Organization and challenges (with best practices) behind a successful open-source project
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The document discusses the organization and challenges involved in successfully managing open-source projects, highlighting the importance of community support, dedicated engineering efforts, and effective contribution management. It identifies key challenges such as community survival, engineering organization, contribution management, differentiation strategies, and business value realization. The author presents best practices and strategies for achieving sustainability in open-source initiatives.
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- 1. Organization and Challenges (with Best Practices) Behind a Successful Open-Source Project #OSDAY23 @schrodinger_hat https://www.linkedin.com/in/fcorti/ FrkCorti
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- 4. Creator: Bart Source: Magic potion License: CC BY-NC 2.0 Creator: Hans Splinter Source: Viking License: CC BY-ND 2.0 Small team Working without any stop Always in emergency Very low budget Dreaming contributors Market fit! #OSDAY23 @schrodinger_hat
- 7. #OSDAY23 @schrodinger_hat How to reach the sustainability?
- 8. Open Source & Free Licence & Cost #OSDAY23 @schrodinger_hat The Open Source funnelling Open Source Discovery Trial POC Adoption Buy Upsell Differentiation “Usual Business” What To Do Here?
- 9. #OSDAY23 @schrodinger_hat Org supporting Open Source ● Open Source products usually target techies (not business directly) ● Techies dislike (the traditional) marketing Developer Relations Engineering Product Management User Experience (Designers) User Researchers Marketing Sales / Pre Sales Customer Success
- 10. #OSDAY23 @schrodinger_hat What are the main challenges? (the top 6 challenges)
- 11. #OSDAY23 @schrodinger_hat #1 - Loving the Community ● Communities don’t survive if not supported ○ Recognitions ○ Rewards ○ Inclusion ● Developer Relations are crucial ○ The risk is to compromise the top of the funnel ○ DevRel are hard to measure and justify ● What are the most common tasks? ○ Dedicated Conferences and generic conferences ○ Local Meetups ○ Community sessions and Office Hours ○ Recognitions and Rewards ○ Blogs, articles, books, etc.
- 12. #OSDAY23 @schrodinger_hat #2 - Organizing the engineering ● Engineers needs to support the Open Source community ○ Forums, Support, Q&A, blog posts and articles, contributions… ○ Everything that DevRel cannot do alone ● Splitting Engineering between Open Source and Paying offering generates tension
- 13. #OSDAY23 @schrodinger_hat #3 - Managing contributions ● Contributions are usually managed through a team(s) ● Does it work at scale? No! ● The Special Interest Groups (SIGs) ○ K8S model (used also by Backstage) ○ SIGs per “function” does not seem to work ○ SIGs per “business value” seems to work
- 14. #OSDAY23 @schrodinger_hat #4 - The differentiation strategy ● Deciding what is given out for free and what is not ● This is a challenge for all the Business Open Source companies ○ It impacts revenues ○ Few people know what Open Source really means ○ There is always tension with “Sales”
- 15. #OSDAY23 @schrodinger_hat #5 - The business value of OS Should we stop doing Open Source?
- 16. #OSDAY23 @schrodinger_hat #6 - Growth pace ● Someone may decide to fork the project vs
- 18. #OSDAY23 @schrodinger_hat https://www.linkedin.com/in/fcorti/ FrkCorti Thank you! Organization and Challenges (with Best Practices) Behind a Successful Open- Source Project