Providing strategic advice to companies looking for open source and business expertise.
using open source to enable other business objectives (e.g., platform enabling, integration into existing infrastructure)
open source based business models
open source project governance, community growth, and life cycle
open source license compliance
supply chain security
internal processes driving the use of and contribution to open source projects
Dirk has spent more than 30 years as open source developer and business leader, from the early days of the Linux kernel, through his time as CTO of SUSE, his experience as the Chief Linux and Open Source Technologies at Intel and most recently as Chief Open Source Officer at VMware.
He has been involved in dozens of projects and communities and open source organizations and has spoken at many open source events.
To talk about opportunities, reach out to Dirk via email.