Squaring the Circle Between Business and Community
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Open Source has won! Today, most open source developers work for commercial entities and the majority of software and hardware vendors use open source software as key components in their commercial offerings. In this talk we will look at some of the basic dynamics playing out in open source and introduce some mental models explaining them. We will look at the Open Source Flywheel and the Open Source Community Funnel to explain them. We will make a very short excursion into common business models that companies playing in open source use and cover some of the risks that can occur when companies use open source components without fully understanding the potential impact.
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- Lars Kurth Community Manger, Xen Project Chairman, Xen Project
Advisory Board Director, Open Source, Citrix lars_kurth
- Was a contributor to various projects Worked in parallel
computing, tools, mobile and now virtualization Long history in
change projects Community guy at Symbian Foundation Learned how NOT
to do stuff Community guy for the Xen Project Working for Citrix
Accountable to Xen Project Advisory Board Chairman of Xen Project
Advisory Board
- Open Source Business Office : open.citrix.com 7 people:
stewardship of strategic projects and spreading best practices
internally Own Citrix Open Source Strategy Strategic Projects and
Open Source Organizations Membership, OSS Leaders, Contributors,
Evangelists,
- Developing Open Source Virtualization Technologies since 2003
> 10M Users Several sub-projects Xen Hypervisor, XAPI management
tools, Mirage OS Coming: Windows Drivers and Embedded/Automotive
Linux Foundation Collaborative Project Financially sponsored by
Amazon Web Services, AMD, ARM, Bromium, CA Technologies, Cavium,
Cisco, Citrix, Google, Intel, NetApp, Oracle, Rackspace, Samsung
and Verizon
- Proven Within Largest Hyperscale Operations The Xen Project
Hypervisor is the No. 1 choice for the largest hyperscale clouds in
the industry Examples: AWS, CenturyLink, GoGrid, RackSpace,
SoftLayer, Verizon, VirtuStream Designed for Security Xen Project
software offers a multi-layered approach to security with the
ability to wall off intruders through Driver Domains, Stub Domains,
Xen Security Modules Driving Innovation GPU Virtualization (e.g.
XenGT), Cloud Operating Systems (e.g. ClickOS, ErlangOnXen, Elixir,
HalVM, our own MirageOS and OSv) and ARM Support (new, lean and
simple) Extreme Versatility: Going Beyond Cloud Computing Our
technology is used in a wide range of products and services ranging
from server virtualization, cloud and security. New applications
ranging from networking (NFV), automotive to mobile are in the
works.
- John Cleeses fathers surname was Cheese. Cleese grew up 10
miles from Cheddar. Edmond Wells @ Flickr
- Source: The 2014 Future of Open Source Survey Result
- The # of Projects is growing rapidly 2007: 0.2M projects Today:
1.0M projects, 100Billion LOC, 10M contributors 2015: 1.8M projects
John Morgan @ Flickr Simon & His Camera @ Flickr rvcroffi @
Flickr
- 80% of users chose OSS software because of competitive features
72% of users chose OSS because they believe it is more secure Dave
Straven @ Flickr xiquinhosilva @ Flickr
- 50% of all enterprises adopt OSS software Julian Manson @
Flickr
- 30% of companies make it easy for employees to contribute to
projects Influencing a projects direction is one of the main reason
for contributing Nick @ Flickr toffehoff @ Flickr
- Alison Randal Distinguished Technologist at HP LinuxCon NA 2011
@allisonrandal Free software is a fundamentally superior model for
developing software
- Daniel Frye VP, Open Systems Development, IBM LinuxCon NA 2011
Its all about collaboration, and working together with other open
source participants. Sometimes this means collaborating with direct
competitors, but IBM gets that this collaboration on open source
creates new resources for everyone, and theyre not in a cut throat
competition for a finite number of customer dollars.
- snoopsmouse @ Flickr
- Bruce Schneier Internationally renowned security Technologist
@Bruce_Schneier Catastrophic is the right word [for Heartbleed]. On
the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11.
- Growing Codebase Static and small contributor base 1 person
maintaining 100 KLoC = Underinvestment Extremely large user base
Critical infrastructure component Thus impact of Heartbleed is huge
Source: Ohloh.net
- snoopsmouse @ Flickr
- Features How many users you have How many vendors back you How
you are seen in the press Different Management Disciplines
- Maria Ly @ Flickr
- Follow Industry News Follow Project News Adopt Software Engage
with Users Trial Software Engage with Industry Evangelize
Contribute Customize Lead Developer&Communityled
Marketing&Companyled
- Vinovyn @ Flickr
- An increasing number of companies use Open Source Clear
commercial advantages in doing so The Open Source Development Model
Has shown to scale and evolve It creates value and resources for
all participants Not all Open Source projects are the same Before
you use or contribute to a project perform due diligence Using Open
Source is not free Exchanging cost against risk : failure of
project, lack of control, Contributing (not just in terms of code)
reduces risk Everyone can help with Marketing and PR
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