Why Open Source Products Are Important by a Google Tech Manager
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This talk was geared towards a non-technical audience interested in the magic and wonder of open source. Danny Rosen went over what open source is, why it's important, what it means to have an open source product and why it's important to customers. He also discussed what it's like to be involved in the open source community from the perspective of a user, a product manager and a developer, and the challenges and opportunities related to community management and community involvement.
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- 10. What is an open source software product? ● An open source software product is a software product wherein the source code is publicly available ● Open source products contain licenses that dictate: ● Who owns the source code ● How the source code can be used or distributed ● We say product but maybe we mean project? ● Why is it important? ● What’s the difference?
- 11. Are open source products a new thing? ● No! ● 1980s magazines ● Linux ● Chrome ● Android ● Pidgin ● Sort of…? ● Open Source Software is supporting commercialization now more than ever.
- 12. Who Uses Open Source?
- 13. YOU. RIGHT NOW.
- 14. YOU. TOMORROW.
- 16. Community Has Time Customers Grow their skills Improve the product experience Learn new approaches Network Inspire and Be Inspired Have “a need” Have varying ways of consuming Want to support the product Want documentation and support Have Money
- 17. Benevolent Dictator For Life Rule with a loving, iron fist Maintain control and vision As a ___ I want to ___ So I can ___ Credit Nathan Fox @nathanfoxy
- 18. ● Grow awareness ● Increase resources ● Standardize ● Increase availability / “surface area” As a Corporation, I want to {{want}} So I can {{motivation}} ● Obtain dev community ● Ship product faster ● Define emerging trends ● Expand product offering {{want} } {{motivation}}
- 19. ● Control the project ● Govern ● Provide support ● Attract other corporations As an organization, I want to {{want}} So I can {{motivation}} ● Facilitate vision process ● Grow with stability ● Attract new members ● Reduce single point of failure {{want} } {{motivation}}
- 20. Where do projects reside? Github Gitlab Gomix / Glitch SourceForge Bitbucket LaunchPad Package Managers: NPM, PyPi, Maven, Aur, RHEL, LaunchPad, Gem, Pear & Pecl, etc Microsoft CodePlex Google Code
- 21. How does a Product become Open Source? … and once it is how do you keep it from falling over?
- 22. Before you publish, ask... ● Why choose to take commercial software to open source? ● What OSS business model do you use? ● How do you address the weight of existing code and cultural history? ● Why type of community do you want to create ● What open source license fits? ● What governance and development models do you want to use? Credit: Cyrus Wadia @ Pivotal
- 23. Business Models ● Pure open source ● “Buy-me-a-beerware” (Ex: Tooling, pet projects) ● Community open source ● Foundation (ex: Apache Foundation, Linux Foundation, Mozilla Foundation) ● “Pure Play” with a focus on services & support ● Race to the bottom. Danger: Commoditization! ● Subscription open source ● Hosted Software as a Service subscriptions (ex: Wordpress, Ghost, Sandstorm) ● Multi-license open source ● Open source core, closed source value add
- 24. Organizational ownership benefits ● Objective organization growing the project ● Dedicated legal, marketing, business, hand-shaking support ● IP assistance ● Dedicated growth support for the ecosystem ● Reduces “single vendor” risk ● Governance model comes built in ● Aligning multiple organizations around a single vision* * hard
- 25. Governance ● The hierarchy and roles that the project participants assume ● The definition of participants’ roles in the project ● How communication exists within the project - Chaos vs Process. Fun times, right?
- 26. Licensing Copyleft vs Permissive ● Copyleft: Anything that you create or link to becomes open source ● Permissive: Anything that you do, you can close source ● Restrictions determine if additions or links require openness ● Captain Obvious Says…”Corporations are generally not fans of giving their IP away for free, Jimmy.”
- 27. ● Make it easy for others to contribute and consume ● Contributor License Agreements (CLAs) ● Empathy for customers and contributors ● Documentation ● Release milestones ● Roadmap policy ● Contribution policy ● Tests & CI ● Overcommunicate ● Excite your contributors ● Learn and teach, teach and learn. Okay, so success. How?
- 28. Thanks! Me: Danny Rosen github/twitter: @dannyzen linkedin.com/in/dannyrosen danny.rosen@gmail.com Sarah Novotny - Kubernetes David Aronchick - Kubernetes John Mark Walker @ ARM Cyrus Wadia @ Pivotal Marco Nicosio @ Pivotal Mike Dalessio @ Pivotal Bridget Kromhout @ Microsoft Stephen Walli @ Microsoft Credit Nathan Fox @nathanfoxy
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- #11: Source can be read Licenses Product or project? Product: Business can exist Exists as a foundation for broader services Evangelism vs Collaboration Drucker Vs Friedman Drucker "the purpose of the company is to create a market" Vs Friedman a company exists to provide a return to shareholders
- #12: Talk about Pidgin - 73 million downloads
- #14: Right MEOW We've always shared software. From the 1950s until now. Sendmail was already a company Mysql was in 95 Redhad in 93 BSGI AT&T
- #15: Right MEOW We've always shared software. From the 1950s until now. Sendmail was already a company Mysql was in 95 Redhad in 93 BSGI AT&T
- #16: Benevolent Dictator for Life
- #17: just because you're open source doesn’t mean you sell to open source users Enterprise will most def be your customers. Enterprise software is horrifying. Customers also provide feedback that you can learn from and circulate Freeloaders? You’re doing it right.
- #18: Note stallman If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs. Shirt: Emacs. BDFL: Linus Torvalds Who else participates? Communities Touch to seed and community
- #19: Lots of reasons but ultimately this exposes you to a new and different way of creating a product You’re sharing IP, roadmap and trijectory. Your product history is on the table.
- #20: Lots of reasons but ultimately this exposes you to a new and different way of creating a product You’re sharing IP, roadmap and trijectory. Your product history is on the table.
- #22: Benevolent Dictator for Life
- #24: Drucker "the purpose of the company is to create a market" Friedman (a company exists to provide a return to shareholders). Marketplace on top of OSS
- #25: Single Vendor Risk HOW DO YOU ALIGN MULTIPLE ORGANIZATIONS AROUND A SINGLE VISION?
- #27: If you’ve originated the project, you should retain the ability to be the soul supplier to control pricing and marketing. Every place that copywright is applied is about protecting the distrobution chain, but not the author. Media does not change. The bible doesnt change. Movies dont change. Music doesn't change. Software is dynamic. You'realways patching always moving. SOftware is never "Done" Derivativation is key here. If we have code that is derived from GPL code we enter a world where the GPL can arguably be implemented.
- #28: Automation means you can scale your project. Good process means scalability. Talk about marco’s feedback