Open source (house of innovation)

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1. The story behind 
 our open source efforts

2. About me Freek Van der Herten Partner & developer at

   SPATIE @freekmurze https://murze.be

3. Since 2003 Websites, applications and webshops Team 9 awesome human

   beings Specialization Laravel / Vue development

4. Open Source 
 Software

5. We use a lot of it Nginx, Laravel, Ubuntu, Vue,

   Yarn, Redis, Beanstalkd, MySQL, Composer, Glide, Homestead, Flysystem, Fractal, Carbon, PHPUnit, NPM, React, jQuery, Java, SSH, Sequel Pro, BackupPC …

6. We create a lot of it ± 200 packages on

   Packagist ± 20 000 000 downloads total, ±1 800 000 downloads a month Most popular ones: laravel-backup, laravel-medialibrary, 
 laravel-permission Newest ones: laravel-view-models, laravel-blade-x Postcardware

7. Package
 development

8. The setting Zend Framework 1 PHP world was pretty stale

   around 2012 Laravel 4: developer happiness, clear syntax Laracasts: miniseries on package development + Travis

9. The first package Browsershot: take screenshots of website programmatorically PhantomJS

   Working in the open People started blogging about it

10. Beyond the first package Blender: conversion from Zend Framework to

    Laravel A lot of functionalities that could be helpful to other developers New packages: laravel-newsletter, laravel-medialib, laravel- analytics Opensourcing Blender itself Very positive feedback from the community

11. Creating a habit Every package gets born inside a client

    project Almost every client project results in a package:
 laravel-sitemap, opening-hours, … Teamwork Creating Blade X was a fun experience

12. Impact
 on many levels

13. Making time Time consuming Coding, writing tests, writing docs, getting

    the word out Maintenance, responding to issues, reviewing PRs 6000 issues, 5000 PRs

14. Planning Only plan 4 days a week for client work

    Extra day for support, learning and opensource efforts Free time

15. Benefits of creating packages A lot of learning by coding

    up the package and writing tests Feedback from the community Free code! Dogfooding Getting our name out there

16. Getting exposure Speaking at conferences Company name becomes a seal

    of quality More interesting projects International clients Hiring very talented people

17. Starting side projects https://ohdear.app Immediate audience Making friends Starting a

    conference (https://fullstackeurope.com)

18. Beware of burn out Easy to work too much on

    open source in free time Felt some of early staging Starting doing less https://murze.be/doing-less

19. Future plans

20. No fixed roadmap Depends on the client projects Nova tools

    Saas projects

21. In closing

22. Working on packages has a lot of benefits It’s fun

    Social aspect Can be recommended to everyone

23. https://spatie.be/open-source

24. Thank you! https://speakerdeck.com/freekmurze/open-source-house-of-innovation https://spatie.be/open-source https://murze.be https://ohdear.app https://fullstackeurope.com