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Who is Nigel Simpson? (Lessons of Open Source Governance)

Written by Derek Weeks | October 28, 2014

If you are in the midst of creating (or even planning to implement) an Open Source Governance Policy for your organization, then you’ll want to get to know Nigel Simpson.

Nigel has been leading an enterprise-wide working group with over 40 members -- at a really big entertainment and media company -- to define his organization's Open Source Software Policy. Under his leadership, the working group then created an effective process for the review and approval of open source components that ensure the security, legal, IP and technical risks were being managed.

Nigel recently shared his experiences in building a policy to help his organization ban avoidable open source software risks, while avoiding unnecessary rework for thousands of developers worldwide. You can listen to Nigel's advice for establishing and automating open source policies now. Just click here.

(image credits: www.linkedin.com/in/nigelsimpson, http://bit.ly/1wbufm1)