Sustaining Open Source

Slides for the presentation I did for Zeit Day Berlin in September 2017.

Transcript

1. Sustaining Open Source
3. Who’s the president of the Internet?
8. We’re all vulnerable to the trap of thinking open source is “free”. That’s never been true. There’s always a cost, but as a maintainer you only really get that once you’re pretty far in. Jason Miller
10. Invest in your community
12. Make your project more friendly
13. Free the maintainer
14. How do we do this?
15. Open Collective: | ˈəʊpən kəˈlektɪv | • a community of people with a shared mission that operates in full transparency • a new social and economic unit
16. Lots of repetitive work, no shared benefits Hire a lawyer File for legal entity Deal with IRS Set up a bank account Hire an accountant Manage books File taxes
17. to become economically independent We enable communities without having to create a new legal entity open source meetups political movements non-profits hack clubs PTA
22. Associations of the Internet Generation are defined by: Peer production Global communities Transparent money flows ✊ Obsolescence of hierarchy
24. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller
25. If you can’t beat them, abstract them.
26. find us: @piamancini @opencollect