"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by Brian King @ eLiberatica 2008
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The document discusses the advantages of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for businesses, emphasizing its flexibility, innovation, and collaborative potential. It debunks common myths about open source, highlighting its reliability and productivity benefits. The author advocates for using crowdsourcing and developing robust infrastructure to support open source projects while cautioning about licensing and governance.
"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by Brian King @ eLiberatica 2008
- 1. STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS FOSS WILL GET YOU THERE
- 2. THE CONCEPT FOSS will help you start your business, innovate, and grow.
- 3. THE IDEA I have this great idea ... but I want to get it out there quick before someone else does...
- 4. SOURCE
- 5. WHY FOSS? Avoid lock-in Cheaper? No. More flexible licensing "More than one way to do it" No need to reinvent the wheel* More eyes = less bugs More secure * let the developers do that
- 6. MYTHS "Open Source copies, it does not innovate" "Open Source is just for amateur hackers" "Free = less reliable" "OSS Projects are not into making money"
- 7. DEBUNKING THE MYTHS (1) people work harder on stuff they like. (2) the standard office environment is very unproductive. (3) that bottom-up often works better than top-down* Source: Paul Graham, What Businesses can learn from Open Source *exceptions : e.g. Apple
- 8. DEBUNKING SOME MORE Open Source adoption in business up 26% in 2007.* Large FOSS Projects MySQL ZOPE Mozilla eZ Systems * Source - Open Logic
- 9. BUT REMEMBER... Open Source Software may cost just as much, if not more, than proprietary software.
- 10. SOURCE
- 11. CROWDSOURCING Crowdsourcing is the new outsourcing.
- 12. GO FURTHER Let your customers design your projects See : The Customer is the Company, Inc Magazine 2008
- 13. BUSINESS MODELS Product Model Services Model Consultancy Government Non-IT sector, IT department Many others....
- 14. BUSINESS SOFTWARE NEEDS Simple Rapid Prototyping Get's the job done Interoperable Scalability Reliable Secure
- 15. STRUCTURED INFO Developing Communication VCS IM Languages Email Dev Tools Documents Project Collaboration
- 16. INFRASTRUCTURE Server side... Apache PHP Python Ruby MySQL
- 17. THE S WORDS The WEB 2.0 Way Platforms, Toolkits, Frameworks and APIs = MASHUPS
- 18. FRAMEWORKS Django Ruby on Rails Zope Zend ... and many more
- 20. SHIFTING DATA Moving Data + Giving it context + UI ... tools are so widespread that they becoming less of the focus.
- 21. NOT THE RIGHT FIT? Build from scratch.... OR FIX IT! ... file bugs, write patches, devote developer time...
- 22. BEWARE Licenses Forks Passing Trends Organisation and Structure - make sure the project is well governed
- 23. OPENING UP When you open up your code... Ensure transparency Build the infrastructure and community (sites, wiki, bug tracking,mailing lists, code repository...) Developer APIs for your services
- 25. GET IN TOUCH! [email protected] http://briks.si