Purpose

The Open Source Team works across departments at Zalando to scale open culture and promote best practices of Open Source development. We ensure that Zalando is a good Open Source citizen, from understanding and respecting Open Source licensing to enabling Zalando employees to take active part in the creation of Open Source.


Participate

We invest in and contribute to Open Source projects which are important to us. We encourage Zalando employees to get involved in Open Source.

Share

We share our code and processes with the rest of the world as we want technology to benefit as many people as possible.

Promote

We enable and prioritize Open Source code in our engineering teams. We encourage an open culture as we see the practices of the Open Source movement as the best way to collaborate.