Guy Martin is the Director of Open Source & Standards at NVIDIA, where we works with the Omniverse product team on helping them navigate the open landscape with projects such as Universal Scene Description, MaterialX, and many others. He also consults with the rest of the organization on open source best practices.
Guy brings a unique blend of 25+ years’ experience as both software engineer and open source strategist to NVIDIA. He has built open source programs for companies like Red Hat, Samsung and Autodesk and was instrumental in founding the Academy Software Foundation while Director of the Open Source Office at Autodesk. He was also a founding member of the team that built the Open Connectivity Foundation while at Samsung, helping to successfully integrate FRAND standards with open source reference implementations. Most recently, he lead OASIS Open as Executive Director, where he helped to merge the best of open source and open standards for that organization. He is a passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion in technology and an accomplished public speaker.
An avid, lifelong athlete, Guy is based near Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, U.S.A.
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Great post Jason - I'd only add that, in my opinion, one of the seminal books on working with and producing OSS was written by Karl Fogel - 'Producing OSS Software': http://producingoss.com/
He's about to write an updated version, but the original is still a great read.
This is an interesting topic, but there's another interesting question, which you only tangentially touched on. Specifically, the level of systems integration in the manufacturing of a plane is enormous. Open source's greatest strength, and sometimes it's greatest weakness, is that everyone can (and sometimes does) fork and splinter projects, rather than cooperate and work together.
Note that I'm not saying that this can't be done, but it might be interesting to ponder who is the ultimate 'Benevolent Dictator for Life' (ala Linus) when it comes to the overall systems integration of components for an airliner.
Thanks for a great article to spark an interesting discussion.