Bitergia: Supporting Free Software Development

Slides supporting a (4 min. long) pitch at RedEmprendia Contest 2012, track "From University to Company", presenting Bitergia. http://www.redemprendia.es/spin-2012/premio-de-la-universidad-a-la-empresa/%28id%29/5422

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1. Bitergia: Supporting Free Software Development Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona jgb@bitergia.com http://identi.ca/jgbarah http://twitter.com/jgbarah Bitergia, GSyC/LibreSoft, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Concurso RedEmprendia 2012: De la Universidad a la Empresa (Nov 28, 2012) Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona (Bitergia) Bitergia Concurso RedEmprendia 2012 1 / 13
2. c 2012 Bitergia Some rights reserved. This presentation is distributed under the “Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0” license, by Creative Commons, available at http: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona (Bitergia) Bitergia Concurso RedEmprendia 2012 2 / 13
3. A successful development model Free (open source) software has shown to be a great success ...but there is room for improvement ...and (a lot of) interest in improving Market of support to free software development: more than 500 million euro FLOSS market doubling each 18 months worldwide Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona (Bitergia) Bitergia Concurso RedEmprendia 2012 3 / 13
4. Improving free software development Who is interested? Large & small free software communities ...including thousands of large & small companies, public administrations, foundations participating in them, depending on their software [Who can afford not to be interested? It is a key strategic need for many actors] Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona (Bitergia) Bitergia Concurso RedEmprendia 2012 4 / 13
5. Improving free software development Why? Free software is more and more important for IT users, producers, integrators It is different, yet transparent and it can be improved Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona (Bitergia) Bitergia Concurso RedEmprendia 2012 5 / 13
6. Improving free software development Bitergia’s proposal: analytics-guided software development Get advantage of the availability of detailed information Facts, not opinions Software & specialized services needed Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona (Bitergia) Bitergia Concurso RedEmprendia 2012 6 / 13
7. Improving free software development You cannot improve what you cannot measure Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona (Bitergia) Bitergia Concurso RedEmprendia 2012 7 / 13
8. The development dashboard Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona (Bitergia) Bitergia Concurso RedEmprendia 2012 8 / 13
9. Why Bitergia? Background: GSyC/LibreSoft (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) Extensive experience in free software development Tools and methodologies State of the art in research Well known in many relevant environments http://libresoft.es Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona (Bitergia) Bitergia Concurso RedEmprendia 2012 9 / 13
10. Why Bitergia? Value proposal: We tell you about your project Good tools for extracting relevant information Good integration with existing systems Good analytics tools, knowledge & expertise Good visualization and reporting system http://blog.bitergia.com Intensive use of available free software Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona (Bitergia) Bitergia Concurso RedEmprendia 2012 10 / 13
11. Why Bitergia? We have the tools, the expertise, the focus We can compete worldwide We can collaborate worldwide Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona (Bitergia) Bitergia Concurso RedEmprendia 2012 11 / 13
12. The plan for world domination Complete the technological development ...and keep it an step beyond Learn from customers ...by approaching interesting customers Create some fuzz ...publishing the results of lessons learned Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona (Bitergia) Bitergia Concurso RedEmprendia 2012 12 / 13
13. Summarizing New ideas, new market strong knowledge lots of enthusiasm http://bitergia.com Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona (Bitergia) Bitergia Concurso RedEmprendia 2012 13 / 13