Category: 1.4 Open Source Foundations
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The scope of the opportunity 3/4
tl;dr: The scope of the opportunity at hand is large, much larger than today’s impact of open source. The software industry is large; all other industries together that need software are larger. Much larger. Today’s open source software is mostly serving the needs of software vendors. When you look at the projects guided by the…
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Does the incorporation type matter to open source foundations? 2/4
tl;dr: It doesn’t really matter how a foundation incorporates; what matters is the actual governance. A typical response to the creation of new open source foundations is to decry them as “vanity foundations”. In a few instances, that may be true, but I think as a generalization it is not correct. Usually, companies think first…
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The Apache Software Foundation (@TheASF) is missing out 1/4
tl;dr: The ASF is not serving the needs of companies from outside the software industry well. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is the original gold standard of open source foundations. Yet its project and governance model takes a one-size-fits-all approach that is holding beginners to such high standards that they may never get started with…
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Mike Milinkovich on Open Source Consortia @mmilinkov
Mike Milinkovich’s talk at OSS 2015 on “How the Eclipse Community Works” TRENDS Trend #1: Software über alles (ref: Software is eating the world) Software is becoming the value-creating differentiator (impl: hardware is getting commoditized faster than software) Trend #2: Quoting Immelt (GE): Every industrial company will become a software company Milinkovich: Then, every company…
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Open Source for the Energy Sector (in German) [ew Magazine]
A progress report towards an open source foundation for the energy sector (in German) that I initiated and am currently guiding. The article dates back to February already, but I got a hold of it only now. Konsortiale Open-Source-Softwareentwicklung im Energiesektor Christof Heinritz, Peter Herdt, Stephan Janeck, Gerhardt Regenbogen, Dirk Riehle, Frank Rose, Michael Roth,…
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The Business of Open Source User Foundations (Consortia)
I held a talk on open source user foundations today, at the OpenUp Camp in Nuremberg. The slides are available as a PDF or on slideshare, embedded below: [slideshare id=31224676&doc=userfoundations-140214152212-phpapp01]