currently runs a successful consultancy to companies wishing to pursue open source strategies, which has served the SETI Foundation, Harris Corporation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation among other clients. She is a director on the boards of the Drupal Association, and the Open Source Hardware Association, a board advisor for Mozilla and Ushahidi, and has served since 2005 as a Member of the Apache Software Foundation. She was a board member for 10 years at Open Source Initiative.

About Josh Bleecher Snyder (PayPal):

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