Investing in Open-Source. Why so many contribute to OSS and why you should, too

Less productivity, missed project deadlines and wasted money: that’s what you get for letting your developers work on open-source projects.

Or do you really?

In this talk you will learn about the value that an investment in JavaScript ecosystems provides to businesses on different levels.

By example of organisations who benefit and give back to the open-source projects, you will see why paying your team to spend time on OSS might be the best business decision you will make this year.

Transcript

1. OSS @jayjayjpg
2. OpenSourceSoftware @jayjayjpg
3. Modern Software Development Why everyone is using OSS nowadays @jayjayjpg
4. There is No Software Without Open-Source > 95% of today’s digital products are built on top of open-source components Aligning Business Goals and Risks in OSS Adoption. Costal et al. 2015 @jayjayjpg
5. Building on the Shoulders of Giants Using OSS from the JS ecosystem The JavaScript open-source ecosystem has been adopted by millions Convenient to use Avoid need to reinvent the wheel @jayjayjpg
6. Shared development = faster development at reduced cost @jayjayjpg
7. Image by Polymath38 (Wikimedia), Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 OSS Adoption in a nutshell @jayjayjpg
8. Image by Polymath38 (Wikimedia), Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 “Using React in my new web app rocks!” OSS OSS Adoption in a nutshell @jayjayjpg
9. OSS Adoption as an essential part of software development Aligning Business Goals and Risks in OSS Adoption. Costal et al. 2015 OSS Adoption Using OSS as part of your infrastructure @jayjayjpg
10. Image by Tomtchik on Wikimedia, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 “Let’s create a Clojure to JavaScript compiler and share it with everyone!” v1.0 v1.1 v1.9.518 v1.11.4 @jayjayjpg
11. OSS Integration: Contributing back to OSS Aligning Business Goals and Risks in OSS Adoption. Costal et al. 2015 OSS Adoption OSS Integration Using OSS as part of your infrastructure Contributing to OSS @jayjayjpg
12. OSS Integration: why exactly? @jayjayjpg
13. Jessy Jordan, Sta ff Software Engineer at Meroxa Investing in Open-Source Why so many contribute to OSS and why you should, too @jayjayjpg
14. whoami @jayjayjpg From Berlin, Germany @jayjayjpg
15. whoami @jayjayjpg From Berlin, Germany Sta ff Software Engineer @meroxadata @jayjayjpg
16. Disclosed source, proprietary Fully Open-Source @jayjayjpg
17. whoami @jayjayjpg From Berlin, Germany Sta ff Software Engineer @meroxadata How I got into open-source: OpenTechSchool Berlin EmberJS …many of my jobs! @jayjayjpg
18. OpenSourceSoftware @jayjayjpg
19. 1998 @jayjayjpg
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22. Code Rush (2000) by David Winton, licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 US @jayjayjpg
23. Beyond Netscape: The Open-Source Development Model Becomes Mainstream Code Rush (2000) by David Winton, licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 US @jayjayjpg
24. “Netscape is giving away its source code to programmers outside the company. […]” Code Rush (2000) by David Winton, licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 US @jayjayjpg
25. What is Open-Source Software (OSS)? The Short Answer Copyright holder grants anyone permission to use the software modify the software inspect the software redistribute The software to anyone any purpose @jayjayjpg
26. “Netscape is giving away its source code to programmers outside the company. […] The code is named Mozilla and if widely adapted it will make Netscape’s code the internet standard, drawing users to its other products and restoring the company’s sagging fortunes.” Code Rush (2000) by David Winton, licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 US @jayjayjpg
27. Code Rush (2000) by David Winton, licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 US Code Rush: A Peek into the Early Days of OSS and the Internet @jayjayjpg
28. Code Rush (2000) by David Winton, licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 US Code Rush: A Peek into the Early Days of OSS and the Internet @jayjayjpg
29. Code Rush (2000) by David Winton, licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 US Code Rush: A Peek into the Early Days of OSS and the Internet @jayjayjpg
30. Investing in Open-Source The Business @jayjayjpg
31. Open-source projects lead to profitable business models Open-source businesses are expected to become the next trillion dollar industry Successful businesses that emerged from an open-source core product MongoDB Con fl uent Elastic HashiCorp @jayjayjpg
32. Open-source projects lead to profitable business models Open-source businesses are expected to become the next trillion dollar industry Successful businesses that emerged from an open-source core product MongoDB Con fl uent Elastic HashiCorp $13.4B* $4.9B* $6.9B* $7B* @jayjayjpg
33. Image by elliott bledsoe (Wikimedia), Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 @jayjayjpg
