Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Consumption is Fractal: Open Source Sustainability
Search
Noah Kantrowitz
March 17, 2018
Programming
0
110
Consumption is Fractal: Open Source Sustainability
Noah Kantrowitz
March 17, 2018
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Noah Kantrowitz
See All by Noah Kantrowitz
The Long Hello World
coderanger
0
17
The Long Hello World (with notes)
coderanger
0
59
What Python Can Learn From Other Languages
coderanger
0
79
What Python Can Learn From Other Languages (with notes)
coderanger
0
200
Swiss Army Django: Small Footprint ETL (with notes) - DjangoCon US
coderanger
0
310
Swiss Army Django: Small Footprint ETL - DjangoCon US
coderanger
0
79
How to look at space: PyCon AU
coderanger
0
130
Swiss Army Django: Small Footprint ETL
coderanger
0
110
Swiss Army Django: Small Footprint ETL (with notes)
coderanger
0
99
Other Decks in Programming
See All in Programming
なるべく楽してバックエンドに型をつけたい!(楽とは言ってない)
hibiki_cube
0
140
生成AIを使ったコードレビューで定性的に品質カバー
chiilog
1
270
インターン生でもAuth0で認証基盤刷新が出来るのか
taku271
0
190
HTTPプロトコル正しく理解していますか? 〜かわいい猫と共に学ぼう。ฅ^•ω•^ฅ ニャ〜
hekuchan
2
690
CSC307 Lecture 07
javiergs
PRO
0
550
フロントエンド開発の勘所 -複数事業を経験して見えた判断軸の違い-
heimusu
7
2.8k
MUSUBIXとは
nahisaho
0
130
CSC307 Lecture 03
javiergs
PRO
1
490
dchart: charts from deck markup
ajstarks
3
990
Lambda のコードストレージ容量に気をつけましょう
tattwan718
0
130
コントリビューターによるDenoのすゝめ / Deno Recommendations by a Contributor
petamoriken
0
200
The Past, Present, and Future of Enterprise Java
ivargrimstad
0
580
Featured
See All Featured
The innovator’s Mindset - Leading Through an Era of Exponential Change - McGill University 2025
jdejongh
PRO
1
93
Leo the Paperboy
mayatellez
4
1.4k
A better future with KSS
kneath
240
18k
AI Search: Implications for SEO and How to Move Forward - #ShenzhenSEOConference
aleyda
1
1.1k
The Curious Case for Waylosing
cassininazir
0
240
Marketing to machines
jonoalderson
1
4.6k
Heart Work Chapter 1 - Part 1
lfama
PRO
5
35k
Believing is Seeing
oripsolob
1
56
A Guide to Academic Writing Using Generative AI - A Workshop
ks91
PRO
0
210
Bioeconomy Workshop: Dr. Julius Ecuru, Opportunities for a Bioeconomy in West Africa
akademiya2063
PRO
1
54
Reality Check: Gamification 10 Years Later
codingconduct
0
2k
Templates, Plugins, & Blocks: Oh My! Creating the theme that thinks of everything
marktimemedia
31
2.7k
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