Benjamin Nickolls
Ben started working with Andrew Nesbitt following the Heartbleed vulnerability in 2014. In the decade since they’ve built the world’s most comprehensive and accurate dataset about open source production and use… twice.
Their latest project Ecosyste.ms tracks 230m repos and 11m packages from thousands of data sources, mapping 19 billion dependencies between them. Ecosyste.ms provides a free set of tools and data for developers, researchers, and policymakers to help identify, secure, and sustain open source software.
Ben is also Strategic Director at Open Source Collective, Director of Open Finance Consortium, and the creator of a boardgame or two.
Session
The InnerSource commons promotes the adoption of open source practices to accelerate development within a company's culture. It's also said that it prepares the ground for those companies to begin contributing and releasing open source software... but can we prove it?