34. Different types of OSS business models Open Source Product @jayjayjpg
35. Different types of OSS business models Open Source Product Ads Consulting Cloud Service (SaaS) Premium & Enterprise Features Sponsoring @jayjayjpg
36. Investing in OSS yields returns for businesses Symbiotic relationship between open-source and commercial products + services Talent recruitment: Community engagement connects businesses with IT talent Business branding following example of big tech companies, such as Google, Net fl ix, Meta and others 💸 @jayjayjpg
37. Code Rush (2000) by David Winton, licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 US
38. Netscape’s Open-Source Strategy: Failure or Success Story? @jayjayjpg
39. Bought up by AOL in late 1998 @jayjayjpg
40. Bought up by AOL in late 1998 @jayjayjpg
41. Code Rush (2000) by David Winton, licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 US The Outcome of Netscape’s OSS Strategy: The Mozilla Foundation @jayjayjpg
42. Code Rush (2000) by David Winton, licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 US Netscape and Mozilla Project: Influencing web standards for decades Mozilla Foundation in 2003 One of the biggest and most notable open-source communities to this date Mainstream OSS pioneer in early 2000s @jayjayjpg
43. Investing in Open-Source The Product @jayjayjpg
44. Conduit Open Knowledge Sharing between Data Engineering (DE) Software Engineering (SWE) Industry Conduit as real-time data orchestration platform with UI written in EmberJS / server in Go + gRPC open-sourced in 2022 Knowledge sharing and insight into real- world use cases for data tooling Data connector ecosystem can be extended by community to suit their needs @jayjayjpg
45. Conduit Community adoption driven by extensibility 3k clones in < 1 year 🔌 20+ connectors @jayjayjpg
46. npm Another example of how far a developer community can extend a product 1.3M packages in 12 years @jayjayjpg
47. Open-Source makes for better software Software with better market fi t and usability Software that is more reliable and secure Open knowledge about source of bugs and security vulnerabilities facilitates resolution in shorter amount of time than in closed source software The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open-Source and Beyond. Lerner and Tirole, 2005 @jayjayjpg
48. Open-Source Software Products: Does it really make your product more secure? @jayjayjpg
49. Common Risks in OSS Security Package Management in the JS ecosystem makes tracking of bugs and security issues challenging Risks of highly decentralized software development Limited shared responsibility on projects stalls security e ff orts @jayjayjpg
50. Shared development = More software security by default @jayjayjpg
51. Shared development = More software security by default @jayjayjpg
52. Shared development = Potential for more software security @jayjayjpg
53. OSS Security OSS is signi fi cantly more secure than closed source if certain conditions are met Software is not only theoretically, but also practically reviewed by many, independent reviewers Reviewers and code contributors have the su ffi cient expertise to detect and address security issues Application and distribution of software fi xes occurs in a timely manner 🔐 @jayjayjpg
54. Open-Source Software Products: Does OSS really make your product more secure? Yes, if done right @jayjayjpg
55. Photo by Brian Katt, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported Investing in Open-Source The Software Engineer @jayjayjpg
56. Photo by Brian Katt, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open-Source and Beyond. Lerner and Tirole, 2005 Why individuals contribute to open-source @jayjayjpg
57. Photo by Brian Katt, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open-Source and Beyond. Lerner and Tirole, 2005 Why individuals contribute to open-source Solving “paid work” problems Peer-recognition increased visibility in the labor market / VC Just for fun Sharing ideas and solutions with the community @jayjayjpg
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62. Open Source Software @jayjayjpg
63. Reinvest by contributing to open-source OSS Integration Investment in your business Investment in your product Investment in yourself and your community @jayjayjpg
64. Sources Investing in Open Source: Why so many contribute to OSS and why you should, too @NordicJS 2022 @jayjayjpg Aligning Business Goals and Risks in OSS Adoption. Costal et al., 2015 (Research paper, free access) Code Rush. David Winton, 2000. (Documentary fi lm, freely available on YouTube under CC license) The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open-Source and Beyond. Lerner and Tirole, 2005 (Research paper, free access) “History of the Mozilla Project” on mozilla.org “History of the Open Source Initiative” on opensource.org “kik, left-pad and npm” on the archived npm blog Wikipedia: List of software originally released in the year 1998 Wikipedia: Business models for open-source software