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It’s not just about the t-shirts.
When your open source project stops being cool.
Sharone Zitzman, VP Marketing @ Cloudify@shar1z
Humanity
Be Very Afraid
Outside your door stands a line of a few hundred people. They are patiently waiting for you to answer their questions, complaints, pull requests, and feature requests.
You want to help all of them, but for now you’re putting it off. Maybe you had a hard day at work, or you’re tired, or you’re just trying to enjoy a weekend with your family and friends.
A Day in the Life of an Open Source Maintainer
Typical Open Source Landscape
Other Innovators
The Incumbents
The Giants
Monetization is a Bitch
No Free Lunches
Closed Source isn’t a Silver Bullet
“Open source doesn’t have more bugs, they’re just fully transparent for all to see.”
Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director, OpenStack
I want to challenge our definition of COOL
Making the Impossible Possible
“8000 Servers, More Than 280,000 Cores, and 33,000 VMs all on OpenStack” - Tim Bell,CERN
Maintaining Developer Engagement for Years
Trusted by the Biggest and Baddest
Enabling a Marketplace of Profitability
One More Thing
Suggested Reading
• Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure
• What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer
• Why I took October off from OSS volunteering
• The fork? Node.js: Code showdown re-opens Open Source wounds
• Walkaway, Corey Doctorow
Thank You
cloudify.co
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