Entrepreneurship
and
Open Source
RubyConf Kenya
Africa Nazarene University
Nairobi, Kenya May 5-7, 2016
RayHightower.com
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Consultant +
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Invoice: $10,000.00
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RayHightower.com
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Open Source &
Knowing What to
Do With the Chalk
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Not tricking clients.
Delivering value.
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What
&
Why
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Open source is not
about bashing
.
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.
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“Secret sauce”
remains secret.
You decide what
to share.
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Chicago
Copenhagen
Osaka
Nairobi
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Watch your licensing.
Get counsel.
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I’m doing a (free) operating
system (just a hobby, won’t be
big and professional like gnu)
for 386(486) AT clones.
Linus Torvalds
Grad Student, Finland
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Linus
Torvalds
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“I pull the source code
into Eclipse…”
11-year-old
Chicago, IL, USA
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Entrepreneurship
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Start
Significantly
Expand
Transform
Enterprise
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Open Source
+
Entrepreneurship
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“I thought if I can't go
to the hacker school,
let me try to bring
the school to me.”
@NjeriChelimo
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“I thought if I can't go
to the hacker school,
let me try to bring the
school to me.”
-@NjeriChelimo
[With open source] Rather than
just sit around idle waiting for
some vendor to fix your problems,
you get the unique chance of being
a steward of your own destiny.
-David H. Hansson
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What if we had
open source
hardware?
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Arduino
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64-node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer
http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/13/supercomputer-built-from-raspberry-pi-and-lego/
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ESC
Ethernet
Adapter
BeagleBone
Black
OpenROV
Controller Board
Electronics
Assembly
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Efficiency of Locomotion
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Efficiency of Locomotion
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Efficiency of Locomotion
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Computer:
Bicycle for the Mind
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Computer:
Bicycle for the Mind
Open Source:
Bicycle for Entrepreneurship