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Build your business on top of Open Source

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.

Antonio Peric-Mazar

September 11, 2017
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  1. Building your business on
    top of Open Source
    02.09.2017., #wczg
    Antonio Perić-Mažar, CEO @ Locastic

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  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
    [email protected]
    @antonioperic

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  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

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  6. What is Open source?

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  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

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  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 …

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  9. 65%
    of company surveyes
    Use of OSS increased in

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  10. 55% 65%
    leverage OSS for
    production infrastructure
    leverage OSS to speed
    application development
    More than More than

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  11. Operating
    Systems Database Tools
    Companies are using Open Source at every
    level of application development

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  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

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  13. 67% 65%
    to fix bugs or add
    functionality
    to gain
    competitive edge
    Companies choose to participate in Open Source

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  14. 90%
    of respontends say open source improces efficienty,
    interoperability and innovation

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  15. 1 2 3
    Faster, more agile
    development
    Accelerated time to
    market
    Vasly superior
    interoperability

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  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)

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  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)

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  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)

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  19. Open source makes it cheaper to build things
    Open source make it faster to build things
    Open source makes it faster to scale

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  20. #Businesses that don’t #use
    #open source ‘will fail

    Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation chief

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  21. Open source is code and
    community

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  22. Open source is
    all about people

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  23. Open source is not “free”

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  24. Our story and what
    we learned

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  26. Don’t reinvent the wheel
    but think twice!

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  27. Is product ready for production?
    When it will be ready?
    Can you maintain it?
    Will it save you some time and money?

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  28. Good code doesn’t sell

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  29. You can learn from
    good code!

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  30. BDD
    TDD
    Coding best practices
    Large project organisation

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  31. Free consulting services

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  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

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  33. Contributing is hard

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  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

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  35. Open Source is good
    sales channel

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  36. Agencies and clients are following GitHub
    You can boost your visibility
    You can boost your skills

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  37. Networking is amazing

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  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

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  39. You can contribute
    without writing code

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  40. Reporting issues is also contributing
    Talking at some events is also contributing
    Doing any kind activity to promote some project
    is contributing

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  41. Say thank you!

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  42. Twitter, facebook, GitHub
    It doesn’t matter just say thank you, it means a lot

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  43. What happen?

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  44. Higher visibility
    Invitations to events and conferences
    We are known as Symfony and Sylius experts
    New clients, new business opportunities

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  45. How to start?

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  46. Start small
    Do some testing, report issues
    Do your libraries as Open source
    Go to conferences
    Speak at conferences

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  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

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  48. Thank you!

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  49. QA

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  50. www.locastic.com
    [email protected]
    @antonioperic
    Thank you, again :)

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