Open source (house of innovation)

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