Open Source and You

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1. and You
2. About Me • Kevin Bond • Kitchener, Ontario, Canada • PHP Developer – Symfony Framework Twitter: @zenstruck Email: kevinbond@gmail.com Website: zenstruck.com
3. How many?
4. Do you use open source? • Who uses open source or mass collaboration tools? • Who contributes? • Tools other than software?
5. My CHANGELOG • v0.5 • Game design • Windows development • v1.0 • Web development (open source tools) • Open source developer • v2.0 • Contributor
6. States of Interaction • User • Developer • Contributor • Developer merges with Contributor
7. Free! • “Free speech vs free beer” – Richard Stalman (GNU Project) • Open Source Initiative branched away from Free Software Foundation • Corporate Experience (“This software is free!”)
8. License • Importance • Copyright vs Copyleft • Viral license
9. Documentation
10. Tools • “Weapons of mass collaboration” • Internet • Web 1.0 (read-only) • Web 2.0 (read/write) • “Platforms for Participation” • Github
11. Support • Free market • Finding a knowledgable consultant is easy (but sometimes unorthodox) • Bad support is weeded out
12. How to make money? • Honestly • Indirectly • Anti-Corporate • New economy (a million pennies)
13. Philosophy • Transparency • Proprietary is like potential energy (ball on a hill) • Like cooking recipes (recipes cannot be copyrighted) • Parallels to nature (evolution) • Self correcting/Self organizing system • Secondary purposes can arise • is the cure for cancer or the key to solving the energy crises locked away? • Collective Intelligence
14. Future • “N-Gener's” • Quiet revolution • Distributed economy • Open government