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New Blog Series
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:date: 2018-12-13 07:27
:author: james
:slug: 229
:status: draft

By now, everybody in the tech world has noticed Microsoft's pivot toward open source. From `joining the Linux Foundation <https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/2016/11/microsoft-fortifies-commitment-to-open-source-becomes-linux-foundation-platinum-member/>`__ to `bringing its deep patent portfolio to OIN <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-joins-open-invention-network-to-help-protect-linux-and-open-source/>`__, Microsoft has been making splashy public moves and deepening its commitment to the open source path. These visible signs of change within Microsoft reflect a shift that began several years ago, and if you look inside the company, you will see organizational changes and skill building aimed at preparing Microsofties to be "all-in" open source participants.

As a celebration of our community growing in collaboration, and to support Microsoft as it continues to gain open source sophistication, OTS will be publishing a new blog series in partnership with Microsoft. These posts will build on the `archetypes <https://blog.opentechstrategies.com/2018/05/field-guide-to-open-source-project-archetypes/>`__ research we began `with Mozilla <https://opensource.com/open-organization/18/9/mozilla-open-archetypes>`__ and attempt to provide deeper treatments, new archetypes, and practical advice on how to use archetypes to support strategic open source engagement. The audience we have in mind for these posts are managers with real world goals who are using open source to establish ecosystems, build standards, disrupt competitors, or simply to deliver faster/cheaper/better.

Posts in this series will be sponsored. They will not be advertisements for Microsoft, and most will probably not mention Microsoft products or activities at all. Rather, we will write general materials of use to anybody doing open source in an enterprise context. We hope they will be useful to a wide audience.