Everyone is, at least, Open Core

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1. Everyone is, at least, Open Core
   J. Manrique López
   CEO at Bitergia
   @jsmanrique @Bitergia
   

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2. Commercial Open Source Software Company Index
   45 - 50
   Companies
   70K
   Employees
   $18B
   Revenue
   Source: coss.media
   

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3. How much do they depend on the maintainers?
   Data obtained with: cauldron.io
   ~ 4K
   Active
   maintainers
   per month
   ~30K maintainers over the
   last 3 years
   

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4. Top 50 maintainers activity over the last 5 years
   Mostly bots! This is a
   “human”!
   Data obtained with: cauldron.io
   Don’t bother him on
   Thursdays!
   He is one of the speakers
   in this conference!
   

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5. People are the limited
   resources in Open Source
   Software Ecosystems
   

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6. Open Source Software
   Ecosystem (OSSE)?
   

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7. Release
   Organizations release OSS to attract
   talent, to drive awareness, to improve
   their tech stack, etc.
   2
   Consume
   Organizations use OSS to build their
   tech stack
   1
   Contribute
   Organizations participate in OSS
   projects to drive them, to retain talent,
   to increase their tech footprint, etc.
   3
   Organizations & their OSSE
   

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8. Every organization is part of an Open Source Ecosystem …
   … so, every organization is an
   Open Core Organization
   

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9. Consuming & contributing
   open source software
   without care can be funny
   but risky
   

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10. Legal - People - Engineering
    

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11. You are not alone ...
    openchainproject.org todogroup.org chaoss.community
    Source: coss.media
    

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12. Take care of your ecosystem
    Take care of your ecosystem …
    

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13. Open Source Program Office
    

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14. Money, money, money …
    Funding projects is an option, but …
    Be aware of tip jars!
    

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15. Practice “The way of the Maintainer”
    “Active” users
    Submitting issues
    Asking questions
    Contributors
    Solving issues
    Answering questions
    Sending patches
    Maintainers
    Reviewing & accepting
    patches
    Coding in main branch
    Roadmap governance
    Source: coss.media
    

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16. Avoid the “Not invented here”
    syndrome!
    There might be companies and individuals providing
    consulting, customization, and/or support services
    on open source projects…
    To hire is also an option!
    

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17. Final remarks
    Every organization is becoming an open source / core organization
    Organization’s success might depend on its Open Source Software
    Ecosystem health / wealth
    Take care of your Open Source Software Ecosystem
    There is only one way. The Way of the Maintainer
    Create sustainable wealth for your ecosystem
    

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18. Thank You
    jsmanrique@bitergia.com
    Slides at
    speakerdeck.com/bitergia
    

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