Danese Cooper, Head of Open Source, PayPal
I joined PayPal at the beginning of the year to help our engineering organization embrace open source and drive contributions back to open source projects. Today we're exited to share our journey with the OSCON audience. Here’s a quick look at what PayPal has going on at OSCON 2014:
I’ll be sitting down onstage to talk to Sarah Novotny, OSCON Program Chair, about how we’ve accelerated innovation through transparency on Tuesday, July 23rd, at 9:20am PDT. I’ll be joined by some of PayPal’s leading engineering talent, Edwin Aoki and Josh Bleecher-Snyder. Here are a few other sessions you won’t want to miss.
Tuesday, July 22 at 1:20 p.m. Aaron Schlesinger from StackMob has a session entitled, "The Epic Battle: Scala at PayPal" in E143. He'll be talking about his experience of introducing an open source framework into PayPal. Then at 2:30 p.m.,PayPal's own Josh Bleecher Snyder will lead a session, "Gophers with Hammers: Fun with parsing and generating Go" in E142. This should be a very fun session with lots of examples of tools used in Go to make coding fun and fast. Finally, at 5:00 p.m., Jonathan LeBlanc, Global Head of Developer Evangelism, will lead a session on “JavaScript and Internet Controlled Hardware Prototyping” in E147/E148. He’ll be setting up an Arduinomicrocontroller, which will be controlled through web APIs, using JavaScript languages bridges and speaking about the future of web-controlled prototyping.
Wednesday, July 23, you can check out a couple different sessions from PayPal. The first will be led by Jeff Harrell, Director of Engineering, Business and Payments, on “Kraken.js – Bringing Open Source to the Enterprise” in D137/138. He’ll examine how PayPal has recently moved its web application stack from a proprietary framework to an open source stack – and the ROI that has brought PayPal. The second discussion that day is a panel I’m moderating on “CLA’s: Best Thing Since Sliced Bread or Tool of the Devil?” in F151. This will be a lively discussion featuring Brian Behlendorf of Mithril Capital Management, Richard Fontana of Red Hat and Bradley Kuhn of the Software Freedom Conservancy, focusing on contributor license agreements, which have been much quite newsworthy of late. Lastly, Cathy O'Connor will be leading a Birds of a Feather session on Wednesday evening at 7:00 p.m. in E142 entitled, "Designers, See Your Designs Differently: Color Contrast Tips and Techniques" focusing on design choices to enhance accessibility.
Throughout the week, we’ll be at Booth no. 401 connecting with the best and brightest minds in the open source community, discussing how PayPal uses open source tools and projects, and what lies ahead for us all in this exciting industry.
We hope to see you this week in Portland!