It feels good knowing that many data professionals and companies from around the world use your contributions in their environments, or that your line of code was the missing piece of someone's puzzle. ![]() Contributing to FOSS is even one of the official ways to raise our team-wide bonus and on our Slack channels, we can use our custom currency Briqs to sponsor Open Source projects. On our GitHub you will for example find a module to set up a data pipeline in minutes, but also a fun application to measure coffee consumption using a Raspberry Pi. The possibilities in terms of the type of projects are endless but there is one fixed condition: whatever we make, it must be made open source. We even have different guilds on data engineering or machine learning to work together and share knowledge. This is our applied R&D laboratory where we are able to work on all code and data related experiments in the form of side projects, tools and solutions. Experimentation and researchĭataroots invests 10% of all revenue yearly into applied R&D under the flag of ‘Dataroots Research’. It does not take a lot of time to push pieces of code to GitHub or other public forums and we are explicitly incentivised to do so. When we solve a problem, the solution is shared so other people can benefit from it, which ultimately stimulates innovation in our field. ![]() We ask them questions, implement their feedback and ultimately, we give back. This means we often interact with the developer community and the creators of certain tools or solutions. We create a great number of Open Source solutions in and outside the context of the tailored solutions for our clients. But what exactly do you gain by working with Free Open Source Software (FOSS), how can it possibly be better than holding all the cards and how does a data company like ours embed FOSS in its core business? Culture of giving We challenge anyone to execute a software project without the use of a single Open Source building block. There is no getting around its use, even for those electing to work as closed source as possible. Essential ingredientįree Open Source Software (FOSS) is an essential ingredient in our kitchen at Dataroots. Let’s have a look at a couple of examples of why and where Open Source proves its value in our day-to-day business. ![]() These contemplations are often pronounced by people outside or not familiar with software development. Why would the chef give away the recipes for the dishes he is famous for? What does the engineer achieve from sharing his schematics for that new technological marvel? Working open source is like sharing your secrets.
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