Engagement Goal: Engaging with the OSS Ecosystem
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Scope
This Goal develops the corporate perspective. Contributing back to open source projects and supporting open source communities. Developing project visibility: communicating and participating in open source industry and community events. At this level, the enterprise engages with the OSS ecosystem and contributes to its sustainability.
Resources
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Title | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| How an OSPO Can Help Your Engineers Give Back to Open Source | The case for contributing back at corporate level. "And in a war for talent, companies that embrace open source are more attractive to developers." | Web page |
| Decision factors for open source software procurement | Not new but still a great useful read by our colleagues at OSS-watch in the UK. Check out the slide deck at http://oss-watch.ac.uk/files/procurement.odp | Web page |
| 5 Open Source Procurement Best Practices | A recent 5' read on open source procurement with useful hints. | Web page |
| Commercializing open source | An investor's view of the community to business evolution of open source projects. | Web page |
| What is commercial open source software | A quick read to understand commercial open source. | Web page |
| Participating in Open Source Communities | A useful page from the Linux Foundation explaining why and how to join communities and contribute to projects. | Web page |
| 6 motivations for consuming or publishing open source software, Ben Balter | Extensive analysis of the reasons behind using and publishing open source software by the well known GitHub attorney and open source evangelist Ben Balter. | Web page |
| The Art Of Community | A book by Jono Bacon providing a complete review about building a strong community around open source projects. | |
| Awesome OSS Funding | A curated list of awesome resources for funding open source projects and authors. | Web page |
| The Secrets of Successful Open Source Business Models | An interesting article to find the right model for an open-source company. | Web page |
| CII Best Practices Badge Program | The Linux Foundation (LF) Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) Best Practices badge is a way for Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects to show that they follow best practices. | Web page |
| How to Support Open Source Projects Now | A short page with ideas on funding open source projects | Web page |
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Ecosystem stakeholders
- Foundations (that pay people to do work): FSF, ASF, Eclipse, Mozilla
- Organization & communities -> OW2, ...
- Distributors: Redhat, CentOS Linux, Debian, Canonical UBUNTU, CoreOS, CentOS
- Editors (enterprise licenses vs. community editions)
- Integrators
- Model without Editor
- Model with Editor
- Cloud actors
- Equipment manufacturers (cost cutting vs. upstream innovation and influence ...)
- Communication Service Providers
Business models
- Dual licensing ex. community addition is AGPL, enterprise edition "removes" the "share" conditions.
- Dual product model ex. open core
- Open Source Professional services
- Additional functions (is this open core?), patches ahead of public, patches back-ported to prior versions (ex. Oracle Java)
Myths & Stories
- Quality
- Security
- OSS Licensing and Legal Issues
- Support
Funding open source projects
- Best practices
- Experience sharing