In Praise of Foundations
Mike Milinkovich
Executive Director
Eclipse Foundation
@mmilinkov
Open Source Summit
June 21, 2012
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Open source is about community….
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Meritocracy
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Transparency
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Andrew Magill – flickr.com
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Openness
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Chris J. Fry – flickr.com
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…it’s also about organizations
collaborating
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Governance
IP Mgt
Projects
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Process
Licensing
Model
Architecture
Collaboration Requirements
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Governance
IP Mgt
Projects
&
Process
Licensing
Model
Architecture
Collaboration Requirements
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Existing Foundations Give You
These Out of the Box
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Scalability
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Eclipse Has...
• Millions of users
• Thousands of products
• One thousand developers
• Hundreds of companies, hundreds of projects
• Predictable schedules
• World class intellectual property management
• Fifteen employees
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Predictability
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Predictable and Scalable
Projects
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Indigo
62 Projects
46 Million Lines of Code
400+ committers
49 companies
18 countries
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Long-Term Sustainability
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Software Embedded on Airbus Aircraft
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How Long is Long?
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Thank You!
Questions?
mike@eclipse.org
@mmilinkov
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