| GitHub is an established player in the technology space and has done a really great job at fostering its open source community. You're right that GitLab is trying to differentiate itself as the best place to scale software, and so it feels like its focus is on enterprises. That's where the open source strategy also currently aligns. GitLab is making the best platform to help open source projects thrive at scale. I'm the new Sr. Open Source Program Manager at GitLab and was recently hired to build out our GitLab for Open Source program (https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/). This program allows open source projects to use GitLab's top tiers for free, and it provides assistance to large open source organizations throughout their migrations. We are providing open source projects with GitLab’s top-of-the-line features, that enterprises are using, to help them along their own journey. As I mentioned, GitHub is doing a lot of great things, and I think that GitLab used to be perceived as merely playing a game of catch up. This is no longer where we are today. We're fast at iterating on our product and are blazing ahead on creating a platform that enables cross-functional team collaboration, and industry-standard features for the full software development lifecycle. We're working on a similar strategy with our open source offering -- so that we're not playing catch up, but are instead defining a new standard. As an open-core company, we have an open roadmap for our product and for everything else we do. If you have ideas for our community relations team (I'm part of this team), we welcome your feedback! You can reach us via our forum: forum.gitlab.com, and via community@gitlab.com. You can also read all about what we do and how we work here: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/community-relati... |