Talend’s open source approach shatters the traditional proprietary model by supplying open, innovative, and powerful software solutions with the flexibility to meet the needs of all the organizations. By publishing the code of its core modules under the GNU Public License or the Apache License, Talend offers the developer community the ability to improve products and make enhancements that can benefit everyone.

Contributions from the community are critical to the success of Talend’s products. They take many different forms: code contributions, extensions such as connectors and components, documentation and tutorials, community support and help, and more.

Documentation is probably one of the most important aspects of the usability experience. Without good learning and reference materials, the best software is impossible to fully master. Contributions from the community to this usability experience are hence very important and they participate to the broad adoption effort.

It should be no surprise then that Talend is supportive of initiatives such as this book. By providing an angle enriched by his real-life experience, the author guides the user of Talend Open Studio through a learning experience that is complementary to the user documentation provided by Talend.

Enjoy!

Yves de Montcheuil

VP of Marketing,

Talend