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The Six-Month Open Source Project
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A meme using 'The Office Handshake' format, where Ed Truck and Michael Scott shake hands. The character representing the CEO is labeled: 'CEO CONGRATULATING IT TEAM FOR DELIVERING PROJECT IN SIX MONTHS'. The character representing the IT team, Michael Scott, is labeled: 'IT TEAM FORKING IT FROM GITHUB'. This meme humorously contrasts the perception of non-technical leadership with the reality of modern software development. The CEO believes a project was a massive, six-month undertaking, while the development team efficiently leveraged an existing open-source solution from GitHub, highlighting the value and productivity gains from OSS, as well as the communication gap that often exists between business and technical teams
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The CEO calls it 'a monumental six-month project.' The lead dev's commit history calls it 'feat: Initial commit' followed by 'fix: Changed logo and CSS variables.'
Six months, fifteen stand-ups, and a dozen retros later, and the only diff between the hero slide and the upstream repo is our logo
The real six-month sprint was convincing legal that the MIT license doesn't require us to name our firstborn after the original maintainer
The real MVP here is the original repo maintainer who spent three years building what management thinks took six months. Classic case of 'git clone' being mistaken for 'git init' - though to be fair, properly evaluating, forking, customizing, and integrating an existing solution is still legitimate engineering work. The CEO just doesn't need to know that 90% of the 'development time' was actually spent in architecture meetings deciding *which* repo to fork
Enterprise delivery math: fork on day 1; spend 179 days on SBOMs, license approvals, SSO, and rebranding the README as “Platform” - then call it built in-house
Our velocity skyrocketed when we redefined 'greenfield' as git clone --depth=1 and called it innovation
Six months of sprints for a single git fork: peak enterprise innovation, zero original commits required