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Consumption is Fractal: Open Source Sustainability
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Noah Kantrowitz
March 17, 2018
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Consumption is Fractal: Open Source Sustainability
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March 17, 2018
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Transcript
C onsumption is Fractal Open Source Sustainability Noah Kantrowitz @kantrn
What is Open Source?
None
Beer Speech Puppy Mattress Free As In
The Landscape
Solo Projects Itch Scratchers Plugins
Big Projects Linux Firefox
Umbrella Foundation OpenSTack (OSF) Kubernetes (CNCF)
VC Funded Chef Docker
Mirages Python Openssl
Bureaucracies Debian Fedora
Moonshots LetsEncrypt / Acme BeeWare Suite
Non-Software StackOverflow Wikipedia
And So On
What is Sustainability?
–Random House Dictionary “pertaining to a system that maintains its
own viability by using techniques that allow for continual reuse.”
Burnout
Guilt Dread Bitterness
Why does Sustainability matter?
Collectivism
What went wrong?
None
Production is single-threaded Consumption is fractal
None
Why Now?
None
None
Bubbles And Stacks
None
Burst Budgets
Capitalism
Intellectual Property coderanger.net /talks
Wrong Turns
Databases
Cy anogen
Individuals _why Mark Pilgrim
ZFS
Drive Bys One-off Contributor Spin up time Paradoxical load
Governance Models
BDFL Python openBSD
City States Linux WebKit
Hierarchy OpenStack Apache
Council Node.JS Kubernetes
Consensus Django BeeWare
And So On Do-Ocracy Working Groups Anything Goes
Mix and Match
–Mel Conwa y 1967 “organizations which design systems ... are
constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.”
None
Funding
None of the above
Employer-supported
Support Contract
PRO FEATURES Freemium Dual Licensing
Donations
Tip Jar
Gittip Gratipa y Patreon
None
Kickstarter
Umbrella non-profit
Software Freedom Conservancy
Advertising
Grants
Bounties
Co-ops
Public funding?
UBI?
What Now?
Be Kind
Be A ware
BE Ready
Thank You
Questions? Noah Kantrowitz – @kantrn https:/ /coderanger.net /talks