Open Source in a Large Organization With Michael Cheng  ## Metadata - Author: [[The Business of Open Source]] - Full Title: Open Source in a Large Organization With Michael Cheng - Category: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/504781c8-860c-4252-a646-5d34e7222ac8 ## Document Notes ## Highlights - The Role of Developer Advocates in Open Source Communities Mature company-aligned projects often hire professional developer advocates to serve as the face of the open source community. This helps mitigate the risk of key individuals leaving or getting burned out, as maintaining a project can be a significant workload. Developer advocates allow principal engineers to pursue other interests and help alleviate the burden of project maintenance. Transcript: Speaker 1 Very mature company-aligned projects tend to bring on professional developer advocates to be the face of the community, face of the open source community after a certain period of Time, right? Because first of all, it principal engineers sometimes want to do other things, so it diffuses or it lessens or mitigates the risk of folks leaving and folks going and doing other things. It allows people to do other things. Maintaining a project is a lot of work, so they get burned out, right? And so this can help to buttress some of that. ([Time 0:26:18](https://share.snipd.com/snip/4fc7283c-c053-4356-b446-aea8183e5067)) - Note: devrel opensource - Tags: opensource, devrel