Build your business on top of Open Source

Open Source can be a great foundation for building a business. That being said, keeping the balance between community building and commercial activities can be tricky. In this talk I want to share my experience and practical tips, which can help you leverage OS and boost your business, while meeting fantastic people and learning a lot in the process.

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1. Building your business on top of Open Source 02.09.2017., #wczg Antonio Perić-Mažar, CEO @ Locastic
2. Antonio Perić-Mažar, mag. ing. comp. CEO, Co-Founder @ Locastic Co-Founder @ Shi# Conference So#ware developer, Symfony2 Open Source Contributor SFUGCRO www.locastic.com antonio@locastic.com @antonioperic
3. We help clients create amazing web and mobile apps (since 2011) www.locastic.com @Locastic Design and development agency Mobile development Web development UX/UI Training and Consulting Shi! Conference, Symfony Croatia
6. What is Open source?
7. Source code made available with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change, and distribute the so!ware to anyone and for any purpose Open-source so!ware may be developed in a collaborative public manner
8. Abiliam, Acquia, Ant Systems, Appnovation, Appsembler, Ardent Technologies, Inc., Bareos GmbH & Co. KG, Black Duck So!ware, Capital One, Chamilio, Chef, CloudFoundry Corp, Confer, Coolan, Couchbase, Credativ, DEIS/Engineyard, Eclipse Foundation, EnterpriseDB, Evlolverum, Grid Protection Alliance, Hewlett Packard, InfoSys, JFrog, Linux Foundatiuon, MARSEC, Microso!, MASSTLC, Miracl, nexB, NGDIX, North Brdige, Open Clinic, Opmantek, OpusVL, Penthao, Red Hat, The Apache So!ware foundation, The Document Foundation, Ubuntu, Univention, VoltDB, Wikibon, WIPRO, WP Engine …
9. 65% of company surveyes Use of OSS increased in
10. 55% 65% leverage OSS for production infrastructure leverage OSS to speed application development More than More than
11. Operating Systems Database Tools Companies are using Open Source at every level of application development
12. 55% 67% 34% of companies are actively contributing to open source projects of companies actively encourage developers to engage in & contribute to opensource projects of companies have over half of their developers contributing to multiple open source projects
13. 67% 65% to fix bugs or add functionality to gain competitive edge Companies choose to participate in Open Source
14. 90% of respontends say open source improces efficienty, interoperability and innovation
15. 1 2 3 Faster, more agile development Accelerated time to market Vasly superior interoperability
16. $387-billion Barry Boehm's widely accepted COnstructive COst MOdel (COCOMO), an algorithmic So!ware Cost Estimation Model that relates so!ware development effort for a program, in person-years, to source lines of code (SLOC)
17. 2.1 million people-years of development Barry Boehm's widely accepted COnstructive COst MOdel (COCOMO), an algorithmic So!ware Cost Estimation Model that relates so!ware development effort for a program, in person-years, to source lines of code (SLOC)
18. How open source can help you Barry Boehm's widely accepted COnstructive COst MOdel (COCOMO), an algorithmic So!ware Cost Estimation Model that relates so!ware development effort for a program, in person-years, to source lines of code (SLOC)
19. Open source makes it cheaper to build things Open source make it faster to build things Open source makes it faster to scale
20. #Businesses that don’t #use #open source ‘will fail “ Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation chief
21. Open source is code and community
22. Open source is all about people
23. Open source is not “free”
24. Our story and what we learned
26. Don’t reinvent the wheel but think twice!
27. Is product ready for production? When it will be ready? Can you maintain it? Will it save you some time and money?
28. Good code doesn’t sell
29. You can learn from good code!
30. BDD TDD Coding best practices Large project organisation
31. Free consulting services
32. Your code will be reviewed by best developers Your code will be reviewed for free They will probably tell some nasty words about your “amazing code” You will get consulting for free
33. Contributing is hard
34. You need time and budget It is good thing to do It is hard to do it while you are doing project for clients
35. Open Source is good sales channel
36. Agencies and clients are following GitHub You can boost your visibility You can boost your skills
37. Networking is amazing
38. You will meet a lot of smart and cool people You will get some new partners You will learn a lot about communities and how they work
39. You can contribute without writing code
40. Reporting issues is also contributing Talking at some events is also contributing Doing any kind activity to promote some project is contributing
41. Say thank you!
42. Twitter, facebook, GitHub It doesn’t matter just say thank you, it means a lot
43. What happen?
44. Higher visibility Invitations to events and conferences We are known as Symfony and Sylius experts New clients, new business opportunities
45. How to start?
46. Start small Do some testing, report issues Do your libraries as Open source Go to conferences Speak at conferences
47. Locastic HQ - Lovački Put 7, Split MEETUP #4 SYMFONY CORE TEAM DEVELOPER (US) Tuesday, 05/09/2017 at 19.00h It is Symfony Flex time! Ryan Weaver
48. Thank you!
49. QA
50. www.locastic.com antonio@locastic.com @antonioperic Thank you, again :)